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Jan 10

Daily Links for January 3rd through January 8th

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  • Then vs. now: How prices have changed since 1999 – During the subsequent decade, the stock market made us rich as kings, then poor as church mice. We've taken a look back to see how the years have affected the price of 50 things we buy, or wish we could buy. Thanks to inflation, it takes around $1.30 to buy what $1 bought in 1999.
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Dec 09

Daily Links for December 21st through December 26th

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  • why local first | Local First – This question is best answered by Michael H. Shuman, author of the book Going Local. "Going local does not mean walling off the outside world. It Means nurturing locally owned businesses which use local resources sustainably, employ local workers at decent wages and serve primarily local consumers. It means becoming more self-sufficient and less dependant on imports. Control moves from the boardrooms of distant corporations and back into the community where it belongs."
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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 4th through October 7th

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  • Reward Points: The Real Deal | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice – Reward points programs can turn saving money on the purchases you make seem like a game. But the game you’re playing is more like skee ball than frisbee. Playing for points means you’ll be tempted to buy things you can’t afford just to acquire points. But even worse is the fact that the game is rigged before you even begin. Most people will never acquire enough points to pay for the luxury items they desire. And many reward programs are deliberately deceptive in describing how they work. Not all points are created equal and some are downright worthless. Our guide to reward points programs will teach you the tricks you need to be a points ninja.
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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 9th

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  • CRMLowDown » Blog Archive » The 10 Best (and 10 Worst) Companies for Customer Service – Customers want good customer service, but if companies can just hire good PR people to cover problems up, how do we, as customers, ever demand that companies improve. We thought that a good start would be to close the information gap, so that customers know who is good and who isn’t. With that in mind, we have sifted through customer surveys and studies as well as some real-life experiences of customers, to come up with a list of the 10 best and the 10 worst companies for customer service.
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Jul 09

Student Loan Relief for Some

Today’s  Philadelphia Inquirer has a story which highlights the newest changes regarding student loan repayment:

A federal law went into effect this month that allows people to adjust student-loan payments based on their income. The program limits monthly payments to 15 percent of the difference between the debtor’s income and 150 percent of the federal poverty guideline.

After 25 years of qualifying payments, any remaining debt could be forgiven.  Read more...

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Jan 09

Daily Links for January 9th

  • Online Threat to Kill Obama Leads to Arrest | Threat Level from Wired.com – Bagdasarian is not accused of actually plotting against Obama, and he was released last month on a $100,000 real estate bond. Bagdasarian's attorney did not return a phone call Friday.

    The post in question showed up on a Yahoo Finance board on Oct. 22, about two weeks before the election, under the handle "californiaradial." The message was titled "Shoot the nig."

    "County fkd for another 4+ years, what nig has done ANYTHING right???? Long term???? Never in history, except sambos."

    "Fk the niggar, he will have a 50 cal in the head soon," the message concludes.

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Dec 08

Daily Links for December 17th

  • UCrime – University Crime – Largest University crime map mashup, covering over 200 universities.
  • Death To The Embargo – We’ve never broken an embargo at TechCrunch. Not once. Today that ends. From now our new policy is to break every embargo. We’ll happily agree to whatever you ask of us, and then we’ll just do whatever we feel like right after that. We may break an embargo by one minute or three days. We’ll choose at random.

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