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We just showed you how to use Mint to get a handle on your spending, but on the business end of the spectrum, it looks like the personal finance web site has been acquired by Intuit—a company that's made its name with personal finance software like Quicken and TurboTax. On one hand, it's kind of a shame seeing Mint go into the hands of Intuit (we always like a little healthy competition), but on the other hand, people may be much more likely to drop their paranoia and start using Mint now that it’s backed by such a big name in personal finance. [TechCrunch]

A Winnipeg bike courier found nearly $20,000 on top of an automated teller machine in a downtown Winnipeg office building and got a $50 gift certificate for his honesty.

Banjo Bowl 6 was simply embarrasing all around for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Sunday as the Saskatchewan Roughriders strafed them for 55 points.

Miikka Kiprusoff is already a fan of Brent Sutter.

On Day 1 of training camp, the Calgary Flames goaltender
peered through his mask and watched his new boss direct traffic in the
defensive zone.

A stickler for detail, Sutter stopped the play at the smallest mistake. Everyone, and
he means everyone, must be on the same page.

“I think it’s good to start doing that kind of stuff right
from the start,” said Kiprusoff, who is wearing new pads this year. “Training
camp is not that long, anyway. We have to be ready right when the season
starts.”

This is a new season with a new coach, and Sutter set the
tone in the first very first session by blowing the whistle and correcting
captain Jarome Iginla, of all people.

Superstar or rookie, multi-millionaire or career minor
leaguer — status or reputation means nothing to the new head coach of the
Calgary Flames.

“Before practice, he talked to a group of us and let us know
what to expect,” Iginla said. “We are going over things and if he does stop
(practice) don’t take it personal. We’re all trying to get better here.

“It’s not to embarrass any of us.”

Iginla played on a line with Olli Jokinen and prospect
Mikael Backlund.

Notes: Forwards Rene Bourque (ankle) and Brian McGrattan
(shoulder) wore yellow jerseys to denote no physical contact as they continue
to recover from their respective surgeries. John Armstrong sat out entirely due to what Brent Sutter dubbed as "soreness."  The rookie centre underwent shoulder surgery at the end of last season with the Quad City Flames

The Calgary Flames announced Saturday they have offered Theoren Fleury a tryout as camp gets underway in Alberta.

Hoping to prevent errors like the one made by CFL officials in the disputed match between the Montreal Alouettes and B.C. Lions last week, the league is reportedly looking at changing some of its game rules.

Remember when I told you the 802.11n spec wasn’t final, even though you’ve prolly owned a wireless N router forever? It’s final now. You can carry on with your life now (since you don’t have to buy new stuff). Feel better? [Signal2Noise]

Ouch, sorry friendly neighbors to the North. The Zune HD hits the U.S next week (Sept 15), but Microsoft has now confirmed that it currently has no plans to make it available beyond the States. At least for the moment.

Microsoft told Ars that:

“For the time being the Zune HD device will remain US only. Right now we are focused on deploying an exciting service in the form of Zune Video to 18 markets. We are looking at potential future hardware experiences for these markets, but do not have anything to announce right now.”

So that doesn’t say never, it just looks like they’re focusing on the U.S. first. The original Zune 30GB hit the U.S in November 2006, and it took until June 2008 for it to reach Canada. But given Apple’s ho-hum updates, something tells me that the Zune HD could roll out overseas much quicker than that. [ArsTechnica via Engadget]

Diminutive forward Theoren Fleury was reinstated late Thursday by the NHL, permitting him to resume a pro career that came to a screeching halt in June 2006.

In mid-August we got our first brief glimpse of the simplified Facebook Lite. The stripped down (Dare we say, “Twitteresque?”) version of the ‘Book has now launched in beta and anyone can get access by visiting lite.facebook.com.

This alternate version strips away the apps, the groups, the boxes, and leaves Facebook’s most important features — the inbox, status updates, photos, and comments. Also, gone are the semi-useful customized filters, feeds, and chat, which are vital for some. The simple site loads noticeably faster, is friendlier to navigate, and is much easier on the eyes thanks to the lack of people sending you virtual booze, or asking your to join their Vampire Fraternity.

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The early bird may get the worm, but there’s something to be said about burning the midnight oil. In fact, according to a new study, staying up later and longer may increase alertness and productivity more than being an early riser.

Photo by myyorgda.

According to the study as reported by Scientific American:

An hour and a half after waking, early birds and night owls were equally alert and showed no difference in attention-related brain activity. But after being awake for 10 and a half hours, night owls had grown more alert, performing better on a reaction-time task requiring sustained attention and showing increased activity in brain areas linked to attention.

Of course we wouldn’t be surprised if another study were to come along touting the opposite conclusion, so it’s worth taking this news with a grain of salt, but the post is an interesting addition to the early bird versus night owl discussion. If you’re looking to find your peak performance time, check out our previous post on the best times morning people and night owls should get work done.

Want to show off a PDF or PowerPoint presentation on a web space without having to include an obligatory link to Adobe’s PDF viewer for the link-doesn’t-work crowd? You can embed those documents anywhere using Google’s document viewer.

Google Operating System points out an embed code that works for any PDF or PowerPoint file that’s hosted somewhere, anywhere online, and can be pasted into just about any web space that tolerates frames. Here’s an example of what that embedding looks like with an old 1040 tax form:

Hit the link for the cut-and-replace embed code, and check out the previously mentioned Scribd iPaper embedding for another no-software-needed document sharing solution.