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Other Countries Outpacing U.S. in Internet Tomfoolery

Monday, December 27th, 2010

Check this out. It’s a crazy interactive site showing you how different countries/ regions around the world compare when it comes to digital adventures.

Which country do you think does the most online shopping?

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Fun facts!

  • Hong Kong is totally beating everyone at Angry Birds
  • South Korea and Vietnam are shopping online when the boss isn’t looking
  • Residents of China and Singapore all have a part-time job, and that job is surfing the Internet
  • Everyone in Brazil and Malaysia has more Facebook friends than you

The Art of Christmas Money

Monday, December 27th, 2010

moneyisnotimportant:

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Merry Christmas from Money Is Not Important!

Merry Christmas from TILE, too, although we think money is pretty darned important. Not having the most of it, but knowing how to use it. The real art of money is more than budgeting. It’s about spending thoughtfully, planning for the future, and giving to causes and charities you believe in. (And it’s also a little bit about folding up dollar bills into pine trees.)

A diverse investment portfolio. With butter and sprinkles.

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

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from Let It Dough! by Christoph Niemann (NYTimes)

You can invest in lots of different things – stocks, bonds, mutual funds, currencies, cows. (For real! They’re called commodities and they’re really weird.) And you can invest in this stuff in the U.S. or in almost any country in the world.

But here’s the trick: you want to have a diverse mix of all these things, so you don’t lose all your money if, say, the U.S. economy crashes or all the cows go on strike.

Diversification is a way to reduce that risk by creating a portfolio with a wide mixture of different investments. In basic terms, it means “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”

Mmm. Sprinkles.

Be honest. You’ve done it.

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

What is it about a ridiculously expensive education that brings out the ramen-eater in all of us?

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ilovecharts:

On my 3rd cup, on my way to the 4th

-lanzeee

Keep pushing, kids! Finals week is almost over!

^Very important comma placement

Following a $10 bill across Middle America way more interesting than you would think.

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

This guy followed a single $10 bill as it changed hands across Middle America. It’s amazing how far and how fast the bill traveled, but what’s more amazing is that people actually let this writer follow them around until they used the bill to pay for something. Which was sometimes days later.

Click to read: http://bit.ly/eO3hhB

If Spider-Man had been our first president…

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Reblogged from moneyisnotimportant:

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Do you think this dollar would be accepted anywhere?

Smart kids arouuuund the world

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

We wonder if “maths” includes personal finance?

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theeconomist:

Daily chart: which country has the cleverest kids? Since 2000 the OECD has tested school pupils in rich countries every three years on reading, mathematics and science. This year, students in Shanghai topped the chart in each discipline.


Lenin! Get your Lenin heeeere!

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

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This is probably not what he was going for when he commissioned all these pictures and sculptures of himself.

The Hungarian government is auctioning off a bunch of Lenin memorabilia to help pay for cleanup of the massive wave of toxic waste that flooded Budapest this October.

Some bourgeois bidders are just picking up kitschy decoration for their homes, but others appear to be having a little Communist-bloc nostalgia.

“When I was young, I didn’t really look deeply into the faults of the system,” says Mr. Torok, a real-estate entrepreneur who says that his business is struggling amid the economic downturn. “I lived a calm, secure life where bread cost 3.5 forints and everyone had a job.”

Hmm.

Is Google a monopoly? Do you care?

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

A monopoly is a company that has control over all sales and distribution of a product – to the extent that no other company can compete with it. For example, if your cable or utility companies are the only sellers of their service and you can’t really choose another company to buy from, they hold a monopoly on that particular service. Remember the game Monopoly? The goal was to own EVERYTHING.

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Click to see the whole story.

Twelve Days of Christmas Presents = $100,000 in 2010

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Ever wonder how much five golden rings and a partridge in a pear tree would set you back? No, we haven’t either. But PNC Bank spent a lot of time and money figuring it out and presenting it in an [awesome] online pop-up book for your enjoyment!

To find out how certain prices were calculated, like, say, 12 maids a-milking, check out the USA Today story about the project here.

And for a little retro Twelve Days action, check out John Denver and the Muppets in 1979:

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