Here’s a brief roundup of some personal-finace related stories:

• Maxed Out is a new film that explores America’s addiction to credit cards. Newseek takes a look at the movie and talks with the filmmaker, James Scurlock.
• PracticalMoneySkills.com is a free site intended to help teachers, parents, and students learn life-long money management skills. The site boasts an impressive array of resources, including financial caluclators, school lesson plans, games, and a banking tutor. This project has impressive scope, and mirrors some of the things I would like to do. Should I be worried that the site is a project of credit-card behemoth VISA?
• On AskMetafilter, somebody recently asked: “On balance, can I save money by moving to a vegetarian diet?” The consensus answer seems to be “yes, you can save money by becoming a vegetarian”. There are lots of good answers discussing the best food choices for vegetarians trying to save money.

This article is about Odds and Ends  Tuesday, 18th April 2006 (by J.D. Roth)