http://www.moderncheek.com At the forefront of technology, style and effrontery Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:59:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is something I hadn't heard about until recently, but it's intriguing - the steadiness of gold, plus the investability of IRAs and 401k accounts. Simply put, a gold IRA is an IRA account that includes gold bullion as one of the investments. When you buy gold bullion and put ... http://www.moderncheek.com/2010/08/23/what-is-a-gold-ira-or-gold-401k/ Gold has always been a hot item, remarkable in its ability to hold its value regardless of the economy. Historically, this ability to hold its value is a reason that so many countries used gold coins for so long. Gold has been around for a while--England's first gold sovereign was ... http://www.moderncheek.com/2010/08/19/a-golden-opportunity/ Ever since I bought my first home, my mom has been politely goading me into letting her help spruce up the house with some plants. I'm black-thumbed, but she's always been great around plants. Here are some of the things I've looked into doing: Paving the area on ... http://www.moderncheek.com/2010/08/16/make-your-plants-happy/ The Car Connection is one of the most thorough car review websites I've come across. I'll browse through their site to highlight why I love the site. Looking at the page for the Mercedes-Benz E-Class you'll see that they have over 11,000--yes, really--pieces of content about this model. The content ranges ... http://www.moderncheek.com/2010/08/10/test-drive-this-site-first/ Chances are you've used a locker many times throughout your life, from pinning your class schedule into the door of your school locker to using lockers at work and at the gym. MoreLockers.com has over 30,000 locker solutions for every purpose imaginable, in scores of shapes, sizes and colors. The site ... http://www.moderncheek.com/2010/07/26/lockers-for-every-purpose/ If Google is the juggernaut of the search engine world, ShopWiki looks like it's poised to become the leader for niche shopping searches. The site crawls Google listings (among others) to create a very flexible shopping search engine. You can also browse the listings by category, such as Kitchen Appliances ... http://www.moderncheek.com/2010/07/21/shopping-search-engine/ One of the things I miss most about the small town where I grew up is the mailboxes. Everybody expresses their own personality through the way they accessorize their house, and the first thing you see is the mailbox. Mailboxixchange is an e-commerce site that sells all sorts of contemporary mailboxes, ... http://www.moderncheek.com/2010/07/15/a-post-about-post-boxes/ Our friends over at Edward's Hair Solutions have pointed us in the direction of a very disturbing trend: counterfeit GHD hair straighteners. In recent months, fake straighteners from the Far East have caused household fires in the United Kingdom and Canada. These deceptive knock-offs lack the safety features that have ... http://www.moderncheek.com/2009/11/10/buying-hair-straighteners-this-holiday-season-read-this-first/ San Diego Padres reliever Heath Bell went through something this offseason that tons of armchair managers have also experienced. He stepped on the Wii Fit board and the game labelled him "obese" (which, in turn, makes your character look like David Wells). And, like many of the Wii Fit's biggest - ... http://www.moderncheek.com/2009/02/16/wii-fit-a-major-league-fitness-tool/ Ask anyone who has applied for a business loan, mortgage or even a credit card in the past year, and there's no disputing that it's becoming increasingly difficult to secure a line of credit. Businesses, in particular, are hurting from this belt-tightening - moreso than individuals, many businesses live on ... http://www.moderncheek.com/2009/02/02/business-credit-during-the-economic-downturn/