Archive for February, 2006

Smart Cards for Public Transportation

While looking at credit cards, I came upon Citibank's SmarTrip Mastercard -- a Metro farecard and credit card in one. The Metro (in the D.C. metropolitan area) released the SmarTrip farecard a few years ago, and I definitely prefer them over the plastic farecards one usually buys. For one, the...
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Martians and Cardboard Beds

Studio 360 this week explored violence in entertainment. Comic Jack Handey (whom most people might know for his "Deep Thoughts" on Saturday Night Live) was invited to contribute. The result, "My Speech to the Martians," is hilarious. An excerpt: People of Mars, you say we are brutes and savages. But let...
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