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June 28th, 2008
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World now has 10 million millionaires, report says | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Latest News
June 25th, 2008
World now has 10 million millionaires, report says
09:24 AM CDT on Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Associated Press
NEW YORK – Add an extra zero to the ranks of the millionaires club.
The number of people around the world with at least $1 million in assets passed 10 million for the first time”
Google Distance Between Cities…
June 13th, 2008
Looks scary to read but is very cool… He measures the times words appear together, and calls that “google distance” and then measure how far away cities are from each other to create a relationship of information intensity across distance.
Nice little 3d rotating world to make it all make sense….
Fun with Fuel Subsidies and Taxes
June 5th, 2008
Fun with Fuel Subsidies and Taxes: “This post was inspired by a post over at Paul Kedrosky’s place entitled Fun with Fuel Subsidies, in which he put up these two graphics and said ‘Discuss.’ Now I am doing the same here.
Two figures (via the Economist and FT, respectively, click graphics to go the stories–at FT click the ‘view map’ in the graphic once you get there to see the interactive map that this picture was taken from) that show the world of fuel subsidies worldwide:
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(Via The Oil Drum – Discussions about Energy and Our Future.)
