<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : dollar : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[When is a dollar worth more than a dollar? When the mint goofs.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24440/1/" /><id>24440</id><summary><![CDATA[When is a dollar worth more than a dollar? When the mint goofs.]]></summary><issued>2007-06-19T20:57:47+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-19T20:57:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Some dollar coins lack &quot;In God We Trust.&quot; The mint promised it wouldn't happen again, but you know what? It happened again.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Billion Dollar Gram]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/131001/1/" /><id>131001</id><summary><![CDATA[The Billion Dollar Gram]]></summary><issued>2009-08-18T08:47:52+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-18T08:47:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A fantastic visualization of all those billions of dollar figures that get quoted in the media, and how they compare to each other.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dollar Artist Sculptures]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/80946/1/" /><id>80946</id><summary><![CDATA[Dollar Artist Sculptures]]></summary><issued>2008-11-03T17:43:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-03T17:43:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A super massive collection of 300 sculptures made out of dollar bills.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Zero Dollar]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/79053/1/" /><id>79053</id><summary><![CDATA[The Zero Dollar]]></summary><issued>2008-10-09T02:13:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-09T02:13:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Artist Laura Gilberts' print 'The Zero Dollar' protesting the breakdown of the American economy. Gilbert distributed 10,000 of the fake greenbacks in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 to call attention to the economic crisis gripping the nation.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ US Mint to release Jefferson dollar coin]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31703/1/" /><id>31703</id><summary><![CDATA[ US Mint to release Jefferson dollar coin]]></summary><issued>2007-08-15T10:44:51+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-15T10:44:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Most folks can correctly name George Washington as the nation's first president. After that, things get tricky. The U.S. Mint is hoping its new dollar coin series will help refresh some hazy memories of Adams, Jefferson and all the rest.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[U.S. Gov't to Release New Dollar Coins]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10570/1/" /><id>10570</id><summary><![CDATA[U.S. Gov't to Release New Dollar Coins]]></summary><issued>2007-02-11T10:17:11+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-11T10:17:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An AP-Ipsos poll found that three-fourths of people surveyed oppose replacing the dollar bill, featuring George Washington, with a dollar coin... so they created another coin we aren't going to want.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Godless' Dollar]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12536/1/" /><id>12536</id><summary><![CDATA['Godless' Dollar]]></summary><issued>2007-03-08T00:20:08+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-08T00:20:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Dollar Coins Missing 'In God We Trust'.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The US Now Has a New Dollar]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10836/1/" /><id>10836</id><summary><![CDATA[The US Now Has a New Dollar]]></summary><issued>2007-02-15T09:36:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-15T09:36:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So, you know that Dollar coin that 3/4 of voters opposed?<br/>Yeah, it's in mint now. But we still have the paper one too.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Strong dollar sends big-spending Canadians across border]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/21195/1/" /><id>21195</id><summary><![CDATA[Strong dollar sends big-spending Canadians across border]]></summary><issued>2007-05-23T18:24:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-23T18:24:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Our greatest challenge &#8212; and it's been years and years since we've experienced this &#8212; is having enough beer on stock for the trip for the Canadian sports fans &#8212; they do consume more than their American counterparts,&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What does 315 Billion Dollars really look like?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45632/1/" /><id>45632</id><summary><![CDATA[What does 315 Billion Dollars really look like?]]></summary><issued>2007-12-31T13:44:18+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-31T13:44:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We hear dollar figures thrown out about the cost of things every day.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A million dollar Post-it to euthanize Modern Art]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/18777/1/" /><id>18777</id><summary><![CDATA[A million dollar Post-it to euthanize Modern Art]]></summary><issued>2007-05-02T14:35:27+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-02T14:35:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An ordinary guy (not an artist) who signs as &#8216;G&#8217;, worried because art it&#8217;s since many decades ago a big fraud, has decided to put an end to Modern Art by creating the Ultimate Art Fraud: a Post-it that he is selling in eBay for a million dollars (or more!). <br/><br/>G thinks that Modern Art is nowadays like a comatose patient kept alive artificially by a bunch of speculators and thefts (&#8220;artists&#8221;, critics, art dealers, gallery owners...) that want to keep living off it without any effort, repeating the same ideas (supposedly avant-gardist) over and over.