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June, 2009

Xbox “Project Natal” is that for real?

Wow, this is really cool, Its just a demo for now and am waiting to get my hands on this. This is the latest of Microsoft’s Xbox Whole body motion-capture device. Also includes voice and face recognition and many other small things.

   
 

There are like tons of coverage for this.. Few I found nice are…. You can always bing it

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/01/microsoft-announces-motion-controller-for-xbox-360/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/01/microsofts-project-natal-demo-video-has-us-jumping-with-anticip/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jun/01/xbox-natal-controller

 
 
January, 2009

US Income Tax Burden

As can be figured from the chart below, top 5% i.e. (AGI of 150K or more) are responsible for the 60% of the Income Tax generated. Event though they are responsible for only 37% of the total income.

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source: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/CutYourTaxes/make-32k-youre-in-the-richer-50percent.aspx

The new Obama administration thinks that they can squeeze some more out of the rich 5% people, good I say, I am not one of them.  Sometimes less is good.

May, 2008

Ted Talk: Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen

I enjoyed this talk given at TED, there is world of information out there and this is one of the great places to look for some great inspirations. Do check it out, in the mean while enjoy.

 
February, 2008

India Leads in ClickFraud

ClickForensics.com released a report on ClickFraud(CF) for Q4 2007. It seems that the CF has increased year over year and quarter over quarter and is now 16.6%. Also CF on search engine content networks including Google's adsense and Yahoo's publisher network is staggering 28.3% for the Q4 2007 quarter up from 19.2 for the same quarter in 2006.

The worst part of all this, is that India has the greatest number of CF originating from countries outside of North America. 

Countries %CF
India 4.3
Germany 3.9
South Korea 3.7

ClickFraud high threat heat map(source:clickForensics.com)

October, 2007

Money As debt

A nice video, which explains using animation what money means and how it is created.
  
 
 
 

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