Tag Archives: economics

50 Foods Under $1 per lb

Sure, they're counting on some store specials in this list but the point they make about the healthiest foods that you can eat often being the cheapest is a very valid one. 

Friday Fun Link – Apple's Eight Steps to Beat Microsoft & Google

Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft (and Google) View more presentations from Ouriel Ohayon.

The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly

Would you believe four turns?  (And if you don't, make sure you read the comments for even more inspired ideas!)We started to wonder about what the shortest THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE game of Monopoly would be. That is, if everything went just the right way, with just the right sequence of rolls, Chance and Community Chest cards, […]

Parody Is Not An Infrigement of Copyright (Watch It While You Can)

I wrote about this meme before.  Turns out that a couple years after these parodies gave their German-language art house film some international attention, the people who made the movie have decided that the single scene used for all these parodies is an “infringement” of their work.  Well, they say that dinosaurs had small brains […]

Friday Fun Link – America's Most Amazing Libraries (April 16, 2010)

Our friends in the US are celebrating National Library Week which leads to awesome posts like this one from HuffPo on that country's most amazing libraries.Of course the news isn't all good south of the border (check out the fourth or fifth comment down from MJinCanada!), especially right now.  The troubles for US libraries really […]

Music Monday – "Everything moves real slow when it's forty below"

Stolen from my Facebook status update last night: “Congrats on joining the rest of the developed world, USA!  Now you just need to get rid of the death penalty and implement the metric system!”The American Dream is a big deal south of the 49th but I think they've got a good start on the Canadian […]

The Future of Publishing

Make sure you watch to the end…

The Saskatchewan Party Government – Now With Over 100% Incompetence!

100% is a good mark if you're taking an accounting class, not so good when it reflects how wrong you were with your budget predictions.  I wrote about this when our Saskatchewan Party government was out by 95% with their potash reveue projections late last year.  But man, it takes a special kind of stupid […]

Google Donates Two Million Dollars To Wikipedia, No Strings Attached

With Google announcing a two million dollar donation to Wikipedia, I wonder, “did I predict the future nearly four years ago?” “I don't know if any two technology companies have been better suited for each other.  There's already been rumours of a strategic partnership and, like the recent YouTube purchase, I think a formal partnership […]

My iTunes Library Is My "Pending" List – I'll Pay Everybody Eventually…

…when I win the lottery or become a multi-billion dollar corporation, whichever comes first.  (And why is the Alanis song, “Ironic” an ear worm that just burrowed into my brain?)(via MetaFilter)