December 15, 2006
Maoxian’s Top Ten Links — December 15, 2006
We will leave tomorrow to travel to the Pacific Northwest where we’ll spend our Christmas holiday. I’m not taking a computer with me so there won’t be any Notable New Highs or any other posts that rely on market data until we return early next year.
I may blog something from time to time from a coffee shop or library, but then again maybe I won’t. The best thing you can do is subscribe to my feed to know when I next post something.
Happy Holidays!
- Distribution of Families in the US in 1840
- Great Photo of the Recent Space Shuttle Launch
- Air Quality Daily Report for 84 Major Cities In China
- Sky Diver Almost Gets Hit By A Plane (Video)
- Nissan Boob Commercial (Video)
- Financial Report of the United States Government
- Hong Kong’s Peninsula Hotel Orders 14 New Rolls-Royce Phantoms (Photo)
- Letter from China: The sex industry is everywhere but nowhere
- Will It Blend?
- How We Did It: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Co-founders, Flickr
Neat. Compiled from the 1840 US Federal Census records … you can also look at 1880 and 1920 to see how the distribution changed over time.
Is there a Slip F-18 there?
An extremely depressing thing to review, especially if you live in Beijing.
You can see the plane far below from the first moment, but I guess the sky diver didn’t, or didn’t realize the plane was climbing that fast.
Independent Front Suspension, indeed.
A comprehensive overview of the federal government’s finances. Makes for some terrifying reading, but I think measuring the asset side of the balance sheet is a tad flawed… intangibles, anyone?
Not a bad way to get to Kowloon, but I prefer the Airport Express.
“A Chinese economist has estimated there are 20 million sex workers in the country, accounting for fully 6 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.” My reaction is the same as Howard’s: only six percent?
Tom Dickson is my kind of nutter. Yes, it blends!
“We shouldn’t have sold when we did, but you don’t know that until after the fact.” And, more interestingly, “George Oates [a Flickr employee] and I would spend 24 hours, seven days a week, greeting every single person who came to the site. We introduced them to people, we chatted with them. This is a social product. People are putting things they love–photographs of their whole lives–into it. All of these people are your potential evangelists. You need to show those people love.”
I love all of you regular readers, yes, all 12 of you. ;-)
December 15th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Maybe you should post Maoxian’s Top 12 Links instead. You can then dedicate one link to each of your faithful readers!
December 15th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Have a good trip!
December 16th, 2006 at 12:44 am
have fun in the pacific northwest : ). kinda stormy there right now.
December 16th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
safe travels
December 19th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Thirteen readers…
Have a good trip,
DJF
December 20th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
12 angry men are awaiting you
have a good trip though!
December 25th, 2006 at 9:55 am
I love all of you regular readers, yes, all 12 of you.
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Not really. I am the 14th. ;-)
January 14th, 2007 at 5:27 am
[…] The internet is still impossibly slow from China, so I apologize for my irregular posting schedule. It’s 5 AM on a Sunday morning here and things are working just well enough for me to kick out a few posts, including this Top Ten list (with a couple of bonus links since it’s been awhile since the last one). […]