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From the Inbox: Conspiracy Theory?

Interesting email I received from one my colleagues. His logic is interesting, and considering the debacle our President has gotten us in over the last 8 years, I wouldn’t be surprised if the brilliant minds of Wall Street actually set themselves up with a safety net in the form of insured credit default assets in [...]

25Sep2008 | Fredric | Comments | Continued
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Nominate YBP Guide for a 2008 Black Weblog Award!

What’s up family.

Nominate YBP Guide for the 2008 Black Weblog Awards

We’ve made a lot of progress over the last year and half. We’ve increased our community based to over 500 readers a day and are slowly gaining new readers and authors everyday.
Show your support for the YBP family by nominating us for a 2008 Black [...]

1Aug2008 | Fredric | Comments | Continued
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Jumping on the 50 Million Pound Bandwagon

So I think by now we’ve all heard about Dr. Ian Smith’s 50 Million Pound Challenge. If you haven’t, here’s a throwback post about it.

The 50 Million Pound Challenge

I’ve been hearing about it for over a year now and while I have always applauded Dr. Smith’s efforts, I never really gave the challenge much thought [...]

31Jul2008 | Kimberly | Comments | Continued
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From the Inbox: Being Black in America, FTC PSA

Color of Change: Now is the time to draw a line in the sand by putting Fox on notice that their behavior won’t be tolerated. In less than a minute, you can help us do that. Then invite your friends and family to do the same.
After Senator Obama won the nomination, he and his wife [...]

25Jun2008 | Fredric | Comments | Continued
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Barack vs. Fear / The Internet / Ignorance / Haters

This political season has already shaped up to be unprecedented on many levels. Senator Obama has dealt with things we can only imagine, all in a package of class, dignity, eloquence, and intelligence. I remember seeing a special awhile ago of how he stopped smoking. With all the stress he has had to endure these [...]

18Jun2008 | Fredric | Comments | Continued
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TechBuzz: Time.com Top 50 Websites

Time.com has recently released their top 50 websites for the masses to gawk, peruse, and abuse. I remember this list coming out last year and couldn’t really understand what the criteria was. On some levels, I halfway expected them to showcase ‘decent design’ or ‘ease of use’. Similar to last year, however, their theme is [...]

18Jun2008 | Fredric | Comments | Continued
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Go Green Checklist

April 22 is Earth Day, a time to celebrate gains we have made and create new visions to accelerate environmental progress. The push, especially for Americans, to reduce pollution and help save the environment is based on evidence that the [...]

22Apr2008 | Kimberly | Comments | Continued
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YBP TAX Tip


14Apr2008 | Kimberly | Comments | Continued
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Missing Money?

I hesitate to ask that with the steadily-declining news about the economy. But, this site may bring good news.
I caught a report on the TODAY Show about missingmoney.com. It was part of a segment on how to budget better and find new sources of cash and financial relief. The site, by the National Association of [...]

11Apr2008 | gbevel | Comments | Continued
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hulu is here

In the words of Marvin the Martian:
Did you hear the earth-shattering kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom?
No? Well, perverbially, your computer just jumped a few levels in its ‘usefulness’ as a device for watching television without any new hardware. No, I’m not talking about fuzzy and blurry videos of youtube or the [...]

12Mar2008 | Fredric | Comments | Continued