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How you save your airline miles from expiring:

Airlines are deleting miles faster than ever. Flying keeps them alive–downloading an iTunes song does, too.

Don’t Let Reward Miles Vanish

I don’t know if its really worth all the effort to get into an Ivy League school, but if you do, here’s someone who can help…

Michele Hernandez boasts that 95% of her teenage clients are accepted by their first-choice school. Her price: As much as $40,000 a student

I Can Get Your Kid into an Ivy

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How to Increase Your Wi-Fi Signal

(Yes, this is a totally gag. )

Just the first one alone made the article worth reading…

Ironically, traveling by air is getting more and more inconvenient as overbooked flights, lost luggage, and pricey ticket sales become more common. Unfortunately, booking a flight is sometimes just plain necessary, a fact that airlines know all too well, allowing them to continue maximizing profits while we passengers often get stuck on the ground.

10 Useful Secrets the Major Airlines Don’t Want You to Know

I had been hearing that Toyota’s lead in quality was starting to drop… now I guess its official…

Automaker slips to fifth from first place, and some versions of Camry, Tundra and Lexus GS no longer recommended.

Toyota skids in reliability rankings

Looks like a Futurama Movie is coming out…

Now you know the truth about cash…

I thought that United States currency was legal tender for all debts. Some businesses or governmental agencies say that they will only accept checks, money orders or credit cards as payment, and others will only accept currency notes in denominations of $20 or smaller. Isn’t this illegal?

Legal Tender Status

Wow!

Today, TechCrunch has a full-time staff of eight. This year, it hired a CEO. In August, 1.25 million people visited TechCrunch or its affiliated blogs at least once, according to comScore Inc. It brings in $240,000 per month in advertising, according to Arrington, and pulls in additional revenue from conferences and parties. Most important of all, TechCrunch is in the black.

Yes, some blogs are profitable - very profitable

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This is fun…

Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

Right Brain v Left Brain

This is just terrible… just terrible…

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Why most of us believe that exercise makes us thinner—and why we’re wrong.

Just last month, the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine published joint guidelines for physical activity and health. They suggested that 30 minutes of moderate physical activity five days a week is necessary to “promote and maintain health.” What they didn’t say, though, was that more physical activity will lead us to lose weight. Indeed, the best they could say about the relationship between fat and exercise was this: “It is reasonable to assume that persons with relatively high daily energy expenditures would be less likely to gain weight over time, compared with those who have low energy expenditures. So far, data to support this hypothesis are not particularly compelling.” In other words, despite half a century of efforts to prove otherwise, scientists still can’t say that exercise will help keep off the pounds.

The Scientist and the Stairmaster

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