Links for March 9th, 2010 through March 10th, 2010

  • 24 Secret Restaurant Menus Revealed
  • Fat Burger: Hypocrite – A veggie burger topped with bacon.

  • Carlos Slim Helu dethrones Bill Gates as world’s richest man
  • Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil (AMX), Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth and nab the top spot on the 2010 Forbes list of the World's Billionaires.

  • YouTube Fail
  • Yahoo Answers #FAIL

  • What’s an Oscar Worth? It Depends on Your Contract
  • When signing on for films that are possible Oscar contenders, actors often have award-triggered bonuses built into their contracts that vary depending on the size of the film.

  • Panel Releases Proposal to Set U.S. Standards for Education
  • Alaska and Texas are the only states not participating in the standards-writing effort. In keeping his state out of the movement, Gov. Rick Perry argued that only Texans should decide what children there learn.

  • Porn: Good for us?
  • Scientific examination of the subject has found that as the use of porn increases, the rate of sex crimes goes down.

  • Secondbar?
  • SecondBar is a Tool which allows you to have more than one menubar in Mac OS X. This is useful if you have multiple monitors connected to your mac

  • Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
  • "I feel for Google – Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too."

  • Tron Legacy trailer
  • Putting Google to the Test in Translation
  • Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Some of these systems are better than others at handling particular pairs of languages, and it is impossible to evaluate them fully using small bits of text. But here are some quick comparisons of human translations and computerized versions from Google and two competitors.

  • Out of the shadow of Bollywood
  • There are several reasons for the recent success of Marathi cinema.
    Many young filmmakers now send their films to prestigious film festivals as soon as they are ready – creating the buzz these films need in the absence of a big marketing machine.

  • FourWhere: start discovering the world around you
  • FourWhere makes it easy to see places around the world visited by Foursquare users, and read any comments they may have left a particular place.


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