Purchasing power

Buenos dias amigo,

The Daily Tube review: "We're not sure how this fake commercial for the future nationalized Citibank portrays anything different from the norm; the line at certain banks is already like the DMV. We're looking at you, Shmank of Shmamerica." Or as Rebecca Johnson once said, "Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it."

Introducing The New Nationalized Citibank
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c130f64d6f/the-new-f-ing-citibank


Tip Jar
A collection of money saving tips submitted and ranked by the web community.
http://moderator.appspot.com/#16/e=3cfc


Old ads
Amazing what and how they used to advertise in the good old days.
http://www.weirdomatic.com/creepy-ads.html


Quick pic: Coolest business card ever
(Note: this is the opinion of the poster.)
http://positivesharing.com/2009/02/coolest-business-card-ever/


QuOteD
"I love to go to Washington -- if only to be near my money." -- Bob Hope


Who's Buying What?
A look at where people around the world are directing some of their purchasing power.
http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/014/014-buying-whos-buying-what.html


Quick pic: The Funniest Picture You'll See Today
Mind the hazards of using images from Google News on air. (Thanks RayGun)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/03/the-funniest-picture-youl_n_171530.html


Game on: Pi guess so
Can you fill in (i.e., guess) the digits of pi?
http://www.sporcle.com/games/pi.php


Slide out of work early
And finally, proving that credit cards work better in the UK, an office worker commutes via waterslide and swipes his way through subways and grocery stores with his RFID card in this ambitiously silly bit of marketing from Barclaycard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ1PeXPNCrM


Famous last words
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." -- J. Paul Getty


Hasta,
vW