| Lending Club Courts Small Banks as Personal-Loan Partners
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 The peer-to-peer lender, which has both threatened banks' traditional businesses and cultivated Wall Street ties, is now selling its loans to community banks and working with them to offer personal loans as a counter to big banks' dominance in credit cards.
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| Uncertain Future Drives Afghans to Dollars
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 The afghani has been sliding for months, pushing up prices of imported staples like rice and fruit, in large part because of security concerns surrounding the departure of U.S. troops.
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| The (environmental) cost of the World Cup in Brazil
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 A workman installs grass in the Arena Sao Paulo stadium, the site of a crane crash in late November that killed two people. (Reuter photo.) The 2014 World Cup in Brazil is still six months away but already making news on many fronts. First, a crane crashed at a football stadium, killing two people. The site in Sao Paula was supposed to host the world cup opener. That was still creating waves when it was revealed that the world cup will dump over 2.72 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into earth's atmosphere. (This came from FIFA.) That is equivalent to CO2 produced by 560,000 cars in a ...
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| Turn A Beaglebone Into A Retro Game Console
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 We know it's possible to power a pretty killer retro game console with a Raspberry Pi. It turns out that if you're looking for something similar on a BeagleBone it's just as easy with BeagleSNES.
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| The History Of The To-Do List (And How To Make Yours More Effective)
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 When I was a kid, I read a book called The Listmaker. It's about a young girl who uses lists to organise and make sense of her life. At the time, I didn't read any more into it besides the fact that this was an odd hobby for a pre-teen girl to spend so much time on. Now, although I don't remember the book that well, I do see much more significance in the humble list — especially after researching where they come from and why we make lists.
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| Hold Your Pencil At An Angle To Get A Better Measurement
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 Getting a perfect measurement is rule number one when you're making pretty much anything, but it's easy to get lazy about it and just quickly draw out a line without thinking too much. Over on Instructables, Popular Mechanics reminds us that if you really want a good measurement, you need to hold that pencil at an angle.
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