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Sun March 02, 2008
Telegraph Asinine Download 4 episodes of Friends to your cell phone? That'll be $21,852 and two cents (11)
News.com.au Obvious Organic raised chickens still taste the same as factory raised chicken. Same great taste for a higher price (176)
CNN Stupid Consumer Reports releases list of 11 worst cars. 7 of them are trucks (45)
(Some Guy) Obvious CEO of Six Flags has no problem with indoor waterpark that opened across the street. There is enough price gouging for everyone. That will be $46, for reading the article, please (19)
(Some Guy) Obvious Turns out that male nursing home workers and reverse mortgages have something in common: They both fark your grandma (19)
MSNBC Asinine Activists protest at Countrywide vice president's house, they think, for having the gall to expect people to read the contracts they sign (69)

Sat March 01, 2008
MSNBC Obvious Ford to re-introduce the Fiesta in the U.S. ushering in an era of smaller crappy cars (62)
Marketwatch Interesting The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency says that if they don't get a report on mortgage delinquencies from the nine largest banks, the banks are going to bed without dessert (8)
(Somerville Journal) Misc Boston area bike shop sells $8,000 bicycles to people who want to ride a couple miles across town without looking cheap (56)
Yahoo Obvious Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway's profits rose 20% in 2007. Suck it credit crunch (20)
The Register Asinine If you thought something as obvious as a "buy it now" button couldn't possibly be worth patenting, you would be wrong. Rights to the "Not safe for work" button are still up for grabs (12)

Fri February 29, 2008
(WPMI) Interesting "There are only two places in the world where large airplanes are built: Seattle, Washington and Toulouse, France. Now, there will be a third: Mobile, Alabama." (61)
(Some Guy) Interesting Laugh your head off all you want, but hard data shows Viagra is the biggest medical brand name out there, stiffing the competition and making a huge profit every year. Penis (15)
Reuters Asinine Nortel announces $957 million loss in 2007, 76% loss in stock value, another 2,100 job cuts. Oh and a 22% raise for their CEO to $10 million per year (50)
This Is Local London Interesting World's most expensive house sells in London for $159 million (26)
News.com.au Amusing Scots want copyright to protect the kilt, wee set of bagpipes underneath (13)
(AHN) Interesting Over a lifetime, three smoke breaks a day kills 8,677 work hours, employee (36)
CNBC Spiffy Good news: Income and spending went up in January. Bad News: We spent it all on $3 per gallon gasoline and $40 Cheerios (17)
Slate Amusing The lamentations of an HD DVD adopter: "The bad guy won at the end by clocking the lovable underdog in the crotch with a baseball bat" (48)
Independent Dumbass Rogue Trader 2: The Search for More Money. MF Global separates the chaffe responsible for losing $141.5m betting against the price of wheat (13)
CNN Sad The 10 best cars in America. Not surprising: only one is a US brand. Surprising: two are Hyundais (461)
(Information Week) Obvious Apple COO says Apple is not "married" to AT&T, it's AT&T's Vietnamese prostitute (33)
CNBC PSA The chance of a 75 basis point fed rate cut in March is now up to 62% (21)
Chicago Sun-Times Misc McDonald's profits up this McLent due to Filet-O-Fish sales (27)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Datarecovery.com purchased for $1.7 million in the most expensive domain name transfer so far this year (7)
(Some Guy) Interesting Middle class millionaires. They're better than you (68)
Marketwatch Interesting The Economist is becoming increasingly popular in America, taking market share from TIME and Newsweek thanks to its intelligent celebritard-free journalism (210)
(Some Guy) Interesting 13 stupid ideas that made millions of dollars (23)
CNN PSA Oil hits $103 a barrel on news of Prince Harry being pulled from Afghanistan (47)
Orlando Sentinel Cool Burger King unleashes the Angry Bacon and Cheese Whopper (32)
AJC Spiffy Forget Prada knockoffs. How about knockoff Ferraris? (20)

