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| L'Oreal - the ugly face of the French beauty conglomerate |
| Published: July 7, 2007, 6:14 pm |
| Tags: Soap Opera, L Oreal, Ethnicity, White Perfect, Mexico, France, Race Card |
| The French beauty product company L'Oreal was fined a day or two ago in a French court for racist hiring practices at one of its subsidiaries (Garnier France). The background is that the company, when hiring faces for an advertising campaign targetting the French market, made clear to their head hunting outfit that it expected no less than only |
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| Free $50 on American Express |
| Published: August 20, 2006, 10:48 pm |
| Tags: Credit Card |
| American Express is a reward card that automatically saves 1% to a high yielding savings account in your name, a perfect tool for those too busy to save for retirement. Features of One from American ... Read more news like this from PFBlog.com, The Best Personal Finance Weblog. |
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| The Lottery Credit Card That Gives Out $580,000 |
| Published: August 9, 2006, 6:36 am |
| Tags: Credit Card |
| about the American DreamCard issued by HSBC. The card will pay out at least $25,000 of prize money to one luck cardholder, and the more you charge, the most chances you have to win the lottery. It seems that the card has a number of followers now. Though seemingly attractive, American DreamCard still does not ... (1 comment) Read |
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| American Express Is Overhauling Its Rewards Plans |
| Published: August 5, 2006, 9:49 pm |
| Tags: Credit Card |
| American Express makes its cards less attractive with cardholders. If you can easily get juicy cashback up to 6% at Citi's Driver's Edge (pfblog review) with no annual fee, why should you pay to join Amex's mediocre reward program? (3 comments) Read more news like this from PFBlog.com, The Best Personal Finance Weblog. |
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| Credit Cards that Hurt Your Credit Score |
| Published: August 2, 2006, 5:22 pm |
| Tags: Credit Card |
| up for some no-limit credit cards can actually hurt one's credit score. If you are about to apply for a mortgage, think twice before you fall in love with no-limit credit cards. Also, from my personal experience, I don't see much value in having a no-limit card. I can comfortable living within a $5,000-limit ... (7 comments) Read more |
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| Custom-made Mitsubishi Materials Fine gold card |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 7:32 am |
| Tags: Mitsubishi, Materials Fine Gold Card, Hello Kitty, Business Cards, Display Box |
| have a gold plated business card. After we have seen the Hello Kitty s gold business card, it s time to take a look at the Mitsubishi Materials Fine gold card. The original business card is reprinted on recycled paper and coated in a gram of fine gold. All you need to do is to submit your card or send a 300 dpi scan, which will be further sent |
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| Swarovski studded Hello Kitty Maneki Neko' doll |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 12:37 am |
| Tags: Hello Kitty, Doll, Guitar, Ipod Mini, Hello Gold Business Card, And Robot, Swarovski Crystals |
| Hello Kitty gold business card, and a Hello Kitty robot. The centerpiece at the running event is a Hello Kitty doll made of 62,000 Swarovski crystals. Posed as a maneki neko (a good money fortune symbol in Japan), the dazzling doll is being showcased along with around 800 unique Hello Kitty products, including the crystal-studded Hello Kitty |
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| Blizzcon Schedule and Jay Mohr |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 4:10 pm |
| Tags: Gamer Life, Blizzard, Games Industry, Computer, Blizzcon 2007, Gameplay Footage, Incgamers, Jay Mohr, Starcraft 2, Starcraft Tournaments, Trading Card Game, Warcraft 3, World Of Warcraft, World Of Warcraft Art, Wow, Wow Classes |
| Incgamers.com has posted the Blizzcon 2007 Schedule, and ticket holders are in for a treat. Some of the things you have to look forward to are: Live gameplay demos from WoW and Starcraft 2 World of Warcraft, Warcraft 3 and Starcraft Tournaments Open panels on WoW, Classes, Dungeons and Raids, PvP and more Starcraft 2 gameplay footage and |
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| McDonalds and Kingston's Sleeping Goats |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 6:51 pm |
| Tags: Sleepless Goat Kingston, Mcdonalds, Credit Card, Cooperative |
| (mind you, they take credit cards, so they're not that alternative after all, I suspect). You've to grab cutlery from another counter where sometimes you're able to find cutlery, sometimes you can't. So, today there's nothing when I was hoping to somehow eat the food that I had just paid for at the counter, and that I had dutifully carried to my |
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| Idea - Use your digital scrapbooking layouts on cards |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 11:49 am |
| Tags: Digital Scrapbooking, Card |
| LayoutMy Layout on a CardInside of card reads:I'd give all wealth that years have piled, to be once more a little child,for one bright summer-day. - Lewis CarrollI want to show you something cool my mom has been doing lately. She pulls layouts I've completed from my Scrap Girls gallery, prints them out, and incorporates them into her greeting |
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| Getting more use out of your photos - Part 3 |
| Published: July 5, 2007, 4:37 pm |
| Tags: Photography, Paper Crafts, Digital Photography, Card |
| can be used for teacher cards, graduation cards, sports related cards, etc.Consider taking photos of nature: flowers, beaches, forests, paths, sunsets, etc. These can be great photos for inspirational card, sympathy cards and encouragement cards.Consider taking photos of balloons, presents, party hats, cakes, and other party type decor for |
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| Getting more use out of your photos - Part 2 |
| Published: July 4, 2007, 12:43 pm |
| Tags: Photography, Paper Crafts, Digital Photography, Card |
| you'll need to send them a card, and then you'll have photos of them to personalize it.Tip #3: Recognize that the very photos you scrapbook could have a double use on cards.Sometimes it's okay to include photos of yourself or your kids on a card to others. Grandparents love to receive cards with their grandkids photos on them. Also, thank you |
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| Getting more use out of your photos - Part 1 |
| Published: July 3, 2007, 12:06 pm |
| Tags: Photography, Paper Crafts, Digital Photography, Card |
| focus of the photo or your card. I used this on the baby photo on my card, focusing on my son's foot and blurring out his face. Now this photo works for girl baby cards as well as boy baby cards. I used depth of field again here in this photo. This one could be used for a birthday card, as the focus is on the messy cake and not on my son's |
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| Remember Running... |
| Published: June 4, 2007, 8:04 pm |
| Tags: Digital Scrapbooking, Card |
| been making postcards to send out to family and friends when memories of them pop into my mind. These are totally random postcards, and I just create them as I have time and as the memories occur to me. I feel like it's a good way to remind people every now and then that I'm thinking of them.This is my newest addition in the remember |
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| That Sound You Hear...is Panic in Milwaukee |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 7:54 am |
| Tags: Stan, Milwaukee Brewers, Nl Central, Nl Wild Card, Chicago Cubs |
| start focusing on the wild card. Shit, I know I just jinxed the Cubs. Let's move on...1. Pitching - Ben Sheets is on the DL. Chris Capuano hasn't won a game since friggin' May. Claudio Vargas and Dave Bush are totally hittable. And Jeff Suppan isn't intimidating anyone down the stretch. On the Cubs side of things, Ted Lilly is 7-0 in his last 8 |
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