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P G & E Donates $250,000 to Defeat California Gay Marriage Ban - Towleroad
Pacific Gas & Electric has donated $250,000 to defeat Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ballot measure in California, according to the L.A. Times
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Joe. My. God.: WordPerfect Founder Bruce Bastian Pledges $1M To Fight Prop 8
Utah resident and WordPerfect cofounder Bruce Bastian has [...]

Quiz: Are You Smarter Than a 12th Grader? - US News and World Report
Every two years, the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy tests 12th graders practical money knowledge. The average score usually hovers around 52 percent. You can test yourself on these sample questions from the 2006 survey.
I got 6/6 correct, but they are [...]

Happiness = Marshmellows

Mmmmm Marshmallows.
Here’s another one on flickr

How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
But what really snared Spitzer was a money laundering investigation that was flagged by suspicious activity reports (SARs) that banks have to file with the Treasury to surface everything from money laundering to terrorist activity. This network has [...]

Budgets: Mint.com Initial Review - Consumerist
Mint.com, a new free personal finance management site, is easy to get started, though we’re not sure we’re completely satisfied with where we end up.
I agree with their overall sentiment. I tried mint because I tried Quicken 2008 but I didn’t like it because it required me to sign [...]

So I had my ironic class last night.  I say it’s ironic because it is a personal finance managment class all about saving money but the books for it cost $160.
Anyway, we were asked what our “latte factor” (his definition was “how much do you spend without thought / keeping track?” ) was and at [...]