distributed lending

http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/15/technology/disruptors_zopa.biz2/index.htm?postversion=2006092014

Not exactly "peer-to-peer", IMO, but interesting.

Hmm. If this takes off, I predict that Paypal is going to jump in there; they have the infrastructure to support it.

interview with John Hodgman

aka the Daily Show's "Resident Expert", author of "The Areas of My Expertise", and (surprisingly, to me at least) an editor for the New York Times Magazine--for, like, actual nonfiction. Pretty funny, and an interesting look at what simultaneous living in the real and fabricated news worlds looks like.

http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/09/hodgmania.php