As credit card companies continue to tighten their lending standards on card users, some are using purchasing data — gleaned from millions of card transactions processed daily — to weed out who may or may not be good credit risks. Have you used your credit card at merchants specializing in secondhand clothing, retread tires, bail [...]

Creates a link on YouTube video pages that you can use to pop out the video into a separate window (sort of like GTalk’s pop-out feature) via YouTube Pop-out for Greasemonkey.

Cisco’s Next-Generation Workforce * Cisco employees spend about 63 percent of their time communicating and collaborating. * 40 percent of Cisco employees say they are not located in the same city as their manager. * The average Cisco employee now telecommutes 2.0 days per week. * 60 percent of the time saved by telecommuting is [...]

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I started up a planted tank a little over a month ago. Initially I just dumped a bunch of potting soil, sand, plants, fishies in it. After a while, it was basically mud and never really cleared up. So, I pulled out the plants and inhabitants and dumped out the potting soil, and replaced it [...]

YouTube – Fashion & Style: The 52 Blocks – nytimes.com/video.

I’ve been tracking the swine flu since 5/13 from the cdc.gov’s H1N1 site using google docs. Here’s my projection. On September 11, 2009: Infected will be: 342,762. Dead will be: 1474.

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I’m tired of pouring hot coffee over ice cubes, or making hot coffee then letting it sit in the fridge overnight. Tomorrow, I’m trying a french press cold coffee method. Cold Brewed Coffee using a French Press.