Something interesting I found out is they sell birth control over the counter! I talked the a Pharmacist and he said its not a popular item in the country because of their Religious values. That stuff would be out of stock in the US! Another interesting thing is the cost of Yasmin: only 34 Qatar Riyal. That is a little under $10. The price of Yasmin in the US without insurance is about $81.
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Practical Cloud Computing: The State of NoSQL in 2012
Preamble Ramble
If you’ve been working in the online (e.g. internet) space over the past 3 years, you are no stranger to terms like “the cloud” and “NoSQL”.
In 2007, Amazon published a paper on Dynamo. The paper detailed how Dynamo, employing a collection of techniques to solve…
: $3.19 & 20-Years Worth of iPhone Charges
I don’t know if I’m more impressed with concept that one gallon of gas could provide 7,300 charges or that our automobiles can’t seem to get consistently better than 25miles using the same quantity of fuel. Yeah, yeah,… I understand that moving a 3,000 hunk of steel is different that filling up…
Children from one of the communities outside of Valenca, R.J. that Roberto, from SALVEASERRA, is working with. The children are completely adorable!
Find out more about this terrific project that brings groups of public school children to see remnants of the Mata Atlantica rainforest and teach them about protecting the environment!
Contribute today at http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/protect-brazil-rainforest/
betashop: Fab Acquires FashionStake
We’re on a mission here at Fab to be the world’s most valuable design resource.
In June 2011 we opened our doors and took big strides towards achieving that goal. 7 months later 1.65 million people have now joined Fab. 350,000 new design enthusiasts have signed up in the last 30 days…
betashop: Fab's Black Friday - Cyber Monday
Here’s some more insight into what Black Friday - Cyber Monday meant for Fab.com.
- Fab.com did more than $1.1 million in sales over the 4 day period.
- Our users placed more than 18,000 orders.
- Nearly half of all orders were from first-time Fab purchasers.
- 20% of sales was from users of…
CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: The all-time biggest Internet IPO ever ...
Was a stock scam.
In the run-up to Facebook’s IPO filling, we checked with a few data trackers for historical context. With numbers like $5 billion to $10 billion being tossed around for the likely deal size, Facebook is poised to be a pretty whopping offering. But will it be The Biggest Ever?
Digithoughts: iPhone - the smartphone for dumb people
Christmas. Family gathering. 6 out of 8 adults have smartphones this year, up from 3/7 a year ago. Regarding the phone of choice: Well, you can see that I’ve tought them well. Or, as I use to say: iPhone, the smartphone for dumb people.
The phone to the right is my father-in-law’s Windows…
Leo Laporte Deletes his Facebook
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MovieGoer blog: Kill Y Combinator
Do I really want to see Y Combinator die? Of course not. I feel dirty just typing that title just now and having you read it. But I chose the title “Kill Y Combinator” precisely to show how harmful it is to make the kind of declaration (“Kill Hollywood”) YC made on their website on Friday….
