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What I’m reading and finding for February 24th 2011 through February 26th 2011:

• http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2010ltr.pdf –
  berkshirehathaway.com
• Snow Falls on San Francisco After a 35-Year Wait –
  nytimes.com
  Just before midnight, several city neighborhoods, including Twin Peaks, at some 900 feet, reported light snowfall, with the possibility of more on Saturday.
• The Likability of Angry Birds – The Oatmeal –
  theoatmeal.com - Matthew Inman
  A graph showing how likable various angry birds are.
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• Google Forecloses On Content Farms With “Farmer” Algorithm Update –
  searchengineland.com - Danny Sullivan
  In January, Google promised that it would take action against content farms that were gaining top listings with “shallow” or “low-quality” content. Now the company is delivering, announcing a change to its ranking algorithm designed take out such material. New Change Impacts… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
• Google Forecloses On Content Farms With “Farmer” Algorithm Update – In January, Google promised that it would take action against content farms that were gaining top listings with “shallow” or “low-quality” content. Now the company is delivering, announcing a change to its ranking algorithm designed take out such material.
• Official Google Blog: Finding more high-quality sites in search –
  googleblog.blogspot.com - A Googler
  Our goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible. This requires constant tuning of our algorithms, as new content—both good and bad—comes online all the time. Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. But in the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries—and we wanted to let people know what&rsquo..  show all text
• NASA HD-TV on USTREAM: NASA TV airs a variety of regularly scheduled, pre-recorded educational and public relations programming 24 hours a day on its vario… –
  ustream.tv