Priv3: don’t let them track you

Every time you visit a site with Like / +1 / whatever buttons on them, you tell Facebook / Google / whoever what page you are visiting before you even think about clicking the button or not. You may or may not care about this, but if you do and browse with Firefox,...

Guanxi and business

I hadn’t really got the idea of guanxi – a “network of connections and favours” – which helps oil the wheels of Chinese business. This article helped a lot: Why Latin American Companies Can’t Thrive In China –...

Hong Kong’s coffin homes

Hong Kong’s dirty little secret – coffin homes | Danwei. The homes in this article are just round the corner from us and nearly visible from our flat. Incredible disparity in this city, as with many others.

Fortune 500 from 1955

Fortune 500. Fascinating interactive chart based on rank, revenue and profits of Fortune 500 from 1955. I enjoyed seeing quite how short the life of companies can be and how unexpectedly curved their trajectories can be.

Sagan and Feynman

Great mash-ups of two of the best presenters of science, ever. Glorious. [update: and have a fly over the earth from space for some more loveliness]