Average Salary Data

This site is unimaginably cool.

Not only is it really useful for salary negotiations, but there are also all sorts of fun comparisons you can run. There are many samples on the site, but I tweaked one a bit to get this chart:
(scroll way down, something is wrong with the code in the chart, and I'm still tweaking it to find out what)

Arabic $93,000
Gaelic $54,000
Sign Language $40,000
Hindi $35,000
Farsi $35,000
Japanese $33,000
Chinese $33,000
English $29,000
French $29,000
Spanish $28,000
Russian $27,000
Italian $26,000

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Arabic might be a political fad, so that bubble might burst in the next decade or so. But who wants to learn Gaelic?

The Two Party System

Since we have entered election season, I was reflecting on my vote in 2004. For full disclosure purposes, I voted for Nader. I was thinking about the multiple complaints I received when telling people about my vote. The consensus was that voting for a 3rd party candidate was "wasting" a vote. The more I reflected recently, the more I wondered if they considered an abstention a wasted vote. Does the fact that Americans live in a two-party political system make them responsible to vote for the lesser of only two evils?

My Charts on Last.fm

This is just a test, to see if it works. But Last.fm makes it really easy for you to publish your recent tracks on a blog or website.

Sorry it's all off topic EP!

Clone That Bird!

A little chicken savior has been born! This chicken-messiah has not merely two, but FOUR tasty drumsticks!

So here's a little advice for all the poultry colonels out there:

NO PRICE IS TOO HIGH!!!

Some say "urban legend," I say "market strategy."