Not quite at the bottom, but close. Way more corrupt than  China (79th), but less so than Russia (146th).

7-Up for Baby

Cigarette pack from Vietnam, date unknown (probably 1980s). The kitsch level approaches heights rarely seen outside Japan.

Forget everything you know about the computer. In 2011 you’ll have an intensely personal device that will be more important to you than any computer that exists today.

“Carriers used to control everything, and now the tables have utterly turned, that’s what’ll make the future so interesting.”

A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual crisis that now has the entire country six winks short of an icicle.

Gotta love Japan

What storm troopers Google

Planning a vacation? *Really* need to get away? The darker the region, the more remote.

Google said Apps is used by 2 million businesses, up from 1.75 million in June. Those include both larger businesses that pay $50 a year per user for Apps, as well as firms with fewer than 50 employees that get the software for free.

1. SYMBOLICS.COM
2. BBN.COM
3. THINK.COM
4. MCC.COM
5. DEC.COM
6. NORTHROP.COM
7. XEROX.COM
8. SRI.COM
9. HP.COM
10. BELLCORE.COM

coming to you mid-2010: device-router-device connections replaced by device-device connections, basically everything becomes a wifi router

faster than GPRS. Still testing.

Very cool animated map showing US employment trends. (Press the play button to animate)

and France has declared it a “human right”

At $110K/m2 it’s even more expensive than Vietnam ;-)