Moody’s Cuts Japan’s Rating One Notch, Citing Its Giant Debt

The credit ratings agency Moody’s trimmed Japan’s rating to its fourth-highest level, in line with a downgrade by Standard & Poor’s in January.

Moody’s Cuts Japan’s Rating One Notch, Citing Its Giant Debt

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Prankster Reimagines 3-yr-old Eyesore Construction Site As Giant Happy Playspace

(Photo: courtesy John Creed, via My Green Lake, a Seattle area neighborhood blog.) In the Seattle neighborhood of Green Lake, a three-acre empty lot known to locals as the "Big Hole" has been reimagined as an awesome and ginormous play … Continue reading →

Prankster reimagines 3-yr-old eyesore construction site as giant happy playspace

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DealBook: Wall St. Giant Places Bet on Vegas Bookmaking

With its hand-held gambling devices, a unit of Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street brokerage firm, is expanding its venture into sports betting in Las Vegas.

DealBook: Wall St. Giant Places Bet on Vegas Bookmaking

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Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From Space

9. Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From Space

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Last year's top stories included two based on images of ice from space: a mysterious ice circle in Lake Baikal, and a gallery of images of glaciers taken by satellites and astronauts. So it's no surprise that this animation of colliding ice bergs is among the post popular stories this year.

The collision in early February of the 60-mile-long B-9B iceberg with the protruding tongue of the Mertz Glacier in East Antarctica is captured here in a series of satellite radar images. The crash created a second massive iceberg nearly 50 miles long and 25 miles wide, named C-28. The name means that it’s the 28th glacier since 1976 that has broken off from the quadrant of Antarctica that faces Australia.

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Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From Space

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Giant penis crop-circle appears mysteriously at Eiffel Tower in Paris

Holy dueling phallic symbols, Batman! French journalist Aude Baron tells Boing Boing,

On Friday, if you were going to the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, you could see a giant penis! It was drawn into the snow covering the grass. A Dutch tourist took a picture and posted it on Twitter. Amazing view! But what if it was a PhotoShop? To be sure, I called the store which is a the first floor of the Tour Eiffel, and I was confirmed the masterpiece was still here, making everyone laugh. Unfortunately the garden department of Paris city hall told me they would soon rake it up.

Full story here in Lepost.fr. The original picture is here.

Giant penis crop-circle appears mysteriously at Eiffel Tower in Paris

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Giant penis crop-circle mysteriously erected at Eiffel Tower in Paris

Holy dueling Gallic phallic symbols, Batman! French journalist Aude Baron tells Boing Boing,

On Friday, if you were going to the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, you could see a giant penis! It was drawn into the snow covering the grass. A Dutch tourist took a picture and posted it on Twitter. Amazing view! But what if it was a PhotoShop? To be sure, I called the store which is a the first floor of the Tour Eiffel, and I was confirmed the masterpiece was still here, making everyone laugh. Unfortunately the garden department of Paris city hall told me they would soon rake it up.

Full story here in Lepost.fr. The original picture is here.

Giant penis crop-circle mysteriously erected at Eiffel Tower in Paris

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Now a Giant, Google Works to Retain Nimble Minds

Is Google facing a brain drain? The pace at a big organization is far slower than at a start-up, a difference that matters to the entrepreneurial spirit.

Now a Giant, Google Works to Retain Nimble Minds

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Media Cache: Dreaming Up Uses for a Giant Invisibility Machine

Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and other universities have come up with a way to tailor the flow of light around objects so that they disappear from view.

Media Cache: Dreaming Up Uses for a Giant Invisibility Machine

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