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I’ve read and seen a good number of sites dedicated to mirco loans. Kiva - Loans that change lives is one of those that helps to give small loans to people in developing countries. A number of these loans are collaboration loans where multiple lenders are building up to the total amount. […]

Here’s an interesting visualization called Follow the Oil Money. It shows you the relationships of the presidential candidates to oil money. Very nice.

Here is an interesting graph made by The New York times. It’s a break down of how Americans spend their money across income groups. I found the tax areas particularly interesting. It seems that it’s very true that you have a hump to get over before your taxes actually go down. […]

No I don’t mean that crappy plastic board. Some students made this Electronic Dartboard or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ECE 476 it’s a horse hair board that is a very complex but well done project. It’s worth the read to find out how they did the dart detection alone.

Boing Boing has Spongebob voice actors overdub Classic movies oh man is it hysterical. They voice a couple of classic, but the godfather is by far my favorite.

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ExpectMore.gov is a government site that tracks and displays whether or not federal programs are performing as expected. I think this is great, I’ve often said that I wouldn’t mind paying taxes if there was more transparency. These kinds of sites are in my opinion a step in the right direction.

Many have a love or hate relationship with the Ron Paul movement. His vocal supporters, and strict constitutional policy seem to excite some and turn others off. However, what a president like Ron Paul could accomplish would be questionable given the resistence he would probably get from Congress. Seems to not be […]

I don’t usually post about things like this, but this latest Perpetual Motion machine is making it’s rounds. I find the concept interesting, but mostly impossible. If there is some breakthrough it’s probably going to be some efficiency increases in inductive motors. Now that’s not a bad thing considering we want to […]