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Sun December 02, 2007
(NYT) Interesting Europeans complain the euro is too strong, Americans whine about the cratering dollar. Goldilocks unavailable for comment (4)
Daily Mail Asinine Virgin Media may have to bend over and take a £400million fine because they endangered customers and then tried to cover it up (10)
CNBC PSA Dude, your Dell stock just took a 12% hit on an earnings miss (19)
(NYT) Asinine China gives free money to the world and especially the US. Solution: get them to stop. You're doing one heckofa job there, trade envoy Susan Schwab (30)

Sat December 01, 2007
(NY Times) Obvious Housing crisis? Try mobile McMansions (26)
Idolator Obvious Top Ten Rock Star Bad Teeth List - Surprisingly, David Bowie is at the top. It's surprising considering he is married to one of the hottest babes on the planet, Iman. Oh, and Brits dominate the list. Go figure (24)
Forbes Obvious The 20 hottest billionaire heiresses. You'd hit them on a pile of money (slideshow) (26)
(New York Daily News) PSA CNBC rates Jim Cramer a "BUY BUY BUY" His royal loudness will be with us for three more years, or at least until his next heart attack (6)
Marketwatch Unlikely AT&T CEO laughs at Verizon's "open network" initiative, states that the US already has "the most open cellular network in the world" (35)
(Bloomberg) Florida Schools across Florida can't pay their bills after state invests their money in the lucrative subprime mortgage market (17)
(Some Guy) Obvious Financial crisis will likely send the U.S. dollar into a free fall to where it is worth 10 cents Canadian and see gold soaring to $2,000 an ounce. "We are going to see economic times the likes of which no living person has seen" (62)
ABC News Interesting Police complain that new Hershey's chocolates are packaged to look like street drugs (pic) (139)

Fri November 30, 2007
NPR Asinine From the "Learn From Our Mistakes" department, California developers build on fire-prone land (17)
(Some Guy) Spiffy ♫ He's making a list, checking it twice / Gonna cut rates if the market ain't nice / Santa Ben is coming to town ♫ (12)
CNN Spiffy Oil prices dip below $90/barrel. OIL BARONS PANIC (7)
Wall Street Journal Asinine Treasury Dept. close to finalizing a plan to freeze sub prime mortgage rates. However, if you are being a good borrower and paying your bills on time, fark you (49)
CNN Sad "Roger & Me" is now down to "Me" (186)
YouTube Dumbass CNBC's Erin Burnett calls Bush a "monkey" - twice. Hilarity ensues (141)
MSNBC Interesting Anheuser-Busch says they can't water their beer down anymore and will be passing along the increased cost of ingredients to the consumer (26)
The Sun Obvious Spice Girls unveil ad for U.K. supermarket chain Tesco. Like Tesco itself, the ad is cheap, unattractive and trashy (link to vid) (15)

Thu November 29, 2007
Forbes Interesting Forbes list of hottest billionaire heiresses. Do not want #8. Ok maybe just once (56)
Yahoo Asinine Ford agrees to settle some rollover cases - by giving vouchers for buying Ford SUVs (23)
Daily Mail Scary The International Monetary Fund has warned of a "perfect storm" caused by surging oil prices and the turbulence on the world's financial markets that could be about to hit Western economies (16)
Houston Chronicle Interesting US economy grew at a blistering pace of 4.9 percent this summer, lifted by sales of steroids to Barry Bonds (56)
(bizjournals.com) Interesting In a move to double the overall suckiness, American Airlines plans to spin off its commuter airline operation (5)
CNBC Obvious 224,451 people lost their homes due to foreclosure last month. In other news, the Democratic National Committee signed up 224,451 new members last month (44)
CNN Obvious Citigroup, America's largest bank, does not have the capital reserves on hand to put all their crappy investments on their balance sheet. Enron's Jeffrey Skilling reportedly taking notes and planning his appeal for doing the same thing (16)
PCWorld Asinine Adobe partners with Yahoo to put ads in PDF files. Adoption of new file format by the masses to start in 3..2..1 (44)
MSNBC Scary US home sales suffered record FAIL this fall (25)

