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Sun September 30, 2007
(Some Guy) Cool An increasing number of women in business are taking alternative routes to the top (13)
(Bloomberg) PSA You can't blame 9/11 for that time you withheld e-mails during a costly arbitration (9)
Independent Obvious "When does a person decide to become an accountant? When he realises he doesn't have the charisma to succeed as an undertaker" (20)
Slashdot Asinine AT&T threatens to disconnect your DSL if you criticize the company on+++@@@NO_CARRIER (39)

Sat September 29, 2007
(NZ Herald) Amusing "The magnets were too powerful, so on occasion car keys metal biros or other small metal items in proximity might rapidly attach themselves to the wearer's testicles" (69)
Canada.com Interesting Soaring Canadian dollar hurting country's marijuana industry (20)

Fri September 28, 2007
Reuters Obvious The Euro may replace the dollar as the chief reserve currency. Anyone got a $10,000 bill submitter can borrow? (47)
Yahoo Interesting Oil is back over $83 per barrel. Everybody panic (17)
Reuters Dumbass The MPAA continues overestimating industry losses and making empty threats against offshore web sites (13)
Reuters Interesting Dot com bubble, housing bubble, corn bubble? (26)
Yahoo Sick If I posted this...... OJ's new book kills Clinton's, slashes records (38)
UPI Cool U.S. personal income up, spending surges. Libs, sucking it (61)
(Some Guy) Interesting Need some surface-to-surface missiles? In the market for grenade launchers or plastic explosives? Then this may be the place for you: World's largest arms fair (23)
Network World Interesting 3Com being sold to Bain, Huawei (7)
(Financial Times) Obvious Freddie Mac CEO: "The U.S. has a 40-45% chance of a recession." Calls for a raise on the cap of Jumbo loans, so the govt.-backed firm can buy worthless debt. No word on if he kicked a puppy after the speech (11)
(Business Week) Obvious Just in time for your stocks to take an end-of-week slide... Microsoft Excel discovers 65,535 = 100,000. Hope your 401K still uses Lotus 1-2-3 (75)
Reuters Obvious Oil hits near-record high of $83 a barrel on news that Mets are choking their way out of the post-season (2)

Thu September 27, 2007
Daily Mail Obvious New Mini Cooper will not be built in Britain, depriving a generation of car owners the chance to tell "So I was just going down the street when the driveshaft fell into the road and all the electrics quit" stories (89)
News.com.au Interesting Dollar closes stronger .... um, that would be the Australian dollar (6)
(Motley Fool) Amusing Chuck Norris vs. the Credit Crisis. Chuck Norris doesn't target inflation. He roundhouse-kicks it until it begs for mercy (15)
(Some Guy) Obvious Comcast customer service rep confesses. What you thought was true - is true (27)
Wall Street Journal Followup Verizon backs away from ban on NARAL Pro-Choice from using SMS service to contact members. U kno who else censrd txt msgs? (11)
(Motley Fool) Amusing Michael Vick: New Vonage spokesman. WOO HOO (9)
Marketwatch Spiffy U.S. second quarter GDP growth soars 3.8 percent on news that, despite being shut off from their household equity, ATM consumers just applied for more credit cards to max out (12)
ABC News Obvious "The Billionaire' Guide: How The Super-Rich Made It Big." Yes, some of them do charge $5 a month for access to parts of their websites (28)
CNBC PSA Bed, Bath & Beyond earnings expected to rise to $147 million on news that the "Beyond" division is doing really well (11)
Fox News PSA Paying $25,000 for a Ferrari cell phone will not make your penis any bigger (216)
SFGate Obvious SF Bay Area has highest salaries and cost of living in the U.S. In other news, the Golden Gate bridge is orange, Alcatraz used to be a prison and you can buy weed on Haight Street (39)
The Register Amusing Antigua demands $3.4 billion from the U.S. for continued violations of WTO rules and rulings. U.S. offers $500,000, suggesting that they don't really take them seriously (24)
The Register Interesting New Microsoft search engine will let its dozens of users track the worldwide popularity of Salma Hayek. Who says Microsoft doesn't innovate? (9)
Chicago Tribune Interesting Good news: Wall Street to open up higher today on news that our economy sucks (20)
BBC Followup The dollar continues to go down faster than Lindsay Lohan on a coke dealer (21)
CNBC Obvious The price of oil will hit new record highs next year, say experts (15)
Rocky Mountain News Cool Jack In The Box returning to Colorado after 11 year e-coli timeout. Submitter will never take you for granted again, sweet, sweet Breakfast jack (25)

