For today's short and sweet distraction, check out the Millionaire Calculator. Just type in your current savings, monthly deposits, interests rate (which seems to be ever-plummeting in this economy!), and age and you'll find out how quickly (or not) it will take for you to hit millionaire status.
For more useful calculations, use the website DollarTimes to determine everything from how much money could be saved by a fuel-efficient vehicle to what is the most expensive house you can afford.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
#6: Go Corporate with the McDonald's Game
The title of this game may deceive you as propaganda put out by McDonald's to make you hunger for a Big Mac, shake, or fries. However, created by Italian company Molleindustria, the McDonald's game is part of what the company calls "Gamevolution," a means of making social statements using video games: "We can free videogames from the "dictatorship of entertainment", using them instead to describe pressing social needs, and to express our feelings or ideas just as we do in other forms of art."
In the McDonald's Game, you will have to make decisions in the corporate boardroom (dealing with greed and profit), manage restaurant employees (ensuring that they are polite to customers and don't spit in the food!), feed and breed cattle, and cultivate crops (via deforestation), all while trying to grow, grow, grow the business! While the game is fun and challenging, it's hard not to pay attention to the underlying social commentary within each aspect of the game.
In the McDonald's Game, you will have to make decisions in the corporate boardroom (dealing with greed and profit), manage restaurant employees (ensuring that they are polite to customers and don't spit in the food!), feed and breed cattle, and cultivate crops (via deforestation), all while trying to grow, grow, grow the business! While the game is fun and challenging, it's hard not to pay attention to the underlying social commentary within each aspect of the game.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
#5: Graphic Tee's with Ethics!
Check out Quixotic Clothing for fabulous graphic tee's and pins, all of which are made via ethical means (i.e. sweat shop free shirts and handmade pins). Many of the shirts are also vegetarian/vegan-friendly (no, you can't eat them) with designs such as "Herbivorous Rex" and "Tofutti Break." My personal favorite is the sold-out (tears!) "Windmill" shirt which I keep hoping will get reprinted... Anyhow, visit Quixotic and buy fun tee's!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
#4: Stuff People Like
If you missed the "Stuff ______ People Like" phenomenon, you may have been living under a rock, or just plain busy with important things in life. Whatever your reason, or if you are deeply in trenched in this blogmovement, here is today's Daily Distraction all about "Stuff People Like."
As far as I know, it all began with "Stuff White People Like," a blog all about, well, stuff white people like. Included on the list are Coffee (#1), Architecture (#34), Apple Products (#40), and Film Festivals (#3). The list is currently on item #97, Scarves, and you will find that entries are sporadically about once a week. Added as bonuses of sorts are extra articles about "White People in the News" and "White Spots" (i.e. places white people like).
Since the "Stuff [Insert Category] People Like" genre of blog has spiraled into a strange phenomenon of attempted sociological interpretations, you can now find blogs such as:
And the blog that captures all of the "Stuff" blogs can be found here.
As far as I know, it all began with "Stuff White People Like," a blog all about, well, stuff white people like. Included on the list are Coffee (#1), Architecture (#34), Apple Products (#40), and Film Festivals (#3). The list is currently on item #97, Scarves, and you will find that entries are sporadically about once a week. Added as bonuses of sorts are extra articles about "White People in the News" and "White Spots" (i.e. places white people like).
Since the "Stuff [Insert Category] People Like" genre of blog has spiraled into a strange phenomenon of attempted sociological interpretations, you can now find blogs such as:
And the blog that captures all of the "Stuff" blogs can be found here.
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