SmallNotebook.org - encouragement for a simple home
My Two Dollars - personal finance blog
I Will Teach You To Be Rich - personal finance blog
Wallet Pop - money and finance website by AOL
Consumerism Commentary - personal finance blog
Money Blog Network - personal finance blog network
PokerNews.com - independent online poker authority
Scour - innovative search engine that allows users to vote and comment on relevancy of results
Restaurant.com - "Restaurant.com helps restaurant owners promote the new and unique aspects of their restaurants while providing diners with great value in a fun, new and cost effective way"
ConsumerReports.org - "working for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and empowering consumers to protect themselves"
Startcooking.com - learn the absolute basics of cooking, with short cooking videso and step-by-step photo tutorials
Energy Star - program to help people save money and protect the environment thorugh energy efficient products and practices
Reclaim Your Time: 20 Great Ways to Find More Free Time
Hidden Price Increases at the Grocery Store
How To Save on Your Energy Bill
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Link Mania: Full Tilt
Link Mania: The Simple Dollar
Trent quitting his job and becoming a full time writer:
Other articles:
- Planning for the Long Haul: My Family's Lifetime Financial Plan
- Welcome to the Public Domain
- Ten Tactics for Improving Your Luck
- The One Skill That Will Earn You Money, No Matter What You Do
- The Minimalist Kitchen: What You Need to Set Up Your First Workable Home Kitchen
- What Individual Stocks Would I Invest In for the Long Haul?
- Money Magazine's "7 Investments You Need Now," Portfolio Theory, and My Own Plans for the Future
- Twelve Ways to Make Your Car a Better Investment
- How To Write an Effective Thank You Note for Any Occasion
- My Entrepreneurial Inspiration
- The Bogleheads Have Won: Dipping My Toes Into A Mutual Fund With Vanguard
- The Chorus of Voices for index Funds
- The Essential Bookshelf: The Only Eight Books I've Kept (After Hundreds of Reviews)
- How to Get Personal and Professional Value from Idle Web Surfing
- The Five Ps: Breaking Down Big Dreams Into Little Steps
- What I Read to Keep Up on Personal Finance
- Angies List - A word-of-mouth network for consumers (on service companies)
- The Home Depot Know-How Center - "Your destination for home improvement resources"
- Green Panda Treehouse - blog about money
- Twelve Top Personal Finance Podcast via Get Rich Slowly
- College Money Network - group of personal finance blogs run by college students, grad students, and recent grads
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
Lifehacker Top Five
The following are five Lifehacker articles or discussions that I found useful and interesting:
1. Top 10 Modern Life Survival Skills
2. Top 10 Computer Annoyances and How to Fix Them
3. How Priorities Make Things Happen
4. How to Hack a Technical Job Interview
5. Best Video Feeds?
Link Mania: Half Tilt
One Hundred Pushups - six week training program that helps you complete 100 consecutive push ups
MindMeister - "MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions."
Scour - social search engine
switchAbit - routes content to multiple social services
The 20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1
7 Steps To Developing A Strong Network In Case You Get Fired
Five Signs That You're Living Beyond Your Means
10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas
7 Super Snacks That Heal
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Link Mania: Full Tilt
Topix - news community
Mahalo - human-powered search engine
InformationWeek - business technology news, reviews, and blogs
Miro - free, open source internet TV and video player
SurveyMonkey.com - online survey software
1 World 2 Wheels - "Change the World. Pledge to Go By Bike."
Scribus - open source desktop publishing
Lively by Google - new interactive chat experience
MIT Open Courseware - free lecture notes, exams, and videos
How Stuff Works - "award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works"
Live Search Health - "Discover and act on (Web) health results powered by Microsoft HealthVault"
Posterous - "Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email us... and we reply instantly with your new posterous blog."
