Ultimate Dog Tease (Funny Video)
Disneyland 1955 (Video)
As a parent, I truly came to appreciate the magic of The Magic Kingdom. Thus this I found this video, nicely set to music, enjoyable to watch. It is also interesting to see how different the 1955 park was, and how people in attendance looked and acted.
If you like this, also check more details about it at the Disney History Institute.
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Video)
This video changed how I view the world. Essentially it served to turn some of my basic assumptions about people on their head. In particular, this video questions whether incentives, in fact, incent. I would not go far as to say it kills the idea (of incentives) completely, but it certainly adds a new twist to it.
Venture Capital Financings per Capita by State
PriceWaterhouseCoopers recently released their Money Tree Report, which among other things provides the dollar amount of venture capital money raised by state. Below is data from this report, but with each state considered on a per capita basis (2012 VC$ / 2010 population). The last column is percentage of the highest per capita rate as a measure of relative activity.
| State | 2012 VC$ | 2010 Pop | Per Cap VC$ | % of Highest |
| MA | 3,126,968,400 | 6,547,629 | 477.57 | 100.0% |
| CA | 14,194,421,800 | 37,253,956 | 381.02 | 79.8% |
| WA | 907,508,100 | 6,724,540 | 134.95 | 28.3% |
| CO | 585,433,300 | 5,029,196 | 116.41 | 24.4% |
| UT | 318,397,200 | 2,763,885 | 115.20 | 24.1% |
| DC | 64,201,200 | 601,723 | 106.70 | 22.3% |
| NY | 1,863,532,100 | 19,378,102 | 96.17 | 20.1% |
| RI | 85,059,100 | 1,052,567 | 80.81 | 16.9% |
| NJ | 444,135,500 | 8,791,894 | 50.52 | 10.6% |
| MD | 284,252,600 | 5,773,552 | 49.23 | 10.3% |
| MN | 253,183,800 | 5,303,925 | 47.74 | 10.0% |
| VA | 372,380,200 | 8,001,024 | 46.54 | 9.7% |
| NH | 60,672,000 | 1,316,470 | 46.09 | 9.7% |
| IL | 570,432,100 | 12,830,632 | 44.46 | 9.3% |
| CT | 157,577,300 | 3,574,097 | 44.09 | 9.2% |
| PA | 520,744,100 | 12,702,379 | 41.00 | 8.6% |
| TX | 934,421,200 | 25,145,561 | 37.16 | 7.8% |
| AZ | 221,938,100 | 6,392,017 | 34.72 | 7.3% |
| OR | 124,267,800 | 3,831,074 | 32.44 | 6.8% |
| GA | 261,840,300 | 9,687,653 | 27.03 | 5.7% |
| OH | 285,750,500 | 11,536,504 | 24.77 | 5.2% |
| MI | 236,805,900 | 9,883,640 | 23.96 | 5.0% |
| NC | 196,918,300 | 9,535,483 | 20.65 | 4.3% |
| NM | 35,732,000 | 2,059,179 | 17.35 | 3.6% |
| WI | 95,311,900 | 5,686,986 | 16.76 | 3.5% |
| KS | 47,201,700 | 2,853,118 | 16.54 | 3.5% |
| TN | 87,160,600 | 6,346,105 | 13.73 | 2.9% |
| IN | 84,161,300 | 6,483,802 | 12.98 | 2.7% |
| FL | 199,110,400 | 18,801,310 | 10.59 | 2.2% |
| DE | 9,489,900 | 897,934 | 10.57 | 2.2% |
| ID | 15,150,000 | 1,567,582 | 9.66 | 2.0% |
| ME | 12,787,200 | 1,328,361 | 9.63 | 2.0% |
| OK | 34,036,000 | 3,751,351 | 9.07 | 1.9% |
| SC | 39,499,900 | 4,625,364 | 8.54 | 1.8% |
| WV | 14,568,000 | 1,852,994 | 7.86 | 1.6% |
| VT | 4,415,000 | 625,741 | 7.06 | 1.5% |
| NE | 10,615,000 | 1,826,341 | 5.81 | 1.2% |
| MT | 5,575,100 | 989,415 | 5.63 | 1.2% |
| KY | 23,543,000 | 4,339,367 | 5.43 | 1.1% |
| AL | 23,106,000 | 4,779,736 | 4.83 | 1.0% |
| ND | 2,400,000 | 672,591 | 3.57 | 0.7% |
| MO | 21,316,000 | 5,988,927 | 3.56 | 0.7% |
| MS | 9,776,000 | 2,967,297 | 3.29 | 0.7% |
| NV | 7,095,100 | 2,700,551 | 2.63 | 0.6% |
| LA | 10,508,400 | 4,533,372 | 2.32 | 0.5% |
| AR | 5,000,000 | 2,915,918 | 1.71 | 0.4% |
| IA | 5,000,000 | 3,046,355 | 1.64 | 0.3% |
| HI | 645,000 | 1,360,301 | 0.47 | 0.1% |
| PR | 100,000 | 3,725,789 | 0.03 | 0.0% |
| SD | – | 814,180 | – | 0.0% |