Thu February 28, 2008
SMH Obvious What recession? Luxury airline sales soar on news the rich will be using them to fly to their private islands while we feast upon the goo inside our neighbor's head (14)
(RCR News) Scary On average, Sprint Nextel loses just over $9,800,000,000.00 every month, for an average of $326 million every day (30)
USA Today Dumbass "On the plus side, Chumby can deliver bug fixes and software updates over the air. Your prized clock radio of yesteryear couldn't do that." Probably because my clock radio didn't need patches (30)
(foxbusiness.com) Interesting Dollar Tree Stores reports Q4 earnings of $1.04 per share, citing strong sales of higher ticket…wait that can't be right… citing strong sales of higher margin items and cost controls (13)
CNN Obvious Gold approaches $1,000 an ounce on news the Federal Reserve has made the dollar as worthless as wampum (30)
NYPost Obvious New Yorkers who don't bat an eye when they spend $400k to live in a closet on the Upper East Side, kvetch at having to pay $1 for a plain bagel (124)
LA Times Cool U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson on reckless mortgage lenders and borrowers who didn't read their contract: Nix on bailout, no taxpayer money for you (113)
CNBC PSA GDP increased at 0.6 percent in Q4, 2007, compared to 4.6 percent in Q3 (17)
CNBC PSA Dude, Dell has a serious problem. It's stock fell back to 2006 levels (31)
CNN PSA Banks begin to fail. Article: "Experts say you shouldn't panic." You know the drill (31)
Metro Obvious Financial Services Authority head says the era of cheap credit "is finished", and only those with near-perfect credit records will qualify for the best deals. Suck it, substandard debtors (54)
(Prairiepundit) Obvious The Democrats' NAFTA slander (173)
AP Obvious Were energy prices to continue to rise at a sharp clip -- something the Fed does not anticipate -- it would "create a very difficult problem" for the economy. Nudge, nudge, wink , wink, say no more (130)
Wall Street Journal Scary Come see the softer side of Sears, which is apparently the side whose profits drop 47 percent in one quarter (19)
CNBC Obvious Thornburg has an "unexpected" margin call of $300 million. John McLain proclaims yippie kai-yay mother cluckers (16)
Yahoo Asinine In a bid to ensure $4-per-gallon gas, House okays $18 billion in new taxes on big oil companies (477)
Yahoo Asinine Sorta news: XM and Sirius want to merge. News: DOJ has taken more than a year to approve while 200 other mergers pass. Fark : "Lets not rush this"-- Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich (44)
Sky.com Cool Thousands of workers planning to use Leap Year's extra day by sleeping in late on Feb. 29 to protest the extra hours they are forced to work throughout the year (22)

Wed February 27, 2008
Herald-Leader Stupid Dairy Queen franchise owners suing the chain, claiming that they cannot afford mandates to expand the menu and put more tables in their restaurants. In other news, DQ apparently thinks anyone goes there for anything but Blizzards (50)
(RADAR) Asinine What's that over there rolling over in the grave? Oh, Converse and Hunter S. Thompson's estate have agreed to put out a Gonzo shoe (24)
CNN Obvious Warning signs that you could soon lose your job: Farking while at work might get your network login deacti (24)
Contact Music Interesting Disturbing online ad campaign for "Untraceable" prompts Facebook to shut it down. "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo" ad campaign still okay (9)
Wall Street Journal Scary "Regulators are bracing for well over 100 bank failures in the next 12 to 24 months" (62)
CNN Asinine U.S. government eliminates portfolio limits and cash reserve requirements for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. What could possibly go wrong? (33)
Yahoo Interesting EU fines Microsoft 564,853,556 Vista licenses for antitrust violations (27)
CNN Obvious BMW dumps 5600 jobs on news that it's difficult to sell overpriced middle management penis mobiles on a weak economy (63)
(bloomberg.com) Scary Oil hits $102 per barrel on news that oil hit $101 per barrel (13)
MSNBC Obvious Fannie Mae takes a $3.6 billion hit to the fanny (12)
Chicago Tribune Sad Adman who created McDonald's "I'm lovin' it" campaign: I'm endin' it (180)
USA Today Stupid Southwest, JetBlue charge less for good service. Major airlines cunning plan: Charge more for bad service (41)
BBC Interesting "Misleading" TV ad for Nutella pulled after suggesting the product may be edible (243)

