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Even in the best financial times, knowing your credit score and what’s in your credit report is sound practice. Unfortunately, the three credit reporting bureaus make it just about impossible to attain your credit information, especially if you’re a young, mobile individual: the type of person who most needs to know their credit [...]
Every time I watch this, I die a little inside. A reminder: if you won’t eat those Creme Eggs, I sure as hell will.
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A very happy new year to any and all still RSSing this blog (all six of you). One of my goals this year is to revamp philonoist.net and update the frequency with which I write. I do not believe strongly in New Year’s resolutions – change does not abide by a calendar. But I do [...]
You owe it to yourself to spend the next 4 minutes or so watching this clip. Photographer Robbie Cooper has a series of video captures (beautifully lit, I might add) of kids and young teens playing video games. Titled “Immersion”, one possible way to interpret the video is a damnation of the incredible magnetism of [...]
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Something ironic happened on the way home last night.
I came home late last night after spending an evening with a friend having dinner and, as always, checked my e-mail (one habit I’ll never break.):
“i find reddit to pose a quandary for myself also.
i dont have time or patience to dig around
individually strenuously enough to at [...]
I went to an extreme this week: I force quitted myself of the reddit habit. Reddit, if you’re somehow unfamiliar, is a social news aggregation website: members can rank user-submitted headlines that correspond to stories, images, and the like. In theory, the top 25 articles at any moment, the newspaper “front page” serves as a [...]
I’ve owned joecollege at gmail since the early days of the service. You know, back when we only had 10 invites a piece, people were crazy enough to buy and sell them, and we all wondered what the hell we were going to do with a gig of storage space each. In 2007, I switched [...]
Not a big deal, but I finally got around to changing my del.icio.us username to adamjcollege from joecollege. This is part of a larger strategy of offline RSS reading and tagging, instead of using Google Reader. No particular reason for this except that I happen to like niceness of Vienna. Full featured, acts like Mail.app, [...]
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I may be late to the game on this one, but I’m super excited about the NPR media player. I’ve long loved NPR, but my days of being in the car during Morning Edition or All Things Considered are past me (for the moment). NPR has always released the material online a few hours after [...]
