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poptech
Another fantastic interactive by NYT: 30 Years of the Space Shuttle (via kateoplis)
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poptech
Thanks to a new advertising campaign currently running in subway stations in South Korea, commuters can shop the “shelves” of a Tesco billboard using their smartphones, and the goods they purchase will be delivered to their homes within the day.
(via DesignBoom)
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theeconomist
sad :(
Tomorrow’s cover today: inner space is useful. Outer space is history.
California tells online retailers to start collecting sales taxes from customers
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latimes
will be interesting to see if this pays off in the long run, or if it comes back to bite them in the ass
Beginning Friday, Amazon.com and other large out-of-state retailers will be required to collect sales taxes on purchases that their California customers make online.
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theeconomist
interesting
Daily chart: two thousand years in one chart. Measured in years lived, the present century, which is only ten-years old, is already “longer” than the whole of the 17th century. That is a lot of history for a single decade.
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theeconomist
enough already, lets end them and come home
America is tired of war, reports our Lexington columnist. Even before it disposed of bin Laden, the country had lost its appetite for venturing abroad in search of monsters to destroy.



