Pricey Pet Food Not Necessarily Better

When it comes to buying pet food, higher cost doesn’t always mean higher quality, according to the March issue of Consumer Reports. A higher price could indicate better ingredients and better quality control during and after manufacturing, but it could also just mean prettier packaging, more marketing, or a fancy name.
Pricey Pet Food Not Necessarily Better

The Top Ten Money Mistakes People Make

David Bach is the best-selling author of the eight books in the Finish Rich series as well as Fight for Your Money and The Automatic Millionaire. In the latest book in the Finish Rich series, The Finish Rich Dictionary, Bach defines 1001 essential financial terms and provides 10 helpful essays with topics ranging from understanding a credit score to planning for retirement. Below we have excerpted five of Bach’s ten most interesting money mistakes people make.
The Top Ten Money Mistakes People Make

Mitigate heart-disease risk by exercising for seven minutes a week

ast week's edition of Quirks and Quarks (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's national science show) had a fascinating piece on some new research on very high-intensity, very short-duration exercise regimes.
Mitigate heart-disease risk by exercising for seven minutes a week

Rigged red-light cameras net $170 million for crooked authorities

A red light camera system in Italy cheated drivers out of $170 million dollars in fraudulent fines.
Rigged red-light cameras net $170 million for crooked authorities

Google Earth 5 Maps Oceans

Google announced that the latest version of Google Earth maps the oceans in much more detail*. To view the ocean imagery, tick the Ocean layer in Google Earth.
Google Earth 5 Maps Oceans

Image of the Day: US Airways Flight 1549 Cruising Through Jersey

How do you transport a downed but still intact jet from its landing place to a salvage yard? By going through New Jersey. (Note: instructions only valid if Jet crashed in lower 48.)
Image of the Day: US Airways Flight 1549 Cruising Through Jersey

Don't Believe The Manuals With Self-Assembly Furniture

Everyone knows that putting together flatpack furniture can be aggravating, but assembling the Sturt desk from Officeworks presented me with a challenge I've not faced before: a printed guide that wasn't just filled with poor, tiny, diagrams and incomprehensible product abbreviations, but actually skipped several crucial steps and also put others in an order that would render the desk impossible to complete.
Don't Believe The Manuals With Self-Assembly Furniture

10 Innovative But Obscure Sites That Put Money In Your Pocket

These ten websites help you save or make money in innovative ways, yet they are relatively unknown. We learned of these guys while doing research for the Wise Bread book coming out in May. You've got your copy pre-ordered, right? Enjoy the list, and share with your friends!
10 Innovative But Obscure Sites That Put Money In Your Pocket

It Can’t Love You Back

A few nights ago, my wife had to work late, so I was charged with an evening at home alone with my three year old and one year old. We did the usual things. We ate dinner together (spaghetti - my son’s favorite food). We played with his train set. I read several books, mostly selections based on my daughter’s whims since she’s just discovered the fun of having books read to her.
It Can’t Love You Back

How to Friend Mom, Dad, and the Boss on Facebook...Safely

Oh no! Your mom just joined Facebook and what's even worse, she wants to be your friend. More and more people are finding themselves in this situation today and unsure of what to do. Friending mom and dad, the boss, or other work colleagues opens up the details of your private life for the whole world to see - and you might not be entirely comfortable with that. What's to be done?
How to Friend Mom, Dad, and the Boss on Facebook...Safely

Student Bloopers

Youngsters are more than capable of mangling what they've been taught in school, often in the most hilarious fashion. Mishearings of unusual terms ("pullet surprise" for "Pulitzer Prize," for example), misspellings ("skilled at playing the liar" rather than "lyre"), and typos ("a horse divided against itself cannot stand") can turn even the most mundane of descriptions of lessons learned into that which leaves its audience in tears of laughter.
Student Bloopers

Blackstump Australia Issue 4 - February 1, 2009

This weeks latest new family friendly sites from The Black Stump.
Blackstump Australia Issue 4 - February 1, 2009

The Lazy Manifesto: Do Less. Then, Do Even Less

How many of us don’t get lazy every now and then? Of course, some of us get lazy more than others — my mom (always a hard worker) once told me she gets lazy, but then she just does the work anyway. I replied, “Mom, that’s not lazy! That’s the opposite of lazy!”
The Lazy Manifesto: Do Less. Then, Do Even Less

5 Personal Finance Tips You Don't Always Hear About

We have all read about the usual personal finance tips being offered by the writers of the personal finance blogs around the internet and from the experts on television. They usually end up meshing somewhere along the line with information that includes the importance of setting a budget, tracking your spending, and establishing an emergency fund. While that advice is all valuable and true, there are some other things you should be doing that will keep you financially strong.
5 Personal Finance Tips You Don't Always Hear About

English manners cost Titanic lives

Many British victims of the Titanic disaster in 1912 may have sunk with the ship because of their gentlemanly behaviour, according to Swiss and Australian researchers.
English manners cost Titanic lives

Avoid Getting Fleeced at Liquidation Sales

They're going out of business! It's a liquidation sale! The prices will be crazy marked down, right? Not necessarily. Read on to avoid getting ripped off by liquidators.
Avoid Getting Fleeced at Liquidation Sales

One more reason to enjoy that cup of coffee

The New York Times reported recently on a new study that suggests coffee may help prevent Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The study, published in the January 2009 Journal of Alzheimer's Disease is observational, and a researcher is quoted in the Times as saying, “We have no evidence that for people who are not drinking coffee, taking up drinking will have a protective effect.”
One more reason to enjoy that cup of coffee

What Would You Do With Five Years?

What would you do if you were told you had five years left to live? I prefer to use this rather than Steve Job’s single day, because most of us, with a day or week left, would spend them seeing family and saying goodbyes.

But five years is different. Five years is long enough to accomplish almost any goal you might have, however ambitious. And you wouldn’t want to spend five years partying hedonistically, or eating your favourite meal every night.
What Would You Do With Five Years?

Hungry snake discovers you are what you eat

A New South Wales man has had an interesting encounter with not one but two snakes, and he has the photos to prove it.
Hungry snake discovers you are what you eat

New Year's Resolutions: Avoid Common New Year's Resolution Mistakes

At this point you're three weeks into your New Year's resolutions. Many people fail to make it out of January with their resolutions unbroken, avoid some of the common pitfalls with these tips.
New Year's Resolutions: Avoid Common New Year's Resolution Mistakes