I almost bought a foreclosed home from US Bank last year. Unfortunately the bank is retarded and they were trying to sell a house that wasn’t actually legally ready to sell because the property was tied up in the court system. Fine.

Not to be deterred by the legal system, I’m still intrigued by the idea of owning property. Either by assisting current owners by purchasing a short sale or taking advantage of foreclosures. These days foreclosures are listing much closer to true market value so the days of getting an excellent “flip” off a REO home are much lower than a 2-3 years ago.

US Bank foreclosed real estate

Wells Fargo foreclosed realestate

Chase Bank REO listings

Bank of America foreclosed homes

IGN does a nice breakdown of an in-game video for Call of Duty: Black Ops due November 2010. The coolest things are the radio-controlled gun robots and the guided missile weaponry. I thought Black Ops was supposed to be set in Vietnam but I’m pretty sure nobody had machine guns mounted on radio-controlled cars with remote cameras. Maybe I’m wrong.

Find Calvin and Hobbes strips using search terms like “spaceman spiff” or “snowman” using the Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine by bing (Michael “Bing” Yingling)

Hacker news revealed to me this web gem