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Monday, February 21, 2011

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This handy map from Pleated Jeans turns USA stats into a cartographic parade of obesity, corruption and gonorrhea. It’s ugly, and not just in North Dakota. Alaska’s damn dreadful though, huh? (Sorry Yanks, no refunds!) Best case scenario, you weasel in between porny Utah and cokey Colorado and stay put. And then there’s New York’s terrible problem of… daily commute average of 30.6 minutes? Really? That’s our biggest problem?

Let’s all laugh at these guys now:

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Most stats taken from America’s Health Rankings and Census.gov (unless otherwise noted).

1. Alabama: highest rate of stroke (3.8 percent) (tied with Oklahoma)

2. Alaska: highest suicide rate (23.6 suicides per 100,000 people in 2004)

3. Arizona: highest rate of alcoholism

4. Arkansas: worst average credit score (636)

5. California: most air pollution (15.2 micrograms per cubic meter)

6. Colorado: highest rate of cocaine use per capita (3.9 percent total population)

7. Connecticut: highest rate of breast cancer

8. Delaware: highest abortion rate (27 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44)

9. Florida: highest rate of identity theft (122.3 reports per 100,000 people)

10. Georgia: sickly based on highest rate of influenza

11. Hawaii – highest cost of living (tied with California)

12. Idaho – lowest level of Congressional clout

13. Illinois: highest rate of robbery (284.7 incidences per 100,000 people)

14. Indiana: rated the most environmentally unfriendly by NMI solutions

15. Iowa: highest percentage of people age 85 and older (1.8 percent) (tied with three other states)

16. Kansas: poorest health based on highest average number of limited activity days per month (3.5 days)

17. Kentucky: most cancer deaths (227 per 100,000 people) (BONUS fact: Kentucky also has the highest rate of tobacco smokers – 25.6 percent)

18. Louisiana: highest rate of gonorrhea (264.4 reported cases per 100,000 people)

19. Maine: dumbest state claim based on lowest average SAT score (1389)

20. Maryland: highest rate of AIDS diagnosis (27.6 people per 100,000 people)

21. Massachusetts: worst drivers claim based on highest rate of auto accidents

22. Michigan: highest unemployment rate (13.6 percent)

23. Minnesota: highest number of reported tornadoes (123 in 2010)

24. Mississippi: highest rate of obesity (35.3 percent of total population)BONUS facts: Mississippi ranks last in the most number of categories. These include highest rate of child poverty (31.9 percent), highest rate of infant mortality (10.3 percent) lowest median household income ($35,078), highest teen birth rate (71.9 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19) and highest overall rate of STDs.

25. Missouri: highest rate of bankruptcy (700 out of every 100,000 people)

26. Montana: highest rate of drunk driving deaths (1.12 deaths per 100 million miles driven)

27. Nebraska: highest rate of women murdered annually

28. Nevada: highest rate violent crime (702.2 offenses per 100,000 people). BONUS fact: Nevada also has the highest rate of foreclosure (one in 99 houses)

29. New Hampshire: highest rate of corporate taxes

30. New Jersey: highest rate of citizen taxation (11.8 percent)

31. New Mexico: antisocial claim based on lowest ranking in social heath policies

32. New York: longest average daily commute (30.6 minutes)

33. North Carolina: lowest average teacher salary

34. North Dakota: ranked last in ugliest residents report as chosen by The Daily Beast

35. Ohio: nerdiest state claim based on highest number of library visits per capita (6.9)

36. Oklahoma: highest rate of female incarceration

37. Oregon: highest rate of long-term homeless people

38. Pennsylvania: highest rate of arson deaths (55.56 annually)

39. Rhode Island: highest rate of illicit drug use (12.5 percent of population)

40. South Carolina: highest percentage of mobile homes (18.8 percent)

41. South Dakota: highest rate of forcible rape 76.5 per 100,000

42. Tennessee: chosen most corrupt state by The Daily Beast

43. Texas: lowest high school graduation rate (78.3 percent)

44. Utah: highest rate of of online porn subscriptions

45. Vermont: infertility claim based on lowest birth rate of any state (10.6 births per 1,000) (tied with Maine)

46. Virginia: highest number of alcohol-related motorcyle deaths

47. Washington: most cases of bestiality (4 reported in 2010)

48. West Virginia: highest rate of heart attack (6.5 percent of population)

49. Wisconsin: highest rate of binge drinking (23.2 percent of population)

50. Wyoming: highest rate of deadly car crashes (24.6 deaths per 100,000)

Let’s all laugh at these guys now:

Rationale and statistics

Most stats taken from America’s Health Rankings and Census.gov (unless otherwise noted).

