October, 2009

Daily Links: A Fool and His Money Edition

On April Fools’ Day 2007, I posted a tongue-in-cheek article describing the lifestyles of the rich and stupid. This list of the dumb things people do with money in one of the most popular posts I’ve ever shared. I’ve softened a little since then. Yes, I think that people do some stupid things with money, but ...

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Swaptree Review: Barter Your Books, CDs, DVDs, and Video Games

I’ve spent the last few hours browsing on Swaptree, which is a website that allows you to swap your books, CDs, DVDs, and video games with other members. You just list the items that you want to trade and the items that you want, and Swaptree sets up trades for you. You can also ...

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Little Buddy Child Tracker – An Easy Way to Stalk Your Children

For the Love of Our Children Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mangpages/ / CC BY 2.0 Most parents are willing to go through extremes to protect and closely monitor their children. It’s perfectly understandable. As a parent myself, I want to ensure my child’s safety, no matter how deep or how far I have to go to do it, even if ...

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How to Get Your Free Credit Report Online: A Step-by-Step Guide

This article is by GRS staff writer Adam Baker. Baker is a big, fat hypocrite. The statistics on credit reports errors are staggering. A 2004 U.S. PIRG survey showed that 79% of credit reports contained either serious errors or other mistakes of some kind. 79%? Seriously? How can that be? I guess it doesn’t help that ...

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Coconut Crab | Egad!

I'd give payday loans in Plymouth to keep these things away! Occasionally, if you watch Google Trends, people search for things that are sort of interesting, like zoology - which is a form of knowledge.  (You don't see it often - most of the time Trends searches are about some less than intelligent event concerning so ...

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