How we achieve happiness can be different for each one of us. Our passions, expectations, life experiences, and even our personalities all contribute to the level of happiness we experience in our lives. Some find happiness in their careers while others prefer the bliss found in their marriages or other intimate relationship.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
14 Timeless Ways to Live a Happy Life
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Wal-Mart to cash rebate checks for free, shares rise
It's not clear what exactly is causing the boost in Wal-Mart's (NYSE: WMT) share price today, but shares started climbing right around the time Wal-Mart announced that it will cash rebate checks from Uncle Sam for free. As of 3:15, shares are up about $1.17 or 2% to $58.52.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Experts: We're 10 Years Away from Lowering Gas Prices
Energy experts have dismissed the candidates' plans for lowering gas prices, and say it'll be a decade before we can exert downward pressure on the price of gas.
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Recession Diet - Consumers Giving Up Meat and Name Brands
Stung by rising gasoline and food prices, Americans are finding creative ways to cut costs on routine items like groceries. “It hasn’t gotten to human food mixed with pet food yet, but it is certainly headed in that direction.”
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One Guy Who Has Seen It All Doesn't Like What He Sees Now
Peter Bernstein has witnessed just about every financial crisis of the past century. Mr. Bernstein says, is worse than he has seen since the Depression and threatens to roil markets into 2009 and beyond -- longer than many people expect.
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Where is your gas money going?
Another day, another high. The average price for gasoline on Long Island is at a record-setting $3.791 a gallon for regular, says the AAA. And diesel? Fuhgeddaboutit: It averaged $4.648 a gallon. But where is all that cash going?
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
The collapse of the United States is accelerating: Oil in Euros vs. US dollars
In the last eight years implementing the plans for the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) designed "to promote American global leadership" has backfired.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Rising inflation: Could the United States have prevented it?
Inflation, public enemy No. 1 in the 1970s in the United States, appears to be regaining its former title in the first decade of the 21st century.
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The Fortune 500's biggest winners
It's no surprise that an oil company leads the list of 2007's top profit-makers.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Can We Feed The World?
The era of cheap food is over. In Britain, a standard white loaf costs more than £1, grocery bills are driving up inflation and land prices are going through the roof. But steep rises in the price of staples such as wheat and rice are having an even bigger impact on poor countries.
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Economics 101: The Price of Gas
Gas prices are up and oil executives are once again testifying before Congress. Clearly, many politicians, pundits, and consumers lament the rising cost of gas. Before we join them in their chorus, let us take a step back and ask this question: Are gas prices really all that high?
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The Top Medical Myths
The myths are: Having sex can cause a heart attack in men, high blood pressure causes headaches, diabetics crave sugar, women need to examine their breasts, diets cut cholesterol and etc.
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Eleven Ways The Internet Will Kill You [Webtards]
Wicked and thorough.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Central Bank to Bail-Out Every Bank in the UK
The Bank of England will announce Monday a scheme which will see it lend money to banks in return for collateral in a bid to help the troubled U.K. mortgage market, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said Sunday.
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Five Habits for Greener Computing
If you're reading this, it's a pretty safe bet you're using a computer, and computers generate waste in all kinds of ways. But by changing just a few habits, you can keep more stuff out of landfills, save energy, and even tuck a few extra dollars in your wallet. Here are five ideas to get you started.
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The 500,000 GB MP3 Player
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created a nanotechnology breakthrough that could increase storage capacity by 150,000 times. It could mean 500,000 GB on a single chip and inch square.
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The Dirty Truth About Plastic
Plastics are one of the most useful and ubiquitous products in modern society. Scientists are now working to find out if they're among the most dangerous, as well.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
10 Million computers to Shutdown on May 3rd
Shutdown Day is back with a bang! More than 1.6 million people worldwide participated in Shutdown Day last year ... and this year there's a crazy global Flash Mob too! A massive global experiment to spread awareness about the pitfalls of excessive use and abuse of computers and Internet.
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What will you do for Earth Day '08?
Will you take the train or bus to work? Start washing your laundry in cold water? Just turn off a few more lights? Put your plans on Google's Earth Day site and fill up their Map with green leaves for green deeds! Pass it on.
