Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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Yeah, or maybe not. There is an ad running on ESPN.com for jobs here. Check it out if you’re looking. If you expand the ad, however, you’re in for a treat. I’ve included a shot of the relevant part below:
My 15 minutes of fame (for those that actually bother to expand the ad).
December 8th, 2003 at 3:33 pm
Subhead: the cast of next season’s Average Joe.
Congrats. As always, I’m jealous of the perks of your job.
December 8th, 2003 at 5:09 pm
Woohooo. The token brown face?
December 8th, 2003 at 5:13 pm
And notice, even with a girl in the picture, he’s still the shortest. (c:
December 8th, 2003 at 5:55 pm
short, perhaps, but definitely the handsomest!
December 9th, 2003 at 10:01 am
proximity to the place where they took the photo was my primary reason for being chosen…
December 9th, 2003 at 11:18 am
Awwww my little boy is all grown up!!!
December 9th, 2003 at 11:36 am
?????
December 9th, 2003 at 12:07 pm
Your title, “Look Ma”… I am pretending to be Ma, commenting on how my little boy is now making headline news… sort of … it was a joke!!!
December 9th, 2003 at 12:08 pm
I guess it is not funny if you have to explain your jokes
December 9th, 2003 at 12:11 pm
yes, yes, that would be true… joke needing explanation == not funny
December 9th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
[...] If your site is full of slick-looking corporate drones, it’s just like 99.9% of other corporate websites. Humans respond to other humans, so take ESPN’s cue use ‘em on your website. Using real people (or your company’s employees) on your website show the world that your company is run by real, live humans, and not corporate robots that look like real people but say things like “we provide an innovative, cost-effective solution for cross-enterprise business process automation.” [...]