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starladySome of these are not quite ready for prime time, but I'm trying to prune back my tabs.
The New York Times & PBS are doing a great series called The Card Game. I recommend all the articles in it, but particularly those on debit card fees and on reward credit cards--whence I recommend going to truecostofcredit.com and checking out how much using your credit card(s) costs various merchants.
Tips for cheap travel for 2010, from the Times. These are actually pretty good.
From NPR's Fresh Air, a program on how not to get ripped off in your financial life, with particular attention to bank accounts & car buying.
The Times is going to charge for frequent use of its website starting in 2011. …Good luck with that.
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halfamoon, a fortnight-long challenge celebrating female characters in fandom, goes live on 1 February. This year there is a prompt thread, and it could use more prompts.
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copperwise makes really cool pendants at chimera_fancies. She is having a Valentine's sale.
Wirtland, the world's first internet-based sovereign country, often called the "virtual state", is accepting applications for citizenship.
The New Yorker profiles Neil Gaiman. The article discusses his background in English Scientology, which was new to me.
The New Yorker interviews the leader of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (there's that show about them on the Discovery Channel); a Japanese whaling ship deliberately rammed into one of the group's much smaller vessels, in international waters, earlier this month.
The New York Times & PBS are doing a great series called The Card Game. I recommend all the articles in it, but particularly those on debit card fees and on reward credit cards--whence I recommend going to truecostofcredit.com and checking out how much using your credit card(s) costs various merchants.
Tips for cheap travel for 2010, from the Times. These are actually pretty good.
From NPR's Fresh Air, a program on how not to get ripped off in your financial life, with particular attention to bank accounts & car buying.
The Times is going to charge for frequent use of its website starting in 2011. …Good luck with that.
halfamoon, a fortnight-long challenge celebrating female characters in fandom, goes live on 1 February. This year there is a prompt thread, and it could use more prompts. copperwise makes really cool pendants at chimera_fancies. She is having a Valentine's sale. Wirtland, the world's first internet-based sovereign country, often called the "virtual state", is accepting applications for citizenship.
The New Yorker profiles Neil Gaiman. The article discusses his background in English Scientology, which was new to me.
The New Yorker interviews the leader of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (there's that show about them on the Discovery Channel); a Japanese whaling ship deliberately rammed into one of the group's much smaller vessels, in international waters, earlier this month.