Wed September 26, 2007
LA Times Interesting Warner Bros. and Abu Dhabi announce plans to build Middle East theme park. Expected to be the best destination since Disney and North Korea teamed up on 'Lil' Kim's Small World of Death and Torture' (13)
Marketwatch Obvious Sallie Mae's private equity suitors announce that after months of nagging they will not consumate the marriage. Planned Parenthood approves (10)
Network World Dumbass TJX refuses to give credit monitoring and insurance to 45.2 million data breach victims (8)
NYPost Obvious MSG former intern testifies about Marbury romp, claims it was consensual. Her great new job with MSG has nothing to to with this. (with "I'd like her to dribble my balls" pic) (7)
CNBC Scary Bear Stearns desperate to sell 20% of their company to China. This can only end well (12)
(Some Guy) Interesting Ever wonder what the melt value of that quarter is? (34)
Network World Interesting Red Hat faces stiff challenges to move beyond its core technology (11)
Chicago Tribune Sick United Airlines 2006: Dump pensions, we're broke. 2007: We have $21 Billion in excess assets. Suck it, taxpayers (64)
Yahoo Interesting Demand for durable goods plummet in August; GM vehicles still selling well (10)
London Times Interesting If Microsoft DID buy Facebook, how would they make their money back? (25)
(Some Guy) News GM and UAW have reached a tentative agreement: GM will continue a slow death, and its workers will continue contributing to it (383)
(Financial Times) Obvious Remember when world banks promised that the subprime issue was just a blip on an otherwise upward trajectory? Yeah, they were lying. The fallout might ruin banks the world over (29)
CBC Interesting Treating depressed workers boosts productivity. Unfortunately many are depressed because they are at work (6)
CBS News Obvious U.S. housing sales fall for the sixth straight month, hitting their worst downturn in 16 years. A&E and TLC still showing home flipping shows, laughing as they count their money (39)
Local6 Sad Just promote it. Nike creates shoe exclusively for American Indians to help fight obesity. Submitter has reservations (37)

Tue September 25, 2007
Yahoo Asinine Vonage ordered to pay Sprint $69.5 million for patent infringements. Woo-hoo woo-hoo-hoo (33)
Yahoo Silly Huffington Post launches new financial advice column. Not sure how many different ways you can say "Oil companies are evil" and "Socialized medicine," but welcome aboard (12)
(E&P) Followup Detroit newspapers tell striking General Motors workers to STFU & GBTW (20)
Network World Obvious AT&T mints $1 billion networking deal with Treasury Department (9)
MSNBC Ironic British Petroleum chief warns investors of "dreadful" third quarter. Drivers worldwide ready tiny violins (9)
(Some Guy) Scary Consumer confidence plunges, economic worries grow (42)
Chicago Tribune Obvious Consumer Product Safety Commission (R-K Street) wasn't going to bother recalling a million Shoddy-Ass Chinese Cribs-O-Death until the Chicago Tribune started working on a story about it (14)
Yahoo Obvious Today's edition of news you absolutely, positively didn't see coming: "U.S. home price decline accelerates" (22)
(WUSA 9 News) Interesting In the wake of the modern housing meltdown, now repo men are hauling shiny new Audis and BMW's away (55)
Reuters Misc Nintendo climbs past Canon to become Japan's second-most valuable company. Mario still no match for impenetrable Toyota castle (9)
CNN Interesting Hungary to tax that ass (58)
WebProNews Interesting Howard Stern to be yapping soon on Google Radio? (15)

Mon September 24, 2007
Boston Globe Followup TJX loses 45.7 million customer credit card account numbers to hacker. TJX says "We're sorry, take 15% off anything for the next 3 days and we'll call it square" (10)
Yahoo Silly Microsoft in talks to invest in/ruin Facebook (47)
(iLounge) Asinine Vivendi complains that they only get 2/3 of the iTunes store prices and don't have to pay the credit card fees or maintain the software. In other news, world's smallest violin now available on BitTorrent (12)
Canada.com Ironic Clinton "the best Republican president we've had in a while" (70)
Reuters Stupid The cost of living uber-rich soars, despite the fact that it still costs the same to rent the world's smallest violin player (185)
MSNBC Scary In a bid to boost brain bleach stock, Alan Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell reminisce about their first date (6)
(WorldCarFans) Cool Ford found a buyer for Jaguar and Land Rover. Brits rejoice (20)
(Bloomberg) PSA Government bond traders say the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates again before the end of the year as the economy will come to a standstill (9)
The Register Hero EU free market thinkers recommend driving a wooden stake into the heart of Microsoft (19)
CNN Interesting Google at $600 a share is possible. Here is why, and it doesn't include "cuz Cramer said so two years ago" (10)
CBC Obvious Oil companies think they pay enough royalties in Canada and don't really want to pay more (17)
CBS New York NewsFlash GM auto workers go on national strike. EVERYBODY PANIC (703)
(Ben Stein) Obvious It is a shame that we have to appease the big rich babies of Wall Street to keep the economy going, but they are very strategically placed big babies and they need care (6)
Yahoo Sad The U.S. and USSR understood mutually assured destruction. The UAW and GM? Not so much (7)
MSNBC Asinine UAW will strike Monday morning if an agreement is not reached. GM expected to finally turn a profit (25)

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