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Why Americans love to shoplift meat. – By Brendan I. Koerner – Slate Magazine Meat is the #1 item shoplifted from grocery stores. That has got to be one of the weirdest statistics I’ve come across. And it seems the majority are doing it just because they “feel they deserve it.” There is a serious problem with entitlement in this country. Too many people feel they deserve something more than they have earned. That just . . . → Read More: Swiping a sirloin is certainly stupid The YouTube Weird Al list Weird Al Yankovic is the undisputed king of music parody. People have said his career is dead about a year after almost every album he put out, but he keeps proving them wrong for 20 years running. The guy is a master at turning pop-culture on its ear. The songs are funny on their own, but adding the video element brings his art to a new level. Almost any video . . . → Read More: Weird Al Tube Here’s a tip from my sister-in-law. Pretty impressive savings. This is the perfect time to shop for next year’s winter clothes. We shop at department stores like Macy’s and Sears and pay a fraction of the regular cost. The sale is anywhere from 50-70% off. [My daughter's] clothes were about $60 and the regular cost was $200. Don’t forget about PJ’s, Carters has theirs on sale for $6.99. If you have young kids, you know . . . → Read More: Shop Ahead I just ran across a blog that offers “Tips for Life”. In two articles, they provide perspectives on how to deal with police officers if you are pulled over for any reason (though they both show a focus on DUI). The first is one lawyer’s advice: A Lawyer’s Advice: How to deal with Cops >> Dumb Little Man The advice here is basically: keep your mouth shut and ask for a lawyer. The second covers . . . → Read More: How to deal with Cops Hometime – How-To – Project Help – Preventive Home Maintenance This is a great list. Excellent reminders. I am terrible at home maintenance so I actually need these kinds of reminders—otherwise I just wait around for something to fall apart, which requires me to pay out the nose for some professional to fix it. Dumb. Just one question for all you readers: how many of those chores do you actually do? [tags]personal finance, home maintenance[/tags] . . . → Read More: How to keep your house from collapsing around you Our National Savings Rate Is Embarrassing [Fool.com] January 17, 2007 Wow… this was surprising to me: …consider these historical numbers for the U.S. personal savings rate: * 1984: 10.8% * 2001: 1.8% * 2003: 1.4% Do you see a troubling trend? So do I. Care to guess where we landed in 2005? * 2005: (0.5%) That’s right — negative savings! Is that unprecedented? Well, not exactly. We hit negative levels for two years — during . . . → Read More: U.S. National Savings Rate breaks a bad barrier Slice of Scifi – Science Fiction TV & Movie News, Interviews & more » The New R2D2 Projector Got a home theater? Don’t care about picture quality, but want your own Astromech droid? Check out the link. I want one just so I can have it follow me around the house… [tags]R2-D2, Star Wars, home theater, projector, novelty items, robot[/tags] Kilmer plans Genius return – Movie news – Movies – Virgin.net Okay, Real Genius was a pretty funny Val Kilmer movie. For the 80′s. Making a sequel 20 years later… not so bright. This does, however, give me the chance to post everyone’s favorite quote from the original: Mitch: You know, um, something strange happened to me this morning… Chris Knight: Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god . . . → Read More: A not-so-Genius move On further reflection there is one more thing I want to say about The Prince Of Egypt. The second trailer (included on the DVD) paints the film as a “triumph of the power of the human spirit”. In other words, they’re saying this movie shows how humans can do amazing things when they put their minds to it. That’s just wrong. Don’t get me wrong, here… I fully believe that humans can do amazing things . . . → Read More: Follow-up review: The Prince of Egypt trailer It’s hard to do better than the Bible for your source material, so this movie had an edge already. In some ways it lived up to (and exceeded) expectations; in others, it left me slightly disappointed, but overall it was an excellent film. For those who may not know, the story is set in Egypt during the reigns of Seti (the first, I think), and his son Rameses. (If you somehow don’t already know the . . . → Read More: Review: The Prince of Egypt |
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