Linked In is a digital chain letter.

Who likes Linked In? Not Scoble, and definately not Jeff Atwood who thinks Linked In is a digital chainletter.

Of course there's this on Linked In from Mashable. 

Threadless: Sticking it to the man.

You have to love a bunch of guys who are sticking it to the man just because they're too lazy to sign the contract.

Via Jason at 37 Signals:

It’s about time the Chicago press noticed a few dropouts in their 20s selling nearly $20,000,000 worth of T-shirts on Ravenswood Avenue.

“It certainly doesn’t hurt our PR when we go to speak and stuff like that to say, ‘Yeah, we turned down Target. We turned down Urban,’ ” Kalmikoff says. “But honestly, a little bit of it was laziness. We were like, ‘Well, who’s gonna fill out all this paperwork? I’m not doing it. Are you gonna do it?’ It just sat for like two weeks. Then we’re like, ‘Just tell ‘em no.’ We couldn’t take the time away from our client work for our side project to be filling out the paperwork to get into Target.”

Some dirty SOB stole my iPod.

Joshua Stimle got robbed and blogged it. Some dirty, low-down selfish SOB smashed the driver side window of my landrover and pinched my iPod with all my beloved podcasts on it. Truly, I hate that. I would gladly replace the iPod and the $500 landrover window replacement if I could have caught that filthy thief in the act. I'd have beat him worse than Billy Barty whupped Ryan Coombs.

Insurance Companies: How to charge more than no coverage at all.

 Insurance companies are not your friend. In fact, they don't have friends.

As health insurance costs skyrocket and more people turn to high-deductible policies, a key question is emerging: When you're paying out of your own pocket, what rate do you pay?

Is it a discount negotiated by insurers, or the provider's gross charges, which could be several times higher than the negotiated rate?

Case in point: Lisa Stamm of Kendall, who had a simple earache and got slapped with a $375 bill for about 10 minutes with a nurse practitioner. If she had no insurance, she could have paid $125. If she had a no-deductible policy, her insurer might have paid about $140, and she would have paid nothing.

But Stamm showed the receptionist at ER Urgent Care Center on SW 137th Ave. her Cigna insurance card, and that sparked the problems.

''This really made me mad,'' Stamm says. ``I called the insurance commissioner's office. I called my insurance. You'd think something could be done.''

But no. ER Urgent Care insists she cough up the full $375. ''We as consumers have to make our choices,'' said Trudy Herdocia, the firm's vice president of operations. ``And live by them.''

GBAT (Guy's Bozofication Aptitude Test)

Guy Kawasaki's Bozofication Aptitude Test is now online. As a minor contribution to the blogosphere you'll notice that question number 15 is incredibly insightful.

This is why I love NY.

Updated on Tue, February 28, 2006 at 9:29 PM by Jeff Barson

Anyone who's spent time in NY finds this stuff truthful and funny. Of course there's also overheardintheoffice.com that feeds me stuff like:

CCA: My Excel's not working.
Manager: I don't care.
CCA: What should I do if my Excel's not working and you don't care?
Manager: Call the Ghostbusters.

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