Breakfast Links: Ball Pool, Glassdoor & Rent or Buy
On a scale slightly larger than the last time I talked about ball pools, LA is turning three of their exposed rerservoirs into giant ball pools! Although, sadly, I suspect there will be no frolicking for the public. They’re dropping some 3 million balls as a cheap and temporary form of coverage on these since too much sun turns them carcinogenic. Comforting! It is well worth checking out the short video on that page to see them dropping 400,000 balls in some sort of ceremony. There’s no denying that that crap looks cool as hell.
You know in the vein of ratemyteacher a new startup has sprung forth onto the scene Glassdoor.com. (via) Here is a completely anonymous way to review your company and provide your salary. Here’s the problem, it’s completely anonymous, I just tried to submit a review for Google and at no point was there any verification, so it seems if I went and submitted it, it would just go in. The opportunities for abuse and gaming abound, it would seem to me. I dunno, a good idea in theory, but in practice? I wonder. Whatever happened to TalentSpring? I think that suffers from similar issues.
Ah well, finally the eternal question is answered! Rent or buy? Check out the heatmaps on hotpad.com. (via) It finds the ratio of sale price / annual rent of comparable home in the area and colors in the map, blue means buying is a good idea, red means renting. I have no idea if that’s a good measure of whether you should rent or buy, but I choose to believe it’s a great measure because it colored in Williamsburg almost the most buyingest shade of blue which is where I’m off too at some nebulous point in the future (I’m glaring at you Toll Brothers…). So. Yay!
