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Weekend Break: HillaryCart, Ray Guns and more

HillaryCart

Supermarket shoppers may soon be cruising the aisles with intelligent shopping carts that warn them if they’re buying too much junk food, technology experts say.

“Are you sure you want those chips? Your ass is getting kind of fat.”

Ars Technica also covered the story.

Ray Guns

The non-lethal gun causes a “wave of agony” according to these testers.

My only disappointment was that Raytheon didn’t have a shopping cart to allow you to buy them online.

What a difference a word makes

NPR had a funny article Friday about how a one-word typo changes underage marriage in Arkansas. Sort of reminds me of the wicked Bible, which rendered the seventh commandment the way Hugh Heffner might.

Becoming a famous blogger

I have always wondered how people became famous bloggers. Apparently there are two possible routes.

Ten Principles of Economics

A brief video summary of Dr. Mankiw’s textbook.