NCUA $250,000 Insurance Limit Extended to 2013

While it may not apply to all of us, this is good news for those who have $250k in deposits at one institution. Tho, the best bet would be to split your deposits among multiple financial institutions.

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Third time's a charm. Tumblr 3.0

Tumblr 3.0 is live ... well, sort of.

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Radiohead Kicks the Middleman to the Curb: 1 Week, 1.2M Albums Sold

Radiohead, which offered its latest album as free downloads last week, has seen 1.2 million downloads of "In Rainbows." With no label, no promotions, and direct access to fans, Radiohead gave up its music for free and asked for donations, whatever fans deemed reasonable, in r …

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Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal

Your business model is not my problem. "Advertising-supported companies have long turned to the courts to squelch products that let consumers block or skip ads: it happened in the famous lawsuit against the VCR in 1979 and again with ReplayTV in 2001.

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A tax crisis, a rebate scheme and a warning

This is not, however, just an Indianapolis problem. There will be pockets across the state where folks will be facing double and triple digit increases.

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"We would have to plant 100,000 trees to offset the effect of Live Earth"

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Tax protest again closes Meridian Street today

Hundreds of protesters of rising property taxes today closed down Meridian Street near the Indiana governor's residence for the second time this week.

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How big will your tax bill be? Indianapolis sees major property tax spike.

If you're lucky, the increase will be relatively low. But if you're like many homeowners, your property tax bill will be an average of 34 percent higher. And for thousands it could be higher -- even double what it was last year.

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Why is downtown Gary, IN abandoned and desolate?

Anybody from Indiana have the inside scoop on what happened here?

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Summer TV; Wherefore Art Thou?

You can simply check it out when it re-airs...um, never! The summer rerun is slowly becoming a thing of the past, especially for serialized programs.

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Apple Planning to Rent iTunes Videos for $2.99 for 30 Days

Apple is in advanced talks with Hollywood's largest movie studios about launching an online film rental service to challenge cable and satellite TV operators.

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Patient bleeds dark green blood

A team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding dark greenish-black blood, the Lancet reports. The man emulated Star Trek's Mr Spock - the Enterprise's science officer who supposedly had green Vulcan blood.

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A Mac virtualization plan that would 'kill' Windows, Dell?

American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu thinks that Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") may have virtualization features far beyond the "rebooting into Windows" capability of Boot Camp. I'm a bit dubious, but Apple has pulled off shockers before.

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Indiana Daily Student Publisher Dead at 59

I knew Dave Adams from my time working at the University of Minnesota. He was a great man who really cared about student journalism.

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Cheering ban costs five students their H.S. diplomas

Caisha Gayles graduated with honors last month, but she is still waiting for her diploma. The reason: the whoops of joy from the audience as she crossed the stage. ...

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Amish are surprise champions of solar technology

When thinking of technologically advanced societies pushing the envelope on alternative energy, the Amish of rural Middle America are about the last group that come to mind.

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Clinton's Hillarious spelling gaffe

The presidential hopeful - in the running to be first female leader of the free world - was left looking like a goose during a speech to Silicon Valley technology business leaders in California.

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Police drummer rips band's lame concert

The singer in the Police jumps like a "petulant pansy," the drummer is making a "complete hash," and who knows what the guitarist is doing?

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Senators who OK'd war didn't read key report - CNN.com

A new biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has once again raised the issue of whether members of Congress read a key intelligence report before the 2002 vote to authorize war in Iraq.

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Pro Libertate: Dog and Man in Washington

Ken Rogers of Washougal, Washington was enjoying a visit with family in Kennewick and looking forward to some fishing when his slumber was rudely disturbed on the night of July 13, 2003.

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ELFCU creates fun program to teach young customers how to spend less, save more

To kids, Seymour de Green is a cute little frog who spends his time buying toys, snacking on horsefly tarts and emptying his piggy bank for pizza and movies.

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Apple Unveils New Product-Unveiling Product

I want to buy me a dozen of these! At a highly anticipated media event Tuesday at San Francisco's Moscone Center, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduced a new Apple product he said would "revolutionize" the process of unveiling new products throughout the world.

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Milton Friedman: Legalize It!

Milton Friedman leads a list of more than 500 economists from around the U.S. who today will publicly endorse a Harvard University economist's report on the costs of marijuana prohibition and the potential revenue gains from the U.S.

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Pot Prisoners Cost Americans $1 Billion a Year

American taxpayers are now spending more than a billion dollars per year to incarcerate its citizens for pot. That's according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics.

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Microsoft's New Paperweight

When I purchased a (brown!) Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Zune about a month ago, I figured I was getting a couple of things. For one, a pretty decent media player, with a few key features iPod lacked: a prettier user interface, a subscription music model, and a bigger screen.

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