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Possibly one of the best how to draw something tutorials...

Fri, 18 May 2012 20:54:54 +1000

Possibly one of the best how to draw something tutorials I’ve seen online.

How to draw a horse!

Ninja training lunch! (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:54:52 +1000

Ninja training lunch! (Taken with instagram)

Vanuatu land diving

Fri, 11 May 2012 21:05:29 +1000

Vanuatu land diving

GOLD! Voter turnout in Essex has increased by 427% since...

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:36:02 +1000

GOLD!

Voter turnout in Essex has increased by 427% since polling began taking place in tanning booths.

Hong Kong skyline

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:59:01 +1000

Hong Kong skyline

Nice video by some young guys from the Blue Mountains

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:11:02 +1000

Nice video by some young guys from the Blue Mountains

Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:12:32 +1000

Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth:

Nice story

Why Netflix never used the Netflix prize winning algorithms

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:54:00 +1000

Why Netflix never used the Netflix prize winning algorithms:

Interesting read about the recommendations at Netflix

They don’t make them like they used to anymore…

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:20:02 +1100

They don’t make them like they used to anymore…

Inside Forbes: The 9 Key Steps We've Taken to Disrupt the Traditional News Business

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:52:02 +1100

Inside Forbes: The 9 Key Steps We've Taken to Disrupt the Traditional News Business

Learn a bit more about rips..

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:45:56 +1100

Learn a bit more about rips..

Never noticed this bank before

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:11:11 +1100

Never noticed this bank before

futurejournalismproject: The bad news? The Newspaper industry...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:34:24 +1100

Job Growth in the U.S. by Industry

Job Growth in the U.S. by Job Title

futurejournalismproject:

The bad news? The Newspaper industry claimed the title of the fastest shrinking industry in the U.S. The good news? Online publishing was one of the fastest growing industries during the same time period.

According to Linkedin:

The fastest-growing industries include renewables (+49.2%), internet (+24.6%), online publishing (+24.3%), and e-learning (+15.9%). Fastest-shrinking industries were newspapers (-28.4%), retail (-15.5%), building materials (-14.2%), and automotive (-12.8%).

In terms of post-recession recovery, IT, marketing & advertising, computer software, and insurance are the largest industries that fell heading towards the end of the recession in 2009 but in 2011 are at or above their 2007 employment level. Financial services is starting its recovery and real estate appears to have bottomed out. Several industries such as newspapers, supermarkets and telecom have continued to shrink throughout the sample period.

In terms of job titles, The Economist presented Linkedin data to show that:

one of the fastest-growing job titles in America is “adjunct professor” (an ill-paid, overworked species of academic). One of the fastest-shrinking is “sales associate”

As the Economist points out, an adjunct professor is someone a university convinces to work for peanuts in exchange for the word “professor” somewhere in his resume. I assume if “adjunct professor” jobs are growing, “professor” jobs are declining.

The Personal Analytics of My Life

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:51:22 +1100

The Personal Analytics of My Life:

Great analysis of the historical data about Stephen Wolfram

Mysterious paper sculptures being left in Scottish libraries

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:50:34 +1100

Mysterious paper sculptures being left in Scottish libraries

thediamondwaterparadox: St. Lucia

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:11:45 +1100

thediamondwaterparadox:

St. Lucia

Goats in a tree

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:20:56 +1100

Goats in a tree

Detect if visitors are logged into Twitter, Facebook or Google

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:19:24 +1100

Detect if visitors are logged into Twitter, Facebook or Google

Can three minutes of exercise a week help make you fit?

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:16:21 +1100

Can three minutes of exercise a week help make you fit?:

A few relatively short bursts of intense exercise, amounting to only a few minutes a week, can deliver many of the health and fitness benefits of hours of conventional exercise, according to new research

The reversibility of laminar mixing often comes as a surprise...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:26:06 +1100

The reversibility of laminar mixing often comes as a surprise to observers accustomed to the experience of being unable to separate two fluids after they’ve been combined. As you can see above, however, inserting dye into a highly viscous liquid and then mixing it by turning the inner of two concentric cylinders can be undone simply by turning the cylinder backwards. This works because of the highly viscous nature of Stokes flow: the Reynolds number is much less than 1, meaning that viscosity’s effects dominate. In this situation, fluid motion is caused only by molecular diffusion and by momentum diffusion. The former is random but slow, and the latter is exactly reversible. Reversing the rotation of the fluid undoes the momentum diffusion and any distortion remaining is due to molecular diffusion of the dye.