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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Pssst, want to save a bundle on textbooks?
By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
That's the question raised by Amazon's new Kindle Textbook Rental service, announced today. Amazon claims 80-percent savings when renting rather than buying. Would you go for it?
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Monday, July 18, 2011
Can You Live on Dividends Alone?
This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool?s Rule Your Retirement service. He also has a blog, Twittering thing, and other things that are supposed to be important but he often forgets about, such as hygiene. Robert contributes [...]
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Too Little, Too Late? News Corp Forms Group To Oversee Ethics
When News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) ran an ad in multiple newspapers across the UK this weekend, it promised “further concrete steps” to right the wrongs that have engulfed the company and its key executives in scandal. Today we got an example of one of these: the company has announced the “formal establishment and extension” of the Management and Standards Committee, independent of News International, which will cooperate with the current investigations and also provide standards for ethics and governance in the future.
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Ex-News Corp Exec Rebekah Brooks Arrested By Appointment; Police Chief Out
If you felt a small earthquake just now, it was the tectonic plates of press and power moving in the UK. Rebekah Brooks, who resigned just Friday as chief executive of News International, the UK publishing unit of News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), was arrested today by Scotland Yard in a pre-arranged move. The possible charges, according to multiple reports: suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications & corruption allegations. The BBC reports plans for the arrest were made after her resignation and we have confirmed that the decision for Brooks to leave was made without News Corp knowing she was about to be arrested.
Forget FarmVille, now you can play Google News
By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
You could spend real money for virtual goods on the farm, or earn merit badges from Google for being an informed citizen instead. For free.
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My First Garden: What I?ve Learned So Far
This is a guest post from Jenny Sandman, who writes at Broke Foodie. This summer is my first attempt at full-scale gardening. This is the first year I?ve lived in a house with a yard; previous gardening efforts were limited to containers of herbs and the odd tomato plant, on windowsills or apartment patios. To [...]
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Pass notes No 3007: Harper Seven
What's the reason behind the Beckham baby's idiosyncratic name?
Age: One day.
Appearance: Baby-faced and baby-bodied.
Is it a baby? It is.
A baby named Harper Seven? Correct. Born yesterday at 7.55am in Los Angeles, Harper Seven joined Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz as the fourth child, and first daughter, of Victoria and David Beckham.
Ah, she's a Beckham. That explains the ridiculous name. What's the story behind this one? Theories abound for both parts. Some say Harper is a reference to novelist Harper Lee, the reclusive and mysterious author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Which, given that Victoria is on record as admitting "I haven't read a book in my life", seems unlikely.
What is it then? The couple's favourite orchestra member? Or the sexual position they used? Almost certainly neither. Harper is a fairly common first name in America and apparently they just fell in love with the sound of it.
And the Seven part? Well, the baby was born in the seventh month, at around 7am, weighing a little over seven pounds, to a father who not only played football in the number seven kit for both England and Manchester United but actually has the number seven tattooed in roman numerals on his forearm.
So? So it might have a little to do with that.
Boring! Or? Or it a reference to Seinfeld.
That's more like it. How? In an episode from, fittingly, season seven, George Costanza tells his fiancee Susan that he plans to name their first child Seven, calling it a beautiful name for a boy or a girl. She, naturally, laughs him out of court.
So they've gone with a name so daft that it's literally a joke? Well, it was a joke. Now the Beckhams have gone there, we'll no doubt be seeing baby Sevens for years to come.
Not to be confused with: Seven of Nine, The Magnificent Seven, Johnny Five.
Do say: "We've renamed our youngest Bassoonist Three."
Don't say: "What exactly is the harper position?"
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Russia Won't Ban Gmail or Skype Amid Security Concerns
It looks like Russia won't be banning Skype or Gmail, after all. The Kremlin was reportedly considering blocking both services, along with Hotmail, in response to a major cyberattack that crippled the country's most popular blog and an independent news site. Some within the Kremlin had believed the services posed a major threat to national security, but some critics had thought the government may have just been looking for an excuse to tighten its control over the Web -- ahead of December's parliamentary elections and next year's presidential race.Russia Won't Ban Gmail or Skype Amid Security Concerns originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Google's New Crossword-Style Trivia Game Wants Puzzlers to Search
Using agoogleaday.com instead of the regular Google shields you from real-time questions and answers, so your network and top hits won't spoil the fun. Searching down the 'Net's rabbit hole is kind of interesting, but Google really needs a way to track your success. After all, puzzle fiends solve for the glory and the feeling of completion, not the quiet satisfaction of "knowing things." Duh.
Google's New Crossword-Style Trivia Game Wants Puzzlers to Search originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
Man Goes to Prison for Threatening Eric Cantor on YouTube
A man named Norman LeBoon is headed to prison after making threats to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a video posted to YouTube. In the clip, the 38-year-old LeBoon called the Republican "a liar" and "a Lucifer," and promised to shoot him. LeBoon pleaded guilty to the charges in November, and, on Thursday, was sentenced to two years in prison, along with an additional three years of supervised release.Man Goes to Prison for Threatening Eric Cantor on YouTube originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Harry Potter iPad App Hits It Big Despite Hefty Price
Would you pay $12.99 for a Harry Potter book app? Probably, if you’re one of the people who helped shatter records for the midnight screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II ($43.5 million!). ScrollMotion and Insight Editions’ Harry Potter Film Wizardry is the iPad app of the week. And hey: included in the cost is an invitation to the Yule Ball.
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Spare Change: Mondo Beyondo Edition
After a month of hemming and hawing, I’ve finally made a decision about where to travel next. After a brief stop to see Adam Baker in Indianapolis, I’ll spend most of August wandering around England. I have just a handful of goals: I want to return to Avebury for a longer visit. I saw this [...]
A Guide to Selling Unwanted Items
A few weeks ago, I put out a call on Twitter and on Facebook for detailed posts that people would like to see. I got enough great responses that I’m going to fill the entire month of July – one post per day – addressing these ideas. On Facebook, Amanda requested an article on “How [...]
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Review: Difficult Conversations
Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance or other book of interest. Also available is a complete list of the hundreds of book reviews that have appeared on The Simple Dollar over the years. One of the most frequent issues that I’m asked about is how exactly to start a conversation about a [...]
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