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I Love xkcd on Vimeo

Rated Oct 22 • 2 reviews • multimedia, video • vimeo.com

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Video Highlight Reel of Hexawise - a pairwise testing...

Rated Oct 20 • 1 review • software, software development, software testing, design of experiments • wordpress.com

Nice screen cast, by my brother, showing Hexawise - a pairwise testing tool and combinatorial testing tool.

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Data on the Largest Manufacturing Countries in 2008 at...

Rated Oct 13 • 1 review • business, economics, economy, manufacturing • curiouscatblog.net

"The USA's share of the manufacturing output, of the countries that manufactured over $185 billion in 2008, 28% in 1990, 28% in 1995, 32% in 2000, 28% in 2005, 28% in 2006, 26% in 2007 and 24% in 2008. China's share has grown from 4% in 1990, 6% in 1995, 10% in 2000, 13% in 2005, 14% in 2006, 16% in 2007 to 18% in 2008. Japan's share has fallen from 22% in 1990 to 14% in 2008 (after increasing to 26% in 1995 then steadily falling). The USA has about 4.5% of the world population, China about 20%."

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xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language...

Rated Oct 12 • 3 reviews • comics • xkcd.com

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The Rising Power of Financial Blog Zero Hedge - Money...

Rated Sep 28 • 1 review • investing, journalism, politics, blogging, stocks • nymag.com

Blogger takes on Goldman Sachs manipulation and NYSE changes rules to hide data. But publicity continued and then the SEC drew up a proposal to ban flash trading. "He was on the cutting edge of bringing attention to the problems posed by flash trades," says Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Senator Schumer. This is what journalism is suppose to be about - exposing corruption that powerful interests try to hide.

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Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Rated Sep 27 • 1 review • journalism, news • dailykos.com

Money in news (PBS) and marketing (CBS). Though current mass media outlets (ABC, NBC...) grew from what were news organizations they have become much more like the marketing departments for their corporate parents than news organizations.

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InformIT: The Poppendiecks Speak: Two-Pizza Teams and the...

Rated Sep 19 • 1 review • intl development, software development, lean manufacturing, lean software devepment • informit.com

The authors of Implementing Lean Software Development, Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck, open up on topics ranging from stupid ideas for "eliminating waste" to the differences between Lean and Agile, to avoiding project failure. "We are not developing software," Tom says. "We are doing something larger and software is just part of the solution."

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What Else Can Software Development and Testing Learn from...

Rated Sep 19 • 1 review • software, software development, software testing, design of experiments • wordpress.com

adoption of Design of Experiments methods in software design and testing remains low. This is unfortunate because significant benefits consistently result in both software development and software testing when Design of Experiments methods are properly implemented.

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