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Game Reviewers Battle PR Antics to Stay Honest
An interesting discussion going on over on Ars about how game journalists and reviewers can sometimes find themseves in a battle between the PR company that can get them early-access to titles and their readers that they need to stay true to in order to get advertisement revenue. Unfortunately for game reviewers, it seems that the [...]
Continue reading...Amazon Launches Checkout Online Payment Service
Thursday, July 31, 2008
In a move that rivals online payment leader PayPal and sidels up next to (and possible out-runs at launch) Google Checkout, Amazon has announced the launch of their new online payment system aptly named: Amazon Checkout. The kicker that makes this service have longer legs out of the gate than Google’s offering is that every single [...]
Continue reading...wikinvest Launches Interactive, Annotable Embeddable Stock Charts
Thursday, July 31, 2008
For the investors or financial bloggers in the group this is some really hot news. It looks like wikinvest has launched new support for embeddable and interactive stock charts that are also annotable. For example (click and drag around this thing): You can check out the main chart page for Google here. It’s a really nice touch with [...]
Continue reading...Price of Gas Likely More than $4/gal this Summer
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Well the poll results are in and it looks like most of you think gas is going to go to $5/gal and a good majority also think it will hit $6/gal this summer. If that is the case… holy shit. Gas is already at $4/gal or higher in certain parts of the country (and a fuck-ton [...]
Continue reading...World of Moneycraft
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Holy piss-goblins… World of Warcraft officially passed the 10 million player mark. Let’s break that down… 10,000,000 x $15/mo = $150,000,000/mo 150,000,000 x 12 months = $1,800,000,000 Umm… this game makes Blizzard almost $2 billion a year. I think… yep… that’s more than I make right now. I think the US Govt should retire the Fed and just use [...]
Continue reading...How the Banking System Really Works
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
This highly informative and easy to understand film covers just about everything that isn’t taught in school regarding the corrupt banking system. It explains how these institutions get away with robbing the unsuspecting public by creating monetary policies designed to enslave society, while keeping the system in a perpetual state of rising debt. 1/5 Cartels Robbing [...]
Continue reading...Casinos Stop Paying Out Jackpots: “It’s a software glitch”
Friday, January 26, 2007
Let me get this straight… it’s fine for you to walk into a casino and gamble away your earnings because you are a consenting adult. The casinos have NO responsibility to warn you or tell you about machines that have “software glitches” or put a disclaimer anywhere stating that there is a X% chance that [...]
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Friday, September 5, 2008
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