From ConfectioneryNews.com (where all serious bloggers should get their news). And it wouldn’t be a post without a quote of some sort (emphasis mine): In partnership with the UK’s Carbon Trust, Cadbury calculated that milk in their milk chocolate product contributes just over 60 per cent of carbon emissions, largely hailing from the dairy cows. [...]
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Best headline of the day: Cadbury tackles burping cows to reduce milk chocolate carbon footprint
March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Commodities, Fun
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Funny money slang
February 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Fun
You’ve heard of the terms sawbuck, quid, simoleon and the loonie for money — money slang is not new — but I’d never heard these before: $100 = Boomer 20′s = Frogs 50′s = Hee Haw 10′s = Squat When I asked my friend where he heard these, he said: we just made them up [...]
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Stimulus plan brings out the crooks
February 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Fun, Information Markets
And no, I’m not talking about the ones in Congress. I recently spotted these advertisements on the Yahoo news site. The stimulus plan is not even a law yet and already the scams are starting. ~alex
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Star Trek Economics
January 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Economics, Fun
Is the economic system of Star Trek (or the United Federation of Planets) communism, Participatory Economics, or something else entirely? Discuss amongst yourselves. Will work for beer. No. Seriously. We will. ~alex
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Circle the world with Whoppers (or, more news re: Facebook’s valuation)
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Fun
Kottke has performed a nice little trick using Burger King’s “de-friend-ten-people-and-earn-a-Whopper” application to value Facebook. Now, of course, the next logical question is, if you wanted to buy Facebook how much would it cost you in Whoppers. We can easily do the math: $1.8 billion (Kottke’s valuation) / $2.40 (the price of a Whopper) = [...]
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What money art says about our presidents
January 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Fun, Information Design
Looking at our outgoing president, and our incoming one, we can see the differences in perception through how people visualize them on our currency. NB I would attribute this art, but it gets so spread throughout the internet it’s hard to figure who originated these works of art. First Bush And Obama Going back to [...]
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Charts for fun: Retail Investor Sentiment vs. S&P 500
December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Financial Markets, Fun, Information Design
The AAII has a survey of retail investor sentiment. The S&P has an index. I have a need to make charts. Lets see what happens. What is the relationship, if any, between AAII Investor Sentiment* and the performance of the S&P 500? (click to enlarge) * The American Association of Individual Investors has a weekly [...]
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Buy low, it’s an offer you can’t refuse
November 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Fun
Again, from the FT: Mafia cashes in on Italian downturn. Italy’s Mafia gangs are profiting from the credit crunch by expanding lending to small businesses and using their vast pools of cash to buy up property and companies at knockdown prices. A report by Confesercenti, an association of shopkeepers which operates a Mafia research group, [...]
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Candidates race for the Oval Office … oh, wait, sorry, that’s *Ovum* Office
November 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Fun, Prediction Markets
Some things are just too ridiculous for words. They have to be experienced. (those using Google Reader click through to the site to see the widget) But was it as fun as sex!?!? ~alex
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Buy low, eat lobsters
November 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Fun, Other Markets
The only problem with declining prices, of course, is that sellers suffer. Iran and Venezuela don’t seem to be able to survive with the price of a barrel of oil under $70 (which does make you wonder how they survived before the price peak, which wasn’t that long ago). Closer to home is the poor [...]
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