Interesting map of just a few of the defense cuts on the block. However, before that a few words of wisdom and warning from former President and Supreme Allied Commander during WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Not that I think the military industrial complex is being unwound (not by a long shot), it is interesting to hear Eisenhower’s words while catching a small glimpse of the current scale of the complex.
Found via ZeroHedge
A little surprised to see only 10% of Yelp’s users are accessing via mobile. Actually really surprised especially considering how awesome the Yelp monocle is. Skype also seems a bit low to me but I guess if you’ve got a mobile phone you’ll just use the embedded phone functionality (unless like me you have AT&T and routinely have to use skype + wifi to make calls).
Found via Cool Infographics
Found via The Big Picture
If you do anything remotely related to startups you’ve probably used CrunchBase at least once or twice. It is an awesome platform with a ton of great data.
It appears the folks at big data analytics company SiSense has utilized CrunchBase’s API to create some pretty sweet visualizations. Check ’em out.
This is really cool. It’s easy to forget that our fancy-pants internet still relies on extremely long undersea cables connecting us all. If I had Photoshop / time I’d draw in some sea monsters and whirlpools like the nautical maps of lore.
Source: TeleGeography – found via coolinfographics.com
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