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.
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Wednesday, July 14
Friday, July 9
Friday Fun Link - Apple's Eight Steps to Beat Microsoft & Google
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Jason
on Fri 09 Jul 2010 10:37 PM CST
Tuesday, June 8
The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly
by
Jason
on Tue 08 Jun 2010 07:19 AM CST
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, and so on, what is the quickest way one player could go bankrupt? After working on the problem for a while, we boiled it down to a 4-turn (2 per player), 9 roll (including doubles) game. Detail on each move given below. If executed quickly enough, this theoretical game can be played in 21 seconds (see video below). (via MetaFilter) Wednesday, April 21
Parody Is Not An Infrigement of Copyright (Watch It While You Can)
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Jason
on Wed 21 Apr 2010 08:34 PM CST
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 and that's why they went extinct...
Friday, April 16
Friday Fun Link - America's Most Amazing Libraries (April 16, 2010)
by
Jason
on Fri 16 Apr 2010 11:57 PM CST
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 hit me when we were hosting the PLA Virtual Conference a few weeks ago and the "Introduce Yourself" posts in the chat room were almost universally variations of "Wish we could be there but our budget was cut this year" or "Would love to be there but we're limited to in-state travel only for the time being." I've written about this in the past in the form of a post on the subject of "If libraries didn't exist, could you star them today?" Except the question is being reversed - libraries do exist but are heavily under attack from various sectors that don't support them (ultra-capitalists who think nothing should be free, tax-cut fanatics like the Tea Baggers, other mouth breathers.) And of course I can't find it now but there was a great comment in a Reddit thread recently [edit: found it] talking about this exact idea - how libraries are in danger because some powerful groups are aligning against libraries because they simply can't wrap their heads around something being free in this day and age. Scary times. And definitely not fun on any day of the week. But I've had all those links floating around for awhile so my initial link featuring amazing libraries provided a nice jumping off point to talk about a world when many of those amazing libraries are in serious danger. Monday, March 22
Music Monday - "Everything moves real slow when it's forty below"
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Jason
on Mon 22 Mar 2010 04:55 PM CST
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 Dream as well.  (As always, MetaFilter is where I go for my lefty, liberal, intelligent commentary on the big news o' the day. Oh, and Barack Obama is a ninja!) Thursday, March 18
Thursday, March 4
The Saskatchewan Party Government - Now With Over 100% Incompetence!
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Jason
on Thu 04 Mar 2010 11:30 PM CST
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 to be so wrong with your projections that you end up being *over* 100% wrong and actually end up having to pay back a couple hundred million dollars you were paid in advance against resource royalties. If anybody out there reading this really thinks it doesn't matter who you vote for (or even if you vote) and that all politicians are the same, I hope you realise that's not nearly the case. I try not to get into politics with family very often but an elderly relative raised the subject a few months back. She was pumping up Brad Wall and running down the NDP so I pointed out what was at the time 95% error in the Sask Party's potash projections. She countered with this interesting bit of logic: "at least Brad Wall's a good speaker." I was like "well, then let's get him a TV show because he really really sucks at being a Premier!" But that kinda sums up the battle the NDP has for itself going into the next election - you've got the Sask Party with a leader who's (perceived to be) young, telegenic, a big football fan with a GW Bush-like capacity to make people think they'd just like to have a beer with him/that he's just a regular guy/he's a good speaker who's out there pounding the pavement to promote Saskatchewan. Hopefully people will take off the blinders and think just a wee little bit about how screw-ups like this one do so much damage to our province and our people. Hmm, maybe time to give that aunt a follow-up call! Thursday, February 18
Google Donates Two Million Dollars To Wikipedia, No Strings Attached
by
Jason
on Thu 18 Feb 2010 06:18 PM CST
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 of this type would be an ideal situation. Combine the technological expertise and deep pockets of Google with the open-access policies and "third wave of the Net" cultural impact of Wikipedia and many good things are guaranteed to happen." ...although I have no idea what I meant with the reference to YouTube? I think I was saying that Google should put money into Wikipedia but obviously, I didn't think Google would be able to buy Wikipedia outright...or did I? Monday, December 7
My iTunes Library Is My "Pending" List - I'll Pay Everybody Eventually...
by
Jason
on Mon 07 Dec 2009 09:53 PM CST
...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) |
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