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Forbes’ Misery Measure determines the most miserable cities in the US. They areDetroit, MichiganStockton, CaliforniaFlint, MichiganNew York, New YorkPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaChicago, IllinoisLos Angeles, CaliforniaModesto, CaliforniaCharlotte, North CarolinaProvidence, Rhode IslandThe Misery Measure is a combination of the Misery Index, which is unemployment rate + inflation rate and the Misery Score, which is the sum of corporate, personal, employer and sales taxes. Then Forbes adds in other factors like “commute times, weather, crime and that toxic waste dump in your backyard.”Mind you, Forbes only looked at only the 150 largest metropolitan areas (min population of 371,000).

Forbes’ Misery Measure determines the most miserable cities in the US. They are

  1. Detroit, Michigan
  2. Stockton, California
  3. Flint, Michigan
  4. New York, New York
  5. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  6. Chicago, Illinois
  7. Los Angeles, California
  8. Modesto, California
  9. Charlotte, North Carolina
  10. Providence, Rhode Island

The Misery Measure is a combination of the Misery Index, which is unemployment rate + inflation rate and the Misery Score, which is the sum of corporate, personal, employer and sales taxes. Then Forbes adds in other factors like “commute times, weather, crime and that toxic waste dump in your backyard.”

Mind you, Forbes only looked at only the 150 largest metropolitan areas (min population of 371,000).

too legit to quit

Remember back in ‘96 when MC Hammer declared bankruptcy with about $14M in debt? Well those days are long gone. Now he’s a tech entrepreneur! He co-founded A Large Corporation, Inc and is developing a site called DanceJam.com that will allow people to engage in virtual dance competitions. Read about it on his blog.

this story still blows my mind: woman finds 7 foot python in the toilet of her brooklyn apartment

Second Life is banning unregulated banks from its virtual world after a run of defaults by financial institutions....

I don’t really know what Second Life is, but I think it’s a virtual computer world of sorts and I think that I would not want to be a part of it. Who wants to play in a virtual world where “banks default on their promises” and there is a “run on the bank that deplete[s] its reserves as panicked investors que up at virtual ATMs to withdraw their money?!” Someone should make a virtual world full of peace, where money doesn’t exist, unicorns run wild, and you can eat ice cream all day.

Kangaroos can swim. (And be eaten by sharks. The story from Australia here. And a really bizarre video about it here).

Kangaroos can swim. (And be eaten by sharks. The story from Australia here. And a really bizarre video about it here).