By dealtown(view all posts by dealtown)
at 6:55AM Wednesday August 24, 2011
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By Rick.BroidaGuest Blogger(view all posts by Rick.Broida)
at 11:53AM Tuesday August 23, 2011
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It's official: the HP TouchPad is dead. Wait, what? Didn't
HP launch its much-ballyhooed
iPad competitor just last month? And didn't I
review it just a few weeks ago? There must be some mistake.
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By SavingsIQ(view all posts by SavingsIQ)
at 6:54AM Monday August 22, 2011
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It's been all over the news lately, this brain-eating amoeba (Naegleria fowleri) that has claimed the lives of 2 adults and 1 child. Apparently, this deadly amoeba thrives in warm, stagnant
water found in freshwater lakes, ponds and rivers. The parasite enters through the nose and travels up to the brain where it eventually devours your brain. Symptoms include fever, stiff neck and nausea and headache along with meningitis. The public is being warned to avoid swimming in shallow warm water where these amoeba live. I don't know about you, but I've never been on to dive into stagnant water. I always feel like something creepy is going to jump out at me.
But then again, one of the deaths did result from drinking contaminated tap water. *shudders*
This got me thinking about what other weird diseases there are that we don't know about. I present to you the top four.
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By GuyCopes(view all posts by GuyCopes)
at 9:56AM Thursday August 18, 2011
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This time of year usually brings news of new games, release dates and price adjustments for older hardware. Today is no different as we dive into the latest news from
Sony and
Nintendo that should elicit smiles from stretched-thin gamer wallets everywhere.
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By pmiller(view all posts by pmiller)
at 6:57AM Thursday August 18, 2011
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By dealtown(view all posts by dealtown)
at 8:55AM Wednesday August 17, 2011
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Image courtesy of DieselDemon via Flickr.Kelly Callahan obtains much of her produce in an unusual way: she
picks fruit from the yards of foreclosed homes
in her neighborhood. Callahan lives in Atlanta, which has the
16th-highest foreclosure rate in the U.S. On any given street in her
neighborhood, it's common to see several foreclosed homes--and
difficult not to notice the abundance of fruit growing on the trees outside of them.
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By dealtown(view all posts by dealtown)
at 6:57AM Wednesday August 10, 2011
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Image courtesy of Vlad the Impala via Flickr.
Macy's has admitted that they purposely install fitting room doors upside-down so that the slats face downward to allow employees to more easily see into the fitting rooms.
Macy's employs this policy, the purpose of which is to cut down on theft, in every U.S. state where it's legal. The news has stirred up controversy about the Macy's rights to survey their merchandise vs. customers' rights to--you know--undress without strangers watching them.
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By dealtown(view all posts by dealtown)
at 10:59AM Friday August 5, 2011
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Image courtesy of icanhascheezburger.comIn March, popular CBS comedy
Two and a Half Men canned leading actor Charlie Sheen due to a series of egomania incidents. Since then, there has been much speculation about how the show will proceed without its lead actor. We now know that the character of Charlie Harper will be killed off-- although we don't know how--and that the
season premiere of Two and a Half Men will include Harper's funeral.
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By brwood(view all posts by brwood)
at 11:57AM Tuesday August 2, 2011
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No, that is the answer I came up with. But if you have been following the back and forth from both parties, neither can anyone in Washington.
Last week I
balanced the federal budget quite easily with a few adjustments to the tax code, closing of loop holes and expiring the Bush tax cuts above $350k a year or so. This week I tried to do it with all cuts. I must admit I failed at this exercise. But here's the thing, I got closer than anyone who we elected to do this job.
Slashing with a machete I managed to cut our Federal Budget by over $800b this year alone.
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By Dealman(view all posts by Dealman)
at 11:58AM Friday July 29, 2011
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Image courtesy of ICanHasCheezburgerThis week we cover the debt ceiling debate (
because it won't go away), the NFL lockout, relieving stress, financial challenges faced by women, better food labels, dubious product labels, and a dog that doesn't do a very good dog paddle.
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By aksekar(view all posts by aksekar)
at 12:59PM Thursday July 28, 2011
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Nearly every credit card carries a set of benefits, ranging from
the mandated fraud protection to the concierge service found with
higher-end credit cards.
MasterCard, in particular, has a tiered system
of benefits. The lowest level is the Standard MasterCard, which
offers bare-bones accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and
will, for a fee, give you emergency cash advances or replace a
stolen credit card.
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