The 102 Best Money Sites: MSN columnist Liz Weston's annotated list of favorite resources: money bloggers, tools, savvy spending, saving & investing, real estate, etc.
Dan Lewis runs Now I Know: Learn Something New Every Day, By Email, a free daily email newsletter that delves deep into fascinating bits of esoteric information. For example, a past missive talks about the history of Mickey Mouse gas masks that were given to children in WWII and in another, we learn Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service the day he was shot. To date, the list’s readership is over 37,000 subscribers who, like me, want to learn something new every day.
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did (excerpt from How Companies Learn Your Secrets (single page)): “If we send someone a catalog and say, ‘Congratulations on your first child!’ and they’ve never told us they’re pregnant, that’s going to make some people uncomfortable,” Pole told me. “We are very conservative about compliance with all privacy laws. But even if you’re following the law, you can do things where people get queasy.”
With Amazon slowly taking over the publishing world and bookstores closing left and right, things can sometimes seem a little grim for the brick and mortar booksellers of the world. Before they go completely, here's a list of the 20 most beautiful bookshops in the world.
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