Are You Voting: Update
An update to our previous post, Are You Voting? The answer is no:
Comparison Shopping – Saving Money on Everything
Matt Cutts, the unofficial Google blogger, wrote on his blog the other day some helpful advice for us college students:
A few days ago I was in a college bookstore that wanted to charge $178.60 for a copy of Mathematical Physics, by Eugene Butkov. $178.60? For a used, paperback book? Grrr. I took a picture of the UPC code and/or ISBN number.
You can search for an ISBN or UPC code (e.g. [9780201007275] ) on Google or other search engines and usually find out a product pretty quickly. I found a copy for $115.34 at Amazon, plus eBay had a hardcover copy with a current bid of $23.20. For a college student, $60 to $150 is a lot of savings.
Are You Voting?
College students are known for being advocates. And we should be. The least amount of advocacy one can do is to vote. So if you are not registered, you may still have time. If you are registered, make sure to get an absentee ballot from your home state. Many states like Massachusetts have all the information online so just search Google for “absentee ballot [home state]”.
If you are still undecided on who to vote for there are one VP debate (this Thursday) and two presidential debates (Oct 7th and Oct 15th) still coming. All debates start at 9pm and last for 90 minutes. Many of the local channels should be showing them so just flip through them when the debate is about to start.
Also, you can check out Google’s In Quotes to find out what each candidate said on any issue. Image by farlane.
Friday Funnies: Invisibandages
This week for Friday Funnies we have a fun video from Left of Center Comedy:
[Video used with permission of Left of Center.]