Finally, we'll have flying cars, Elon Musk?

World's first public flying Tesla roadster car

IN FULL | Tesla’s Flying Car Flips Mid-Air in Jaw-Dropping Elon Musk Reveal | APT

Is Elon Musk a delusional conman?

(Sam Harris) Is trillionaire Elon Musk a con-man or deluded narcissist?

FAIL: Trump's Great American State Fair

I blame Democrats and Obama. Somebody came in here and made it all cheap, vandals.

(Adam Mockler) Trump's money laundering scheme: no bid contracts to Trump's cronies

• The Jimmy Dore Show (comedy, commentary)
• DC’s record-breaking fireworks delayed as Trump turns 4th of July celebration into a MAGA rally
• Trump’s MAGA 250: Administration awards more than $100M in federal contracts | Public Citizen
• The antidemocratic zealots presiding over Trump’s failed makeover of US history | The Nation
• Corrupt money flows reveal 'Trumpified' 250th celebration rife with 'grift, self-dealing, and enriching friends' | Common Dreams
• The Mirror (UK): This is worse than Scottish Willy Wonka

(Adam Mockler) Everyone leaves Trump Fair after gross disaster

• America250: The greatest fair a cheapo could think up
• During his first term we used to say, "Elect a clown, expect a circus." But who thought he would just get worse and worse, failing and ailing?
• "This war will change the world": Douglas MacGregor
• Family corruption: Ivanka slips, admits it all
• MSNOW: Judge releases 300 Trump-Epstein viral pictures

(Power Exposed) Rachel Maddow attacks Pres. Don the John Trump live in TV studio

Trump now an adjudicated rapist?

(Adam Mockler) Adjudicated rapist Donald John Trump sex bomb blows up

500 Days of Trump's corruption

(Senator Chris Murphy) This is what 500 days of corruption looks like

Why Trump is insecure about Obama

(Luke Beasley) Resurfaced footage of Trump exposes who he really is

(MAGA Meltdowns) Trump voters get rejected by their community, spiral

You're not allowed to criticize Zionist Israel!

(bluprnt) "You are afraid to criticize Israel": Host stunned when Tucker Carslson asks about it

Ana own Bro on Israel 🤣 #usa #israel #palestine - Israel gets free US money, we pay interest

Driving new $2K Chinese EV electric car

(Kim Java) Not a Hello Kitty toy! Driving China's cheapest EV in U.S. explains everything

It's cuter and cheaper than the Mini Cooper

• Prices start at $2,000 and go up to $6,300, all under $10,000!
• The cheapest car in the U.S. today (was the discontinued Mercedes' Smart car at $24,000 then the Nissan Versa at $18,000) is now the Nissan Sentra at $23,000.
• Average new car in U.S. costs $50,000.
• The model shown here, the Bestune Pony, is only $4,800 (the Playful Pony), the Petite Pony ($6,300)
• 2026 FAW Bestune Pony EV enthüllt: Kleiner E-Flitzer für die Stadt!
• Bestune Pony EV: tuningblog.eu
• VIDEO: 2026 FAW Bestune Pony EV world premiere | small electric car for the city

(Auto Drive) The 2026 Bestune Pony – The Ultimate Affordable Mini EV for City Driving!

My trip to India, most spiritual country?

(Wise Lessons) The Mysterious Life of Anandamayi Ma

• Anandamayi Ma?

(Nahana) India sucks!!! Don't ever come to this country

(Isha Branderhorst) I stayed in an ashram in Rishikesh, and it changed my life: honest experience

• (Mystics of India) Sadhguru on wild, wild country, Osho (Swami Bhagwan Rajneesh), and spiritual "cults"
• Where is Rishikesh, yoga capital of the world?
• Is an Ashram an intentional community?

Biz on sidewalks of Buddhist Vietnam?

(Beyond Borders) Search for the legacy of Thích Nhất Hạnh aka Thay? Is Vietnam the most sinful [post-American War] Buddhist country? What nobody tells travelers to this part of Asia south of China. Visit Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Da Nang, and Hạ Long Bay.

