So, I got my wisdom teeth taken out on Friday morning. So far so good. Best hack? Put ice packs in the cups of a bra and strap it around your head. It’ll hold the ice right where you need it, and leave your hands free. Plus, you’ll have a bra on your head, hello. (Lots of random stuff from other parts of the blogosphere and internet this week… I’m feeling a little random, if you couldn’t tell.)

  • Catherine wonders why we perceive high-cost as high-quality, and whether it’s always or sometimes or never true. (Read it at Wise Bread)
  • Steve gives a-little-too-late advice–that isn’t too late for me! (Read it at brip blap)
  • I can’t get into coupons–I mostly buy whole foods like meat and vegetables, and coupons are usually for packaged, branded things–but Trent’s coupon hack is genuinely cool. (Read it at The Simple Dollar)
  • An activist’s take on predatory subprime lending practices. (Read it at Feministing)
  • “‘Poor,’ of course, is relative. On the bench in New Jersey’s Superior Court, Mr. Napolitano made $100,000 a year.” (Read it at The Washington Times)
  • “Is Britney Spears’ death wish really worth $120 million to the American economy?” (Read it at Jossip)
  • I’m going to start posting regularly at the Prosper blog. My first post went up this week, as did a guest post from Nina. (Both at Prosper Blog)
  • Queercents’ Allison wrote the cover story for the current issue of Echelon magazine, a GLBT business magazine. (Read an excerpt at Echelon)

Queercents Rehash: Unexpected Expenses Typically $2000 Annually: Like, say, getting the giant molars with which our ancient ancestors gnawed on woolly mammoths surgically extracted from my head?