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Zillow

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

I tried the http://www.zillow.com site today. It’s the one that shows you home prices along with a lot of other niceties like property tax, square footage, comps.
Great for finding out how much your friends and neighbors have tied up in their homes, who to hit up for a loan, who’s been lying about how […]

That Jive Swedish Chef Is A Valley Girl Pig Latin

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

For the nerdly types, who can forget the classic Jive program that would convert any text into Jive-talk?
Here’s a site that not only does Jive, but Swedish Chef, Valley Girl, and Pig Latin too.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jbc/home/chef.html
Brings back memories of forwarding the company CEO memos all jivified…

Free Annual Credit Report

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Just a reminder that you can get a free annual credit report here:
http://www.annualcreditreport.com
There are a lot of these “free” report sites although I think this is the only one that is endorsed by Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.

Movie Data By The Numbers

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

For all you movie buffs who like to know the stats, check out http://www.the-numbers.com.
You can find very surprising information when you look at some of the numbers. For example, who would have thought that John Ratzenberger of Cheers fame would rank as #15 in total box office grossing movies?
In his case, most […]


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