<br/><br/>G wants to euthanize Modern Art. Inspired by Cervantes (who put an end to the ridiculous knight-errant books of his time by writing a knight-errant book even more ridiculous, crazy and absurd), he wants to put an end to Modern Art frauds making an even bigger fraud! <br/>In his web page (www.theendofmodernart.com) he explains how the sale of his work &#8220;The End Of &#8220;Modern Art&#8221;&#8221; for a million dollars will put an end to Modern Art or, at least, generate a very necessary debate that will help to stop art frauds.<br/><br/>&#8220;The End Of &#8220;Modern Art&#8221;&#8221; is for sale on eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=170108024366), to avoid gallery owners and art dealers, who are not interested in killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. If G&#8217;s plans are successful, Modern Art will die just to make way to a Timeless Art, inspiring, enriching and, above all, original.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe To Issue 100 Billion Dollar Note]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/69299/1/" /><id>69299</id><summary><![CDATA[Zimbabwe To Issue 100 Billion Dollar Note]]></summary><issued>2008-07-19T20:36:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-19T20:36:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The official inflation rate in Zimbabwe is running at 2,200,000%.  In response to what this means to the prices of standard goods on shelves the Zimbabwean Treasury has announced they will be printing a one billion dollar bill.<br/><br/>This would probably buy two loaves of bread.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The One Dollar Diet Project]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/85469/1/" /><id>85469</id><summary><![CDATA[The One Dollar Diet Project]]></summary><issued>2008-12-17T19:21:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-17T19:21:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 30-day experiment on <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/health/nutrition/04well.html?ref=science" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">recession cuisine</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Iran Asks Japan to Pay Yen for Oil, Start Immediately]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/27300/1/" /><id>27300</id><summary><![CDATA[Iran Asks Japan to Pay Yen for Oil, Start Immediately]]></summary><issued>2007-07-13T12:48:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-13T12:48:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Iran asked Japanese refiners to switch to the yen to pay for all crude oil purchases, after Iran's central bank said it's cutting holdings of the U.S. dollar.&quot;<br/><br/>Goes hand in hand with plummeting dollar value.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hemingway haunt gives discounts to &quot;poor Americans&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/57265/1/" /><id>57265</id><summary><![CDATA[Hemingway haunt gives discounts to &quot;poor Americans&quot;]]></summary><issued>2008-04-07T13:42:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-07T13:42:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Harry's Bar, the famed Venice watering hole where Ernest Hemingway held court over hearty food and stiff martinis, is offering a discount to &quot;poor&quot; Americans suffering from a weak dollar and subprime blues.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A Crisp New Dollar]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132063/1/" /><id>132063</id><summary><![CDATA[A Crisp New Dollar]]></summary><issued>2009-08-31T07:51:54+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-31T07:51:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I loaned a neighbor $26 a few weeks ago. I never expected to see it returned.<br/><br/>He is an alcoholic, and as far as I can tell, unrepentant about it.<br/><br/>I did not expect to see the money. I was surprised by what happened next.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Further Decline of the Dollar]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49924/1/" /><id>49924</id><summary><![CDATA[The Further Decline of the Dollar]]></summary><issued>2008-02-08T16:44:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-08T16:44:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Some stores in New York have begun accepting euros - it's the beginning of the end.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Creature clones itself to avoid becoming fish food]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/54229/1/" /><id>54229</id><summary><![CDATA[Creature clones itself to avoid becoming fish food]]></summary><issued>2008-03-13T22:17:32+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-13T22:17:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In order to increase the odds of survival, sand dollar larvae will create clones of themselves when they sense fish, their main predator, are nearby]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Smuggling Exotic Pets Is $10 Billion Dollar Industry Second To Drugs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35589/1/" /><id>35589</id><summary><![CDATA[Smuggling Exotic Pets Is $10 Billion Dollar Industry Second To Drugs]]></summary><issued>2007-09-13T18:49:38+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-13T18:49:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Researchers estimate that millions of pets, animal parts and meats are covertly smuggled across the border totaling a $10 billion industry, second only to illegal drugs.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[An American life worth less today]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/68503/1/" /><id>68503</id><summary><![CDATA[An American life worth less today]]></summary><issued>2008-07-11T20:59:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-11T20:59:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.]]></content></entry></items></xml>