This is a collection of links. A guy accepted a challenge to go a month eating on a budget of $1/day. It’s an interesting look at how much you can save if you obsess over coupons and sales:
http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/eating-well-on-1-a-day/
Here’s an interesting article about hording:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/07/AR2010060703807.html
This is a revealing look at the state of criminal justice in the United States:
http://reason.com/blog/2010/06/09/three-charts-to-break-your-hea
Here’s an inside look at Bernie Madoff’s time in prison:
Continuing on the Facebook privacy theme, here’s a good infographic on the evolution of privacy in Facebook:
One of the great things about the internet is that it makes so much information that would otherwise be lost accessible to everyone. Here’s an 1860 review of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species in the New York Times:
A hotel in Abu Dhabi has an ATM that lets you withdraw gold:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Remove-Card-and-Take-Bullion-cnbc-760626755.html?x=0
(via marginalrevolution)
Marginal Revolution has a continuing series called Markets in Everything. It fits much better in an economics blog than a general interest blog, but sometimes the topics overlap, like here:
(via marginalrevolution)
Clearly I’m going out of order for days, but you gotta do what you gotta do to catch up.
Penny Arcade has been one of the classic web comics since I’ve known what web comics were. I don’t read it as much as I should, but here is their take on the BP oil spill:
Here is a Flickr collection of famous photos recreated with Legos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/sets/72157602602191858/detail/
(via kottke)