SeniorMag.com provides new legal resources for seniors -  "SeniorMag.com, a leader in providing resources for seniors and family caregivers announces it's new legal resource center, Legal Corner, a resource of documents and lawyers that specialize in the needs of seniors and their families."  PR Web - Legal [Ernie the Attorney] 

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Political Cartoons [Ye Olde Phart] 

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How File Sharing Works:. "In this edition of HowStuffWorks, you will learn about the differences between Gnutella and Napster that allow Gnutella to survive today despite a hostile legal environment." In case you were wondering. [evhead] 

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Save Money On IRA Changes. Don't get hit with high conversion taxes -- use a recharacterization. We'll tell you how. [The Motley Fool] 

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How to Evaluate Companies. Every resource you need to do your own research. [The Motley Fool] 

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When Bear Markets End. Answers to questions you were too afraid to ask. [The Motley Fool] 

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Now You See Me, Now You Don't?

"How To Disappear, Protect Your Privacy, and Eliminate Spam.  A handful of suggestions on how to live with less spam, with less fear of identity theft, and a little more anonymously.  [MarkTAW.com] [jenett.radio]"

 

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The One Thing You're Neglecting. What's the one thing most Americans fail to do that could lead to financial disaster? [The Motley Fool] 

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We're Still Buying. The Rule Maker's buying Costco, adding to J&J. And there's more to come. [The Motley Fool] 

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Stocks to Buy Now. Whitney Tilson shares some of the bargains on his radar and says it's time to get greedy. [The Motley Fool] 

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Broadcast or Broadband? You Be The Judge....

Whoa, Will:

Casting Pearls Among Swine. Listen closely because this is very simple.

1. Call your CATV provider. Ask for the Internet access without television package.
2. Buy this
3. Buy this or this
4. Buy this

The problem now becomes>off the computer and on to your television, which sits in the same room as your couch. By which time you find it's easier just to buy a TiVo or ReplayTV with Ethernet support. Why is this all possible? Because you are not buying the content, you are buying the connection. The content is thrown out, on the air, on the network, in the vague hope that you will receive it. The exception which proves the rule is HBO. Is it legal? Good question. [The Peanut Gallery]

[tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog] 

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Isenberg on the Telco Meltdown and Revolution.

David Isenberg's new SMARTLetter has his must-read analysis of the "utter crisis" in telecommunications, as FCC Chair Michael "Son of" Powell calls it. Isenberg puts it in perspective. For example:

Let's not call the current overcapacity situation a "bandwidth glut." Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins. The scarcity folks — the telephone companies (and others) whose business is based on the fact that communications capacity is scarce, therefore expensive — are controlling this "glut" dialog. Nobody talks about a glut of clean air or a glut of traffic-jam-free roads. No — to an end user it is great to have a lot of cheap >network capacity.

and

Everybody believes that fiber to the home is the end game of the Communications Revolution. It is not expensive, about US$600 to $3000 per home with today's technology (and less in the future, and less with economies of massive scale). But just as Qwest's 1997 transcontinental fiber build-out fatally maimed domestic long-distance (including Qwest itself), fiber to the home would kill the Incumbent Local Exchange Companies.

Therefore, fiber to the home is not coming until the Incumbent Local Exchange Companies become considerably weaker.

and

ATM and SONET are not the only technologies that are becoming obsolete even as they're being deployed. There's DSL and MMDS and 3G and WAP and a whole lot more. Technology marches on. And it is not as if Telecom executives made the wrong decisions — mostly they made the best decisions they could at the time.

The debt movie is playing at the Global Crossing theatre and the WorldCom playhouse — but soon it will be playing at a telephone company near you. Verizon and SBC and BellSouth will not be immune ...

and

So if you hear that somebody is going to "enhance" the Internet — to make it more efficient, to Pay the Musicians, to Protect the Children, to thwart hackers, to enhance Homeland Security, to find Osama, or whatever — this is almost certainly propaganda from the powerful businesses that are threatened by the Internet. Remember that the Internet became the success it is today — and the threat that it is to existing telcos — because it is a Stupid Network, an end-to-end network.

This is the most coherent, understandable explanation I've read of what's goin' on technologically and economically. [JOHO the Blog]

 

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Definitive Advice for a Bear Market. When will this nausea-inducing market plunge end? And in the meantime, what's an investor to do? [The Motley Fool] 

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U.S. Government Announces New 800 Number for Citizen Service Info. Telephone ResearchU.S. GovernmentSource: FCICNew U.S. Federal Government 1-800 Number For Citizen Service InformationA toll free phone telephone call to 1-800-FED-INFO (that's 1-800-333-4636) provides you with a staff member from the Office of Citizen Services and Communications to answer your questions. [The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk] 

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Ernie the Attorney uses ActiveRenderer for copyright outline
Go. Take a look. Nice example. 

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Don't Neglect Estate Planning. It may be unpleasant, but estate planning will save your loved ones time and money. [The Motley Fool] 

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Abandoned places and abandoned spaces hold all sorts of mystery for the curious sort, and Zone-Tour takes you along to view some fantastic urban wastelands with pictures and movies. Inspired to do some investigation of your own? Then check out Infiltration - "The 'Zine about Going Places You're Not Supposed to Go" [Ye Olde Phart] 

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Best Websites for Developers? [Slashdot] 

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Thanks to Dave Seidel for inspiring my new email comment link you see below each post... [jenett.radio] 

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Fixed-rate or Adjustable Mortgage?. Find out which option will work best for you. [The Motley Fool] 

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Fixing Your(tm) Web Site with Dr. HTML. Fixing Your^tm Web Site with Dr. HTML

One of the goals of this site is to provide you with tools to help you fix your Web site.

It's not easy to take a Web site that's underperforming and make it better. There are aesthetic issues, marketing issues and, most importantly, technical issues. That's where Doctor HTML can come in to help. You can't fix the technical issues if you don't know what they are.

[Web Pages That Suck -- Examples of Bad Web Design] [Steve Pilgrim's Radio Weblog] [Ye Olde Phart] 

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Don't Max Out Your 401(k). In many cases, there are better places for your money. [The Motley Fool] 

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Maximize Your 401(k). Don't leave free money on the table! [The Motley Fool] 

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Asset Allocation in Retirement. How should seniors divide their money? [The Motley Fool] 

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To Answer Kate Z's Question!. ieSpell - F**kin A Man.

"I urge any serious bloggers out there who haven't tried ieSpell yet to go over to www.iespell.com and do so.  Immediately!  The newest version now provides support for rich edit tools (like Radio's for instance) as well as AOL and other IE based browsers.  Worthy of a micro-donation for sure.

I'm going to suggest the possibility of user-defined short-cuts (or smart tags) to the author.  It seems like the perfect tool to provide all those cross-system, bloggers like myself a way to maintain a central list of shortcuts." [...useless miscellany]

[The Shifted Librarian] 

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Twenty Money-Saving Tips. Live well while saving money. [The Motley Fool] 

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JR Mooneyham.  Lots of counter-intuitive long-view thinking here. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 

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Investigating Inventory. This one balance sheet item can warn you before a company does. [The Motley Fool] 

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Percentages, Not Points!. The media just doesn't get it. [The Motley Fool] 

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The Rules of Defensive Investing [The Motley Fool] 

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HTML-to-ASCII converter. Aaron Swartz has written a fantastic utility that converts any html file and converts it to ASCII text, preserving style information and converting links to numbered footnotes. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 

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Debt: The Anti-Investment. Is your net worth sinking in quicksand? [The Motley Fool] 

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