• Buddhism in Vietnam
• Beyond Borders; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Travel to Mexico is best for this family

• We love the Mexicans and our their land of Meh'hee'ko

USA undermined Mexico economically and now demographically

No car needed to get to or out of LAX

40 Inspiring Travel Quotes (Castles & Carpools)

It used to be that as a world traveler, no matter how cheap the flight, how inexpensive the lodging, how tasty and trivial the fee for nutritious far was, they'd get you at the airport. The redeye into Los Angeles was a giveaway, but the taxi fare from LAX to the part of town where anyone other than travelers were was more expensive. The same for New York, Boston, and the major hubs. Even toting a copy of the trusty Lonely Planet, it was hard to get a straight answer on how to get out from under the planes for cheap. It could be found. It did exist. But nobody knew about it, and no one was telling anyone, and no one knew where to ask or get answers. Pressing, there was always a way, even from LAX. But the limousine bus, hotels, and taxi companies all conspired to keep it secret. It used to be that to get out of LAX, one had to find a free bus out of the octopus of busy streets and to a station. From there, one could cheaply (for pennies) get to downtown and from there anywhere else. It was never necessary to get a ride to the airport to fly out or to get picked up when coming in. It was a nice luxury, however imposing it was on the relationship (revealing who was a dependable friend or family member). But now it's easy. Starting today it is clear to anyone, and Uber and Lyft must be nonplussed. How did the Yellow Cab Company keep the scheme going for so long? Now there's a new station and a clear and easy way to get out of and back to LAX, Los Angeles International. Let this be a message to all shoestring travelers with big backpacks on their way to Asia or Europe: there is always a way out of the airport and into town without getting rolled by a taxi or tuktuk driver/company. See Lonely Planet | Travel Guides & Travel Information or wait at the airport until morning and ask the concierge. It's as if someone has told them not to tell anyone, but they will if pressed. There's always a way out, even if it means walking out of the airport to another battalion on independent taxis who do not want to pay and pass on airport fees.

Travel, who needs it?

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”

—Maya Angelou

“Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

—Euripides

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

—Jawaharlal Nehru

“It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America – in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles.”

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.”

—Henry Rollins

“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”

—William Least Heat Moon

“We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.”

—Anonymous

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

—Mary Anne Radmacher

• KTLA.com; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly, Castles & Carpools; Lonely Planet

I do whatever I want: The Surfing Nomad

"Not all those who wander are lost"

A wandering ascetic (śramaṇa, shramana, shaman) [a] is a person "who labors, toils, or exerts [him or herself] for some higher or religious purpose" [1, 2], a "seeker, or ascetic, one who performs acts of austerity" (tapas) [3, 4, 5, 6].

The śramaṇa tradition includes primarily [the contemporary proto-Indian schools of] Jainism [7], Buddhism [8], and others such as the Ājīvika [9, 10].

The śramaṇa [Dharmic] religions became popular in the circles of wandering mendicant, contemplative, truth seekers after a direct (unmediated by priests) experience of the divine or of the ultimate truth of reality from greater Magadha (where the Buddha chose to live) that led to the development of spiritual practices [11] as well as the popular concepts in all major Indian religions such as saṃsāra (the Cycle of Rebirth and Death) and moksha (liberation from that cycle) [12, Note 1].

The Śramaṇic traditions have a diverse range of doctrines (beliefs) and practices, ranging from accepting or denying the concept of an eternal soul, fatalism to free will, idealization of extreme asceticism to that of family life, renunciation, strict ahimsa (non-violence, harmlessness, kind caring), and veganism/vegetarianism to permissibility of violence and flesh-eating [13, 14].

The Pali (the exclusively Buddhist language) word samaṇa has been suggested as the ultimate origin of the word Evenki сама̄н (samān) "shaman," possibly via Middle Chinese or Tocharian B; however, the etymology of this word, which is also found in other Tungusic languages, is controversial (see Shamanism § Etymology). More

• The 25 most romantic destinations around the world
• Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit sramana

Nvidia loses $589 billion in a day

Predicting the market's hard, beating it impossible

The Number One business in America used to be Apple Corporation, the iPhone, iPad, iTamp slave factory owner, but it was shoved out of the way by the computer chip company Nvidia. That is until yesterday, when China released DeepSeek, a very cheap A.I. search function. That release by the CCP crashed Nvidia, taking it down the farthest a company has ever fallen financially since the last time Nvidia fell (about $250 billion that time). That's what Wall Street calls volatility. To invest or not invest? Hotshots have the most exposure to upswing, but the down draft burns them up when they crash. At least Apple is stable, however irresponsible or amoral the corporation may be. What's GM up to? What about other war stocks? Big Pharma? There's another "flu" on the horizon, and if we call it a "Covid," that means big money for companies already making big money on new allopathic drugs like esketamine ("Spravato"). Caveat emptor.

