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Sun August 12, 2007
Toronto Star Interesting Wal-Mart in trouble. Farkers hire Kool and the Gang for Celebration (59)

Sat August 11, 2007
Daily Mail Asinine Supplier of environmentally friendly cleaning products loses their "non-animal testing" endorsement ... because of tests on some 0.2mm water fleas (25)
AP Obvious Dana Corp reports loss of $225 million in the first 6 months of 2007. Vote Dana Corp for congress (13)
LA Times Scary Google fails at something (36)
Telegraph Interesting On one of the worst days in recent stock market history -- almost £56 billion wiped off the value of London's leading firms amid worldwide panic. Chimney sweep academies laugh and profit (19)

Fri August 10, 2007
(Some Guy) Dumbass Today's Paragon of Personal Responsibility suing McDonald's for $10 million because they put cheese on his cheeseburger (307)
(Some Guy) Followup That suit Johnson & Johnson has launched against the Red Cross? They may actually be right and have a case (32)
(NY Observer) Dumbass Man pays $33 million for NYC townhouse less than 26 feet wide (104)
(Bankok Post) Followup Fed dumps another $19 Billion to banks to keep this Titanic economy afloat. Stockmarket: "Iceberg" (238)
BBC Scary The chickens are coming home to roost. EVERYBODY PANIC (46)
National Review Stupid Dumbest question asked at White House presser: "Do you believe America's corporations are not making enough money these days?" (48)
CNBC Cool Oil falls to $70 a barrel on news that as the economy slides into recession you'll soon be carless and need just enough gas to light a hobo fire with your family before enjoying a dinner of vienna sausages (16)
ABC News Interesting Faced with rising health insurance premiums, companies now starting to charge fat workers extra if they don't put down the cheesburgers (339)
Forbes Followup U.S. stocks head for sharply lower open (This is sort of a repeat of Thursday's thread. Stocks will go down another 400 points. Just here on Friday. Good buying opportunity. Unless they will go down on Monday too.) (80)
(Radio World) Interesting The proposed satellite radio merger gets an unlikely supporter: the "TV police" (12)

Thu August 09, 2007
Network World Obvious Vonage nearly done deploying patent workarounds (19)
Yahoo Scary This is the stock chart that has the media jumping out of windows in PANIC (49)
Reuters Obvious Market research has shown that interest in the penis-enlarging condom is enormous (65)
Toronto Star Interesting For the first time in 12 years, an American car brand tops dependability study (42)
Yahoo Followup The "plunge": Stocks lose a little bit of yesterday's gains EVERYBODY PANIC (33)
(Some Guy) Followup French bank suspended three funds today because U.S. subprime-mortgage fiasco is preventing the bank from calculating the funds' value (7)
CNBC Scary Stock market set for a bloody open on news that the Federal Reserve panicked and pumped $12 billion into the banking system (243)
UPI Sad Oil staying even at a measly $72.15 a barrel (6)
(Some Guy) Amusing 360's sales plunge 60 percent in light of ridiculous failure rate. What was that about the PS3 sucking? (237)
Yahoo Interesting First it was tainted dog food, then toxic toothpaste, now defective tires. China is trying to kill us all (25)
CBC Asinine Johnson & Johnson "cross" the line by suing a non-profit group (28)

Wed August 08, 2007
Winding Road Strange A prototype of Mercedes' next supercar has been spotted, and it looks exactly like... a Dodge Viper? (19)
CNN Dumbass Amazon to open DRM-free MP3 store where the first downloaders get their song for free, then pricing increases based on demand. What could go wrong? (65)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Based on this article, bastard Drew is now worth over $1 Billion dollars (23)
(EFF) Unlikely Universal Music Group claims that stamping some words on a CD means that it belongs to them forever. We're pretty sure they licked it too (61)
Wall Street Journal Cool Want a house on the Atlantic for $10 grand? It's yours - hope you like icebergs (20)
Toronto Star Dumbass If you thought that, as a Louisiana stockbroker, you'd be safe sending threatening emails to the Canadian Finance Minister, well, you'd be wrong (28)