Tue February 26, 2008
CNBC Obvious Healthcare spending to rise over the next decade. Also, bears deficate in the woods, the sky is blue, and grass is green (12)
(Some Guy) Interesting One shiny Euro gets you $1.50 US for the first time since Euro's inception (56)
Reuters Scary Cott, Canada's largest soft-drink maker, watches stock price plummet after Wal-Mart decides to reduce its shelf space. GO USA (33)
(Bloomberg) Sad Oil rises above $100 a barrel on news that we will NOT be asking for a reach-around (12)
CNN Obvious Americans seriously do not understand debt. Can't estimate it, can't forecast its consequences. Fortunately, if we just let the free market work, we can all suffer from their debt illiteracy (85)
CNBC Obvious Target fourth quarter profit drops eight percent after they missed their targets since consumers stick to basics, realizing you can buy the same crap for much less elsewhere (54)
ABC News Followup Pfizer finally pulls its Lipitor ads with the douchebag doctor (56)
DallasNews Strange Not only is Radio Shack still in business, they had a reported net income of $101 million last year (58)
CNBC Scary Inflation at its highest level in 26 years. Stagflation here we come (58)
CNN Scary Foreclosures rose 57% in January. Those $300 checks that will solve everything don't get here until May (483)
BBC Interesting Sony and Sharp form liquid crystal alliance, begin search for Sarah Connor (31)
Reuters Interesting Home Depot earnings forecasts plummet on news that you don't feel like having a nice little Saturday (14)
CNBC Asinine Congress has spent more time "examining" XM/Sirius merger than they spent deciding to invade Iraq (28)
(Some Guy) Obvious Home prices fall for the sixth month in a row... in other news, first time home buyers are now ABLE to afford a home (28)
CNN Interesting Looking for a new job? Don't go to any of these states (272)

Mon February 25, 2008
(Some Guy) Obvious Rising costs force 15 percent of Chinese shoe factories to shut down in latest proof that globalized economy has no sole (7)
(Some Guy) Sad 5,748 homeowners a day are finding out how much an ARM and a leg really costs (35)
Metro Amusing Citroen discover that the only way to sell a French car is to pretend it's German (14)
(NY Times Dealbook) Followup Microsoft's internal G memo O explaining the Yahoo O acquisition bid. For G the real L catalyst, you have E to read between the lines (10)
Fox News Interesting Oil Prices Climb Toward $100 a barrel on news that Ralph Nader is running for President, again (21)
MSNBC Obvious Lowe's profit plummets due to the housing slump, runs over to Home Depot to buy some tools and lumber to prop themselves up (27)
(Bloomberg) PSA The proportion of economists who forecast a recession this year more than doubled in three months, to 45%. Bonus: 90% expect the Cubs to not win the WS in 08 (11)
(Some 411 Guy) Followup Take Two to EA's $2 billion buyout offer: Do Not Want (146)
Washington Post Asinine After 19 years of litigation, the Supreme Court agrees to hear the Exxon Valdez case. Bonus: the case may hinge on an obscure 1818 piracy case involving the plundering of the Amiable Nancy. Yarr (65)
Marketwatch Obvious Guy who's supposed to keep USA's checkbook balanced just quit because nobody's been listening to his warnings for the past 7 freaking years (77)
(Bloomberg) Interesting If you put some Visa IPO on your card, as you continue to drown in debt at least you will be comforted by the knowledge that your stocks are doing well (6)
Yahoo Interesting Online auction listings down 13% in boycott of eBay. A+++++++ Would boycott again (227)
CNBC PSA Alan Greenspan says that "As of right now, U.S. economic growth is at zero" (24)
Reuters Obvious McDonald's China offers home delivery in order to boost sales, Chinese waistlines (10)

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