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Weeelll.... maybe. Taking the home ownership and unemployment data available on Wikipedia gives a Pearson's correlation coefficient of about .26. That's not strongly linked, if I know my statistics well. Which admittedly I don't, but still. I want a tool that can take two WIkipedia "list of..." pages and graph them together. Normalization is a bother, though. http://www.businessinsider.com/high-home-ownership-is-strongly-linked-to-high-unemployment-2013-11

Immobilienscout now allows searching for housing by public transit time instead of just distance. Very well done! http://www.immobilienscout24.de/Suche/S-1/Wohnung-Miete/Fahrzeitsuche/M_fcnchen/80636/113245/2028653/Arnulfstra_dfe/-/15/3,00-/100,00-/EURO--2000,00/1,5/-/-/true/-/true?enteredFrom=result_list

Don't talk while I'm interrupting! Unless you want to get ahead as a woman in tech... http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/07/23/study_men_interrupt_women_more_in_tech_workplaces_but_high_ranking_women.html

Assaulted by twelve manticores? Haunted by a trio of ghosts? Dogged by this messiah and that? Now you know what to properly call them! Originally shared by Meg Tufano Dedicated to Laura Gibbs   ;')

Maps of the Internet, then and now. Via Urs Steurer Originally shared by Wouter Blok 40 maps that show you how the interwebz developed. http://www.vox.com/a/internet-maps?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=voxdotcom&utm_content=saturday

My experience as a war photographer. Apologies to anybody I got in the way of when trapped between the lines.

It's official: Facebook is bad for you.  I expect G+ is not much better... http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21583593-using-social-network-seems-make-people-more-miserable-get-life

These are really cool sculptures indeed. Apparently I like sculptures that interact with their surroundings and that are done with strange "textures". Via Adam Messinger  http://www.boredpanda.com/worlds-most-creative-statues-sculptures/

This is a building on the way to work. It has a moat and a bridge across the moat. Which makes perfect sense, since they're the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Copyright Law, and so may need to hold off mobs with pitchforks regularly. Well, maybe mostly virtually. But it makes for a good story.

(Potentially) good news for diabetics and other people with blood sugar issues, and for learning more about how our bodies work. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/business/international/novartis-joins-with-google-to-develop-contact-lens-to-monitor-blood-sugar.html?referrer

Google+ Real Names Policy is now a thing of the past. Come on out,@Emperor Xytcaldix XXIV (*_*), you're free now! Originally shared by Google+ When we launched Google+ over three years ago, we had a lot of restrictions on what name you could use on your profile. This helped create a community made up of real people, but it also excluded a number of people who wanted to be part of it without using their real names.  Over the years, as Google+ grew and its community became established, we steadily opened up this policy, from allowing +Page owners to use any name of their choosing to letting YouTube users bring their usernames into Google+. Today, we are taking the last step: there are no more restrictions on what name you can use.  We know you've been calling for this change for a while. We know that our names policy has been unclear, and this has led to some unnecessarily difficult experiences for some of our users. For this we apologize, and we hope that today's change is a...

Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger On the subject of social networks, let me present to you Viking social networks. Or rather, the analysis of the social networks represented in sagas and epic poems, and the rather fascinating things they can tell us. The one that caught my eye the most: the Táin Bó Cúailinge, the classic Irish epic, has long been thought to be entirely fictional. However, fiction leaves a trace: the mathematical structure of social networks which people make up (who talks to whom, etc) don't match the mathematical structure of "real" social networks. (This is sort of similar to Benford's Law, a method used to detect when people have faked data: it turns out that the distribution of digits found in real data and in numbers that people made up are different) Applying this analysis to the Táin, it was discovered that its graph is halfway between a real and fake one -- and that the fictional aspects of it were all clustered around a handful of charact...

Selected shots from quiet periods at Sotahuuto. Next up: Combat!

Tear-jerker for dog-lovers. Germans may need proxies due to GEMA stupidness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhLriN3nBdE

First of a series of pictures from me and several Monachians going to Sotahuuto: Getting a glimpse of Helsinki. Many thanks to Joonas Lehtonen for moving us, feeding us, housing us, and equipping us for war.

In Espoo City helping the Emperium prepare for battle.

Leaving grey, rainy Munich for warm, sunny Finland. There's something wrong with this picture.

I saw somewhere in town a shop giving 10% off per goal Germany scores. Stuff for cheap today!

Notice that we're skipping Sunday 13/7 due to many people being in Finland or at Kaltenberger. We will do medieval battles using foam-covered weapons Sunday 20/7 in Englischer Garten south-west of the lake (see http://goo.gl/maps/5ael9 ). All are welcome, beginners and on-lookers too. Instruction in both English and German is available. Bring water and loose-fitting clothes that can stand getting sweaty and dirty. Boots with ankle support, knee protection or leather gloves are recommended. We will postpone in case of heavy rain or very slippery ground. Belegarth is full-speed, full-contact, free-form medieval combat using heavily padded swords, shields, flails, etc. The rules are simple, the weapons are safe, and the experience is the closest you'll get to being on in an actual battlefield of the Dark Ages. Anyone can join, no experience nor armor needed. We have a large number of medieval weapons available, from swords over flais and spears to bow and arrow. Any number of peop...

Women attending Google I/O up from 8% last year to 20% this year. Now at least it reflects the industry gender distribution. http://www.wired.com/2014/06/google-io-women-20-percent/

Excellent blog post on letting out your inner nerd. Just one of the reasons I do sword fighting: http://waitingfordiamonds.wordpress.com/2014/06/29/the-things-i-learned-at-ragnarok/   #ragnarok   #dagorhir   #belegarth

May be the religionuts got something other than what they hoped for, between the below and the idea that mixing religion and corporations can make the owners more liable. http://marksilk.religionnews.com/2014/06/30/hobby-lobby-decision-actually-guarantees-contraception-coverage/