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Sun April 13, 2008
Free Press Sad Things you can buy for a buck: a McDonalds double cheesburger, a bottle of water, or a foreclosed home in Detroit (14)
(Some Guy) Interesting Heinz is launching a "gourmet" version of its ketchup for your corn dogs and mac 'n cheese (199)
(Westword) Sad Coors shortens brewery tour...they never showed you the peeing horses anyway (63)
Reuters Stupid Airlines to merge without agreement of pilots. After all, who need pilots? (20)
MDN Interesting McDonald's coffee wins taste war over Starbucks in recent Japanese consumer survey. And so it begins (49)
Wall Street Journal Interesting Anheuser-Busch, holding 48% market share in USA thanks to high quality of its horse urine, could be takeover target of international brewers (39)
London Times Obvious Remember all those economists and pundits who said "Relax everyone, the worst is behind us?" Yeah, they were full of crap. Citi and Merrill throw another $15 billion onto the Bonfire of the Vapids (65)

Sat April 12, 2008
(Bloomberg) Cool While the rest of the industry implodes, Virgin America investors putting in another $100 million to expand service. Wait, you mean people actually like clean planes, non-battle-ax stewardesses and in-flight entertainment? Who knew? (43)
AP Amusing Some headlines just write themselves: "Virgin says it may delay Newark service" (10)
Reuters Obvious Wondering where to invest during the recession? Here's a tip: people need clean water and they will still need it when that broker you hired is trading in his 650i for a used Ford Focus (16)
(Seeking Alpha) Interesting Today's sign the economy is farked: analyst says Penthouse's upcoming IPO actually looks better than the rest (22)

Fri April 11, 2008
MSNBC Stupid American Airlines, suffering from an excess of good publicity, rushes to join other airlines in an across-the-board hike on nearly all fares (29)
(Some Guy) Interesting Adapple? Apobe? (47)
Reuters Interesting US consumer confidence falls to 26-year low. It needs to lose about 40 lbs, get a few drinks in it, and forget about being rejected by the girl with the prosthesis (152)
Wall Street Journal Obvious Linens 'n Things to become Linens 'n Bankruptcy Protection Things (40)
Toronto Star Sad Exxon Mobil Corp. raises CEO Rex Tillerson's compensation by 29 per cent last year to $16.7 million - Fill 'er up (58)
(Bloomberg) Scary Wall Street decides to try and leverage bailout loans from the Federal Reserve, ensuring that taxpayers will get stuck holding the bag (32)
BBC Interesting Soaring Euro and tanking U.S. dollar means Europe is now awash in cheaper-than-ever blow. No word on whether hookers are offering a similar discount (19)
Reuters Stupid Foreclosure rescue scams kicking people who are down. Turns out there's lots of money to be made off people who have run out of money (26)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Interesting Senior Yahoo staff hate the proposed AOL deal, but too scared to tell Jerry (4)
CNBC Scary GE reports first profit loss since 2003. If you were looking for that economic metaphore of a mining canary dead in its cage, this would be it (40)
(klastv) Ironic 16,000 more homeowners have been served notice of default in Las Vegas. In other news, MegaBucks is up to $19.7 million (36)
AP Followup Five, five hundred and seventy two AA flights canceled today, ah ah ah (154)
CNN Interesting Frontier Airlines files chapter 11 bankrupcy. Expected to continue flying, unlike American Airlines (30)
(New York Times) Obvious New York Times reporter explains why hoping a new president will fix the economy is like hoping a new paint job will make your car go faster (57)
Toronto Star Obvious First one to the oilfield drinks the other one's milkshake (14)
NBC San Diego Asinine It begins: San Diego homebuyers sue realtor because they overpaid for their house (66)
Yahoo Followup If you had plans to fly American Airlines on Friday, you'd better call Greyhound (46)
Metro Asinine In refreshing bout of honesty, British phone company promises couple it will repair their phone line - in exactly 2,700 years (5)
News.com.au Dumbass Cadbury's Chocolate tries to sue competition for using purple wrappers. Fail (56)

