July, 2009
Free Wireless Internet Access at Barnes and Noble
Barnes & Noble bookstores and AT&T are now offering free wireless internet access to everyone. You can use this storefinder to see which ones have free Wi-Fi. Seems like they are now promoting their own e-Books as well through the service. Via Lifehacker.
You can still get 2 hours of ...
Michael Vick Has Been Reinstated Into the NFL
On a conditional basis, Vick reinstated by football
Justice. (Photo: Infidelsparadise.com)
Anyone who commits a crime should be held responsible for their actions. This includes celebrities and superstar athletes who frequently find themselves in a position where they are held above the law. No special plea bargains, no special privileges, no skating where normal people would be ...
Buying Food: Grocery Shopping Tips from 1950
The American housewife! Who has a more important or more responsible occupation? Wife, mother, laundress, counselor, maid, chef, purchasing agent. All of these are her duties at one time or another.
So begins Buying Food, a home economics film from 1950. Buying Food is fascinating not just for its shopping tips, but also for the inside ...
National Tequila Day | An Exercise in Business Marketing
National Tequila Day is here
Yes, ladies and gentleman, it is National Tequila Day. How fortunate that National Tequila Day falls on a Friday, eh? Perhaps it is fortunate. Perhaps it is strategy. I wonder if creating a National Savings Account payday loans in San Dimas Day would be an effective strategy.
National Tequila Day is, of ...
The Big Book of Everything: A Free Life-Affairs Organizer
Last summer, Mark Gavagan mailed me a copy of his It’s All Right Here life and affairs organizer. This three-ring binder is big and unwieldy, but is amazingly comprehensive. It not only offers pages for credit card and saving account information, but also includes space to record family medical history, business information, and more. There ...