Weekend Reads

Just realized its been two weeks since I did a Weekend Reads. Wow I just started back to the blog and already I am getting behind.

I think your all understand with finals and all.

Well this Weekend Read is kind of a 3 week summary of my non-school readings, which hasn't been a lot but still interesting I think.

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You can always tell its the end of the year because all of sudden everyone seems to become obsessed with countdowns. And magazines seem to be the worst, the only people more obsessed with countdowns than those at magazines are the people at VH1.

This though is a halfway useful countdown. National Geographic, or is it just Nat Geo now?, counts down the Top 10 Environmental Wins of the Year.

Finally some good news in the environmental segment, read it and don't feel as guilt for driving your Hummer to the Big Box store to buy your trunk full of Christmas lights that your leaving burning all night.

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Fast Company keeps the countdowns going with another environmental one. This countdown is the 10 Green Startups to Watch.

Use this to not only feel good about what we're doing about the environment but you too can become like Gore and invest in these companies and maybe one day you can make a shit load of money off peoples fears of death by fire. And this time none of those creepy all knowing gods are involved. I can hear the electric solar powered 100% recycled material cash registrars ringing already!

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Not everything in the green movement was good news this week though. Again the information is broken into a easy to read numbers. Top 5 reasons not to get high. um, I'm not even commenting

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Now that getting high seems to be uncool looks as though the Mother Earth is giving it up also. I never did like Hockey and now it seems like the famous hockey stick was broken all along. Looks like its the sticks that cheat as much as the leafs do. Now that we realize its not a hockey stick but instead just a warped piece of lumber is it called the Lowe's lumber stick?

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At least some chart go higher than expected, maybe the economic advisers were not listening to the Top 5 from above when they were making the charts for unemployment. Looks like unemployment isn't improving.

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At least Hungarian homeless people, well a set of brothers, living in cave don't have to worry about it. They are now billionaires. Now after living in a cave how do you spend a billion dollars? that's a lot of squirrel meat! I hear the Hungarian squirrel meat is the best.

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If your one of the unemployed and want to see how others are doing. Or if your just one of the assholes who want to look at how your doing better than those around you, which is probably the case if your reading the New York Times. Here is a cool chart about Food Stamp Usage in America. But either way its a cool way to spend your time while waiting for your unemployment checks to arrive or to spend your time in the Starbucks while surfing your Macbook Pro as your partner is shopping for cool flannel in some art gallery clothing resale shop. hope that coffee, macbook, and flannel keeps your heart warm as you read about food stamp usage. ah the Christmas season is here.

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Instead of wasting all your time in Starbucks now Microsoft is making a new lounge to hang out in. of course the macbook might not be welcomed but neither are the food stamps.

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Well thats a good reading round up for this week. Have a great weekend and see you next week.