Usually when I read TechCrunch, I find stuff that gets me excited about some new web site or technology. And don't get me wrong – the make-your-own-Medieval map site, Kidlandia – is something I find pretty cool too. Still, it's rare to find something that gets me excited about technology on behalf of Pace. But […]
I used to love any sort of riddles, word games, math puzzles and the like when I was younger. So when I came across this one on Reddit tonight and it brought back my childhood. (Er, that is if my childhood was spent trying to figure out how to time the stock market perfectly!) My […]
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Posted 13 August 2009
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It started innocently enough. A couple weeks ago, my dad called me at work to ask if I could stop at Canadian Tire on my way home to pay for some mirror extenders he'd ordered for his truck. “They wouldn't take your credit card over the phone?” I asked. “No. They said you had to […]
I recently came across two articles that propose radically different visions of the future of newspapers. The two articles took specific interest in the New York Times which many consider the “newspaper of record” for the United States but which, like many newspapers, has been hemorrhaging money in recent years. In the first article, a […]
Because Cory Doctorow's new novel, “Little Brother” is the first e-book I'm reading on my iPhone (very readable, thank-you very much), I got to see his copyright notice which I'm reproducing here in its entirety because it's such a great summary of how copyright should work in a sane and rational world: THE COPYRIGHT THING […]
This article talks about a new auction site called Swoopo.com which is apparently super-addictive. The gimmick is that the site is sort of like a cross between an auction, a lottery and those “you only pay $0.25/call to vote for your American Idol. Er, vote as many times as you'd like!” deals.Every item up for […]
Do you ever get disappointed when you realise not everything's online and instantly accessible? For example, tonight I was reading a recent copy of Rolling Stone which had an article called “The Mayor of Hell”. It was about Braddock, Pennsylvania, a dying town of 2900 in Pennsylvania which is still the site of Andrew Carnegie's […]
Here's a really good article I found on Reddit about the differences between the economic environment for baby boomers seeking to buy their first houses a generation ago and the realities for their kids looking to buy a first home today. “I’m of the belief that [the rise in housing prices is] likely the biggest […]
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Posted 01 July 2009
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A good question on AskMefi to sum up how the Internet has shifted so much of our world. (Also see my post on “Five Things The Internet Is Killing (And One Thing It Isn't)“.)
Last May for Mother's Day I set up a Kiva account for Shea from Pace and put $100 in it. Now almost a year later, our initial loans were 75% repaid. After watching the following video we decided to immediately re-loan that money rather than waiting for it all to be paid back. Here is […]
