Ramblings… nonsensical ramblings… wildly nonsensical ramblings…
Those clever people over at digg labs have put together some eye-candy for our general amusement. They put a flash presentation on the near-real time updates to their links database. You can watch different stories get additional votes (diggs) and watch it unfold over time…
Saw this over at TreeHugger:
Treehugger: Hybrids Currently Less Energy-Efficient than Hummers
They looked at the total cost of production as well as the ongoing cost of use. Guess what, it’s more expensive (energy wise) to construct a Prius. Of course there’s a catch, but you can read the article for that…
I’ve certainly read a lot about how America will quickly be subsumed by the vast number of Indian and Chinese knowledge workers… Quit incorrect, Fuqua researchers have found. There are quite a few problems with the numbers being bandied about, in fact most of them are just plain wrong. Here’s a quote:
One would expect that the numbers used in such debate would be defensible and grounded. Yet researchers at Duke University have determined that some of the most cited statistics on engineering graduates are inaccurate. Statistics that say the U.S. is producing 70,000 engineers a year vs. 350,000 from India and 600,000 from China aren’t valid, the Duke team says.
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We found that the U.S. was graduating 222,335 engineers, vs. 215,000 from India.
You can read more in the Business Week article or from the original research at Duke.
Gotta love the progress of credit cards, and the programming of credit culture into our games and entertainment. (Engadget)