Disappearing-Card Trick
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Gift cards, one of the most popular holiday purchases, can lose value if not used quickly
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Many 'contactless' credit cards can leak their owner's name and card number for reading at a distance.
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A few "harmless habits" can rob you of buckets of cash over time. Here's how to win back your money ... and sanity.
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That plastic card, the one with the lousy photo that's jammed into your wallet or purse, isn't just a license to drive. It's the green light to buy a drink, the ticket to federal benefits, the must-have document to get aboard airplanes. Now it's also the flash point for an argument about how best to balance America's security needs with worries that personal privacy could be swept away.
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A cordless phone borrows a trick from its cellular cousins, shrinking toward the vanishing point.
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What is the most valuable card in a suit? The obvious answer is the ace. But sometimes it can be the lowly deuce.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - A cheeky card trick has landed soccer superstar David Beckham back at the centre of controversy. FIFA, soccer&#39;s world governing body, isn&#39;t happy about Beckham&#39;s admission that he deliberately
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The elusive Illusionist casts it own type of spell
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Use some psychological tricks and end up richer.
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Gift cards have popular with gift givers, but many arenât aware that they come packed with hidden fees that can nibble away at the initial value of the cards.
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If a plastic card that gives you credit for something you don't want isn't your idea of a great gift, you can put it up for sale or swap.
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Those ghosts of unpaid bills past are coming back to haunt you.
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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A vanishing ball, thought to have been stolen by a spectator, may yesterday have cost Swede Johan Edfors the chance of winning the Madrid Open and of keeping his tour card.
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There was a 3% drop in the amount of money lost to card fraud in 2006.
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Sometimes the biggest rewards are hiding out of sight.
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Someone else is running out of things to close.