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Photo A Day 2011

Project 365 Week 12

Continuation of last week’s “Playing with Aperture” series + a mystery bird (later identified as a Turkey Vulture).

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In The News Politics

There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

Many think that tax rebates they will soon receive thanks to the economic stimulus package recently passed is “free money”. Reality is that unless you made less than $3,000 or suddenly have a change in income between now and next year, that’s likely not the case. As this MSN Money article puts it:

Remember, this is your money you’re getting back, and the rebate checks are basically an advance on your 2009 refund.

I wonder if this misconception of free cash causes more reckless spending.

That said it is possible to make a few dollars if it’s invested well as you’ll collect a nearly a full year’s interest on money the government would have otherwise been collecting interest on. So in reality, the free money is only the interest you “make” on it if you invested it well.

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Funny In The News Software

Bill Gates too rich for Normal Computers

“Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle” according to this article. Gates allegedly said:

My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can’t deal with the numbers…

How much you want to bet the “special computer” is Linux, and the “normal computers” run Windows?