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A Map of Undersea Internet Cables

NewsBeatr — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:47:35 +0000

Unfortunately I have the displeasure of suffering from internittent internet connectivity. It drives me insane. An hour without the internet feels like an eternity, which in itself is actually quite a sad indictment of my mostly online life. But where does that connection come from? This map of undersea cables answers a lot of those questions.

Leaving Google

NewsBeatr — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:37:35 +0000

You’d think that if you managed to get a job working at Google after going through all the exams and interviews, you’d stay for a while. Even if it was just for the perks. But some people just aren’t suited to big company life, even if that company is one of the most disruptive, if not the most, disruptive company of the last century.

Scientology Leaked Documents

straminsky — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:54:22 +0000

We all like a bit of controversy – Wikileaks, the site that likes to rub people up the wrong way by releasing classified (leaked) documents, has begun to publish a lot of Scientology leaks after being threatened by their lawyers. So far Tom Cruise has failed to infiltrate via the ventilation shafts and destroy the offending material.

Finding new Twitter friends

NewsBeatr — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:43:57 +0000

If you aren’t hooked on Twitter just yet, I pity ye. If you are, I pity ye more. The problem is that you can easily end up being inundated with the assorted lifestreams of so many people that the signal : noise ratio is completely borked. Fortunately RWW offers a few tips to sort that particular problem out.