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Ignoring the "cents", the other units boil down to Energy * mass * distance^3 * time^4 in both the numerator and the denominator; so everything cancels out leaving only a measure of currency and whatever coefficients associated with the original units. - Q dub

The Twitter Hacker opens up - Greg via Mento

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It'll take me a year to get through them properly... "This is the fifth annual selection of my favorite things I've linked to on kottke.org. This year's list includes games, photography, top-notch journalism, time-related material, architecture, design, and even politics, about 100 links in all." - Greg via Mento

"CHANGE — if only it were as simple as a campaign slogan." [that's a pretty demotivating photo Oprah, to be frank] - Greg via Mento

"On Thursday, J. D. Salinger turns 90. There probably won’t be a party, or if there is we’ll never know. For more than 50 years Mr. Salinger has lived in seclusion in the small town of Cornish, N.H. For a while it used to be a journalistic sport for newspapers and magazines to send reporters up to Cornish in hopes of a sighting, or at least a quotation from a garrulous local, but Mr. Salinger hasn’t been photographed in decades now and the neighbors have all clammed up. He’s been so secretive he makes Thomas Pynchon seem like a gadabout." - Greg via Mento

"The battle for the world's biggest observation wheel" - Greg via Mento

You either gotta have one of these or the tallest skyscraper around. - Q dub

thx http://mento.info/qdub - Greg via Mento

"Viral marketing only works well when you plan for it, when you build it in, when you organize your offering to be spreadable, interesting and to work better for everyone involved when it spreads. If I don't benefit from spreading it, why should I spread it? I won't. If you don't benefit from your users spreading the idea, it might spread, but it won't help you much. So both elements have to be present." - Greg via Mento

Also has interesting numbers on what news stories were most closely followed by Americans. - Greg via Mento

A great piece by James Surowiecki with a good summary of the problems facing print newspapers today. - Greg via Mento