Thu April 10, 2008
Reuters Obvious CEO of Goldman Sachs - who earned $70 million in 2007 - doesn't think shareholders should determine how much CEOs earn (70)
MSNBC Scary General Motors recalls over 100-Thousand Pontiac Vibes because windows that shatter when you try to roll them down can be a bummer (20)
Forbes Followup The Euro is on its deathbed. Sell 'em while they are still worth something (85)
Wired Interesting EMC purchases [click...] Iomega Corporation [click...] for [click...] $213 million [click click...] (42)
Time Silly A hard hitting in-depth look at Starbucks new coffee flavor. It's not news, it's Time.com (46)
CNBC Obvious With the Fed fund rate at 2.25% and almost no more room for cuts, CEO boldly predicts Fed will stop cutting rates soon (33)
USA Today Strange In a strange phenomenon that seems to defy both the market and common sense and surely requires thorough scientific study, salaries and bonuses for CEOs who lose money for stockholders do not appear to fall proportionally to the losses (52)
(Bloomberg) Dumbass County in Alabama opted for variable rate bonds rather than fixed rate ones. Suffice it to say, they are living in a subprime world now (26)
(Some Guy) Interesting Yahoogle - it's not just Yiddish slang anymore (5)
Forbes Interesting Oil near $112 a barrel on news that Detriot is out of World Series contention less than two weeks into the season (7)
Reuters Obvious Lehman liquidates three worthless hedge funds. I can not Bear to witness such Stern events (7)
Lancashire Evening Post NewsFlash Bank of England announces interest rate cut of 0.25% (20)
CNN Asinine Jim Cramer signs a three-year deal, $5 million contract with TheStreet.com to continue giving sound financial advice like "Bear Stearns is not in trouble." BOO YAH (28)
Guardian.com Scary The International Monetary Fund would like to interrupt this non-panic-stricken moment with an advisory to prepare for the 'largest financial shock since Great Depression' (25)
(Bloomberg) PSA Those of you with European bank bonds: You're screwed. For the rest of you: The bottom is about to fall out of the European bond market (5)
(Some Guy) Obvious Hyundai unveils new high-end sports sedan, but too late for North Americans, who will permanently think of 'Hyundai' as Korean for 'Yugo' (pic) (40)
News.com.au Spiffy Pizza workers to be paid dough for bun in the oven. Any way you slice it, olive it when a plan comes together, especially since there isn't mushroom for negativity here (18)

Wed April 09, 2008
ABC News Scary Wal-Mart corporate videos released. Fark: Featuring various senior members of management in drag (79)
Marketwatch Amusing Proving that even MarketWatch has a sense of humor, here are 35 signs that the market has not hit bottom. Submitter liked: "ETF's haven't launched on Fool's Gold or Cubic zirconia." (4)
Wall Street Journal Interesting AOL & Yahoo plan to merge, send you dozens of unsolicited yodeling CDs (25)
Marketwatch Obvious Washington Mutual has confirmed that "YES" JPMorgan Chase really is trying to buy the entire finance and banking sector for 10 cents on the dollar (16)
Chicago Tribune Dumbass Study: Many who think they belong to middle class, in fact, don't (66)
Chicago Tribune PSA Toyota saves civilization, recalls butt-ugly Matrix cars (47)
Yahoo Scary Stocks fall on news that the price of oil has jumped. In other news, the price of oil has jumped on news that stocks are falling (9)
MSNBC Unlikely Bernanke urges young people to sharpen their financial acumen so their ass hurts less when this financial crisis is over (148)
(Bloomberg) Obvious Boeing 787 delayed by 6 months -- still better than any US Air flight through O'Hare (18)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Ironic Bumbling Yahoo board may already have cost shareholders billions by blowing Microsoft bid negotiation (17)
CNN Interesting Five jobs and the surprising salaries they make. Bonus: Astronomers make the most $95,740 a year, U.S only has 1,700 of them (232)
(Bloomberg) Followup Old and busted: $40/Lbs. Wild Salmon. New hotness: $111/barrel crude oil (17)
(Some Guy) Amusing Bambi Francisco's Vator.tv draws more funding, in spite of the fact that investors start giggling like schoolgirls on crack every time they hear the name "Bambi Francisco". And hey who's that guy in the video (5)
CNN Scary Income gap widening as recession worsens. But don't worry, the free market will still solve everything and soon we'll be farting rainbows and unicorns all over the leprechauns (92)
SeattlePI Scary Old and busted: $4/gallon gas. New hotness: $40/Lbs. Wild Salmon (32)
(Some Guy) Cool Goldman Sach's Level 3 assets made it the most profitable investment firm on Wall Street last quarter - but they still can't go within 1000 feet of a school zone (11)
Seattle Times Followup WaMu gets a hot capital injection, lights a cigarette (9)
Reuters Amusing Former Japanese PM pops up at "World Ramen Summit" to tout ramen as universal treat. Forever and ever, ramen (120)
TBO Obvious "I'm a FiOS customer myself, and I have to call every month because the bill is wrong. I'm on the phone with these people for an hour every time I call - and I am 'these people.'" -- Verizon employee (201)
(Some Guy) Obvious Session and Recession are in a boat. Session has fallen out (117)
BBC Dumbass Retail chain recalls line of electronic mole repellers from Irish stores after discovering moles don't exist in Ireland, plans to keep offering its St. Paddy's Snake Whacking Sticks despite disappointing initial sales (10)
Slate Interesting Wal-Mart to stop selling cheap Chinese crap (59)

