By David Christopher Bell Published: May 24th, 2013 A gun company named TrackingPoint recently figured that, since we now have smart cars and smartphones, why not sell a "smart rifle"? Since no one else was around to answer that question, they actually went ahead and made the thing: Meet the TrackPoin
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By STEPHEN GANDEL
Usually Wall Street waits for a bubble before it pushes an investment on average Joes.
So it's certainly a change that the returns on the investment Wall Street is currently trying to sell to individual investors have stunk lately. Show More Summary
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Retirees already have to be constantly on the lookout for criminals and scam artists trying to swindle them out of their retirement savings. But a new threat to our nest eggs has appeared: pension income streams. And while they...Show More Summary
Never so much did the term, “Resume Real Estate” resonate until I was tasked to sell my home. Find out how to give your resume "curb appeal." The post Resume Real Estate: Why You Need ‘Curb Appeal’ appeared first on CAREEREALISM.
That thick, smoky barbecue smell floats through the yard and everybody starts salivating for dinner. Yes, sizzling sides of beef and black-burnt weiners are coming right up when the sun’s dropping, the party’s hopping, and your friends are all chilling … Continue reading ?
Links that got us thinking on Thursday, May 23: Steven Soderbergh wants to sell you T-shirts. Super coder or super manager? Here's why your top geek can't be both.How one freelancer jumped from anonymity to The New York Times.Analytics...Show More Summary
First dilemma. When your country sells its oil, copper, or timber, it is actually swapping one asset for another: out goes a natural resource, in...
Today, tire advertising is whimsical and fun for the entire family, often relying on cartoons and computer-generated woodland creatures to sell product. In the 1960s, however, selling tires was a far more serious affair, as this Jam Handy-produced General Tire advertisement clearly illustrates. In fact, its message is equal parts clear and terrifying: Each and [...]
Is Liberty Media Corp (NASDAQ:LMCA) a healthy stock for your portfolio? Hedge funds are getting less optimistic. The number of bullish hedge fund positions fell by 16 recently. If you’d ask most investors, hedge funds are viewed as unimportant, outdated investment vehicles of years past. While there are over 8000 funds in operation at the [...]
Do you make books and you want to trade some for some free trade coffee your friend sells? Well there is a new app to help people make such transactions possible digitally. Bondsy lets friends share objects or services that they have to trade, be it books, tickets, homemade jewelry, guitar lessons or even a ride to work. Show More Summary
Have you ever loved a book or movie so much, say, a teenage vampire romance, that you just can’t stand it when it’s all over? Fan fiction, that distinct genre that takes existing characters off into new storylines, or rewrites those stories in a more satisfactory way only rarely pays off for writers, but Amazon’s new Kindle Worlds wants to … [More]
Bondsy is an iPhone app that allows you to sell your things for more than just money. Over the last five years, the web has become a lot more personal. The buzzword “social” really doesn’t do it justice, not when you compare the transaction-based...Show More Summary
Gucci is selling the latest installment in his Trap House series, but he’s providing a full stream through Bandcamp for your perusal. If you’re fucking with it, click through and purchase for $6. Previously: Gucci Mane ft. Young Dolph & Young Scooter – Muddy
Pura vida means to live life with a deep appreciation for everything around you, despite your circumstances. It is the recognition that everything is full of life -- from a small frog, to a young kid on the street selling jewelry, and that everything is worthy of deep respect.
A Craigslist ad is perhaps not the most subtle of ways to go about doing things, and that includes selling your Google Glass. A photo from the Craigslist ad. Those sure look like Google Glass... (Credit: Craigslist) One Craigslister,...Show More Summary
Like any good Memorial Day sale, Pfizer sells its 80% stake in Zoetis at a 7% discount
LoJack, in case you didn’t know, is the popular brand of anti-theft device for cars. But it also has been extending that brand to laptops, and now, phones. Although the selling point here is less “tracking your phone” and more “sending...Show More Summary
I'm selling a nice dicent fixie 300 obo just got the rims a week ago but I don't even ride bikes so I don't need it anymore every thing works fine and looks good I paid over 450 for every thing [...] Read more...
After yesterday’s voting results came in and determined that 1986?s Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? was eliminated, the ultimate vote to determine the Bloody-Disgusting reader’s choice Best Megadeth Album is here! You readers have narrowed thirteen of the band’s albums down to two choices: 1990?s Rust In Peace and 1992?s Countdown To Extinction. Now, it’s... Read More
Amazon hopes you still care about Serena, Blair, Dan and the gang now that Gossip Girl is off the air. The company announced today that it will sell Gossip Girl fan fiction, as well as stories about Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars in the Kindle store. Show More Summary