Media Matters for America - "Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Tech News Roundup
Noteworthy technology news from the New York Times:
Amazon Plans an Online Store for Movies and TV Shows
Nintendo and Sony Unveil Games
Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages
In Surprise, 2 Tech Titans Disappoint
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Link Mania - Full Tilt
Fast Company TV - business video network
Zoomerang - online survey software
College Prowler - college reviews created by students for students
Affluenza Documentary
Free Car Media - A Nontraditional Marketing Company
PBwiki - "PBwiki is the world's largest provider of hosted business and educational wikis."
Anywhere.FM - "Anywhere.FM is a powerful music player that makes it easy to: 1. Upload your entire music collection 2. Play it anywhere on the best web music player 3. Discover new music through Friend Radio "
National Public Radio - "NPR (National Public Radio) is an internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming."
Address The Mess - Comedy Central's green campaign. "The network's new pro-social campaign is committed to showing viewers easy ways to reduce waste, improve their lives and help revive the planet."
The Top 50 Productivity Blogs
"The Last Lecture: A Love Story for Your Life"
Randy Pausch's Home Page
The Personal MBA: Mastering Business Without Spending a Fortune
10 Universities Offering Free Writing Courses Online
Three Web 2.0 Sites That Aggregate Content
- FriendFeed - "FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends."
- FeedJournal - " The idea of generating a personalized newspaper from RSS and Atom feeds started to take form around the end of 2005. A few months later the “Made In Express Contest” launched, a competition to promote the free line of Express development products from Microsoft. From 1,500 entry submissions FeedJournal was picked as one of 12 finalists. In the end of a fierce competition, FeedJournal was awarded First Prize."
- Pipes - "Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web."
Buying a New Car? - Think Again
Buying a new car sounds pretty tempting. Who wouldn't want a new car? On the other hand, who really needs a new car? Nobody needs a new car and only the wealthy can truly afford a new car. The money you could save by instead opting for a used car is mind boggling. Watch this presentation and be amazed.
Link Mania: Law, Technology, and Technology Law
Lessig Blog - blog of stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig
Electronic Frontier Foundation - "Defending Freedom in the Digital World"
Fastcase - Legal Research and Case Law
The Public Library of Law - world's largest free law library
Scobeizer - tech geek blogger
Three Personal Health Tips
First of all, ensure that you are getting adequate sleep. Sleeping has many benefits including improving memory, helping to maintain a healthy immune system, improving motor control, and more. Psychology Today has the full scoop.
Second, you should be eating real food. What is real food? Well, Michael Pollan explains exactly that in his new book "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto". In the book, he characterizes how we should eat by saying: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants." Then, he proposes "an alternative way of eating that is informed by the traditions and ecology of real, well-grown, unprocessed food." Read more about Michael Pollan's book at his website.
Lastly, reports by the CDC show that married adults are "healthier than divorced, widowed or never married adults." So, if you haven't tied the knot yet, maybe it's time you think about it. Chances are you'll be healthier for doing it. Read the full findings for more information on why married adults are the healthiest.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Quick Links: Fast Guide to Finance Online
The following is a list of links to quality, credible financial websites and information:
Finance wiki on Wikipedia
Articles on Finance and Investment from Knowledge@Wharton
Finance at the Internet Public Library
The Wall Street Journal Online
Market Watch
Google Finance
CNBC
Bloomberg
The Motley Fool
CNN Money
Yahoo! Finance
Forbes
MSN Money
Kiplinger
Wesabe
Mint
Interesting Technology Sites
Eggxpert - an online technology community for consumer electronic and computer enthusiasts, owned by the ever-so-popular e-commerce company: Newegg.
Maximum PC - online site for the popular computer magazine, which includes news, product reviews, how-tos, a forum, and more.
Buzz Out Loud Podcast - As quoted from their website: "Buzz Out Loud is CNET's 'podcast of indeterminate length,' featuring Tom, Molly and Jason's entertaining, sometimes caustic, and always skeptical take on technology news. This daily podcast features commentary, guests, and phone calls and e-mail from our listeners."
