Weekend Linkfest

You know you’ve made it as a blogger when someone gets to your site by searching “how to blow something up” (currently 5th ranked search query on Google for that phrase). The only weirder search was “Bill Gross’s moustache”.

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Heebner is on fire.

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Who knew something as cool as the Hybrid Tech 220+ MPG Supercar would come from Mooresville, NC?

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Nice post on how consumer confidence influences future S&P returns.

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I hear the new Indy movie is awful, what a shame. How about “The original Indiana Jones: Otto Rahn and the temple of doom“?

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The Miracle Fruit That Tricks the Tongue (another article here). You can buy them here.

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The Robin Hood Charity brings in over $50 million for 2008. (The charity was founded by futures trader Paul Tudor Jones.)

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Thoughts on extinctions. I heart Olivia Judson.

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2008 Investment company factbook. There are now twice as many mutual funds as stocks in the US.

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Dean Kamen (inventor of the Segway) shows off his robotic arm: