Sep 06, 2009

The Latest Video Game News from 1UP During their Star Wars: The Old Republic panel at PAX, BioWare announced that Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic -- their original stab at the Star Wars license and the foundation for the upcoming MMO -- is now available for digital purchase on both Steam and Direct2Drive (via Joystiq).The game will run you a s (Read More)

Jun 12, 2009

Bostonist ArtThe Odysseus Project: Finding Home is a collection of artwork by and about veterans returning from war. The exhibition also includes an oral history and literary component; readings will take place in a couple of weeks. Tonight, check out the drawings, photographs, videos, and installations that attempt to distill the (Read More)

Jul 22, 2009

Get Rich Slowly “Did you listen to Rick Steves this afternoon?” Kris asked me on Sunday. I shook my head. “That’s too bad,” she said. “It was about the relationship between money and happiness. I think you would have liked it — and so would your readers.”“But I just wrote about happiness!” I said.“J.D.,” she said. “You can never write too (Read More)

Jul 18, 2009

Submitted by Mfields1419 from Google Reader: "Tucked into the Treasury Department's proposed regulatory overhaul is a push for banks to salt away more money for losses when times are good. ... For more than a decade, banks have been restricted by accounting standards and the [SEC] from building capital reserves for loan losses that are likely to occur, but difficult t (Read More)

Jul 17, 2009

Zen Habits Article by Zen Habits contributor Jonathan Mead; follow him on twitter.What if you could get more done by working less? Every wants that, right?But that’s obviously not the way most of us work. We think that in order to get more done and be more productive, we need to increase our effort and time.That’s the obvious, intuiti (Read More)

Jul 17, 2009

ClusterStock: Tech Mark Cuban may have earned himself a permanent place in the history of financial regulation today. Unlike most people accused of insider trading by the SEC, Cuban had the wherewithal and the will to fight back in a highly unconventional way. Cuban didn’t try to deny the facts alleged by the SEC. He challenged the SEC’s lega (Read More)

Jul 16, 2009

Zen Habits Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter.How many times have you gotten upset because someone wasn’t doing their job, because your child isn’t behaving, because your partner or friend isn’t living up to his or her end of the bargain?How many times have you been irritated when someone doesn’t do things the way you’r (Read More)

Jul 13, 2009

Huffington Post By Russell Simmons and Maya Enista The vast majority of Americans, including many policymakers at the highest levels of government, are still unaware of one of the most pressing economic issues facing our country. Many may think that everything newsworthy has been covered amidst the media firestorm surrounding foreclosures, (Read More)

Jun 30, 2009

Submitted by Mfields1419 from Google Reader: If you’re thinking about donating tothe Dallas, Texas-based Point of ViewMinistries or to the Defeat Diabetes Foundation of Madeira Beach, Fla. youmight want to reconsider. Those groups are among the consistently lowestscoring nonprofit organizations at Charity Navigator. The charity watchdog hasreleased a study of groups t (Read More)

Jul 07, 2009

Wise Bread By Philip Brewer Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff.Corporations were invented a few hundred years ago--created to increase the wealth and power of favored businessmen (and the governments that favored them). They have become such a universal feature of our economy tha (Read More)

Jul 06, 2009

Kotaku Remember those "HD" Wii videos? This is just like them! Only, it's Mario Galaxy, not Smash Bros. And they're lovely big screenshots, not blurry little internet videos. To refresh, these games are displaying in what is essentially high definition, as they're being run through a Wii emulator on a PC. So if the Wii could manag (Read More)

Jul 03, 2009

Kotaku This ought to see you through the weekend. 2k have announced the release of the "2K Huge Game Pack" on Steam, which bundles BioShock, five Civ titles, five X-Com titles and nine other games, all for $54. Here's every game you get in the pack: Sid Meier's Civilization IV Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete Sid Meier's Pira (Read More)

Jun 29, 2009

ClusterStock The NYT reports on how cumbersome and difficult it is for a homeowners -- even with someone working on their behalf -- to talk to their bank about getting a loan modification.Pulling teeth is not an apt comparison. A better one might be: dealing with a health insurance company.In some cases, it's just a matter of dealing wi (Read More)

Jun 29, 2009

Submitted by Mfields1419 from Google Reader: Few subjects stimulate as much debate in accounting as fair value measurement. It has been blamed for many things over the past few years, including contributing to the credit crisis. The IASB and the FASB have committed to a joint response, and they have both issued discussion documents over the past few months. However, d (Read More)

Jun 28, 2009

ClusterStock The fact of widespread public ignorance poses serious challenges to the theory of democratic government. Voters often not only don't understand the issues under public deliberation, often they don't know which politician or party is on what side of the issue. At least some scholars have said that this issue driven view of p (Read More)

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