A Fun Way to Combine Current Events with Gambling

Here's some fun. Wish you had a better grasp on current events? Well now you can bone up on recent goings-on in the world and have fun doing it. On the Predictify site, betting pools are set up around recent world news items, and people can weigh in on the expected outcomes.



The categories include major news, as well as the somewhat mundane. Based, for instant on recent findings about American pet ownership, we are asked to predict whether more Americans will own cats or dogs by 2009:








Most people apparently don't see that happening. I agree. I mean, come on, cats suck!

The recent economic downturn has spawned a number of items for mass speculation.








And disasters make up another huge category of events to bet on.








As Does pop culture.

A cell phone novel on the NYT Best Seller List? Why would that not surprise me?