Let's END food waste: toogoodtogo.com

Too Good to Go; Gary & Shannon (KFI AM); CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

LET'S END food waste TOGETHER. Food waste is a big problem. We can be a solution. Too Good To Go is the app that lets users rescue unsold food at favorite food spots from an untimely fate. Use the app to explore stores and restaurants in local area -- and save surprise bags of surplus food (some of it vegan or specialty depending on outlet) from going to waste at a great price: Save Food - Help The Planet - Too Good To Go (www.toogoodtogo.com/en-us).

Cheap supercars for broke boys: QtrLife Crisis

Ideal Media, March 3, 2022; Team T (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

There's room for all ages and genders on this ride.

Consider the fact that our hormones, patriarchal societies, the ways we're raised don't change so much. At the time of the Buddha, rich kids raced around in cool chariots with parasols and white stallions. Why? Image, chixdiggit, ego, testosterone, competitiveness, vanity, memories of life in the lower heavens (planes of existence in the deva worlds of the Sensual Sphere), who knows? But they did. And many people do it here and now, no longer limited to rich boys. Think of the new lowrider law in Los Angeles, California. Every kind of person in our U.S. car culture gets sucked in at least a little. Some a lot, but everyone a little. This is the Sensual Sphere (kama-loka). We aim for rebirth in the Fine Material Sphere or, at the very least, the sensuous heavens. Some more wisely aim for an end to rebirth or rearising in the hard-to-conceive Immaterial Sphere (the formless realms). Here, in the world of form (rupa), we want to experience things viscerally, corporeally, in the gut, on the skin, in the nether regions. We didn't make it that way. The karma of the being reborn here make it that way. So, given that we're wealthy and in the West with all its excesses, let's look at cars before they become illegal and we all go EV and start drag racing Priuses in tubes through our smart tubular cities, like that massive one being built in the desert. Kids, don't try this at home; ask a parent instead. But, you know, Knowledge and experience come from choices, and bad choices seem to yield the most knowledge and experience.

Cheap supercars for broke boys

(Ideal Media) Let's look at some not so expensive supercars for less than anyone thinks! Get in a 500 HP, 200 MPH beast that smokes a friend's BRZ. Some cheap cars make one look rich, from the Sl55 AMG, Fisker Karma, Aston Vantage, and Lotus Elise to the Dodge Viper, these cheap rides will make a statement wherever they're being driven. OK, OK, what's "cheap"? That depends. What's a "supercar"? That depends, too. Shut up. The average new car in America costs $50,000.00 so "cheap" varies.

Join The Ideal Fam at bit.ly/IdealMembership.  #dodgeviper #supercars #cheap

JEW: Ari Shaffir (2022 full comedy special)

WARNING: Sexual, biblical, racist, and vulgar observations about American Jewish life for one man!

What is he doing? He'll cause a schism

(Ari Shaffir) Premiered Nov. 2, 2022. I spent 43% of my life savings to make this special. The deal with these YouTube specials is that comics can make them, but we rely on viewers to pay us back or we just can't afford to do this. So now that you've seen it, please help support this kind of independent standup comedy.

There are JewBu's. I wrote a book about it.

If you liked it a lot, let that guide you to throwing more dollars in. The standard for a so-so special should be about $7-$10. And this was no so-so special. This was the best thing I've ever done and probably will ever do. So let your own income and your enjoyment of this massive undertaking and risk or mine guide you in how much you tip. Throw in those shekels, people! It's a mitzvah! And I guarantee you if I make my money back, I’ll be able to make more great stuff like this -- not just for myself but also for other comics.

This is the Edinburgh Free Fringe model. After you see a show, people tip based on what they thought it was worth and how much they had to give. So base your donation on that. I’ll just be out here with my tip bucket.