1. Alabama: highest rate of stroke (3.8 percent) (tied with Oklahoma)

2. Alaska: highest suicide rate (23.6 suicides per 100,000 people in 2004)

3. Arizona: highest rate of alcoholism

4. Arkansas: worst average credit score (636)

5. California: most air pollution (15.2 micrograms per cubic meter)

6. Colorado: highest rate of cocaine use per capita (3.9 percent total population)

7. Connecticut: highest rate of breast cancer

8. Delaware: highest abortion rate (27 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44)

9. Florida: highest rate of identity theft (122.3 reports per 100,000 people)

10. Georgia: sickly based on highest rate of influenza

11. Hawaii – highest cost of living (tied with California)

12. Idaho – lowest level of Congressional clout

13. Illinois: highest rate of robbery (284.7 incidences per 100,000 people)

14. Indiana: rated the most environmentally unfriendly by NMI solutions

15. Iowa: highest percentage of people age 85 and older (1.8 percent) (tied with three other states)

16. Kansas: poorest health based on highest average number of limited activity days per month (3.5 days)

17. Kentucky: most cancer deaths (227 per 100,000 people) (BONUS fact: Kentucky also has the highest rate of tobacco smokers – 25.6 percent)

18. Louisiana: highest rate of gonorrhea (264.4 reported cases per 100,000 people)

19. Maine: dumbest state claim based on lowest average SAT score (1389)

20. Maryland: highest rate of AIDS diagnosis (27.6 people per 100,000 people)

21. Massachusetts: worst drivers claim based on highest rate of auto accidents

22. Michigan: highest unemployment rate (13.6 percent)

23. Minnesota: highest number of reported tornadoes (123 in 2010)

24. Mississippi: highest rate of obesity (35.3 percent of total population)BONUS facts: Mississippi ranks last in the most number of categories. These include highest rate of child poverty (31.9 percent), highest rate of infant mortality (10.3 percent) lowest median household income ($35,078), highest teen birth rate (71.9 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19) and highest overall rate of STDs.

25. Missouri: highest rate of bankruptcy (700 out of every 100,000 people)

26. Montana: highest rate of drunk driving deaths (1.12 deaths per 100 million miles driven)

27. Nebraska: highest rate of women murdered annually

28. Nevada: highest rate violent crime (702.2 offenses per 100,000 people). BONUS fact: Nevada also has the highest rate of foreclosure (one in 99 houses)

29. New Hampshire: highest rate of corporate taxes

30. New Jersey: highest rate of citizen taxation (11.8 percent)

31. New Mexico: antisocial claim based on lowest ranking in social heath policies

32. New York: longest average daily commute (30.6 minutes)

33. North Carolina: lowest average teacher salary

34. North Dakota: ranked last in ugliest residents report as chosen by The Daily Beast

35. Ohio: nerdiest state claim based on highest number of library visits per capita (6.9)

36. Oklahoma: highest rate of female incarceration

37. Oregon: highest rate of long-term homeless people

38. Pennsylvania: highest rate of arson deaths (55.56 annually)

39. Rhode Island: highest rate of illicit drug use (12.5 percent of population)

40. South Carolina: highest percentage of mobile homes (18.8 percent)

41. South Dakota: highest rate of forcible rape 76.5 per 100,000

42. Tennessee: chosen most corrupt state by The Daily Beast

43. Texas: lowest high school graduation rate (78.3 percent)

44. Utah: highest rate of of online porn subscriptions

45. Vermont: infertility claim based on lowest birth rate of any state (10.6 births per 1,000) (tied with Maine)

46. Virginia: highest number of alcohol-related motorcyle deaths

47. Washington: most cases of bestiality (4 reported in 2010)

48. West Virginia: highest rate of heart attack (6.5 percent of population)

49. Wisconsin: highest rate of binge drinking (23.2 percent of population)

50. Wyoming: highest rate of deadly car crashes (24.6 deaths per 100,000)

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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Making Money Work

App Store Classics: Game Dev Story, a game about making games.

