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“The Mother Of All Scams” – Send This To Your Friends Who Still Believe In Bitcoin
16 Oct 2018 by Carrie / 26 Comments
When business was booming, every office had someone churning out lines like ‘Bitcoin or bust’. They’ve been pretty quiet of late, right?
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Map Of World Weed Use – 2012
27 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Economist has surprised everybody by doing something fun, using the United Nations’ World Drug Report 2012 (released yesterday) to generate a map of the world’s heaviest weed users. The Pacific island of Palau wins easily, with nearly a quarter of people aged 15 to 64 having smoked pot in the past year. South Africa does okay, too.
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South Africa’s Projected Internet Traffic, 2011-2015
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Cisco have just come out with their annual Visual Networking Index, which is a pretty reliable source of internet traffic reporting. Global traffic will quadruple, by 2015, with Asia’s traffic generation overtaking North America. Which is cool, but less cool than the stuff they say about traffic in South Africa, which is after the jump.
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South Africa’s Economy Equivalent To Maryland’s, Apparently
25 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
So this is pretty cool! Sort of. If you find random bits of information that you can start awkward conversations with cool. And you should. You really should. The folks at The Economist put together a map of the USA that matches each state with an economically comparable nation, using GDP to measure. And we match with Maryland!
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