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How Budgeting Your Gadget Purchases Could Blow Your Budget
We all know what it’s like: you decide you finally need to get a new computer, TV or camera. The first thing you do is work out how much you can spend, then start looking for the best products in your price range. Big mistake, because budgeting like that will likely cause you to spend more. Here’s how to wise up.
Death and Taxes Shows Fascinating, Terrible View on Military Tech Spending
Death and Taxes 2009 is a detailed graphical account showing where your tax dollars will go next year in the most detailed and fascinating way: Everything is set to scale according to the amount of money spent on it, showing the amazing weight that military-related spending has in the total Federal budget. It’s just mindblowing to see it all with one look. It’s easy to get amazed with military technology and, like with Dubai’s architecture and its slaves, I keep forgetting how much money really goes into developing hypersonic missiles, airborne lasers, invisible bombers, next generation fighters, body piercing tanks, torpedoes capable of splitting a huge ship in two, ever-vigilant drones, scary helmets, and other deadly gadgets. When you zoom in the interactive map, the numbers are just staggering.
Cool Visualisation Shows World’s Spending On Electronics By Country (We Spend A Lot)
Here we see ol’ Mercator, if country sizes were drawn according to the amount of discretionary income spent on electronics by its citizens. As the world’s largest economy, the US being the biggest blob here at US$162 billion for 2007 is not that surprising. But what might be surprising is Japan, who spends more on recreation than clothing, household items and electronics combined–pretty interesting for such a style- and gadget-conscious nation. Also note central Europe’s electronics spending, which is clearly becoming a force to be reckoned with if IFA in Berlin was any indication. Head over to the NYTimes for more playing with this cool little flash data visualization with other categories of spending. [NYTimes via Boing Boing]
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