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In honor of the World Cup, prominent African authors make pilgrimages across the continent to give a contemporary, multifaceted portrait of Africa.
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Aggressive peering, use of dark fiber means that Google's bandwidth bills are much smaller than we think. Wired piece features excellent research from Arbor Networks on the rise of internet giants who handle much of the Internet's destination traffic… and the implications of this rise for network architecture and cost.
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Interesting tool from Kayak, allows you to explore possible air travel sorted by cost, travel time. Interesting possibilities for building maps based on places that are "close" in terms of cost versus close in terms of time