Tag Archives: data

“the greatest mass murderer of the 21st century”

Greenspan’s body count
(Angry bear)

It died

“Keeping track of hosted services as they lay dying.”
See also: Fucked Company, Disobey’s “Ghost Sites,” 427(?) “screenshots of farewell web pages of failed dot-coms and other dead web sites,” archive.org’s 1 Aug ’01 dupe of projectme’s “dotcom screenshot graveyard,” and the
Business Plan Archive (4,064 entries).

Declining value of the Y axis

This NYT graph (from late May) claims that, over the last century+, the worldwide number of disasters ranges from close to zero to 390 in 2006. We’ll leave the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disaster’s methods and other specifics for later, and make one general observation. If indeed variations in lots of things [...]

Waste, naught

The entry on Waste Management, Inc.:

Like wind and solar power, landfill gas is a natural resource that can be harnessed to produce clean energy[citation needed]. Waste Management’s landfill gas-to-energy program is a vital and important part of North America’s drive to develop alternative energy sources and promote environmental sustainability.[citation needed]

Found in the search for a [...]