Friday Links
MIT hackers added references to various board games around the campus – ha! they even added settlers of catan (=best board game ever!)
Best movies of 2007 by Kurt Loder – Am I they only one that thought Michael Clayton was horribly BORING!?
w00t named word of the year
Merchants aren’t allowed to have a minimum purchase for CCs – I had no idea! Also, they aren’t supposed to ask for your ID but in my opinion that’s a good thing when they do that.
Save gas by making fewer left turns – it worked for UPS allowing them to save 3 million gallons of gas
The pros and cons of coffee drinking – coffee helps kidney stones? perhaps i should drink more then!
Posted: 14 December, 2007 in Cool Links.
Comments
Comment from Hakushaku
Posted: December 14, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Wow, no minimum charges? I don’t think anyone anywhere knows that. But I wish they checked MORE IDs, maybe then they would have caught the jerk who stole Miki’s CC (and determined that the crackhead on Market street was, in fact, not a small Japanese woman).
Also….this is awesome: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071214/od_nm/luxury_dc;_ylt=Aq2NkVess0l5daFe7NmcRWqs0NUE
Comment from RiSE
Posted: December 15, 2007 at 6:18 am
Don’t even get me started on the minimum purchase on credit cards! Ive known this for years and its always bugged me. One time i wanted to get a slice of pizza at this lame mom and pop pizza place. I was broke and had maybe $4.50 in my bank account. SO i order the slice and the fat lady at the register charged my debit card $5! I was like ummm its supposed to be $2, and shes like “no we have a 5 dollar minimum i can put more toppings on it if you want”. I’m like no and told her that its against the rules to set a minimum amount on credit cards! And she started yelling at me and then the cook came out and started yelling at me and it sucked and i shold have reported them because that pizza cost me $35 due to over draft charges!
argh!
Comment from pokebot
Posted: December 14, 2007 at 10:30 am
i fell asleep watching michael clayton… so i can’t say if it was actually boring or not :P