DONATE! DONATE! DONATE! It's time to pay up for what you got for free. Give either $uper Thank$ (located on the 3 dots next to the like and share buttons) or Venmo: account.venmo.com/u/Ari-Shaffir1. Paypal: paypal.me/AriShaffir2?country... $how your thank$ the "Jewi$h" way. Ari on INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/arishaffir.

SEE ARI APPEARING LIVE: arishaffir.com/tour

• Portland — November 3-5 (Sold out!)
• Dallas — December 1-3
• Pittsburgh — January 13-15
• Salt Lake City — January 20-21
• Tampa — February 2-4
• Denver “Greatest Hits” Shows — February 16-19
• San Jose — March 2-4
• New York — March 24
• All new material! Tickets: arishaffir.com/tour 

American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists (Emily Sigalow)

This is my 4th special: Passive Aggressive, Paid Regular, Double Negative, and now this, Ari Shaffir: Jew. In addition to my first release, an album called Revenge for the Holocaust.

All the details in this special were meticulously researched and fact checked. This is my love letter to the culture and religion that raised me. I worked on it harder than I've ever worked on anything. And I'm giving it to all of you because I want you to have it.

Please talk about it with each other. Share laughs with your friends and family while you talk about this special. Ari Shaffir: Jew was made to bring people together. Let's have some fun!

For more Ari Shaffir: Get tickets to see Ari on the road doing his new hour, 100% different stuff from the special. arishaffir.com/tour

• Instagram: instagram.com/arishaffir
• Patreon: patreon.com/arishaffir
• Cool merch & more: arishaffir.com

Directed by Eric Abrams (came up with the candle idea). Set design by Lauren Helpern (full queen, makes me cry thinking about her design). Edited by Daniel Cotter (best editor work with, hella patient and hella creative). Sound by Jon D’uva (number one guy in the business). Sound mix by Thomas Cassetta (worked above and beyond because he's an artist). Director of Photography Jordan Levy (been my guy since 2015 cuz he gets it). Lighting designer Paul Miller (nailed the difficult task of lighting me in front of the candles). Shot at the Roullete Intermedium in the home of the Jews, Brooklyn, NY.

Special thanks to Andrew Schulz for pulling me kicking and screaming into 2022 with how to package and promote a special on YouTube. He is as giving as any comedian in the world. And though what he does to Akash's butt is abhorrent and wrong in most if not all world religions, he is nonetheless a gentleman and a consistent and constant defender of the great art form of standup comedy. 

#arishaffirjew #standupcomedy #arishaffir

The Self-Made Private Prison

Prof. Lily de Silva, BPS, Bodhi Leaves No. 120; Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

According to the teachings of the Buddha the human personality is comprised of five “aggregates of grasping,” called in Pali pañc’upådånakkhandhå. They are:

1. the aggregate of body
2. the aggregate of feelings
3. the aggregate of perception
4. the aggregate of [mental formations such as volition]
5. the aggregate of consciousness.

We may wonder why the Buddha mentions only five. We can attempt to answer this question by analyzing any unit of experience in our day-to-day life:

Suppose, for instance, we hear a big noise on the road, and we rush to the spot and recognize that a motorcycle accident has taken place. We feel sorry for the victim and want to rush that person to the hospital.

If we look at this experience and analyze the physical and mental phenomena involved, we will notice that they can be accommodated within the Five Aggregates of grasping.

Of course, we all know the body or the material aspect of personality. It is this body which approached the site of the accident.

We heard the noise and saw the scene of the accident. That means we have had auditory and visual consciousness.

We recognized that it as a motorcycle accident. That is the aggregate of perception.

We felt sorry for the victim, and our sorrow is the feeling aspect of personality.

We wanted to take the victim to the hospital, and that is the volitional aspect. So we find all Five Aggregates of grasping in this unit of experience.

The physical and mental phenomena involved in all our varied experiences can be included within these Five Aggregates. It is very likely that the Buddha, too, discovered these five by analyzing experience through objective awareness (sati) and intuitive wisdom (paññå).

Why are they called "aggregates" (khandha)? Khandha means “heap” or “accumulation.” It is easy to understand that the body is a heap of [four] material elements or qualities. We maintain its process of sustenance by heaping it up with gross material nutriment.

Similarly, in the mental sphere, through our experiences, we accumulate feelings, perceptions, ideas (such as volitions or impulses to act), and consciousness. Therefore, all five aspects of the personality are called heaps, accumulations, or aggregates.