Ever wondered what it’d be like to run your own game development house? Me neither, but don’t let that stop you getting involved with Game Dev Story (iTunes link), a little gem of a game from Japanese developers Kairosoft, currently on sale in the app store for $0.99.

The concept is straightforward – grow your development house from a tiny team of four staff churning out cheap and cheerful PC games to a revered coding powerhouse in swanky offices crafting masterpieces for the latest consoles.

At first you’ll probably be going over budget left right and centre, trying to figure out which game types work best and therefore shift more units, but once you get into the swing of it you can concentrate on hiring and training the best staff and purchasing licences to develop console games, resulting in better made and better selling games with higher profit margins.

It’s not just a question of hiring and firing, coming up with game ideas and watching your staff working their buns off though. Through the use of ‘boosts’ which are periodically made available to purchase as the game progresses (not in-app purchases I hasten to add), you can choose one of your coders to work on enhancing one specific aspect of the game. This pushes up the overall quality of the game you’re making and results in better reviews and sales, adding a further strategic element as you choose the right moment and category in which to use your boosts. At certain points within the development cycle you also get the chance to work on the graphics and sound specifically, either using one of your own staff or hiring in a freelancer, and this too gives you the opportunity to increase the overall quality of your virtual product.

When you make your first million seller it’s a satisfying moment but there’s no time to rest on your laurels. There are always new consoles appearing on the market, contract jobs to take on, new staff to hire and new game types to discover. If you leave too much of a gap between development cycles you start losing fans and therefore a few sales, but think carefully about what kind of games you make – my pirate simulation was a right turkey.

It’s all great fun, but it’s fair to say there are a few things here which need to be addressed by the time Game Dev Story 2 arrives in the app store. I know it’s a tall order on a phone but I couldn’t help thinking how nice it would be if I could play the games my team had made. Even a comedy cut sequence showing some aspects of the latest game would have been good. There are also some hugely expensive advertising options within this game that offer no feedback other than some numbers increasing on a stat page. If I’m sponsoring a racing team I’d like to see my company logo on the side of a formula one car at least!

Finally, the game is perhaps a bit on the easy side. I’m sure if developing a multi million selling game was this straightforward we’d all be at it. Well, maybe not, but it’s easy to make enough money that you don’t have to worry too much about how you spend it, and this negatively impacts the strategy element.

All things considered however, Game Dev Story is great fun. It’s a good natured game and from the cute graphics and retro sound to the amusing titles you can give your creations, it’s a rewarding experience which works perfectly whether in short bursts or longer play sessions. Did I mention that it’s currently only $0.99 on the app store?

According to a BusinessInsider interview, Gogo in-flight wireless is doing well and just raised another $35 million in capital to keep the lights on and the in-flight Wi-Fi flowing. Aircell, Gogo’s parent company, says that the service served 3 million sessions between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Google offered free Gogo on all flights during this period.

In-flight Internet is, in a word, great. However, I worry that it is severely hampering my movie watching time these days as I’m encouraged to write and work during flights as opposed to read magazines and watch movie’s I wouldn’t normally watch with the lady wife like The Box and Pootie Tang. Gogo is available on American, United, Delta, Virgin America, and Air Canada and airlines love it, as Dan Frommer points out, “because it’s a way to distract passengers and generate revenue at the same time — unlike installing TV sets and on-demand movies, which costs money.”

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Money Making

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Friday, February 11, 2011

Making Money Opportunities

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There is no excuse for someone who says "I have nothing, I have no money and I cannot get ahead." There are so many places and ways to make or save money. If you really want to better yourself there are a plenitude of opportunities. After all the US is the land of opportunities. Why else would people from places like Mexico and South America keep flocking here? Most of us have so many things in our lives that we don't "NEED." Here's some ways to cut back and save.

