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It will make a paper copy of any public domain book scanned by google for only a few dollars! http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep...

The Crosswalk Cafe is located on Main St. in Eaton, Ohio. Eaton is a pretty little town, that looks much more prosperous than the surroundi...

Two articles on a similar topic came out within a few days of each other! The NYTimes article is more extensive. The BBC article has some a...

Here's a cool way to get from London to India for only $311 all-inclusive (one-way), early next year!!! This itinerary uses low cost ca...

This was from Sean Econo's flickr photograph of their deskspace! And he got it from here . Your _______ is not some fragile vase that ...

Is Paddington off to London or Peru? I'm disappointed it appears Google doesn't have every logo art piece easily available on their...

This New York Times article by Cheryl Jensen is really disappointing to read. I'm almost certain the Civic is the one with a flat floor...

Ayres warns as companies use super crunching to get better and better at determining the maximum price an individual customer is willing to ...

I was a bit unhappy with the media's Olympic coverage. In past Olympics, I've always wished for more coverage of the lesser athlete...

Kida's Six Basic Thinking Mistakes: Prefer stories to statistics. Seek to confirm, not to question, our ideas. Rarely appreciate the rol...

Weird Beliefs and Pseudoscientific Thinking A Gremlin on My Shoulder Thinking Like a Scientist The Role of Chance and Coincidence Seeing Thi...

I need to do this more and this was an eye-opener for me! Kida's main point was: "Whatever your belief, find disconfirming evidence...

Here are some thoughts and questions I have about Kida's last three paragraphs in his "Reliability of Evidence Received from Others...

I'm wrestling with this paragraph, but can't figure out what's bothering me about it. One reason we're overconfident is we r...

Discovered this lovely vintage looking photograph in a book called "Introducing Japan," which has many other nice photos also. ...

In Thomas Kida's "20/20 Hindsight" portion of the Framing and Other Decision Snags chapter in his book, Don't Believe Eve...

The last paragraph of Thomas Kida's chapter 5 entitled Seeing Things That Aren't there concludes: As psychologist Robert Abelson ha...

Glenn Mitchell's Shear Genius amazing exit interview is the best exit interview I've seen on Bravo since Emmett's on Project Ru...

The "Delphic Oracles and Science" section of Victor Niederhoffer's The Education of a Speculatory offers some good connection...

Victor Niederhoffer hung out with his Grandmother, Birdie, after she'd retired to Florida. In "The Education of a Speculator,...

In the "Once Burned . . ." short story/mini-section of Victor Niederhoffer's The Education of a Speculator , the Depression...

Various books and magazines on small spaces and simplicity have referred to a 12th century essay-- An Account of my Hut or The Ten Foot Squ...

I've only just started reading Victor Niederhoffer's The Education of a Speculator (New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.  1997), bu...

Kazu's thoughts sound just like Eric Berne and Claude Steiner's games! It's like Jane Austen too! Kazu had the utmost respect f...

Nathan is describing a self-segregated elite coterie of Hollywood stars gathering separately from the many others present at Coppola's S...

Nathan is describing the production of Summer Soldiers and the deterioration of his relationship with director Hiroshi Teshigahara, in whic...

John Nathan describes an epiphany experienced while chainsawing young trees in Hamptons son at publisher Barney Rosset's new property. ...

Here's an example of fear of failure from John Nathan's autobiography/memoirs.  It's what Jane Burka and Lenora Yuen mention in ...

This New York Magazine article on Harlem real estate broker Willie Suggs caputured my imagination. She bought a house in the early 1980s fo...

Sunday's New York Times had an article on "marketers, the masters of creating habits" for things like washing hands and brushi...

Look at a portion of this article from the Washington Post: And from Seoul, South Koreans and their government appealed to Americans not to ...

Ugh, this article totally annoys me because of its two consecutive sentences that contradict each other! The first two sentences of the art...

This is my first try at using a blog to "catch" something in the media right away. There was just a live interview on Fox with th...

I arrived late to yesterday's game at the library and took over for G, a librarian, who needed to go back to work. AK was a doctor. Sh...

I was thinking of starting a separate blog for objects I love, but will just add them to my primary Cashflow 101 blog for now. This pot has...

Initially, I though this blog would cover my experiences playing Robert Kiyosaki's Cashflow 101 boardgame. I've played about 20 gam...

This is a truly amazing blog and story. Casey Serin is younger than me--he's 24 and I'm almost 28!!! He has bought several houses....

This afternoon I spent $17 on doodads at Savers and learned I could have saved 20% if had brought in some donations as I entered the store,...

Robert Kiyosaki has quite a bit of acclaim, but also critics such as John Reed who has also published real estate investing books and has a...

Watching Top Chef and Project Runway on Bravo network has provided illumination into the creative process and project management. Top Ch...

A wonderful article on page 9 of the December 5, 2006 Financial Times newspaper recounts author James Altucher conversation with venture ca...

A recent issue of Investors Business Daily featured painter Jasper Johns in their "Leaders and Success" column. It starts with:...

Today I spent time putting up Christmas decorations in the public areas of a hotel. It is a temporary gig, and I'm expected until Wedne...

After playing Robert Kiyosaki's Cashflow 101 Boardgame on Thursday, I finally got it in me to call the owner of the small parcel I was i...

I have just discovered a wonerful kid's show called Postman Pat . It plays on HBO from 9-9:30am every morning. Postman Pat is the mai...