The Washington Post recently did some excellent journalism about the expanding new industry Top Secret America. This new industry is unprecedented in American history and raises some critical questions about who reigns over our nation’s security and deepest secrets.
Here are some of the basic stats by Wall St. Cheat Sheetvia wallstcheatsheet.com
The map provide an indication of overall levels of terrorism threat in over 200 territories world wide, as well as information on active group type in individual countries.
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This week BP revealed record losses of GBP£5 million an hour after taking a near GBP£21billion hit for the catastrophic oil spill. Understandably, with oil continuing to spew out in the Gulf of Mexico, support, sympathy or benevolence for the company is hard to come by.
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You may not think of your credit score as treasure, but it is. Good credit is the foundation to being able to afford the things you want a home, a car and loans for pretty much everything else.
To help you get there, Go banking rates gave you a map of how to find your own credit score treasure.via www.gobankingrates.com
Compound interest can work for you or against you.
This infographic shows compound interest increasing investments and costing money through loans.via cashmoneylife.com
The history of Burning Man has always been a complex entity that has survived, nay, mutated over the years. And because of this, it has grown rapidly since its humble beginnings of a simple gathering on a beach.
The infographic poster shows only a small portion of what Burning Man.via www.flickr.com
There are some awesome innovations in light bulbs, and making changes to the way you light your house can have a powerful impact on your energy bills and the environment. Energy saving bulbs are promising green technology, from CFLs to LEDs and more. See how light bulbs stack up to each other.
via www.thedailygreen.com
Eighteen countries were known to have carried out executions, killing a total of 714 people
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Google has been dominating the search engine market for years, but at least there are some competitors that have a few percent each.
But if you look at mobile search, i.e. search on mobile devices, which is more or less the smartphone market, Google is utterly crushing the competition to a level that it’s never managed in the regular search market.
Just look at this very telling chart, showing Google’s overall search and mobile search market shares in relation to those of Yahoo and Bing, its two closest rivals. (These are global stats.)
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The internet is wrought with all kinds of dangers for your computer, as well as for your personal information. Here's a look at some of these dangers, from trojans and spyware to worms and hackers.
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