With coupons, you did like I did tonight and save a few bucks on a variety of different grocery items. Groupon let’s you save real money on some really great stuff that you’d like to do, but you didn’t want to spend the full price on it to do it.

Groupon was started by some folks in Chicago, just a short drive to north of Indianapolis and they did it so they could “enjoy all the great stuff in our hometown of Chicago”. Sounds like a good enough reason for me.

Groupon has grown to over a million users who have collectively saved more than $25 million with the service. That’s a pretty good track record for a site that hasn’t been around very long at all.

Have some fun, save some money. Groupon continues to expand, soon it will be in your city if it’s not already there now: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, Miami, Minneapolis/St.Paul, Nashville, New York, Omaha, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, and Washington DC.

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There’s more to learn and answer questions about than just English Vocabulary. You can test your knowledge. You can test your gray matter on other topics and subjects like:

• Art
• Chemistry
• English
• Geography
• Foreign Languages
• and Math

It’s all here, and the more you know the more rice that the Free Rice website will deliver to those in need.

The Free Rice website keeps track of how many grains of rice are donated each day. You can also decide to keep track of how many grains of rice you contribute yourself.

The rice that’s earned and donated is distributed through the United Nations World Food Program. As you answer questions correctly, sponsor advertisements are displayed along the bottom of the page. The earnings generated by these sponsorships pay for the rice that you’re donating.

So, do something good with your time. Learn something new and feed some hungry children around the globe.

Uncover some food for others at the Free Rice website for yourself.

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There were some really cool items auctioned off, both from a historical significance and for those sci-fi and movie buffs. Check-out these items and the prices they went for in the auction.

• $141,600 – Original Amelia Earhart flight goggles worn during her historic 1932 solo transatlantic flight.
• $106,200 – Elvis Presley’s personal Martin D-28 guitar state-used in his final Las Vegas performance.
• $94,400 – Original hero screen-used T-800 Endoskeleton from T2 3-D:  Battle Across Time (Universal,1996)
• $88,500 – Full-scale screen-used Hero Bumblebee robot from Transformers.
• $82,600 – Original hero Stormtrooper helmet from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
• $76,700 – Large-scale model of front section of Discovery ship from 2010.
• $76,700 – Full-scale Velociraptor maquette from Jurassic Park.
• $70,800 – Michael Jackson’s iconic illuminating glove worn on state during The Jackson’s Victory Tour.
• $70,800 – Archive of 1,300+ puppets and set pieces from Emilio and His Magical Bull.
• $70,800 – Walker Edminston archive of Time for Beany show puppets and memorabilia.
• $70,800 – Original full-scale T-800 endoskeleton from Terminator 3:  Rise of the Machines.
• $64,900 – Ooogie Boogie puppet from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
• $57,500 – John Steed derby hat from The Avengers.
• $56,050 – Harrison Ford signature hero "Indiana Jones" bullwhip from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
• $53,100 – Stephen Boyd complete "Messala" charioteer costume from Ben-Hur.
• $47,200 – Full-size Predator display from Predator and Predator 2.
• $35,400 – Michael Jackson stage-worn Boyd Clopton design from "Going Back to Indiana" and other concerts.
• $35,400 – Christopher Reeve hero evil Superman suit from Superman III
• $47,200 – Astronaut Gus Grissom’s Worn Mercury Flight Suit"
• $14,160 – Neil Armstrong Baseball Cap Worn After Splash-Down And Recovery From The Historic Apollo 11 Mission To The Moon III
• $8,260 – Early Production Apple Macintosh 128 Computer Given To Gene Roddenberry by Apple Computer
• $4,425 – Megan Fox’s Hero Motorcycle Airbrushing Costume Worn as "Mikaela Banes" from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
• $4,130 – Megan Fox’s Hero Black Leather Motorcycle Costume Worn as "Mikaela Banes" from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

The next time you’ve got some spare cash sitting around the house and you want to grab a piece of American history, be sure and look for the next Profiles in History auction online.

Note: I’ve bolded the items above that are shown in the image with this post.

Image: Used with Permission from Mark Kruskol MJK Public Relations

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I’m going to have fantasy football teams on loads of websites.

• Fox Sports Fantasy Football
• ESPN Fantasy Football League
• Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football
• CBS Sports Fantasy Football

I’m sure it’s going to be quite a bit to keep up with. I know last year I couldn’t remember what player I had on what team. With this many leagues going I felt like I had every player in the league on one of my teams or another one.

