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Sun July 22, 2007
(Some Guy) Dumbass Sony To Apple: You're greedy and don't want other people to make money. In other words, Sony new business strategy is communism. (27)
The Register Hero Ask.com challenges Google by promising to not tell anyone about your late night tranny midget porn searches (23)
Yahoo Interesting LA port clerks present final offer: They're allowed free Gatorade and get to close the store to play hockey (37)

Sat July 21, 2007
Guardian.com Sad Don't tell Argentina, but now would be a perfect time to invade the Falklands (138)
Yahoo Dumbass A SEC search tool meant to help investors find companies active in "sponsoring terrorism" worked by simply finding references to countries like North Korea, Syria, and Iran in company's filings (12)

Fri July 20, 2007
CNBC Obvious Stock market sheds 150 points on news that you can't sustain an economy on credit card debt and home equity loans (35)
Network World Scary The corporate sing-along returns -- GAAA (25)
SLTrib Spiffy College professor calls prices "immoral," eliminates textbook requirement (329)
Yahoo Interesting GM regains sales lead over Toyota in the 2Q. Suck it, Ricers (37)
AP Strange Not satisfied with devouring Dow Jones, Rupert Murdoch's next target: A steakhouse in Maryland (video included) (6)
Jalopnik Amusing The new "Crew," continuing the Dodge tradition of designing egg-mobiles since 1980 (26)
The Register Amusing If you're looking to consumer electronics to fill the role of God in your life, you've probably already discovered that the iPhone is not God (39)
BBC Hero Dow Jones director quits the company in protest after News Corp takes over (28)
BBC Asinine Some people are disappointed with Google’s recent $925m profits. In other news, Google Image Search results for world’s smallest violin are at an all time high (13)
AP Amusing Roswell car dealership sends 50,000 scratch off promotional tickets to residents ... and all of them were the $50,000 grand prize winner. Cue the X-files music please (65)

Thu July 19, 2007
(EarthTimes.Org) Obvious Senate Finance Committee votes in 61-cent federal tax hike on cigarettes. Suck it, smokers (106)
AJC Followup Nike drops Zoom Vick V shoe set to come out in August. "We consider any cruelty to animals inhumane and abhorrent." That is, unless they can manufacture a pretty decent shoe (108)
ESPN Interesting Ever wonder how the names, numbers, and logos get onto your athletic apparel? (34)
Reuters Obvious Dow closes above 14,000 for the first time ever on news that it has been below 14,000 for every previous close (17)
(Some Guy) Cool Google offers $1,000 credits for newspaper ads (15)
Reuters Obvious Fed chairman considering requiring affordability tests for mortgage seekers, you know, like what used to happen before 2000 (33)
Yahoo Cool Warren Buffett's annual shareholder meeting starting with basketball against LeBron James, then "Bershire Hathawayville" by Jimmy Buffett. And then it got weird (25)

Wed July 18, 2007
CNN Obvious Anheuser-Busch to start selling bottled water, thus confusing consumers who can't differentiate it from Bud Light (97)
AP Interesting Delta discovers the mysteries of Step 2 (10)
CNN Obvious Pfizer pfails pfinancial pforecast (6)
CNBC Obvious Stock market crashes on news that oil hit $75, you can use the U.S. dollar for toilet paper, and Fed Chairman Bernanke opened his mouth (142)
Reuters Obvious Chrysler dumps plans to build the 6000-SUX (111)
Reuters Stupid Reuters perks up a slow Wednesday by reporting on the ever-growing Love Doll craze in Japan (185)
Marketwatch Dumbass You know all that money we invested for you in subprime mortgages? Oops. Our bad (13)

Tue July 17, 2007
Network World Sad Tech industry well-represented in corporate fraud Hall of Shame (2)
CNN Unlikely From the department of "I just made this number up, lets see if anyone runs with it" -- Back to school shopping will generate $18.4B in sales this year (62)
Yahoo Spiffy Dow hits 14,000. Cars overturned, gun shots going off in celebration in Lower Manhattan (535)
Wall Street Journal Followup Murdoch to WSJ: DEAL (88)

Mon July 16, 2007
Reuters Scary What's worth a combined $300 billion dollars, has crappy coverage, abysmal customer service, and when combined will form Voltron? (62)
Yahoo Interesting Barbie helps Mattel increase profit 15%. It's so nice to see women making a difference in the workforce (34)
CNN Interesting White trash suburbia rejoice: IHOP is buying Applebee's (307)
SFGate Sad President of JanSport killed in car crash. Coffin will feature charging iPod pocket, extra carrying strap, ripstop nylon, and genuine YKK zippers (94)

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