How Africa Tweets – Portland and Tweetminster analyzed more than 11.5 million geo-located tweets sent across Africa during the last three months of 2011. Here’s what they found.
Newt Gingrich in space—where no one can hear you scream.
Photoillustration by Hamish Robertson.
Source: vanityfair
Largest Corporate Quarterly Earnings of All Time
There is exactly one company on that entire list that is not an oil and gas company. And they’re not that far from the top.
Looking at this table makes it obvious that we pay too much for our oil and gas. It takes extraordinary performance to achieve these kinds of profits in the world of gadgets, whereas oil and gas companies make as much money as Apple by default.
I don’t think we pay to much for our gadgets and iPhones though. But at least someone in the gadget value chain deserves a raise. All gadget vendors should start paying Foxconn et al. more IMO. I understand that it’s a very complex situation and that it wouldn’t solve the problems instantly for Chinese factory workers, but it would be a start. Apple could manage such a thing, but it would be harder for the competitors, considering that many of them are showing negative numbers.
Source: parislemon
Source: tastefullyoffensive
The top 1 percent: what jobs do they have?
The occupations and industries of the USA’s wealthiest households.
Dear Betty, You look so fantastic and full of energy, I can’t believe you’re 90 years old. In fact, I don’t believe it. That’s why I’m writing to ask if you will be willing to produce a copy of your long-form birth certificate. Thanks. Happy birthday, no matter how old you are.
President Barack Trollbama’s birthday message to Betty White
Source: doctordownton
Income inequality: Who exactly are the 1%?
“The richest 1% earn roughly half their income from wages and salaries, a quarter from self-employment and business income, and the remainder from interest, dividends, capital gains and rent. According to an analysis of tax returns by Jon Bakija of Williams College and two others, 16% of the top 1% were in medical professions and 8% were lawyers: shares that have changed little between 1979 and 2005, the latest year the authors examined (see chart). The most striking shift has been the growth of financial occupations, from just under 8% of the wealthy in 1979 to 13.9% in 2005. Their representation within the top 0.1% is even more pronounced: 18%, up from 11% in 1979…”
via The Economist
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