Tue April 08, 2008
(al.com) Scary Birmingham AL heading for largest municipal bankruptcy ever, over sewer bonds. Man, that stinks (19)
(Honolulu Advertiser) Followup World's largest airline decides travelers aren't farked enough already, cancels 500 flights to re-inspect planes it just inspected weeks ago (24)
Boston Globe Interesting Starbucks opens website for customer feedback. If all goes well, the company plans to open up an identical website across the street (15)
MSNBC Obvious Why interns are good for business. No, besides THAT (53)
Real Tech News Scary Behold the ever-growing foreclosure heat map (27)
Marketwatch Obvious Creator of the private student loan business, First Marblehead Corp. announces they would very much like to borrow money from someone, anyone... please? (16)
Sun Sentinel Asinine Foreclosed homeowners trash their houses before leaving. We should make sure we bail these people out with our tax dollars (498)
Gizmodo Obvious It's time to FACE the facts, PALM lost $57 million this quarter (31)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Amusing Nutcase Motorola exec won't cut hair until stock goes up (9)
CNN Amusing Aer Lingus and United Airlines announce cunning new partnership. Program name to be announced once giggling subsides (82)
(Some Guy) Amusing Alcoa's profits fall on news that aluminum is not a precious metal (15)
Yahoo Unlikely Federal Energy Dept. now predicts gas will peak at $3.60/gallon in early summer. Submitter sure hopes so, seeing as how he paid $3.79/gallon to fill up yesterday (289)
Breitbart.com Interesting Subprime debacle in the U.S. has a global impact, with a potential $945 billion in losses worldwide. Make your mortgage payment: Just think of all the starving investment bankers in China (19)
(Bloomberg) PSA Alan Greenspan said the drop in home prices will probably end "well before'' early next year when the Cubs win the World Series (11)
(Bloomberg) PSA Citigroup, Bank of America and Wells Fargo may curtail lending, which will in turn help fuel a recession. Thanks a lot, guys (14)
Yahoo Obvious Advanced Micro Devices to lay off 10 percent of its work force, possibly replacing them with advanced micro devices (12)
CNBC Unlikely Online shopping is expected to increase 17 percent in 2008 (5)
Marketwatch Cool If you are a lazy investor, you beat the market this quarter. Congrats, sit back and Fark for a while (7)
(bloomberg.com) Interesting Britain's pound falls faster than three stones worth of quid on housing woes (30)
CNBC Obvious U.S. housing foreclosures spread to the million dollar, shoddily built McMansion sector. Up next on "Flip This House" -- how to live out of your car on $10 per day (94)
CBS News Scary Volkswagen recalls 410,000 Passats that are Fahrfrumfireproof. Oh snap (23)
London Times Dumbass Apparently not content with losing $11 billion in the U.S. credit market, HSBC loses a disc containing the name, date of birth and health information on 370,000 customers (13)
Guardian.com Obvious Economists fear that banks have become too dependent on Federal Reserve handouts. But it has nothing to do with personal responsibility because they aren't poor or minorities (143)

Mon April 07, 2008
USA Today Silly Starbucks to launch 'everyday' brew to get back sales lost to McDonald's. McDonald's to respond with setting up restaurants every 100 feet, because apparently that just makes sense (181)
MSNBC Stupid Recession expected to worsen as the vaunted "Anti-George Bush" bubble is ready to burst (41)
CNN Sad Gas prices hit a new record on news that it hasn't hit a record in the past two weeks (176)
(Motley Fool) Amusing "Warren Buffett invests like a girl," meaning he's patient, does his research and would totally make out with Zac Efron if he were a little tipsy (20)
Forbes Interesting After making $11B last week selling Alcon, Nestle plans to buy up L'Oreal. Here comes the chocolate-flavored science (5)
(Some Guy) Interesting GM to test batteries for new electric car. But not with tongue. GM never falling for that again (37)
NYPost Followup CBGB sanitized into a menswear boutique (26)
(Some Guy) Scary Washington Mutual is the latest bank wanting a cash infusion to prevent becoming the next Bear Stearns (15)
CNBC Amusing One credit card company, whose card is accepted virtually nowhere, set to buy another credit card company, whose card is accepted by even fewer retailers (38)
Gizmodo Amusing Yahoo to Microsoft: We want more money, friend (32)
(Some Guy) Obvious Customers start lining up at 7:15 a.m. as Columbia, South Carolina allows beer sales on Sunday for the very first time (146)
Washington Post Obvious So it begins. Washington, D.C. has to pay an additional $1.2 million interest every month because Lyle Lanley told them the Washington Nationals would be contenders and property value will always go up. Suckers. D'oh (18)
Yahoo Interesting Alan Greenspan says recession probable, endorses McCain, looks at wife and recommends that Americans invest in companies that make acne products (23)

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