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Ben Goldacre on the experiments that show that humans are happier with things that cost them more money. I suggest naming this “the Bose effect”.

Man opens thousands of checking accounts, then links them to E*Trade, who verify each by sending sub-dollar deposits. The richard-pryor-in-superman-3 attack in action.

Mechanical Turk project where users were paid $0.01 to draw a section of the $100 bill.

The new UK coinage is wicked cool — the individual coins are part of a larger picture.

Wesabe have created an open API to allow folks to hack on their bank account data. I foresee some stonking visualization work coming out of this that will put Quicken, Microsoft Money, etc to shame.

I knew of the security feature that prevents scanning/photocopying modern paper currency, but I hadn’t heard this name for it.

Good tips on avoiding being caught out by unexpected “fees”.

Marc Hedlund’s start-up launches. Looks like an awesome light-weight social web-based finance manager, for folks for whom Quicken is too much hassle. Whether users will entrust their financial info to Web 2.0 remains to be seen.

“Tracking how much money people can lose with penny stocks from spam.” Next you’ll be telling me that V!A6RA doesn’t work!

Us east-coasters can now get our full credit reports online for free.