What's been keeping me busy for the past hour or so. #mynotsoexcitinglife ;)

- In terms of total assets, IBM and HP make the other companies look small.
- Microsoft has twice the assets of Google.
- Google has twice the assets of eBay and more than twice the assets of Yahoo.
- Google’s and Apple’s war chests are almost exactly the same size, just under 25 billion USD. However, these numbers are from the end of 2009, before Google went on its recent shopping spree.
- The only company of the 15 we included with a bigger war chest than Microsoft is Cisco, the networking giant.
- Comparing AMD and Intel is like comparing David and Goliat, at least in terms of assets. Intel has almost six times the assets of AMD.
- Oracle, Apple and Intel have almost exactly the same amount of total assets, just over 53 billion USD.
- Companies that can quickly convert more than half of their total assets to cash: Cisco, Google, and Novell.

Cisco straight has the cash money. Would love to see social networks' cash money.

Nothing is sexier than data viz :)

TurboTax used the USA Today calculator and data from salary.com to put together this graph that shows how our tax dollars are allocated. Look at all the pink!

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This is so nerdy but way too pretty not to share. And with that, good night everyone. :)

Almost all the supplements I know people take on the daily are flippin' rip-offs - WTF. Those damn drug companies. For seriously.

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Indeed, information IS beautiful. #chartporn

Um. Wow. How reliable is the US Census Bereau, anyway? Anyone know?

"[...] Those still in a job pocketed an average bonus of $123,850 in 2009, according to initial estimates using tax returns by the Office of the New York State Comptroller. A total of $20.3 billion was paid out to bankers and other securities-industry workers, 17% more than in 2008."

Now don't write off these stats because the source is Royal Pingdom. That site is like BGR (Boy Genius Report) -- not credible until recently. Look where Royal Pingdom pulled their stats. ht @percival