The Paul Ceglia Facebook Claim's a Fraud: Yea!

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeWhy anyone took this Paul Ceglia's claims of a 50% ownership seriously is a mystery to me.

In any case, SAI Business Insider's now convinced it was fraud.

Fantastic! Let's move on....

see OKAY, WE'RE CONVINCED: The Guy Who Says He Owns 50% Of Facebook Is A Fraud

Twitter for Idiots or Dummies or Whatever.

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Game of Thrones eReader Companion

Image via WikipediaHave recently got hooked on the fantasy series of books collectively known as "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin that starts with the Game of Thrones.

The reading of the first, and now second book is being done on an iPhone via the Amazon Kindle app. As any reader of this series knows, there are an immense number of characters and places to keep track of. Difficult enough in book form and harder still on iPhone.

Just when I was going to give in and print off the maps associated with the books, a search of the Apple Apps store revealed the "Game of Thrones Companion" by Jason S. Rosenblum App.

Game of Thrones fans get this app, I can highly recommend it.

Stuck on those "Ser Who?!" type questions? Or on "where is THAT place" problems? Just fire up the app and you have easy access to a large data base of characters, the maps from the books, places, houses and the regions.

Easy stuff!

Gigabytes Per Month per Person

"Reliable data about internet traffic is hard to come by. One of the better sources is Cisco's annual Visual Networking Index, which was published on June 1st. Internet traffic, the world's biggest maker of networking gear predicts, will quadruple and reach 80.5 exabytes per month (80 exabytes would fill 20 billion DVDs) by 2015."

Chart from The Economist blog Daily Charts

original article link and titles 

Consumer internet traffic: Data guzzlers -  How the world will use the internet in 2015

The Beginning of the Age of Fossil Fuel

Image by New America Foundation via Flickr"Are we living at the beginning of the Age of Fossil Fuels, not its final decades? The very thought goes against everything that politicians and the educated public have been taught to believe in the past generation."

So writes Michael Lind, Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation.

The one thing really galling about the whole climate debate is that it is impossible to have just that: a debate. A debate means that both sides, and the middle, get a chance to put forward their respective points of view.

In the climate debate chamber, the other side or climate skeptics do not seem to be allowed to air their points of view without being denounced as some sort of heretics.

Michael Lind puts forward a perfectly reasonable pint of view that needs to be listened to for a balanced debate.

from Salon.com

see Everything you've heard about fossil fuels may be wrong

And please note:

"Nuclear energy already provides around 13-14 percent of the world’s electricity and nearly 3 percent of global final energy consumption, while wind, solar and geothermal power combined account for less than one percent of global final energy consumption."