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Penny Arcade! - The Universal Analogy - I don't think there's any harm in a bit of mocking humor on the oil spill. If It Was My Home - Visualizing the BP Oil Spill - Courtesy of @markrickert. Awesome visualization. I do not approve | Prometheus 6 - Wells Fargo and ...

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Wal-Mart Discrimination Scandal - Why am I unsurprised to hear that Wal-Mart supposedly discriminates against its female employees? All sorts of subtle errors creep in when you forget race is a proxy for socioeconomic status | Prometheus 6 - "Nationwide, black women were twice as likely to be obese when compared ...

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omahas: "Educating" our little ones in the fascist state - How about this shit? "Apparently, Playmobil thought it was a good idea to come up with the Playmobil Security Check Point for kids." Official Google Blog: A new approach to China - "These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined ...

Is Soulja Boy Ze Frank inspired?

I think it's pretty obvious that Soulja Boy is a child of the internet. He has music videos of people watching his videos on youtube and all that. Jay Smooth did a video a while back about Soulja Boy stealing some song. I can't embed it, but watch from ...

Tastee linkage

The upgrade to WordPress 2.5 meant that my plugin for posting links went away for a while. There may be a duplicate or two towards the bottom of this list, but I have culled it a bit. Big, Brass Ones: Threat Level exploits cross-site scripting bug on CIA.gov - Boing ...

Tidying up LARP character sheets: an app in progress

So. I LARP. Twice a month, I go out of my house dressed like a nurse and stand around acting like I see ghosts and have an extra-special creepy ghost of my own on my shoulder. Yeah, so if I'm late to your Saturday afternoon picnic this summer, this ...

New TC story: Spiral’s End

Finally! A new story! Even my wrist won't hold me down. Less than a week left in the cast! Before I give the link to the story, though, here's a big, tacky warning: this story is explicit. It's dark and includes drugs and sex. Okay, that's done. "Spiral's End" ...
June 17th 2010
Tags: Finances 2 Comments

Mo’ money, mo’ problems: a retirement app idea

I mentioned this obliquely a couple of weeks ago, but I'm wigging out a bit about retirement. In 39 years I will be 65, and I don't have solid plans with numbers behind them. Socking away $5k a year into an IRA just isn't enough. Back in the day, ...