My experience has been that I like ESPN Fantasy Football League interface the best, but I’m probably most familiar with Fox Sports Fantasy Football. CBS Sports Fantasy Football is a new one for me this year, so we’ll see how that goes.

What’s been your experience with the various online fantasy football leagues? Which site gives you the best options and experience while you’re watching the game?

I can tell you one thing, I DO NOT like a snake draft league. I got 2nd pick in one league and felt like I wasn’t picking again until the following day. It was crazy!

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I absolutely love playing Monopoly. I would love to participate in a Monopoly tournament and I can have that chance now on the Hasbro Monopoly website.

What I didn’t realize is that there is a TON of strategy and statistics that should be known to be a complete master of this game. That I don’t have yet.

Part of the process for making it to the tournament selection process is to get 16 out of 20 Monopoly related multiple-choice questions correct. I only got 13. Makes me feel like an idiot and will probably curse me to spend FAR too much time reading strategy tips on a variety of Monopoly related websites. Just do a search for Monopoly strategy on Google and you’ll have plenty of reading.

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These was perhaps the funniest Super Bowl commercial of the night. What was your favorite? This was part of a contest sponsored by Doritos and I believe this ad was created by guys from Indiana.

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Here’s your chance to voice your opinion for what’s cool and helpful to you on the Internet. Have you shared these sites with anyone else? Do you use them? What do you think?

You can vote once per day for each category.

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Yapta is a website that lets you search for flights to take your next trip, and track them for future price changes before you confirm and purchase them. You don’t purchase the flights through Yapta, but they link you back to the airline’s or other seller’s website for the actual purchase.

Now they’re also having a contest through the end of the month for tracking flights and you can get up to 10 entries.

Yapta is proud to announce the “Track-A-Flight” Sweepstakes where you can win one of 20 prizes, including a $500 gift card to Marriott, a 1-year Clear Pass, the fast pass for airport security, or an Airport Lounge Day Pass, which provides access to over 500 airport VIP lounges across the world.  Becoming eligible for the Sweepstakes is easy.  All you have to do is visit Yapta.com during the month of October and track the airfare on any flight and Yapta will present you with the opportunity to participate.  You can increase your chances of winning by tracking up to 25 flights anytime between 10/1/08 and 10/31/08 to receive the maximum 25 entries into the sweepstakes.**

To find out more about Yapta and uncover some great deals, oh yeah and enter the sweepstakes visit their website by following the links below.

• Yapta website
• Yapta sweepstakes entry

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Image: Screen grab from Popular Mechanics website by Jason Bean

Here’s another online contest where you could win $250,000 to pay off your mortgage. In economic times like these, getting rid of that house payment would really come in handy wouldn’t it?

Just to give you an idea of the scale, that $700B bailout we all just paid for would have been enough money to award $250,000 to 2,800,000 homeowners. I’d say that would have helped the economy a bit too. That would have been an Extreme Financial Makeover: Home Edition.

Since that didn’t happen, the next best thing is to enter the contest and see if you can win your own mortgage getting paid off. I’ve got to read the instructions though, if I won that money, I’d pay of this house, sell it at a loss and go buy us a bigger house a big discount with the housing market the way it is. Wonder if I can use it for that.

Just follow this link to enter the contest. You are signing up for a free trial subscription for Popular Mechanics magazine. I’m a subscriber and love it, but I also know this is one magazine that makes it easy to cancel your subscription if you want to after the trial.

Uncover a paid off mortgage with Popular Mechanics Payoff Your Mortgage Sweepstakes.

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Do you have kids?

If your kids are anything like my daughter, then they spend all kinds of time laying on the floor or at her table and coloring pictures. She’s quite the artist and it seems like she’s always looking for something new to color.

The Crayola website has loads of printable pictures she can download and print-off for her enjoyment. She can also get loads of new ideas to spark her creativity.

Here’s a little bit about the brand we’ve all grown-up with and come to love.

From its earliest beginnings, Crayola has been a color company. We came into being when cousins Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith took over Edwin’s father’s pigment business in 1885. More than 120 years later, color – along with creativity, learning and most of all, fun – is the hallmark of our company.

Crayola has called Easton, Pennsylvania its home since the early 1900s. Today, the company’s world headquarters and major manufacturing facilities are located there. And downtown Easton is the home of The Crayola FACTORY® , a one-of-a-kind celebration of creative fun for everyone!

If you go visit the Crayola site now, they have plenty of special offers and contests you can enter as well.

Uncover some great new Crayola products and creative activities for yourself or your kids at the Crayola website. How long has it been since you’ve picked up a pack of crayons. Take some time now and go color a picture with your kids.

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