My husband and I recently realized that we were spending more money then we were making and it became necessary to downscale our lifestyle. We canceled the cable. We switched our land line phone to a much cheaper Internet phone. We are selling one vehicle to get rid of the extra payment. We set ourselves up on a strict budget and rules for when we can and can't eat out. We are making better decisions money-wise. But we also decided to bring in extra money to speed up the process of paying down some bills. We both dabble on eBay and sell things we find at yard sales and the flea market. It's not a lot of money, but it pays for the occasional eat out or the new blouse I saw and want really bad. We decided with this new endeavor that we would make it more of a business. We set a time schedule of which nights and times we would both "work" on it. I wanted to be able to still be home with the kids and still bring in money. My first two weeks were fairly successful. I have $153 in sales, $45 in eBay fees and the purchasing of my products. I would like to see a higher profit margin so I have to keep looking for items that will bring a higher price but a lower investment. The down side is it takes a while to get started and recognize good deals when you see them, and you have to spend time researching each item before you list it. The upside is in the long run it pays off as you become more inept at the process and you get a thrill out of making a 200% turn- around.

We went through our home room by room and cleaned out anything and everything that we didn't need. Anything that had been sitting there for more than a year and hadn't been touched. Anything that we had just hung on to with that "maybe" or "just in case" attitude. It all went. We went to the local flea market and and sold about half of it for $300. Two weeks later we had a yard sale of our own and made another $60. We are going to try again next weekend at the flea market. We are taking anything that didn't sell along with more things that we've found as we've continued to clean out the house.

We also both started looking for another part time job that we could fit into our already busy schedule. We found that there are still plenty of jobs out there. You just have to look. As soon as we started discussing it we found that there was a Lowe's opening down the street from us. I found the local fabric store looking for someone part time to cut fabric. There was openings in a warehouse near our house that was looking for someone in Customer Service and in packing. There probably aren't as many jobs around as there were 2 years ago, but there are still opportunities available to those looking.

Once we had a concrete plan of attack on our finances we decided to have a long talk with our kids about what was necessary and what wasn't. We explained to them that we were downscaling our living a little and there would not be all the frivolous spending that they were used to. Christmas would be much smaller. We may skip buying the expensive yearbooks at school and maybe even skip some of the field trips. We will have to choose which things are important enough to spend our money on. We began buying jeans at Goodwill, yard sales, or flea markets. You can usually find name brand jeans like Hollister, Old Navy, Gap, American Eagle, and many others for $2.50- $4.50 depending on the size and condition. Since kids grow so fast it's a great deal. Other things that the kids need come from off season sale racks and special promotions. If you really watch what you spend and are selective about what you buy then you can find some really good deals and save lots of money.

Last but not least, I had to completely overhaul my grocery shopping routine. I buy from sales clubs like Costco or Sam's. I have a rotation that works for me while buying in bulk. I buy toilet paper, dishwasher detergent, paper towels, clothes detergent and cases of canned diced tomatoes and tomato sauce etc once a month rotating through the big ticket items as I get paid each week so that I don't have to put it all out of pocket at one time. I also buy from other discount stores like Aldis. They sell good quality items without the name brand attached to it for a fraction of the cost. Sometimes you will even find a name brand item you love for great savings. I watch for specials and coupons ( unfortunately Aldis and Sam's do not accept coupons) on items that I use frequently. I only use coupons on things that I won't usually buy the off brand for. If there is a generic of something that my family doesn't mind, the generic is usually cheaper than the name brand even with coupons or sales. I also quit buying individually packaged or portioned snacks and drinks. I now buy in bulk and portion it my self. It takes a little bit of time but it's worth it with the money I save (not to mention being greener by using more reusable containers.) I also make my own brownies and desserts instead of buying the expensive bakery ones.

There are lots and lots of tips here for saving and making money. Even if you don't use all of them, I am sure you will find something that you do. Every little bit helps. After all, a penny saved is a penny earned.

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App Store Classics: Game Dev Story, a game about making games.

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