Posted in Comics and Cents Carnival on Feb 17th, 2009
Welcome to the Comics and Cents Carnival, where we try to find the humor in all things money. As usual, we’ll start with something funny to warm ourselves up. For all four of you that missed the Joaquin Phoenix clip that’s been talked about so much recently, here it is. It’s funny, although word is [...]
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Posted in Happiness on Feb 16th, 2009
I just finished reading Malcom Gladwell’s (who also wrote Blink and The Tipping Point) fantastic book about success, Outliers. It’s a great read and it’s filled with tons of really interesting nuggets of information, but there’s something he writes in the acknowledgements section that got me thinking, and I wanted to ask what other people [...]
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Posted in Tips on Feb 12th, 2009
Over the weekend I finally sat down and did something I’d been meaning to do for a long time: update the look and feel of the site. I added the banner, the two RSS buttons you see at the top, and tweaked some other things that aren’t really that noticeable. Why did it take me [...]
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Posted in Books on Feb 12th, 2009
“This is the future of book reading. It will be everywhere.” Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and Liar’s Poker. ->Taken from Amazon’s Kindle page. Yesterday I wrote a post about whether or not I thought the Kindle would kill traditional books. But I totally forgot to mention the financial angle. When is the Kindle 2 [...]
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