Wed November 28, 2007
Reuters Interesting If you have stock in the NY Times, sell, sell, sell like it's on fire and full of Ebola virus (28)
MSNBC Spiffy Top ten reasons a reverse mortgage may be good for you. List fails to mention reason number eleven: Your kids will have you declared legally insane to preserve their inheritance (22)
(Some Guy) Interesting Men with boring jobs die earlier, welcome death (25)
CNBC Obvious Markets soar on news that the economy is so bad that the Fed is going to have to cut rates again (26)
(Some Guy) Interesting Experts estimate that oil-rich nations have a $4 trillion cache of petrodollar investments around the globe. That rebounding economy Bushies love to brag about is being shored up by OPEC members (9)
Boston Globe Asinine Can't get enough of The Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, and throngs of teenagers? You'll love the new urban trend: condos INSIDE malls (64)
BBC Interesting World's four biggest glass manufacturers paned by $717 million fine for mirroring prices; news leaves executives looking glazed, feeling shattered (19)
Telegraph Obvious "One of the most accurate indicators of an imminent recession is in and Americans should start tightening their belts: Winnebago is expected to post a decline in sales this year for the first time in six years" (13)
BBC Obvious "One in eight people" work 48 hours a week. It's like slavery, but with a dental plan and Starbucks (68)

Tue November 27, 2007
Reuters Obvious One-third of mortgage holders in Britain could lose their houses as a result of U.S. subprime meltdown. Nice to see that crappy entertainment isn't the only thing the U.S. is still exporting (24)
(Some boy) Obvious Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association wants you to shop at Wal Mart. As if you needed another reason not to (45)
(Bloomboig) PSA Freedom is on the march: U.S. dollar is virtually on par with the Canadian dollar. Mission accomplished (19)
TBO Florida Tampa considers selling naming rights for its convention center. "Fark.com Florida Tag Headquarters" up for grabs (46)
MSNBC Interesting Home prices tumble the most since 1987. In other news, Fark snarkiness expect to quadruple as more middle-aged white guys move back into their mom's basements (40)
MSNBC Followup Oil prices drop below $95 a barrel on news that Rosanna Arquette is dating Sir Paul (3)
(AJR) Obvious Sixty percent of newspaper website visitors identified as "fly-bys," spending just 68 seconds reading news there. And you're one of them: "The Internet is redistributing the news audience" (5)
(Calculated Risk) Obvious Fed: "Don't expect rate cut in December." Market: "So, 25 basis points or 50?" (6)
(Business Week) Interesting Would a gold standard save the dollar? (42)
(Some Guy) Obvious Billionaire: "I'm going to move my speedway from your town." Town:"Here's $80 million in incentives to stay and we'll name a street after you." Billionaire:"Okay, I guess I'll stay" (35)
(FT) Ironic Citibank gets emergency $7.5 billion funding from Abu Dhabi at 11 percent interest. Suddenly, submitter doesn't feel so bad about his student loans (19)
CNBC Scary It's official: U.S. stock markets have fallen 10 percent from their highs and are in full correction mode. Ammo, canned goods and bottled water expected to rally in response (27)
Minneapolis Star Tribune Amusing Costco already sold out of Christmas lights. EVERYBODY PANIC (19)

Mon November 26, 2007
Boston Globe Obvious Airlines have made ends meet by making economy class a hellish experience. Ric Romero would have reported, but he's still stuck on a 727 with an overflowing toilet on the tarmac in STL (173)
CNN Interesting Dick's Sporting Goods buys Chick's Sporting Goods, to be renamed Chick's with Dick's (88)
Boston Globe Cool Apple stores suck (70)
Marketwatch Obvious Citigroup has found a way to survive their bad investment in risky home loans as they plan to fire 45,000 people. Merry Christmas (29)
CNBC Obvious Real numbers on actual spending and not "foot traffic" shows consumer spending off 3.5 percent on Black Friday. Suck it, optimists (89)
Google Obvious Crude oil over $99 again. If there were only some plans being made in order to bomb the shiat out of one of the largest oil-producing countries in the Middle East (8)
ABC News Obvious Your annual Cyber Monday article brought to you by ABC News, who wants to remind you that Cyber Monday does not exist (50)
CNN PSA The cost for all that stuff in "The 12 Days of Christmas" is $78,100 this year. The milking maids saw the biggest increase. A partridge in a pear tree is still the same price (65)
Yahoo Interesting Retailers overjoyed to find that people in danger of losing their homes still want to have a big beefy merry Christmas, and are willing to pay through the nose for the privilege (13)
Reuters Obvious Gold about to hit 28-year-high. There's a reason they call it the investment of last refuge, and it's nothing good (14)
AP Amusing Circuit City wins Biggest Balls of the Year award (40)

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