January 2011

links for 2011-01-30

January 30, 2011

How Diverse is Facebook? | overstated Interesting paper on how Facebook estimates racial diversity of users by correlating surnames to US census data.Â (tags: facebook… Read More »links for 2011-01-30

links for 2011-01-28

January 28, 2011

Issue 1: Welcome to the City Beautiful webcomic about post WWII/pre-independence Kenya (tags: africa kenya comic graphicnovel webcomic history colonialism) Re: Connectivity status for Egypt… Read More »links for 2011-01-28

Egypt: Too soon to analyze, so here’s my outbox

January 28, 2011

Protesters stop for prayer during January 28th demonstrations in Cairo (possibly 6th October Bridge.) Twitpic posted by @ollywainwright Like many people, I’ve spent the day… Read More »Egypt: Too soon to analyze, so here’s my outbox

links for 2011-01-26

January 26, 2011

Largest Cities Through History The largest cities at moments in time, fromÂ Tertius Chandler's (somewhat controversial) compilation of the population of cities throughout history, Four Thousand… Read More »links for 2011-01-26

links for 2011-01-21

January 21, 2011

Food for Thinkers: The Rise of White People Food – Food – GOOD Critique of the NYTimes for overfocusing on a small subset of NYC… Read More »links for 2011-01-21

links for 2011-01-17

January 17, 2011

?! Mission-based game platform that encourages kids/teens to explore the real world and find answers to complex questions through experimentation. Team includes the SF0 guys…… Read More »links for 2011-01-17