Binge drinking to save social security

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/can-binge-drinking-save-social-security/

 

“the elimination of heavy drinking (three or more drinks a day) from each successive group of American 25-year-olds would cost the Social Security trust fund $3 billion over the cohort’s lifetime.”

 

Alaskan police chase solar-powered UFO

Do they really have nothing better to do, than chase UFOs? In case it really was a UFO, what did they plan do next?

The UFO turned out to be a solar powered car.

Courtesy: CNET

Beethoven's Work Hours

Given my employer’s policy on monitoring hours worked, the Aug 31 Dilbert comic seems particularly apt.

http://dilbert.com

 

 

A walk

http://xkcd.com/77/

Mumbai street kid

A street kid in Mumbai who's apparently picked up the basics of several languages just by talking to tourists. Imagine what he could have accomplished if he got proper education and found a way to enter the mainstream society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgJkjfG4hFU

What if...

A really funny post from a blog I follow. My favorites are Hitler looking up Invading Russia in Google search, and Gavrilo Princip's Facebook status: "Gavvy is in a murderous mood".

http://krishashok.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/help-i-am-a-hypowebiac/