Link Love: The Money, Crimes, Doing Time & Lies Edition

THE LIES

• Top 10 Secrets of Effective Liars (Psychology Today)
• 5 Lies we tell ourselves to continue spending (FB)
• World’s Greatest Liar Competition (BBC) – No lawyers or politicians
• Top 25 Urban Legends (Snopes)
• Why we lie (Live Science)

THE CRIMES

• What’s in a name? In defense of Tax “Scofflaws” (Tax Girl)
• How the French get Designer Shades for Free (Paris Blog)
• Madoff’s estate to pay $2B to Ponzi victims (Times)
• Top 25 Crimes of the Century (Time)
• Would you have spotted this ATM fraud? (Krebs on Security)
• Top 10 Longest Prison Sentences in the World (Akorra)

THE BANK

Okay, so these billionaires aren’t exactly thieves committing crimes, but they sure have a lot of money in the bank.

Plus, this is the way to really make money — come up with great inventions, inherit something, or just simply, save.

• Canada’s Billionaires (Nosey Parker)
• Billionaires of the world, unite! (Nosey Parker)
• The World’s Richest Women Slideshow (Forbes)
• The Most Prosperous Nations on Earth (MSN)
• 7 Women Inventors (MSN)

THE HEISTS

• Ocean’s 11 — The best out of the trilogy with Ocean’s 12 and 13
• Catch me if you can — I’m half cheering him on in the movie
• Reservoir Dogs — Love.

THE DETECTIVES & CRIME-SOLVERS

• Lie To Me — Good fictional drama about reading facial expressions & tics
• Veronica Mars — Like a modern Nancy Drew who is not as well-adjusted
• Castle — Nathan Fillion. Do I really need to say any more? VERY funny.
• Monk — Neurotic OCD detective who is extremely observant & brilliant
• Law and Order: Criminal Intent — Love Detective Bobby Goren!
• Bones — I initially hated the character Bones, but now I think she’s awesome
• Honourable Mention: Psych — More comedy than true detective drama
• Honourable Mention: Dexter — It’s intense/good but makes my stomach turn
• Honourable Mention: Criminal Minds — Too realistic for me (nightmares)

Can you tell I love the genre? 🙂

Sherlock Holmes made a very big impression on me as an 10-year old.

P.S. And if you can think of any other good detective-ish TV series, let me know in the comments; I’m always on the lookout for more.

THE VIDEO:

The hungriest thief I know: The Hamburglar

But this guy in France could give him a run for his money!

“MANGER GRATUIT CHEZ MCDO”

(English: “Eat for free at McDonald’s“; they call it “McDo” as a nickname in France, pronounced “Mek-doh”)

“Ca se passe comme ça chez McDo”

(English: “That’s how it happens at McDonald’s“, which was the original signature catch phrase of McDonald’s in France before the global “I’m lovin’ it“)