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Here’s a link to a Borders coupon for 30% off if you spend $10 or more.

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Expires on Oct. 19th.

I’m currently reading About A Boy by Nick Hornby (yes, the same as the movie!). I totally forgot what the movie is about and I can’t wait to watch it again after I am done with the book. The book is great by the way!

This is a cool site, rentometer. You input your address, # of rooms, and the price you are paying and it will compare it to the prices around your area. I put mine in and I’m slightly lower than my area! Yay! This should help you if you are looking for a new place to rent or even renting out your place and want to know the average price people are paying for your area.

Just a reminder for anyone looking to buy the Wii, EB Games and Gamestop are taking preorders starting tomorrow Oct 13th. You need to put down a $50 dollar deposit and it’s on a first come, first served basis with limited availability. Probably best to call first.

I’m seriously debating about getting one. I’ve been really excited about it but I don’t know if I have the time to play it. I barely have enough time for my DS Lite (which I absolutely love!). I might wait and let friends get it first and see if it’s really worth it. It looks totally fun and my type of game though. I even heard EA is making a Sims game for the Wii. I wonder how that will be!!!!

Here are some cool Wii videos but they are on the Japan website. You can still view them and get the feel of how it will be though. The old asian couple are so cute!

Wii Videos

The website Farecast has added over 75 cities to its list (previously it only worked for Seattle I think). Anyways, it’s a pretty neat tool. It tells you when is the best time to buy your tickets. I hate buying my ticket and finding out the price went down a few weeks later!! With the rise in airfare as of late, this tool is really helpful.

I absolutely love wikipedia. For my homepage I set it as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage so whenever I open my browser I get a random wikipedia page. I like random facts, so it suits me. Just a cool trick I wanted to share!

My dream clock just went on sale at wrapables:

And DailyCandy just sent out a 30% off coupon that works on the whole site. Just type in DAILYCANDY at checkout. I am soooo tempted!

I got to see the 300 trailer this past weekend before the movie The Departed. Wow! It’s so beautiful. If you haven’t seen it, check it out at apple.com. The movie is based on the Battle of Thermopylae where 300 Spartan warriors fought the entire Persian army in a suicide mission to buy Greece time to prepare for the Persian invasion. If the look and feel of the movie seems familiar, think Frank Miller (Sin City).

As for the movie The Departed, I thought it was ok. I think it’s more of a guy movie as every guy seems to absolutely LOVE the movie. I think it kind of got ruined for me because my friends made it seem like there would be a twist so I kept waiting for a huge twist at the end. Instead, (warning, spoilers ahead!!) everybody just got shot. I also absolutely hate mark wahlberg. I don’t know why but he bugs me to no end. And despite him having the best lines in the movie, it just bothered me that he was the one saying them. Haha. So yeah, I can’t believe this movie has gotten such astounding reviews including many people saying it’s “Movie of the Year”. Oh, and another part that really bugged me was when Leonardo gave the psychologist girl the envelope and told her to open it when he died. Well, he died and they never showed her opening it. WTF was in the envelope!! I guess it was probably evidence that Matt Damon was “bad” but still, I would just like to know. Otherwise what was the point of that scene? I think I also would have liked it better if they followed the chinese version of the movie and let Matt Damon live.

Jack Nicholson rules though.

Not only is Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, my absolute favorite blogger but it turns out he also does financial advice. The man is a genius!

Everything you need to know about personal investing by Scott Adams

Make a will
Pay off your credit cards
Get term life insurance if you have a family to support
Fund your 401k to the maximum
Fund your IRA to the maximum
Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it
Put six months worth of expenses in a money-market account
Take whatever money is left over and invest 70% in a stock index fund and 30% in a bond fund through any discount broker and never touch it until retirement
If any of this confuses you, or you have something special going on (retirement, college planning, tax issues), hire a fee-based financial planner, not one who charges a percentage of your portfolio

Click here to read the rest of the article.

It seems like there’s a new crazy stunt every week on the internet where people do something fun/crazy/interesting and are able to attract national attention. This wouldn’t have been possible before the internet. Anyways, I just read about these guys…their goal is to hitchhike to every state’s capital in 50 days.

hitch50.com – running very slow because it’s recently been dugg
mirror site if above site is not working

The coolest part about this is they will be GPS trackable and their location is updated every 15 seconds on a Google Map! The not so cool part is…will they have time to shower? haha, I guess guys don’t care as much about those things :P It also seems so rushed that they won’t get to explore each state they are in. Hopefully the routes they take are interesting with cool scenery.

Anyways, you can visit their site and offer them a ride! It’s nice to see people practicing in the lost art of hitchhiking. With the crazy people out there today, it’s hard to trust who you pick up or get a ride from!!

One of the things on my To Do/Travel List is to see the Aurora Borealis. I’ve been to Alaska once but it was during the summer so I didn’t get to see it. BTW, Alaska is such an amazing state. It is the true “last frontier”. I really suggest if you’re an outdoorsy person to visit!! Also, you will want to go before all of the glaciers melt from global warming. When I went last year, you could already see a difference. :( Anyways, I hope to go back during winter and see this amazing natural wonder and perhaps do some dog sledding too!