The Order of the Spork

Archaic policies designed for a previous age and knee-jerk reactions may have derailed a political journalist's career. Looks like the White House is still struggling to embrace the 21st century. Sounds familiar...

Interesting Google Labs app for viewing new stories on a timeline

no mention of intellipedia?

"Hybrids, diesels and electrics cost more than their gasoline-engine counterparts, but you may be able to save money over the long-term with better fuel economy. Compare the five-year ownership cost of green vehicles and their conventional equivalents (or any vehicle in the second drop-down menu) to see if you'll save money buying a green car. Then, since the vehicles you're comparing may take regular, premium or diesel fuel, input the price of fuel for each vehicle (our five-year calculations add 3.5% to fuel costs every year for inflation). Skip this step for electric vehicles - the fuel cost will be automatically calculated using average utility rates. Then, select the average number of miles you drive every year, and click the Submit button to see the results."

A visualization of belief in evolution as a ratio of GDP per capita.  USA is a significant outlier from all other countries.  

Infographic about a culture of collaboration in the workplace`

"Welcome to TikiToki, a web app that makes it dead easy to make stunning, animated timelines that work in your browser. Our basic account is completely free.'

Holds potential for culling through your social streams for good content

Connect various web services with a simple equation wizard.

Many of these tools were mentioned by my team in a recent offsite - nice validation!

Latest Pew research shows users of social networking sites are, in general, more connected in real life than are non-users.

WWII posters redone to reflect a social media world.  Examples: "Someone Tweeted", "Knowledge Wins, Wikipedia is Free", "Loose tweets sink fleets" and many more. 

A very cool interactive animation showing the relative sizes of everything from a quark to the known universe.

this is very cool indeed.

Mapping the riots by "Indices of deprivation" -- essentially how poor is the neighborhood

Studies show that younger generations really aren't that different from their older counterparts. Go figure.

"Throw in a nine-character, mixed-case random password, and while a CPU would take a mind-numbing 43 years to crack this, the GPU would be done in 48 days."

"Paradoxically, 'document-orientation' is both the main reason why Wikis are rare in the corporate world and the main reason why Wikis are great for the corporate world."

Hilarious (and mostly benign) prank/lesson on accurately setting your Facebook privacy controls.

A review of two recent studies (Gallup and Aberdeen Group) summarizes some of the key findings of the value of internal social networks.   18% boost in employee engagement streamlined operations better, faster innovation failing to engage employees costs $300B in wasted productivity