Friday Stories: Hero Pilot, Bad Birds & Sea Kittens
Stories I’m watching this Friday: Everyone lives, the pilot averted disaster by ditching in the river, and ordinary humans acted like heros ... American help in the oil business Peru must not have a great credit score MarketWatch: 6 brutal facts you need to realize about your retirement Good for you, bad for phone companies: possible cell phone [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 03:49:36
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Twitter Terror
I was amused to read that a draft Army intelligence report identified micro-blogging service Twitter as a potential tool for terrorists ... are our tools: sneakers, sandwiches, credit cards, cars, steak knives, box cutters, cameras, cell phones ... digital communications, Twitter is a pretty weak medium for planning bad things. Copies of every post [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 15:12:22
Even Paranoid Racist Nutjobs Have Bad Days
(Note: The cell phone provider I worked for does not have call centers outside of North America ... you for calling C*** Wireless. How can I help you?” Customer: “I want a credit to my account.” Me: “Well ... Mary, Florida.” Customer: “I want a credit because the last person I spoke to from your company [more...]
Date: 2008-06-07 17:35:14
Oregon's mileage tax proposal
A few days ago I was intrigued by a couple news stories about Oregon's proposal to tax mileage instead of gas ... a cell phone or a credit card, which can be traced. Furthermore, in the study of the people ... in the stories on why a mileage tax might be a bad idea. First, there are supposedly complaints [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 04:59:00
Cathleen Falsani: The Coen Brothers Get "Serious" with a Comic (and Spiritual) Masterpiece
Earlier this week, I had a bad day. Epically bad. I ran out of cash. I lost my credit card. I missed my flight. And then, standing outside the United Airlines terminal at O'Hare, I dropped my cell phone, and as if in slow motion, watched in horror as it bounced and dropped over the barrier and onto the roof of the baggage claim area 10 feet below into an inch-deep layer of pigeon guano and dead cigarettes. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-18 22:39:42
FlipSwap.com - Go Green: Cash for iPhones
What it does No doubt, the iPhone is the coolest of the cool when it comes to mobiles, ... a new cell phone every 12 months, which means more than one hundred million working phones become ... recycling, giving to charity, in store credit, or cash without your having to pay a thing is not bad either [more...]
Date: 2008-06-30 09:04:00
Reality Show ‘13: Fear is Real’ is Scary Bad
CHICAGO – Every time we think we that we may have hit the bottom of the barrel when it comes to reality show television, someone, usually at The CW, ... a note to the wall that says “Answer the Phone”. They find a cell phone under the floor (ooh, scary ... : Fear is Real debuts on The CW on January 7th, 2009 at 7pm CST. Photo credit: Patrick Wymore/The CW [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 19:30:37
Need a loan? By pass banks and turn to social lending
Saturday morning I woke up to a dead cell phone. I left it in the charger so I knew it wasn’t the battery ... the loan and your financial history. Not bad considering the interest rates are better than banks ... it the most. This got me to thinking about money and lending. As the credit crunch continues [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 15:29:16
Cell Phones For People With Bad Credit
Most cell phone companies have come out with two different types of billing. The first is prepaid, and the other is continuous billing. With prepaid plans, you buy your minutes beforehand and you can... [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 21:15:25
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