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SPDY Brings Responsive and Scalable Transport to Firefox 11 ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Generally speaking, web pages on high latency connections with high numbers of embedded objects will see the biggest benefit from SPDY.
January 2012
Time Scales - GitHub
D3's time scale is an extension of d3.scale.linear that uses JavaScript Date objects as the domain representation. Thus, unlike the normal linear scale, domain values are coerced to dates rather than numbers; similarly, the invert function returns a date. Most conveniently, the time scale also provides suitable ticks based on time intervals, taking the pain out of generating axes for nearly any time-based domain.
December 2011
Rachel Ward
November 2011
The environment in numbers: 1992-2012 - OurWorld 2.0 | OurWorld 2.0
But with so many government, non-government and research organizations with overlapping but frequently competing agendas producing so much data, the task to break through a wall of numbers becomes even harder. For citizens across the world it is challenging to select what information matters and what doesn’t, especially when there are corporate and media forces attempting to distract us from the most critical knowledge.
Daring Fireball Linked List: The Death of the Spec
As our technology becomes more humanely designed, subjective factors outweigh objective ones. Subjective factors can’t be assigned neat little numbers ranging from 1-10.
Nous dit le blaireau qui répète constamment que l'iPad est objectivement de manière mesurable meilleur que le reste.
Website Accessibility: Disability Statistics
This post is a compilation of disability statistics from government agencies and researchers in the US, UK and Canada. The statistics shown have most impact on website use, and help assess the impact of accessibility problems, in terms of numbers of people affected, and likely commercial impact.
October 2011
September 2011
Facebook faces major Irish privacy investigation - Irish, Business - Independent.ie
tax evasion in strong privacy countriesFacebook's Dublin HQ will be subject to a massive audit by the Irish watchdog after a group in Austria lodged 17 complaints, claiming that even after Facebookers delete information the social media giant's Dublin HQ keeps everything: data on who you've poked, tagged, 'liked', emailed, phone numbers -- even information on sexual orientation and political views. It can amount to thousands of pages of information about you, the group, called Europe Versus Facebook, asserts.
August 2011
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The Battle Japan’s Losing: Population Falls Again - Japan Real Time - WSJ
About 146,200 more people died than were born during the year, another sobering record high, for the fourth straight year. The spread of people is also increasingly becoming concentrated in cities as economically struggling rural towns and villages empty. A little over 90% of citizens reside in cities. Indeed, there are more people who reside in Tokyo’s concrete jungle alone, about 12.66 million people, than all of the small towns across the country combined (11.86 million), according to the ministry numbers.
July 2011
The Microsoft Update: Google explains its data correlation privacy settings
A company spokesperson told me that the search giant is not looking at public phone directories to match phone numbers with user names. But it is looking through social media sites to correlate those accounts to your Google user name and profile.
OECD Better Life Initiative
The Britney Spears Problem - Stream Gauges
Suppose a pipeline delivers an endless sequence of nonnegative integers at a steady rate of one number every t time units. We want to build a device—call it a stream gauge—that intercepts the stream and displays answers to certain questions about the numbers.
May 2011
Pennant
Justice Society of America: The Bad Seed
March 2011
geocommit.com - locate your source
The geocommit data consists of key/value pairs. Keys are
lowercase alphanumeric identifier including _ and -.
Values are numbers or strings not containing
linebreaks, commas and colons.
January 2011
'Lost' Numbers Prove Lucky for Mega Millions Lottery Players
December 2010
BIB - Exemple de Bookmarklet et de Script Greasemonkey pour relier le catalogue en ligne d'une bibliothèque et des services comme Amazon - eBranch::Catalog Search Tools - Amazon Lookup
YouTube - Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
Information Architects – iPad App Sales Numbers: WIRED vs. Writer
October 2010
How many MusicBrainz pages will have RDFa? | LinkedBrainz
the race to big numbers will create a wall of misunderstanding. How do we use it?how many pages will contain RDFa in the new MusicBrainz release?



