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Friday, July 1, 2011

Random Links

How (And Why) An NBA Team Makes A $7 Million Profit Look Like A $28 Million Loss

Is the NBA really losing money?

NBA lockout will dwarf the NFL strife

11 thoughts about the end of the CBA

Heartbreaking Yet Beautiful Images Of Our Planet Being Destroyed

Companies make it easy for hackers

Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt's Five Most Ridiculous Debts

Google's Driverless Cars Are Now Legal In Nevada

A Cymbal In Very Slow Motion

15 Unintentionally Inappropriate Domain Names

The Largest Historic Homes In America

The World's Best Skylines

The Dodgers Are Paying Millions Of Dollars To Players Who Aren't Even In Baseball Anymore

Routine Bad Weather Costs America $458 Billion In A Year

Across Europe, Irking Drivers Is Urban Policy

Surreal Pictures Of America's Crumbling Roads

The 15 Most Innovative Companies Of All Time

Lessons in Longevity, From I.B.M.

9 Everyday Tech Tools Made Possible By 100 Years Of IBM

War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs

Long Before Earth, Asteroids May Have Served as Incubators of Life

Chile’s Puyehue Volcano

The great shift from farm to city. Never in human history have so many people changed their locations and lifestyles so quickly. It offers opportunity, or danger.
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