I’ve always called lottery tickets “a tax on people who are bad at math,” but Cracked.com takes the opportunity of the recession, and the accompanying surge of “financial idiocy,” to take it one step several steps further. (The truth’d-up lottery tickets are hilarious.)
I had to read this article twice before I believed my eyes… yes, that is what it says, and it’s from a reputable university too. There may yet be hope for those of us who prefer to sit in front of a computer for days on end. 🙂
This is the kind of thing I love to hear about. 🙂
This is very interesting and informative, but it doesn’t answer the burning question on everyone’s mind: just how the h*ll do you harvest tick saliva?
This reminds me of a depressing episode with a friend of mine, who had to help a panicked woman get into her car after the batteries in her remote died. She apparently didn’t realize that the ignition key — attached to the same keychain as the remote — could also open the door. The article …
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If you’ve been following the Know Thyself entries in recent months, you’ll know that I’ve had trouble pursuing my goals in the last few years. Thanks to a few articles on StevePavlina.com, I’d tracked the problem down to a lack of purpose and context, but I didn’t know how to move forward from there. Trying …
Just goes to show that armed robbers aren’t, as they say, “ze smelliest fish in ze drawer.” 😉
Apparently the only thing preventing IPv6 from taking over was a lack of support from peer-to-peer file sharing programs. Whatever works, I guess.
Interesting article. It makes a good point, and one that I (and apparently most other people too) hadn’t consciously considered before: [C]onsumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended …
Here’s some more on one of my favorite groups of people.