Since they are intimately interconnected and act on one another, the processes are extremely complicated. According to one commentarial simile, they are like the waters at a confluence where five rivers meet.

One cannot take a handful of water and say that it came from such and such a river. The aggregates are ever-changing and constantly in a state of flux. They are so volatile and dynamic that they give rise to the notion of “I” and “mine.”

Just as a glowing and revolving torch gives the illusion of a circle, these dynamic processes of physical and mental energy give rise to the illusion of I, self, ego, soul.

They are called "aggregates of grasping" because we cling to them passionately as a SELF, as “me” or “mine.”

Just as an animal tied with a strap to a firm post runs round and round the post, or stands, sits, and lies down beside the post, so a person who regards the Five Aggregates as self cannot escape from the aggregates and the suffering, disappointment, and anxiety which invariably accompany them (SN XXII.99; S iii.150).

The Five Aggregates constitute a real private prison for us. We suffer a great deal due to our attachment to this prison and our expectations of what the prison should be.

As our perception of the external world and our relations with our fellow human beings are conditioned by the nature of this prison, interpersonal relations and communication become extremely complex, tricky, and problematic.

Problems become more and more complicated to the extent that we identify ourselves with this private prison.

Now let us supplement our understanding of the canonical Buddhist teachings in terms of our daily experience and see how we cling to each and every one of these aggregates as “I” or “mine,” so that we continue to suffer in the private prison we make for ourselves.

The aggregate of body

If we ask the question, “Who am I?” we immediately respond by stating, “I am so and so.”

The name is a label, and it can be anything. We might also say, “I am a human being.” By that we have only stated the species to which we currently belong. “I am a man or woman.” This only affirms the biological sex of the person.

“I am so and so’s daughter, son, sister, brother, wife, mother...” These only describe relationships, but we have not answered the question, “Who am I?”

We pull out an identity card to prove our identity, but the card shows only a picture of the body with a name, a label. Now we may believe we have satisfactorily answered the question, “Who am I?”

I am this body, and this body is me...mine, my possession: I cling to it.

We identify self with the body or a history. When we say, “I am tall, fat, fair,” and so on, we really mean that the body is tall or fat or fair, but that is because we identify the body as I.

What's more, we decorate it in various ways and regard it as our beautiful self, “Am I not beautiful in this dress?” We regard the body as a precious possession — “my face, my hair, my teeth,” and so. It is very clear that we cling to the material body as our very own, a self we cling to.

This identification is so widely accepted and thorough that it has crept into linguistic usage as well. In words such as “somebody,” “everybody,” and “nobody,” “body” is used in the sense of a person.

Now the Buddha, who analyzed the body (this physical form constituted of material elements) objectively using the microscope of mindfulness, realized the true nature of the body and found that... More

Get to or from LAX for only $5 (instructions)

LA-electric-travel.com/LAX-via-Metro-Rail; Shoestring Travel Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is L.A.'s biggest airport, one of the most used in the U.S.

It is far from many miles from most destinations, because L.A. is not really a city. It is an enormous megalopolis of about 50 cities and countless neighborhoods.

So people spend a lot on taxis (the worst choice), Uber and Lyft (convenient but overpriced choices), limousines (vans), and rides from friends and family. No public transportation was built all the way to the airport -- but this is all right because there is a cheap way to get to and from the airport.

• Arriving to LA from LAX via Metro train
• Departing from LA to LAX via Metro train

In fact, there are three transportation options to get to and from LAX Airport into your destination in the city.

• CHEAP: all Metro Rail (costs $1.50, $3.00, or $4.50)
• REASONABLE: The FlyAway Bus and Metro Rail $8.50 
• EXPENSIVE: private taxi cab $45 and up.

How to get into L.A. using Metro Rail

Come see the walled off Hollywood star of TV star Donald Trump. No foreigners.

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TRAIN: Getting into town from LAX via Metro Rail is very cheap. BUT it requires a free shuttle bus ride (5:00 AM to midnight) and changing Metro trains.

