by Christopher Paul on July 18, 2014 The real estate blog, Movoto looked into what it would cost Barbie to live in her original dream home from 1959. It should come as no surprise to know that rents fluctuate widely depending on where you look but for the biggest cities, even her modest 425 sq. ft. apartment can cost a plastic arm and a leg.
The tl;dr version: New York City and Francisco are the two most expensive and would cost her $2,300 a month. And when you consider her 1959 apartment, according to Movoto, didn't have a kitchen, you're not getting much (which, again, is typical for those areas). Phoenix and San Antonio round out the bottom two costing her about $580 and $670, respectively.
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by Christopher Paul on July 18, 2014 Forbes compiled a list of the most valuable sports teams in the world. If you want to skip the writeup and go into the list with pictures, click here.
It should come at no surprise that European Football clubs are the most valuable. But what did surprise me was there are so many American football teams there — just not in the top 10 or 20. Sure, some teams are there but the majority of them are towards the back of the list. Another surprise, for me anyway, is there is only one motorsport team on there — Ferrari.
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by Christopher Paul on July 15, 2014 Gizmodo calculated how far the average player runs for their respective sports during game time. They go through baseball, basketball, tennis, and American football, and soccer. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that there is almost no distance traveled in baseball. And as physical as American football is, there is no way they’re running as much as soccer players who can run over nine miles in a single match.
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by Christopher Paul on July 15, 2014 Weird Al released a new album today called Mandatory Fun which you can get on iTunes, Amazon, or directly through him. He’s releasing ten videos every day on his website starting with “Tacky” which he posted yesterday. It features Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family), Kristen Schaal (Flight of the Conchords, 30 Rock) and Jack Black and was shot the Palace Theatre which you saw in The Big Lebowski.
I’ll probably watch this video a dozen times today.
My wife took me to see him play at the Beacon Theater a few years ago and I think it was the best concert I’ve ever been to. I hope we have the chance to go see him perform again — this time with our son. I think he’ll love it.
by Christopher Paul on July 14, 2014 Ian Brown reporting on the economics of lobster fishing for the The Globe and Mail:
To a lobster enthusiast, of course, cheap lobster sounds like a good, i.e. delicious, thing. But it never materializes. There is a voodoo to lobster economics. What used to be poor man’s fare, the fallback meal of people too impoverished to afford anything else, is now a billion dollar business and a universal mark of luxury – with the result that a lobster that sells for $3.50 on the wharf can cost $60 and more on a restaurant plate in New York or Toronto or Shanghai, regardless of how many lobsters are pulled from the sea. How this happens is the life story of Larry the Lobster.
Apparently, there is a surplus of supply — a “glut” as they call it — but you almost wouldn’t know it from the prices most people pay for lobster at the dinner table. Brown covers the life, death, and markup of Larry the Lobster in this fascinating narrative that I’ll be sure to remember when I dunk Larry’s relative into a pot of boiling water during my vacation in a few weeks.
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