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Taking the bus from Boston to New York City

You can often use the discount code NYBOSR in order to get $30 round trip tickets.

Airfare search sites

http://yapta.com will track prices and email you if the drop exceeds the rebooking fee.

http://bing.com/travel predicts fares to tell you if it's likely to fall or increase.

http://itasoftware.com helps find the cheapest days to fly.

Hotels

http://biddingtraveler.com helps with Pricelining.

http://homeaway.com helps find vacation rentals.

Cars

http://autoslash.com finds car rental discounts and applies them automatically to your reservation after you book.

Today, an endless, recombinant, and fundamentally social process generates countless hours of creative product (another antique term?). To say that this poses a threat to the record industry is simply comic. The record industry, though it may not know it yet, has gone the way of the record. Instead, the recombinant (the bootleg, the remix, the mash-up) has become the characteristic pivot at the turn of our two centuries.

-- William Gibson