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25 Rich Athletes Who Went Broke
Athletes may boast eye-popping sports abilities, but when it comes to money, their inability to control their bad spending habits comes out. More than two-thirds (78%) of former NFL players are broke or financially stressed after retirement, and 60% of former NBA players go broke five years after retiring, A very large number (78%) of […]
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Maureen Dowd, Plagiarism, and Laziness
Maureen Dowd wrote a plagiarized passage a recent New York Times column. The passage, according to Gawker, came from Josh Marshall’s TPM blog. This is the excerpt from Marshall’s post: More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during […]
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Cell for Cash Pays You for Your Old Phone–If It’s the Right Model
Good Morning America today mentioned a site called Cell for Cash. The site allows you to either recycle your used cell phone for free or sell it for between $5-175 (that latter number is for an iPhone). Note that they will only offer cash for certain models. The website, CellforCash.com, explains more in its About […]
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How IMAX is Killing its Brand
Parks and Recreation‘s Aziz Ansari is calling for a boycott of IMAX, AMC, and Regal theaters. He claims the theaters are duping people by charging an extra $5 for IMAX shows that aren’t actually shown on IMAX-sized screens. Ansari explains the debacle in his blog: I went with a friend of mine to see Star […]
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How 4chans /b/ board got crippled
Recently, 4chan pwnd Time Magazine’s poll to identify the World’s Most Influential Person. The online community dominated that poll and made the founder of 4chan, moot A.K.A. Christopher Poole the winner. That’s not surprising. 4chan is known for pwning everything it can get its hands on. But this last week 4chan got a little of […]
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25 Biggest Bank Failures in History
This is a blog post by Drea Knufken. In celebration of this week’s bank stress tests, which promise that no bank will fail, we’ve decided to release a list of 25 banks that did kick the bucket. Here they are, in rough order of failure size: 25. New Frontier Bank Greeley, CO-based New Frontier’s failure […]
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Why Education Matters
Hey all you college educated kids out there who took jobs painting road signs, make sure you smell right or else you might ruin someone’s car (and make their insurance company very, very mad). And if you didn’t go to college, well don’t worry, you can still spell ok. (Just make sure you take a […]
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Women in Business Are Risk Takers
We’ve heard it a million times – that women in business face the ultimate challenge of [by nature] not taking enough risks. Well, turns out that’s not so ture, at least not about women in business. According to a survey by Boston’s prestigious Simmons School of Management, women business leaders don’t shy from taking risks, but […]
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Gibbs Aquada Car Coming to US in 2011
The Gibbs Aquada car, an amphibious car that turns into a boat, will be coming to the US in 2011.* The Aquada acts like a normal convertible until you drive it to the edge of the water. At that point, you push a button, drive into the water, press the gas, and, in 12 seconds, […]
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8 Ways to Beat Inflation
Adam Hamilton proves inflation? People have been quivering at the feet of fabled Inflation Genie since at least 2007. So far, despite quantitative easing, a weak dollar, and last year’s commodities price spikes, he hasn’t burst out of his Fed-plated lamp. It may just be a matter of time. The US Federal Reserve is printing […]
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