The Money Meltdown is exactly what I was looking for last week: a single page site that attempts to sift through the media overload and highlight the best articles and resources on the current financial crisis.
(↝via kottke)
Bailout, Barry and Levon Style
While not as useful as Jeb’s beloved hipster replacement greasemonkey script, this one is a bit more timely. I’m as worried as the next guy about the current financial crisis, but sometimes I just want to put my blinders on when I read the news.
Thus, I present a spoonful of scripting to help that morning New York Times go down a bit easier:
// Based on a script in Mark Pilgram's upcoming "Dive into Greasemonkey",
// based off another script based off that
// ==UserScript==
// @name ignorebailout
// @namespace http://modcult.org/userscripts
// @description Hide from reality.
// @include *
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
var replacements, regex, key, textnodes, node, s;
replacements = {
"bailout": "balls out",
"Bailout": "Balls out",
"(\\$[0-9]+ +billion)": "$1 worth of pudding"
};
regex = {};
for (key in replacements) {
regex[key] = new RegExp(key, 'g');
}
textnodes = document.evaluate( "//body//text()", document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
for (var i = 0; i < textnodes.snapshotLength; i++) {
node = textnodes.snapshotItem(i);
s = node.data;
for (key in replacements) {
s = s.replace(regex[key], replacements[key]);
}
node.data = s;
}
})();
shouldn’t that be $240 worth of pudding?
that’s a matched pattern, so it will be however much pudding congress wants to give.
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“Life Stinks”
from The Modern Dance by Pere Ubu (1977)
from The Modern Dance by Pere Ubu (1977)
%s1 / %s2
Life stinks.
I’m seeing pink.
I can’t wink.
I can’t blink.
I like the Kinks.
I need a drink.
I can’t think.
I like the Kinks.
Life stinks.
When Larry Levine helped prepare divorce papers for a client a few years ago, he got paid in mackerel. Once the case ended, he says, “I had a stack of macks.” Mr. Levine and his client were prisoners in California’s Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex. Like other federal inmates around the country, they found a can of mackerel – the “mack” in prison lingo – was the standard currency.
(↝via wsj)
my favorite graf:
There are other threats to the mackerel economy, says Mr. Linder, of Power Commissary. “There are shortages world-wide, in terms of the catch,” he says. Combined with the weak dollar, that’s led to a surging mack. Now, he says, a pouch of mackerel sells for more than $1 in most commissaries.
