Um, isn’t gender one of the first boxes you complete on the form when documenting an animal?

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — Puzzled zookeepers in northern Japan have discovered the reason why their attempts to mate two polar bears kept failing: Both are female.

Zoo solves mystery of celibate polar bears – CNN.com.

I’m totally unsure how to classify this headline.  The article is not a game review or some fan-boy slash.  Its actually talking about things that some government agents claim has happened.  So I’ll suspend judgement and just let you absorb the article as best you can

Mythical Female Snipers Stalk Russians

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As the story had it, these stone-cold, blue eyed killers were said to be from the Baltics — or Ukraine. They were sometimes described as Olympic biathletes recruited as mercenary sharpshooters by Chechen commanders.

The Return of ‘White Tights’: Mythical Female Snipers Stalk Russians | Danger Room from Wired.com.

A great write up on the basic idea of how we use data and how those things change when the amount of data increases by a couple orders of magnitude.

If I were to convert the storage on my cellphone to floppy disks on my old Apple clone, it would require about 57,000 disks. That would be a stack of floppy disks almost 500 feet high.

…A gigabyte is a billion letters. What does that mean? We just don’t think about it.

Good Math, Bad Math : Scale: How Large Quantities of Information Change Everything.

A really splendid letter from an enigneer at Honda about why Honda works and what that says about how to be successful.  Makes me want to run out and start a business.  Please, take some time to read the whole thing.  Its well worth it.

Try and picture this. On my first day of work, no one told me what to do. On the second day, the same thing happened, and on the third. That’s as much as I could take. I decided to meet with everyone I was coming in contact with to find out more about their individual talents and personalities, and to find out what was going on. Before I knew it, I was developing a picture of how things really were, and who needed what, and I became creatively involved in defining my own participation in relation to the skills I could bring to the table.

Letter to a Young Engineer from a purported Honda employee – Boing Boing Gadgets.