mike brewer

Banks Secret Rip Off

BoingBoing: Cory Doctorow posts the follow:

I just got off the phone with Citibank after noticing a bunch of "Foreign Transaction Fees" on my bank statement -- turns out that when you use your credit or debit card outside of the US, Visa and Mastercard charge three percent in transaction fees on the spend. It doesn't matter if you use an ATM, buy over the Internet/phone, or walk into a store -- the credit-card companies always dip their beaks. When you pay your hotel bill, when you buy a plane ticket, every time you use Amazon.uk to order a British release (Citibank told me that they even charge the fee when I withdraw from my Citibank US account while at a Citibank UK ATM, using Citibank's own network!). more...

Deposit Checks without going to the bank!!!

Here is a cool concept USAA Bank!

And Give up the Experience?

Mom to be, No Time Free: Springwise This post touts a service that handles every aspect of planning for having a baby from the type of diaper to advice on how to handle the baby once he/she is home.

I wonder if all that "stuff" is part of the beauty of having a child. Facing all those decision prior to bringing a child into the world helps to prep you for all the decisions you have to make after they are here. It's sort of a decision making sharpener if you will.

Pay with your Cell Phone

BusinessWeek: Contactless payment has arrived and could be a $32 billion business by 2011.

You can't be chosen unless you're a Choice

That title reminds me of the quote I shared some time ago about being 3” tall! The worker as we know it today is changing. We are rapidly moving passed the industrial and knowledge age workers of today right to the spiritual age worker of tomorrow.

Workers in this age will exercise their entrepreneurial spirit more than ever before both inside and outside of organizations. But paramount to that they will be doing it for a cause bigger than themselves. Take Rascal Flatts for instance, they recently donated the proceeds from a concert, some $800k to a Children's organization. And that makes them a Remarkable Choice!

Car of the Future-NOW

WOW!

YouTube, car of the Future--NOW

Christmas 07'

Elmo on YouTube

At $40 a pop this is sure to be the item to have for Christmas! First wave of inventory to hit stores sold out within hours of arrival, but why? What is it about a laughing doll that intrigues us so much? It's funny for the first five minutes and we all know that an hour after our children have eagerly ripped the box open and set the little monster to laughing we will be questioning our logic. In fact most of us will hide the thing first chance we get.

Save the $40 and let you kids watch the YouTube link above.

The Battle of the Aribica Bean

Vs.

Change

If you don't like change, you will like irrelevance even less. Forgive me but the author of that quote escapes me at the moment but it struck me as I read the following quote:

"Out of every disaster comes an opportunity. We might as well... reinvent ourselves."

-Scott Cowen , president, Tulane University

Sometimes we have the benefit of seeing change heading our way, other times we don't. So take advantage of the times you do so that your are not swept away in the times you don't.

Poster List

Found this site randomly today. Awesome off the wall or should I say for the wall posters! Okay, the humor is very rusty if not awful but nevertheless this site is awesome: The Poster List

About Us We produce and design all the posters in-house. You won't find these anywhere else! If you are interested in a bigger size poster (18" x 24" or larger) or have *any* other questions, email us. Adam - email me here Neil - email me here