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Here's what the books do in Toronto's Type bookstore while you're sleeping

Here is a beautiful video done by the people who run Type Books [http://typebooks.ca/] – a great bookstore in Toronto. If you’ve ever wondered what all those stories get up to at night, click through to see a page turning ballet. It took many volunteers and a painstaking way of shooting, but the results are really fantastic. From the video’s creator: > After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago (http://youtu.be/zhRT-PM7vpA), my wife and I decided to take it to the next level. We spent m

Louis CK takes on the middle men (a.k.a. The best $5 you've ever spent)

If you haven’t heard of Louis CK, you NEED to check him out. He’s hilarious (as you can check in the clip at the bottom of this article). But more importantly, this week he released one of his shows, Live at the Beacon Theater, for only $5. Instead of having a big production company set up, film and distribute his show, he decided to do it himself, all on his own, and then make it completely accessible – to everyone. This experiment, to cut out the middle man, has been a resounding success. CK

Top 10 most expensive commercials on TV – Sunday Night Football vs. American Idol

When you’re not fast-forwarding through them on your DVR, getting up to go to the bathroom, or taking a second to talk to your kids , commercials are there to take up space in your brain. And while we might not pay as much attention to commercials as we used to, they’re still big money for TV networks. Not surprisingly, the biggest bills associated with a standard 30-second time slot during prime time comes with highly rated, result-based shows. That means Sunday Night Football (sports for me)

Fantasy Sports Dominate Real Sports, Give Big Economic Boost

Fantasy sports are officially mainstream. The good people at Fast Company have dropped a tremendous info-graphic on the impact fantasy sports have on the North American economy. See it here [http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/FantasySports_big.jpg]! We’re going to show you the numbers, but first we’ll give you a heads up on the basics of fantasy sports – just in case you’re not already obsessed. The basics Players draft a team of professional players in the sport of their choosing. They get

Money Can’t Keep You Out Of Jail

Money: you can’t take it with you when you die, and it can’t keep you out of jail when the judge swings the gavel. Straight up billionaire and hedge fund manager, Raj Rajaratnam, is heading to prison for 11 years after being convicted of insider trading – for those of you scoring at home, that’s the longest insider-trading sentence ever laid out in the United States. In addition to the 11 years of jumpsuit time, he’s being fined $10million and giving up $53.8million. I mean, the guy can probably