How to Face Your Fear 
Basic Instructions, “Your all-inclusive guide to a life well-lived”, is created by comedian Scott Meyer. Meyer also creates the web feature Ask Captain Pike. 
Go forth and be instructed.

Will wrote Saturday about the union workers at the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago that are staging a sit in to demand the severence and benefit pay that their entitled to from their suddenly closed employer. The workers are getting some support in very high places. 
Yesterday, from President Elect Barack Obama:
“When it comes to the situation here in Chicago with the workers who are asking for their benefits and payments they have earned, I think they are absolutely right,” Obama said Sunday at a news conference announcing his …

A surefire way to get your shop featured as an Indie Retailer is to have a necklace shaped like a saltine cracker, as Emily E Jewelry does. What makes it even better is the fact that I was eating that type of cracker when I discovered the store. Vaguely meta. 

Golden Saltine Brass Necklace, $24.00