I would have to say that, up until yesterday when I watched Capitalism: A Love Story, the sum total of my formal education in the study of economics came from Ump’s Fwat – an odd little publication distributed by The Collegiate School that is intended to introduce children to the ideas of supply and demand, [...]
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Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Default Search Switching to Yahoo/Bing
Canonical, the creators of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, have announced that after negotiating a new profit-sharing arrangement with Yahoo, they will be changing the default search provider in Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04 and beyond to Yahoo Search (from the long-time default of Google Search).
The interesting bit here is that back in July of 2009, Yahoo [...]
ATM Card Skimmers – Hidden in Plain Sight and Hard to Spot
Recently ran across this article at KrebsonSecurity analyzing common ATM skimmers that they found installed around the city and I was amazed at how well hidden they were — I’m almost certain I’ve used an ATM or gas pump with a skimmer on it now that I look at these.
One common theme that seems to [...]
Ally Bank – A Damn Decent Banking Experience
We don’t work for Ally bank, nor was I paid for this post — just a dude that has money a few places and has comparable customer-support experiences with Chase, Bank of America, EverBank and Ally Bank and wanted to share my experiences with you readers.
As mentioned I have a few banking accounts spread out [...]
Brand New Name, Same Poor White Trash…
I was recently introduced to a brand new word that made me wish I had the power to inflict incapacitating hemorrhoids on the person that thought of it.
Recessionista.
According to the first few Google matches, a “recessionista” is someone who can manage to look stylish on a budget. Really? Or does it really mean, “a person who [...]
MSI Scams Buyers On Rebates
This is a common scenario for most nerds. You have a gadget on the mind. It might be a monitor, a video card, a phone, or in my case a notbook. You do the research, memorize the specs, model names, prices, and they you wait for a reason to bite. That reason ranges from waiting [...]
Game Reviewers Battle PR Antics to Stay Honest
An interesting discussion going on over on Ars about how game journalists and reviewers can sometimes find themseves in a battle between the PR company that can get them early-access to titles and their readers that they need to stay true to in order to get advertisement revenue.
Unfortunately for game reviewers, it seems that the [...]
Amazon Launches Checkout Online Payment Service
In a move that rivals online payment leader PayPal and sidels up next to (and possible out-runs at launch) Google Checkout, Amazon has announced the launch of their new online payment system aptly named: Amazon Checkout.
The kicker that makes this service have longer legs out of the gate than Google’s offering is that every single [...]
wikinvest Launches Interactive, Annotable Embeddable Stock Charts
For the investors or financial bloggers in the group this is some really hot news. It looks like wikinvest has launched new support for embeddable and interactive stock charts that are also annotable.
For example (click and drag around this thing):
You can check out the main chart page for Google here.
It’s a really nice touch with [...]
Price of Gas Likely More than $4/gal this Summer
Well the poll results are in and it looks like most of you think gas is going to go to $5/gal and a good majority also think it will hit $6/gal this summer. If that is the case… holy shit.
Gas is already at $4/gal or higher in certain parts of the country (and a fuck-ton [...]
The French Like to Steal Money
That’s right… the FRENCH.
Apparently a French scam artist told a Vietnamese guy that if he gave him piles of money ($35k in this case) that the French guy could soak the money in a vat of special liquid along with blank pieces of paper, and by morning the money will have doubled itself. The Vietnamese [...]
Man Tries to Cash Check for $360 Billion
What makes someone awesome? How would you describe the ethereal state that is: being awesome?
You might think it has to do with good looks, money, maybe athletic ability? I think it has more to do with incredible comprehension skills, strategic thinking and basic motor functions.
This is Charles Ray Fuller a Dallas man who is awesome.
Charles… [...]
World of Moneycraft
Holy piss-goblins… World of Warcraft officially passed the 10 million player mark. Let’s break that down…
10,000,000 x $15/mo = $150,000,000/mo
150,000,000 x 12 months = $1,800,000,000
Umm… this game makes Blizzard almost $2 billion a year. I think… yep… that’s more than I make right now.
I think the US Govt should retire the Fed and just use [...]
How the Banking System Really Works
This highly informative and easy to understand film covers just about everything that isn’t taught in school regarding the corrupt “fractional reserve” banking system. It explains how these institutions get away with robbing the unsuspecting public by creating monetary policies designed to enslave society, while keeping the system in a perpetual state of rising debt.
Update [...]
Casinos Stop Paying Out Jackpots: "It's a software glitch"
Let me get this straight… it’s fine for you to walk into a casino and gamble away your earnings because you are a consenting adult. The casinos have NO responsibility to warn you or tell you about machines that have “software glitches” or put a disclaimer anywhere stating that there is a X% chance that [...]
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