Links for Saturday 5 March 2011
- How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? - Population Reference Bureau
- The number of people alive today is something like, very vaguely, 6% of all those who ever lived. (via @GreatDismal)
- Making Money | Small Business Advice from Jason Fried of Inc.com
- Anecdotes about making money, knowing what customers want, practicing, etc. from 37 Signals chap. (via Kottke)
- LRB · Jeremy Harding · Where the Jihadis Are
- Interesting review of a book that interviews Muslim suicide bombers around the world, and those in the West trying to stop them (Congress, CIA, NATO, etc). Fascinating, but subscribers only.
- MemeTracker: tracking news phrases over the web
- This is the kind of thing I was trying to do for my futures thesis in 2000, only without the data, resources or know-how. (via @aleksk)
- ASCII by Jason Scott / Archive Team Yahoo Video Final Push (and a rousing speech)
- I sent Archive Team money to pay for 1TB of storage, so they can store more of Yahoo Video, which is being deleted by Yahoo! Every little helps, so maybe send a little? (via Waxy)