Bookmarks for December 16th through December 18th

Links for December 16th through December 18th:

• Facebook Data Team: How Diverse is Facebook? | Facebook – In order to make Facebook as open and connected as possible for everyone, one of our goals is to understand how different populations of users join and use the service. With that objective in mind, the Facebook Data team recently sought to answer the question, "How diverse are the ethnic backgrounds of the people using Facebook?" This is a tough question to answer because, unlike information such as gender or age, Facebook does not ask users to share their ethnicity or race on their profiles. In order to answer it, we focused on a single country with a large and diverse population—the United States. Comparing people's surnames on Facebook with data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, we are able to estimate the racial breakdown of Facebook users over the history of the site.
• Videos from the vault of the National Archives –
• Gravity –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• "EAR TO THE GROUND: TOKYO" by Various Artists – LimeWire Store – Ear To The Ground series of FREE digital music compilations spotlights a different city for each release, and EAR TO THE GROUND: TOKYO is the series' 15th installment! NEW YORK -