Veritable Plethora

If you’re looking for a job these days–it’s gonna be hard.  The economy is terrible.  But if you have a killer resume and tenacity, you should have no trouble getting interviews.  Good people are hard to find.

Check out these 20 very cool and creative resumes and get some ideas on how you can make the sheet of paper you give to future employers really pop.

Investopedia is a very cool website where you can learn a lot about investing and stocks in general.  There is basically an online classroom where you can search for all types of articles about different financial topics.

If you get really into it, you can even sign up for the free fantasy stock market investing guide.

Get started learning how to invest.

Read this post at lifehacker about how to watch full tv show episodes and movies online at Hulu.  In case you don’t know, Hulu is a great website where you can stream videos right on your desktop.

There are some ads, but they’re not that big of a deal.  Read the article here.

Warren Buffett gives great interviews.  He has such a fundamental approach to investing that it’s pretty remarkable to hear him talk about his views.

Read the transcript of the three hour Buffett Interview.

Check out this website, where you can see Sarah Palin’s answers to the very few interview questions she has been asked during her short tenure as John McCain’s running.

The site is called interviewpalin.com.

Tune in to the vice presidential debates and please turn out to vote.  Don’t let these people continue to drag the country down.

Are you one of the many people enduring the painful struggle of finding a decent apartment?  If you are, then seek solace in the fact that you are not alone.

That having been said, read this article about some steps you should take to find the perfect apartment and land it.

It’s getting easier and easier every day to find information about people online.  Addresses, phone numbers, pictures.  Piece of cake.

But who’s looking you up and why.  Find out who “Googles” your name at a new website called Ziggs.com.

Here is a list of 12 greek words you can use in your daily life.  Want your boss to stop bothering you?  Stop him in his tracks by busting out the word anathema in a sentence.

Did you know kudos was a greek word?

I have to say that my favorite word on this list is plethora, which is “an excess or undesired abundance.”

Maybe you can’t use all of these words in your daily life, but what’s stopping you from trying?  And if you’re a writer, you gotta know a little Greek.

Have you ever tried to find someone who you can’t find on one of your four or five social networking sites?  You can’t find this person on Facebook, on Myspace.  You can’t tweet this crazy mofo.  Is that your problem?

Well, check out this list of four websites you can use to find people online.  These sites are like people search engines.  Of course, there are problems with the methods these sites use and accuracy is an issue because of privacy, etc.  But who knows, one of these sites might work.

According to an article in the Washington Post, vice presidential “candidate” Sarah Palin accepted close to $25,000 in gifts including a “gold-nugget pin” worth $1,200 from the historic mining community of Nome. That year she approved $6 million dollars in funds to the city. She received some of these gifts after forwarding an ethics reform bill to the legislature.

Granted, gifts like “an Aleut woven basket, a sea otter headband, a Tlingit rattle and an Athabascan chief necklace” (collectively adding up to approximately $1,000), a $300 whale baleen basket, a $300 woven grass fan (is that made out of the kind of grass you weigh by the ounce?), and an ivory necklace worth $150 may seem quaint, folksy, and harmless, but if you were to glad-hand me a “$2,200 ivory puffin mask”, I’d be ready to talk business with you Alaska ethics reform style.

I think what “Governor” Palin might have actually meant by reform was maybe reforming the type of gifts people in Alaska seem to give. It’s like, hey guys I’m all for whalebone chotchkas and sea otter pelt tapestries, but how about giving me something I can use, ya know.

Read more about Palin’s gifts.

In other Sarah Palin news, watch this video of her interview with Katie Couric. In one of her rare media talking appearances, Governor Palin gets field-dressed–err–gets dressed-down by the ever-feisty Couric. An interesting thing about this video is that you can watch as Palin shuffles through different talking points in her mind and excitedly lands on one that sounds like it might work.

Striking a de rigeur campaign pose, Palin drops a lot of rhetoric and doesn’t really say anything even though her lips move a lot. I mean, a lot of words come out, but it’s like, come on, answer the question robot-woman. She really struggles when confronted with the “I can see Russia from my state” comment in the second video here offering a stammering account of how Alaska is the entry point from Russia and how Putin “rears his head”, but to her interviewer’s credit, Couric generously helps Sar-Pal fill in the gaps and quickly moves on.

It would have been too easy.

Read more at this article in the New York Times.

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