Entries from November 2006 ↓

In a recent Investor’s Business Daily article, the profitability of sin stocks was put to the test:

Many socially responsible funds do just fine without sinful alcohol, aerospace and defense, casinos and tobacco stocks. But funds that include such issues often benefit.

And few, if any, benefit more from these bad boys than Vice Fund (NASDAQ:VICEX). The $64 million fund targets those four groups — not to make a moral or political statement, but because it’s found they are winning sectors in good times and bad.

Dallas-based Mutuals Advisors launched the fund in August 2002. In 2003, its first full year, the fund returned 34%. Going into Wednesday it was up 17.77% for 2006 vs. 11.76% for mid-cap blend funds tracked by Morningstar and 13.45% for the S&P 500. Its average annual three-year return was 18.24% vs. 11.2% for its peers and 11.87% for the S&P 500.

Hilarious.

MyxerTones lets you take a favorite song and convert it into a ringtone for your phone. Once you upload the song, it sends the tone to your phone. I haven’t used any sites like these before, but this seemed very simple. Don’t forget to pick up It Was A Thumpin’ by George Bush.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation suggests that you contact your Congressperson about HR 550, which advocates a paper trail, regular audits, and open source code for all electronic voting.

You might think a software developer wouldn’t be advocating a paper trail. Quite the contrary.

Take action now.