The 100 by 30 project

Things I wouldn't have known if not channel surfing between football games

Slimebag extradorinaire Kevin Trudeau -- author of Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About,  More Natural "Cures" Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease, and The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You To Know About -- is now positioning himself as a personal finance guru with The Debt Cure 'They' Don't Want You To Know About which he's currently hawking via infomercial.

If you're going to take financial advice from an infomercial, it should only be this one.

Blogroll, finally

After relying on English Major's for months and months, I finally got my act together and assembled a blogroll.

It's the scroll down that gets you.

Sure, it starts like a straightforward PF post, but the graphic is classic. I need to start inserting more pics into my posts.

CNNMoney explains foursquares?

I was looking for a nice link to illustrate what a foursquare home looks like as part of a forthcoming post on my favorite holiday gift, and surprisingly the best link I found wasn't on an architecture site or ThisOldHouse.com, but a gallery produced by CNNMoney. As foursquares are relatively unknown, I'd be really curious to see what story that was gallery originally produced for.

edited to add: D'oh, I am a doofus. I just now noticed the "Back to story" link which takes you to this CNNMoney.com piece on the American foursquare. One feature of the foursquare, which they hint at but don't explicitly state, is that there are usually no hallways (save for the foyer and a very small "perch" at the top of the stairs) -- the design plan is often truly just four squares, connected by large doorways, especially on the first floor. This is a great use of space, but it can make finding a public place to hang artwork or pictures difficult.

Also, if I can brag a bit, I'm tickled that they use the $149k WV house to illustrate the "dollar going a long way" -- my house was a third that much, and IMHO is much lovelier than the WV house. I love my city.

My first blog carnival post is up...

... in the Carnival of Taxes. I submitted my post on partial gifts, but my favorite post of the carnival was taxalicious' video post on taxes; I'm glad to know that I can write-off energy efficient upgrades to my vacation home.

It's an interesting first choice of a carnival for me as I rarely write about tax issues, and probably will rarely, if ever, submit again, but I'm excited to be involved in the carnival environment.

The bearded lady

Does anyone know of a site that lists all the personal finance related carnivals? I'd like to get involved.