Conclusions

Both Tumblr and Posterous Spaces help new or time-strapped bloggers establish a solid online presence. Their sites can be destinations in themselves or front ends to other social networking sites. But for my money (in the sense that time is money), Posterous Spaces has a usability edge over Tumblr.

Tumblr provides a lot of unusual and handy features, such as posting by phone and instant messenger and tagging multiple posts with a single mass-editing tool. But other basic tasks involve much more clicking around than Posterous Spaces requires: You can't change your profile picture and site description in the same place; you have to register at a different site to enable comments on your blog; and the list goes on.

Posterous Spaces processes all kinds of media, from audio and video files to entire galleries of graphics and even PDFs, and quickly delivers a smart and functional blog, complete with seamlessly embedded viewers. Though both services handle posting by email, Posterous Spaces handles more media types more smoothly and rapidly.

Great in-depth review of Posterous Spaces worth checking out

Preach on!

A customer pays by swiping a debit card.

Starting Saturday, big banks must comply with a new regulation that caps the fees they can charge merchants for processing debit card purchases. But some consumers are already seeing the impact of the change, in the form of higher fees charged on their checking accounts, as banks seek to recoup lost revenue.

Bank of America is the latest bank to say it will begin charging a monthly fee for checking accounts that use debit cards. Starting early next year, the bank will charge $5 a month, in any month that the customer uses a debit card to make a purchase. (If customers have a debit card, but don’t use it, they won’t incur the fee.) The fee won’t apply to A.T.M. transactions, and it won’t be charged to customers with certain premium accounts, a bank spokeswoman, Betty Riess, said. “The economics of offering a debit card have changed with recent regulations,” she said.

Is there any reason to stay with a big bank besides the convenience of ubiquitous ATMs?

This video was sent through the internal email list in Kiva and donated immediately. This is such a great example of how an ingenius idea with existing resources [and hard work] can change lives for the better...wayy better.

Please visit their website and do the same! http://isanglitrongliwanag.org/

I remember seeing a video on this a few months back and I'm still pretty amazed at how this ingenius method is helping families in the Philippines.

It's easy to forget the luxuries we take for granted all around us. Now there's an easy way to donate to the foundation behind making sure that no family has to live in the dark in the Philippines, and hopefully, everywhere.

Thats what so many want. Right ? I’m certainly not going to lie and say it is not a whole lot better having lots of money. I had a whole lot of fun and loved my life when I was eating mustard and ketchup sandwiches and sleeping on the floor of a 3 bedroom apartment that housed me and 5 buddies.

I have a whole lot more fun now. It doesn’t suck to be rich.

The question everyone wants answered, is how to get there. There are ways to get there. But there is not a template that works every time for everyone. It works sometimes. Getting there requires being ready when opportunity presents itself.

Mark Cuban may be arrogant, but he keeps it real.

If you're into camera/video gear, LittleBigPlanet, or just like general cool stuff you'll find this video amazing.

Fecal and skin-borne bacteria resistant to antibiotics were found in a seat on a train headed from Daly City to Dublin/Pleasanton. Further testing on the skin-borne 

bacteria showed characteristics of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, the drug-resistant bacterium that causes potentially lethal infections, although Ms. Franklin cautioned that the MRSA findings were preliminary.

High concentrations of at least nine bacteria strains and several types of mold were found on the seat. Even after Ms. Franklin cleaned the cushion with an alcohol wipe, potentially harmful bacteria were found growing in the fabric.

Today I experienced one of the reasons why the seats on BART are so dirty - if you've ever seen the movie Mulholland Dr. and remember the homeless person that pops up from behind the restaurant dumpster, his female counterpart was on my train today.

I have nothing against the homeless in SF, but something needs to be done about them riding public transit when their personal hygiene puts others in danger. The lady on my train today was covered in fecal matter, soil, vomit, and what looked like coffee (don't ask me how, but she ended up standing inches away from me and yes, it was the worst smell I've experienced in my life).

Not only did she make the crowded train uncomfortable, she was clearly tweaking on drugs by constantly smashing on the train's window, terrifying several children around her. I'm not sure what the best way to address this issue would be, but the article sheds some light on how the fabric-heavy seating may be holding on to harmful bacterias for all of BART's riders to come into contact with.

This may be an extreme case, but with hundreds of thousands of people using BART every day, I may just opt to stand up during my rides.

The stunning design resembles a "spaceship;" it will be four stories and house 12,000.

"I think we do have a shot at building the best office building in the world," says Jobs, who also made a rare appearance earlier in the week at the Worldwide Developers Conference.

Every company should follow Apple's model: constantly innovate new products that people love. Now, they're in the plans of making the most innovative headquarters for their employees. Can't wait to see the completion of this building!