Archive for the 'Just for fun' Category

Want to buy Uranium?

Monday, November 6th, 2006

The surge in oil prices over the past year has many investors looking at investing in uranium mining companies like Cameco and BHP Billiton. Interestingly, you can buy uranium ore from Amazon.com [link to product].

Magazines running out of ideas?

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

I have subscriptions to three finance-related magazines. The front pages of their October issues make me wonder if they are either running out of ideas or stealing each others’ ideas:

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance: Make your money last forever

Money : How to make your money last a lifetime

SmartMoney : How to make your money last forever

Ph.D. on Star Trek

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

It seems like these days, you can get a Ph.D. for just about in anything. According to this news article, a Ph.D. thesis, titled “Broadcast Space: TV Culture, Myth and Star Trek” has been written on Star Trek:
It’s the PhD thesis that boldly goes where no thesis has gone before. Djoymi Baker watched 700 episodes […]