links for 2010-03-02: Chile quake changes time; Data everywhere

• Chile quake may have tipped Earth's axis - And doing so may result in each day being 1.26 microseconds shorter.
• Data, data everywhere - '“We are at a different period because of so much information,” says James Cortada of IBM, who has written a couple of dozen books on the history of information in society. Joe Hellerstein, a computer scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, calls it “the industrial revolution of data”.'