Demand Media’s Accounting Is Even More Bogus Than It Seems http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffber... Is Google doing a Lijit and trying to identify expertise?
A Retro Look in High-Tech Electronics - http://www.nytimes.com/2010...
Developers Defy Gravity, Government Policy - China Real Time Report - WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/chinare...
RT @pkedrosky: Since 2003 China has gone from 3% of U.S. IPOs to almost 30%.
2010 Gallery: Images of the year : Nature News http://www.nature.com/news...
RT @wilshipley I really love how Apple is killing everyone in every field Apple enters, and NOBODY has figured out it’s better tools.
Orbital Sciences Corp. Proposes “Blended Lifting Body” for NASA Commercial Crew http://www.parabolicarc.com/2010...
Secretive Banking Elite still Rules Trading in Derivatives http://www.nytimes.com/2010... - Regulators still being bought out
Tech paper [PDF] Backscatter X-Ray units http://springerlink.com/content... Why they often don't work very well. How to guide on how to defeat them.
CFTC's Bart Chilton http://www.cftc.gov/PressRo... one trader held 20% of oil market, 40% of silver, HFT's "algorithmic terrorism”,"algo price piracy"
What China Must Do To Cement Its Superpower Status http://www.forbes.com/2010... Chinese education, why obsession with standardized test may be bad
Federal Reserve Loses $2.4 Billion In Taxpayer Money In Most Recent QE2 POMO Interval http://www.zerohedge.com/article... to primary dealers(big banks)
Youku, hype, huge IPO, seriously overvalued http://www.businessinsider.com/why-im-... $4.2 billion market cap, $4 million/mo revenue, $2.75 million/mo losses
Navy Sets New World Record with Electromagnetic Railgun Demonstration http://www.navy.mil/search... 33 Megajoules, 110 Nautical miles range
LHC plans extra year for Higgs hunt http://www.nature.com/news... Good brief update on the Large Hadron Collider, racing U.S. Tavatron for Higgs
SocGen's Guide To 2011 http://www.zerohedge.com/article... Lots of cool charts and graphs, but wouldn't give a plugged nickel for forecasts from a big bank
Tea'd Off http://www.vanityfair.com/politic... Chrisopher Hitchens unloads on Beck and Tea Party. Not endorsing what he says but it is some great vitriol.
The Colossus of Wall Street http://www.businessweek.com/magazin... ... Blackrock and Larry Fink
Goldman Sachs Implicated In CDS Price Manipulation Scandal http://www.zerohedge.com/article... Maybe short squeezing their own customers using insider info
Day Trading Still Alive, Outsourced to China http://www.nytimes.com/2010... In a legal gray area, low salaries profit sharing, high turnover
Kawah Ijen by night http://www.boston.com/bigpict... Java's Sulfur Volcano miners
Inside the growth engine - A guide to China's regions, provinces and cities http://www.zerohedge.com/article... HSBC Global Research
Graphene Ultracapacitors - http://www.technologyreview.com/energy... Graphene electrodes with 1/5 energy density of Lithium batteries, very fast recharge
Minority report for Kinect is here… http://www.adafruit.com/blog... via @adafruit, a few essential details on MIT's software
Apple, Google, NewsCorp and the Future of Content: Interview with Michael Whalen http://us1.irabankratings.com/pub... Interesting read...
The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unf... via @newsycombinator
Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths | Julian Assange Op-Ed - The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-dept...
Just how wrong can NYT's Friedman be? http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts... ... on Ireland in "The World is Flat" (2005)
Uncomitted sex and propensity for 1-night stands maybe be genetic http://www.medicaldaily.com/news... DRD4 gene, study size is too small to be convincing
J.P. Morgan bought $1 billion, 50% of London Metal Exchange copper stockpiles WSJ $$ http://online.wsj.com/article... , cornering market fears