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Tax-free Internet shopping days could be numbered
If tax-hungry politicians get their way, the days of ordering items over the Internet and not paying sales tax may become just a fond memory.Pro-tax politicians want to change this.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users
Over here I compiled a list of 7 habits that I feel someone has told me when I started out. I believe that getting into these habits will make the Linux experience more secure, convenient, educational, and ultimately more enjoyable.
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World Population to Hit 6,666,666,666 in May
To many people, this means nothing. But of course 666 refers to the Beast in the Bible. Heaven knows what ten sixes means.
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1 Year After Rampage, Va. Tech Remembers
The darkness was broken by the flickering of a white candle, lit at the stroke of midnight. Soft weeping and the solemn strains of "Taps" were all that broke the silence of more than a thousand people gathered around the 32 memorial stones honoring the dead.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Madness of Ben Bernanke
The dollar is in a tailspin, the trade deficit is growing and a recession is on the horizon. The American way of life is in serious danger. But the head of the Federal Reserve keeps on pumping easy credit into the system -- a crazy policy that will worsen the crisis.
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World food prices hit record levels.
Grain prices are up %120. The UN has decided that it needs $500million (1/200th annual cost of Iraq war) to assist the worlds starving poor. Us donates $10 million. Too bad people can't eat bombs or bullets!
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Mathematical Proof of Murphy's Law
"Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way." You thought it was just a funny saying... Well there is truth behind it. Now Murphy's law can be mathematically proven!
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12 Ways To Prepare For The Next Great Depression
Our economic future could be even bleaker than you expect — and last year was the moment to unleash your inner survivalist. If the financial system suffers any more crises of confidence, credit gets even tighter, and the fed falls into a liquidity trap, we could be in for several hardscrabbling dystopian years.
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Masters of the World - England > America > China?
An absolutely excellent article on what is happening, and why, in the high stakes game of world dominance. From several centuries of egalitarian, high-principled values and concern for others, towards a country that is still abusing their own people, are unreliable business partners, and absolutely unscrupulous. Does a disaster await?
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Very Cool: Real Time "Map" of CO2 Emissions All Over World
Breathing Earth. Real-time tracker of carbon dioxide emissions in countries all over world; also births/deaths, constantly updating real-time tracking while you're on the site. E.g; US (1000 tons CO2 every 5.4 seconds); China (1000 tons CO2 every 9.2 seconds); Chad (1000 tons CO2 every 66.4 hours). [FYI...click on "Enter" on site to get to map]
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The Economy of Fear
Why this recession is going to hit particularly hard--and last longer than you think.
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The Wal-Mart Weekly: Does Wal-Mart save you $2,500 per year?
This week's Wal-Mart Weekly will be focusing in one a rather high-stakes claim Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is now advertising into the mainstream media. The claim? The retailer saves the average American family $2,500 per year. To coin a phrase, them's fightin' words, yes?
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Friday, April 11, 2008
GE Profit Drops, Shares Fall the Most Since Crash of '87
April 11 (Bloomberg) -- General Electric Co. dropped the most since the 1987 stock market crash after reporting an unexpected decline in profit just a month after Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt assured investors 2008 earnings would be met.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Sugar-powered cars 'in 10 years'
Sugar-powered cars could be the sweet solution to traffic pollution, say scientists.Researchers have found a way to generate hydrogen directly from plant sugar. They expect the breakthrough to provide a cheap and efficient source of green transport fuel.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Is the Era of Cheap Chinese Products Over ??
Slate Magazine - The Last Days of Cheap Chinese First it is good to get off the farm. Next, why not a car, a TV set, dinner out. Gulp! Walmart Costco... all of corporate America.... The dream you crushed at home for the American worker is raising its ugly little head in the Middle Kingdom.
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Save money by switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs
I was just about to write a blog post about compact fluorescent bulbs and how I put them all over my house to save energy. I WAS, until I took a look around my house and realized the job was only 1/2 done.
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Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US
Over the past few years, we have watched Apple climb the music sales chart courtesy of the iTunes. Last month we learned that Apple passed Best Buy to become the number two retailer in the the US. Now, Apple has ascended to the top of the charts, surpassing Wal-Mart for the first time ever, according to the NPD MusicWatch Survey.
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Redemption rate of TV converter box vouchers just OK
Have you switched over to digital TV yet? Well, you probably did, since you read tech blogs, but the average American? Not so much.
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