This is pretty incredible - campaign finance and lobbying data going back to 1989, in a scrubbed CSV. They also offer a number of APIs and enhanced politician profiles.

Well written, clear piece on the problem with big ticket live shows. Basically, Ticketmaster could stop scalping but there's too much money for them to lose and they're likely to simply skip the middle man and move to a straight auction system for at least some of their tickets in the not too distant future.

Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan and US Bancorp are charging fees to access unemployment benefits. This is why I'm moving all of my accounts from Bank of America to E-trade.

"Just because a company has a huge and growing audience doesn’t mean it can find a huge revenue source." Especially when that audience is fickle college students who don't want to pay for anything and hate ads.

Not just for their site but for every account Wesabe supports - in other words, your bank and credit cards now have APIs. [This is good]

A tiny evolutionary step above spammers on the chart of "Why the internet sucks in 2007" (like DJ Shadow said, it's the money)

The rent v. buy debate rages on and on and on

My daily reason to love the internet

I doubt they'll be able to stay ahead of the bastards, but this is a promising step

About goddamn time. Oh. Wait. It's a mistake? Dammit.

Amazon has a little known policy that if the price of an item drops within 30 days, they'll send you the difference. This site does all of the hard work for you! Que greasemonkey script that automates the whole thing in 5...4...

Pretty awesome

Coupon bugmenot. The metaphor doesn't really work, but this is slick.

Kind of like del.icio.us for stock picks

Use kayak.com, buy early on Wednesday morning (who knew?), look for nearby cities, don't check bags (?)

Blog/book about my generation's problems with money

"The federal government is moving to eliminate the jobs of nearly half of the lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service who audit tax returns of some of the wealthiest Americans..." Ken Lay is grinning in his grave.

Destroy your credit cards, sock away 20% and live on the other 80%. I like it.

Do this, dammit

I could see this being used negariously - like, oh, I don't know, TP-ing all the red dots...

For people (like me) who hate wallets

Useless, but no less fun

"You should probably buy a shredder today."

"Sharply decreases funding for supporting the arts, vocational education, parent resource centers and drug-free schools, and instead puts a heavy emphasis on keeping the country strong militarily. It maps out a way to make first-term tax cuts permanent at

Some really great reporting by Bob Sullivan

"Since George W. Bush became president, the group of people whose numbers constitute the most reliable index I know of the extent to which government policy is for sale has increased 100 percent."

Now you have to pay extra to put AP feeds online and in the paper

What could you buy for $40 million?

An in-depth look at the future of social security