However, the change of trains is a good thing because once you're connected to the Metro rail system, you have easy access to explore the many diverse neighborhoods in the Los Angeles area, which include:

• Hollywood
• Beverly Hills
• Santa Monica/Venice
• other beaches
• Pasadena
• The Valley
• Long Beach (next to OC)
• Downtown L.A.
• Hsi Lai Temple, Hacienda Heights

For additional information on things to do or seeing Los Angeles by rail, go to LA Adventures: Eclectic Day Trips by Metro Rail through Los Angeles and Beyond.

Overview: Go cheap by Metro train

Take the FREE Green Line... More

• What is there to do in Los Angeles? (LAist.com)

Ella and Dizzy (Hollywood Bowl, July 19)

HollywoodBowl.com; Wisdom Quarterly

An all-star Gillespie big band tears it up with Dizzy’s original charts, followed by today’s vocal stars and musicians performing classics from Ella Fitzgerald’s songbook years with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. More (CALENDAR with lots of Gustavo Dudamel with the LA Philharmonic)

• Ella and Dizzy: 100 Years, 1,000 Memories 
• Wednesday, 8:00 PM, July 19, 2017

NOTES FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

It's a crazy town with a little culture.

(WQ) Prices vary from $1 to $8 to more than $100 per seat. Tickets likely to be available night of the show, no matter what anyone says. And there are scalpers all over the place trying to unload tickets at giveaway prices or whatever they can haggle; walk away and watch the price drop. Cheap unofficial parking down the street as well as arriving by Metro Buses from all over Los Angeles. Arrive early for best parking and to picnic (bring a full basket) inside the venue.

ARTISTS

• Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
• Vince Mendoza, conductor
• Andra Day, special guest
• Jane Monheit, special guest
• Leslie Odom, Jr., special guest
• Lizz Wright, special guest
• Regina Carter, special guest
• Patrice Rushen, special guest
• A Dizzy 100th Celebration All-Star Big Band
• Jon Faddis, conductor/trumpet
• Billy Childs, special guest
• Charles McPherson, special guest
• Lewis Nash, special guest
• Peter Washington, special guest
• CCH Pounder, host

New $35 tablet computer released in India

Empowering the disempowered with affordable technology in India (ctv.ca)

India launches $35 tablet computer aimed at world's poor

NEW DELHI (USA Today) - India introduced a cheap tablet computer today, saying it would deliver modern technology to the countryside to help lift villagers out of poverty.

The computer, called [the] Aakash, or "sky" [actually "space," which includes all the visible sky] in Hindi [akasha in Sanskrit], is the latest in a series of "world's cheapest" innovations in India that include [the world's cheapest computer with alternative power,] $2,040 compact Nano car, a $15 water purifier, and $2,000 open-heart surgery.

Developer Datawind is selling the tablets to the government for about $45 each, and subsidies will reduce that to $35 for students and teachers. In comparison, the cheapest Apple iPad tablet costs $499, while the recently announced Kindle Fire will sell for $199.

Datawind says it can make about 100,000 units a month at the moment, not nearly enough to meet India's hope of getting its 220 million children online.

Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal called the announcement a message to all children of the world. "This is not just for us. This is for all of you who are disempowered," he said. "This is for all those who live on the fringes of society." More

India unveils prototype of $35 computer

Slideshow: India and Technology

MUMBAI [Bombay], India – It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th the cost: India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011. If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux operating system-based computer would be the latest in a string of "world's cheapest" innovations to hit the market out of India, which is home to the 100,000 rupee ($2,127) compact Nano car, the 749 rupees ($16) water purifier, and the $2,000 open-heart surgery.

The tablet can be used for functions like word processing, Web browsing, and video-conferencing. It has a solar power option too — important for India's energy-starved hinterlands — though that add-on costs extra. "This is our answer to MIT's $100 computer," human resource development minister Kapil Sibal told the Economic Times when he unveiled the device Thursday [July 22, 2010]. More>>

Where to retire, paradise?

Cheap retirement spots off the beaten path

Americans are looking to retire outside the U.S. for a more relaxed pace and low-cost living. A calm life in Thailand - U.S. retirement bargains - Catch up on savings - How to retire early - How to Retire in Your 30s (Get rich the Jack Canfield way)

• VIDEO: For underemployed, Great Recession lingers
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Secrets of frugal Millionaires

Secrets of frugal millionaires
Interviews with 70 millionaires reveal how they spend their money and keep more of it. Habits of the rich

• The richest people in 10 big towns