Southwest airlines insulated themselves from the higher price of oil - plan to upgrade lavatories with a higher grit of sandpaper	(0)
		Air France cabin crews on strike because new President wants them to be less lazy	(3)
		Here comes $100 crude oil & $3 gasoline	(50)
(Some Guy)		Meet the dude with the world's best job: Four Points by Sheraton's Chief Beer Officer	(7)
(Some Guy)		Oct. 28: Say Happy Birthday to Bill Gates	(69)

		Sony's game division loses more than 800 million on PS3 sales. Sure we lose money on every sale but we make it up in volume	(43)
		Macy’s and Tommy Hilfiger sign an exclusive retail agreement giving Macy’s a monopoly on early 90s fashion	(17)
		China stock market investor: "I've already gained so much experience through losing money that if I gave it up now I'd be throwing it away"	(5)
		Apple is onto your scam; now limiting you to 2 phones per person, and don't try paying with cash either	(111)
		Former Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney says: "Our economy has been amazingly resilient to what's happened to oil prices over the last couple of years." Remember to fill the collection plates at your local gas pumps, citizens	(24)
		New stupid "teambuilding" exercise coming to a company near you: employee cooking classes	(25)

		Not content with selling everyone in the world a car, Toyota moving into wheelchair market as well	(8)
		Businesses, not cities, benefit from World Series spotlight, since businesses do not contribute to economic activity	(7)
		Rep Barney Frank (D-Lite) introduces a bill that would allow homeowners to sue mortgage lenders for giving them loans that they never had a realistic chance of repaying. Personal Responsibility?	(192)
		Joining the Mile High Club has never been easier (with disgusting pornographic pic)	(172)
		Bands find that involvement in video games is key to success. Journey could have told them this 25 years ago	(69)
		Oil prices surge to a record high on news of free tacos from Taco Bell	(41)
		Former executives of the leading supplier of body armor to the military were indicted for fraud and tax evasion. The case against them is said to be bullet proof	(6)
		Newfies flock back home as Alberta raises oil royalty rates by 20 percent, Albertans to go on unemployment and drink cheap beer	(25)
		CNet sells Webshots to American Greetings for $45 million. Trouble is, they paid $70 million for it in 2004	(6)
		Facebook valued at $15 billion, which at its current rate of income without expenses, it could make by the year 2108. In related news, a person earning minimum wage is now valued at $1.1 million	(26)

		New home sales rose - if you use the downwardly-revised August numbers for a base, then do a double-twisting backflip worthy of the Olympics. Fortunately, Wall Street will believe anything these days	(8)
(Some Guy)		"A raft of new studies reveal European and American multibillion dollar support for biofuels is unsustainable, environmentally destructive and much more about subsidising agribusiness corporations than combating global warming"	(48)
(Bloomberg)		Left-wing economist Paul Krugman longs for another New Deal and is so wrong on just about everything he redefines the word "wrong"	(52)
		U.S. government to fine BP a record $50 million for fire at Texas refinery. Gas company announces it will just jack the prices at the pump and have the fine paid by Friday	(14)
		Hotel chains devises new strategies for dealing with surge of naked sleepwalkers	(15)

		Anheuser-Busch profit rises on more international sales. Who knew foriegners liked crappy beer?	(49)
(alley with link to WSJ)		Microsoft wins Facebook contest for $240 million. Suck it, Google	(29)
(Some Guy)		"It's the official policy of the central bank and the U.S. to debase the currency"	(29)
		Existing home sales at lowest level in 8 years, as median price drops to $211k. The good news is that half of them sold for more, though	(50)
		25.8 million people rode Amtrak in 2006. People outside of Northeast surprised US still has trains	(64)
		Dallas Cowboys bid $275 on cowboys.com domain name, but default on the winning bid when they realize they really bid $275,000	(55)
		Google continues in its quest to own every company on the planet by announcing plans to buy Nielsen Data	(18)
		As if people in SoCal didn't have enough on their minds, homeowners face the possibility that their insurance companies won't cover their losses and might drop them altogether. Making SoCal uninsurable and thus uninhabitable	(67)

		Amazon.com reported third-quarter earnings a penny above estimates on a 41% jump in sales	(12)
(FP Passport)		The top 25 hedge fund managers combined earned more in 2004 than all five hundred CEOs of the S&P 500 companies combined	(56)
(Some Linux Fan)		Apple now worth more than IBM. Seriously	(48)
		NY Times 3Q profit rises 6.7%. They're not doing it wrong	(9)
		BP net income drops 29%. They're doing it wrong	(19)
		Amongst the trash from a Blockbuster video store were membership forms and employment applications that included names, addresses, credit card numbers and Social Security numbers	(24)
(Bloomberg)		AT&T's profit has increased 41% from last year, mostly thanks to the iPhone	(15)
		How about mainstream media lets us know when the US-euro exchange rate *doesn’t* reach a new record low?	(9)
		Cisco buys into WiMAX with $330 million buyout	(8)
		Short skirts, dubious advice, and tighty-whitey jokes on the Fox Business channel	(30)
		Calm has returned to global stock markets due to overnight* recovery on Wall Street. *Fictitious	(8)

		Europe steps up after the US wussed out on the whole Microsoft antitrust thing. Guess who just surrendered. You guessed wrong	(21)
		Apple beats profit estimates for the 621st time in a row, stock hits all-time high. Suck it Windows fanboys	(92)
		College tuition costs rise at twice the rate of inflation for the 30th straight year. Apparently, Economics 101 is not required to run a university	(51)
		Boone Pickens predicts $100 oil again cuz he's the man. It even becomes "breaking news." Melissa Francis looks nice too	(10)
		Communist China buys six percent stake in U.S. investment bank Bear Sterns -- EVERYBODY meh	(20)
		Investment bankers warn that capital outflows to emerging markets will lead to a massive collapse of those countries. Thanks for not warning us sooner, Skippy	(8)
		Company creates 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. shift in order to tap into the stay-at-home-mom labor market. If the CEO needs a ride to his soccer game, this should work well	(17)
		Halliburton profit soars 19% on news that the slaughter of innocent Iraqis is highly profitable	(29)
		Twenty years after the worldwide financial meltdown that was Black Monday, we can examine the world market and be assured that such a diaster could never -- AUGAHH AUGAHH DIVE DIVE	(15)
(FT.com)		Credit problems once confined to high-risk mortgage borrowers are spreading across the consumer landscape. EVERYBODY PANDEMIC	(18)
		Dubai unveils $20-billion DP World stock offering. Investors can get into it one of two ways	(18)
		Scotland's exports to Asia soar to unprecedented hangovers	(4)
(www.IHT.com)		Oil prices fall below $88 a barrel on news of Dumbledore's homosexuality	(13)
		If you buy a house, the bank can foreclose and kick you out. If you rent a house, the bank can foreclose and kick you out. If you own a bank, the government will bail you out	(31)