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14 Oct 2009 20:37

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Biz: The New York Stock Exchange: Full of 10,000 Maniacs

  • Wow bros, we fell pretty far to get to this point. Boy, we wouldn’t have wanted to have money around March or so. We’d probably jump off a building. But today – today, we can say we’re back at 10,000. Welcome back to comfortable riches, friends.source

12 Oct 2009 21:39

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Politics: Here’s a big, scary number health insurers want you to be scared by

  • 18% increase in premiums over the next decade – maybe source

11 Oct 2009 11:27

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Tech: Help a zombie out, pay for gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaames

The Zombie Experiment
  • Crowdsourcing through Zombies. The Zombie Experiment is looking to create a game completely paid for by fans who donate money and who have a say in the game’s design. Oh, and they donate to charity. Awesome.source

09 Oct 2009 12:22

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Offbeat: Protip: Grow a mustache, earn a little more money

  • +8.2% bigger incomes than those with beards, which kind of ticks us off source

06 Oct 2009 10:30

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Tech: If you want to pay us to big-up a product, do it before Dec. 1

  • $11,000 fine for bloggers who don’t disclose source

04 Oct 2009 12:03

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Tech: Leo Laporte is evidence you can make bling on podcasting

04 Oct 2009 00:05

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Culture: Roman Polanski may or may not have paid the victim a huge sum

  • $500,000 may have been paid out source
 

01 Oct 2009 09:51

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Tech: Want to buy a Google Wave invite? Head to eBay, guys.

  • $51 bid for those too impatient to wait for the next wave source

28 Sep 2009 21:34

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U.S., World: Stop, collaborate & listen. ICE is back with a $41M acquisition

Holy crap that’s a lot of money
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement just found a lot of money in a bunch of shipping containers in Mexico and Colombia. You know guys, if you just want to leave one of those containers in front of our apartment, we wouldn’t mind it.source

24 Sep 2009 19:47

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Biz, Tech: Twitter has a lot of venture capital; it should give us some

  • $100 million amount of money being injected into the site in a hot round of venture capital source