The latest Carnival of Personal Finance is out and this week’s theme is the TV show 24. Clever Dude hosted it. Thanks, Dude. The entries that caught my eye are below: Top 10 reasons why sex is financially rewarding (as if you needed another excuse!) Five money and currency facts your bank never told you [...]
This is the first in a series of posts about bloggers I would like to hang out with, big or small, with some background about them and their site. Who? Perez is the ego behind the super-popular internet gossip blog PerezHilton.com. It is fricking enormous. Perez’s real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. He’s 29 [...]
Money Smart Life has hosted this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance #102 (man, it must be a big job but the traffic returns would be awesome). There is a ‘musical money’ theme this time, with some posts associated with a song lyric. I’m in the carnival and below are my picks of this week’s most [...]
So this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up and below are what I consider the highlights. I’m in the full list, lumped under Miscellaneous and with the added advisory note: “Skip if you’re not interested”. Still, it’s a link. Mustn’t grumble. How finance bloggers are investing - interesting if you’re looking to build up [...]
My Open Wallet has just hosted the latest blog carnival and linked to a hundred very useful articles from other blogs/sites (me included, hooray!). I’ve already bookmarked a bunch of them. Not only is it great link love for newbies like me, it’s a fantastic collection of information which took her the entire weekend to [...]
The geektastic Digg has an article about a woman who was accidentally charged over $8000 for a Whopper meal. That’s quite a Whopper meal! I check Digg most days for its sometimes informative and often Zeitgeist-defining links, but I’m more interested in the hundreds of comments these silly stories generate. In this case there’s heated [...]
Last night I was lucky enough to see Air. I say lucky because not only was it a brilliant concert at Madison Square Theatre, I had a seat in one of the first rows thanks to craigslist. Craigslist was a revelation when I came to the States; I’d heard of it before, but now it’s [...]
This post from blogger newbie Protoshell, about surviving for two weeks on $10 worth of food, is inspiring for two reasons: 1. Well, anyone up for eating water crackers and rice for that duration is worth a hat-tip; and 2. His blog post made it to the front page of Digg and his blog’s not [...]