Tue August 07, 2007
Telegraph Interesting So it turns out there may be a downside to owing 1.2 trillion dollars to a militarily strong dictatorial communist country (127)
CNBC Scary U.S. dollar slides lower against the yen. If this keeps up, we'll be going back to wampum as a source of currency (50)
Wall Street Journal PSA How to get that six-figure salary without knee pads, bib (29)
CNN Followup Dow Jones drops at a record pace on news that Bernanke was talking (9)
Yahoo Obvious Duke Energy posts 17 percent drop in second-quarter earnings, sucks (7)
MSNBC Obvious BREAKING NEWS: Fed does nothing. Stick with MSNBC for all your updates on nothing (93)
CBC Obvious Warner Music posts third-quarter loss. Download the sound of world's smallest violin (12)
Reuters Unlikely PC maker Lenovo to purchase Packard Bell. In other news, Packard Bell is still in business (26)
Houston Chronicle Scary Today's home lender about to go tits-up brought to you by Houston and Aegis Mortgage Corp (16)
CNN Obvious *Pop* goes the private equity bubble (13)
(Some Guy) Interesting Map of minimum wage rates across the country (84)
Yahoo Ironic Molson Coors posts 2Q increase in profits due to strong sales of Coors Light. Only time you see "strong" and "Coors Light" in the same sentence (18)
Globe and Mail Dumbass U.S. stockbroker charged with threatening to kill Canadian Finance Minister because of his decision to tax income trusts (9)
Denver Post Cool Frontier CEO routinely helps out gate agents and baggage handlers, has animals tattooed on his ass (8)
(Some Poor Guy) Interesting In its lastest attempt to control everything, Google will start to pay users for confirming business information. Google monopoly trifecta in play (14)
CNN Florida Supermarket chain to offer free antibiotics for that crotch rot you picked up, slut (18)
(The Oil Drum) Interesting Mythbusters: Ethanol and foreign-oil displacement (132)
Newsweek Misc If the containment policy of the Cold War worked as well as this subprime-mess containment policy, we'd all be speaking Russian and living on collective farms (10)
Marketwatch Cool Microsoft cuts prices for X-Box 360. Still includes random stop working forever feature (93)
Reuters Unlikely McDonald's to sell off Boston Market, vowing to re-focus on improving edibility of its burgers and fries (24)

Mon August 06, 2007
National Review Followup Kudlow tells Cramer to suck it long and suck it hard (17)
(Some Overrated Guy) Stupid Former Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli, who was "fired" with a $210 million buyout, takes over at Chrysler. Vegas sets his buyout over/under at $500 million this time due to even bigger crater potential (19)
Yahoo News American Home Mortgage files Chapter 11. Default on nearly $800 million in promised loans (96)
Fox News Interesting Oil falls more than $3 a barrel on news that Lindsay Lohan is finally getting the help she needs (10)
(Some Guy) Obvious Mars cancels huge dog show sponsorship. Officials hope Taco Bell will step in, perhaps tying in a "Come enjoy the last-place contestants" ad campaign for its restaurants (53)
CBC Interesting Important beer news from Canada, where they usually take beer quite seriously (122)
Yahoo Obvious Ben Stein nicely explains why we're all a bunch of dumbasses for buying into the "housing slowdown = recession" drivel (42)
Fox News Obvious Ford recalls 3.6 million vehicles due to the cruise control's controversial "burst into flames" setting (184)
(Some Guy) Hero Jim Cramer loses his temper (44)
(Some Guy) Interesting The price of gold may soon rise over $1000 an ounce (27)
NCBuy Unlikely No. 1 milk distributor in bizarro world is certain consumers will pay premium for New Jersey milk (13)
(Some Guy) Scary Asian markets dip after Friday's shaky trading on Wall Street. Is it time to start hiding money in the mattress? (28)
AP Unlikely Bloggers may try to form labor union for health insurance and collective bargaining. Huh? (14)
Wall Street Journal Dumbass Home Depot ex-CEO Robert "$210 million golden parachute" touches down in the headquarter of the new Chrysler, LLC as its new CEO. "You too can drive a butt-ugly Sebring. We can help" (27)

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