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Sun November 09, 2008
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Bloomberg sues the Federal Reserve to find out how many magic beans are needed to get a piece of the bank bailout  |
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Looks like DHL stands for Dump Half of Laborers  |
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Credit card issuers want to forgive up to 40% of your debt. Is there a catch? You betcha  |
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Number 47 announces he has altered the $700 billion bailout plan. Pray that he does not alter it further  |
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Former UBS CEO turns down $10.2 million bonus. This had nothing to do with the mansion being surrounded by peasants with pitchforks with torches alight?  |
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YouTube hopes to finally achieve profitability by showing full-length movies with uninterruptible, unpausable advertising breaks. The flaw in your cunning plan, let me show you it  |
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Netflix stops selling used DVDs, which will surely be a devastating blow to nobody  |
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Retailers so desperate for sales this Xmas many will be doing multiple "Black Friday" types of sales all season  |
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Sat November 08, 2008
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Nike pulls upcoming sneakers because they look too much like the same ones used in the "Heaven's Gate" mass suicide  |
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| (Online Athens) |
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Think you'll get a great deal at one of Circuit City's closing stores? Think again  |
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Microsoft announces its next failure will be ready to ship for the Christmas 2009 season - the perfect gift for everyone you hate  |
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Finally, a guide how to show snowflakes that engineers are more employable than english majors  |
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GMAC decides to get out of the automobile financing business  |
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Chrysler cheats on General Motors, preferring a quickie with Hyundai. That filthy, filthy whore  |
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More and more people buying Priuses with the "full smug" option. Chevy Volt unavailable for comment or purchase  |
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Your weekly Friday bank closure brought to you by Security Pacific Bank of Los Angeles  |
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Fri November 07, 2008
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Buh-bye big box stores, hello Hot Topics  |
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On Monday, we should expect insurance giant AIG, who borrowed over $100 billion from the feds to report a) profit, b) ??? or c) panic?  |
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General Motors is almost out of cash and may be forced to give Hummers for food  |
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In a transparent attempt not to let Ford steal all the headlines, GM posts $2.54 billion loss as revenue tumbles  |
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University of Chicago Business School gets $300 million donation. Tommorrow in class: self reliance, earning your own way and why welfare is socialism  |
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Facebook might not be worth the $15 billion price tag. CEO Zuckerberg: "When you raise money you take the best valuation you can get"  |
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Barack Obama has promised to get rough with companies that move manufacturing jobs overseas. Two days later, Honeywell calls Obama a pussy, moves 700 jet jobs overseas  |
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Starbucks hires new CFO. Hires another CFO across the street  |
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Thu November 06, 2008
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HR Barbie slashes 1,000 office jobs at Mattel  |
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| (Some Guy) |
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Japan's Nikkei drops over 6% on rumors that Obama will not be able to defeat Godzilla  |
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World's largest Lamborghini dealer closes. Because nobody wants an unreliable 300K, 12-cylinder, 2 seater with giant blind spots that's not a hybrid  |
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Oil prices drop towards $60 on news of Fark link #4,000,000  |
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AT&T confirms: 3G tethering finally comes to iPhone  |
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Craigslist will start charging a credit-card fee for "erotic services" (read: prostitution) ads  |
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Microsoft promises better battery life, less suckage in Windows 7  |
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Yahoo suggests Microsoft should make new offer. Microsoft suggests Yahoo should blow it out their ass  |
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You know times are hard when even the Las Vegas casinos are going bankrupt  |
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Facebook bans "Dead Babies Make Me Laugh" group. And so it begins  |
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Whole Foods Markets posted a 96% drop in net income in the fourth quarter, because people are switching from caviar to bologna. Mmmmmmm, bologna  |
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Veteran Bear Stearns manager takes a drug overdose and jumps from his 29th floor apartment after finding he wouldn't be hired by J.P. Morgan Chase. And so it begins  |
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Britain's car sales plummet 23% after everybody realizes they're driving on the wrong side of the road  |
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Gold price falls on news that Venezuela has decided to nationalize another industry  |
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PayPal founder Peter Thiel's hedge fund blows up  |
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Britain's banks warn consumers that mortgage rates will not decline no matter how much the Bank of England lowers interest rates today, adding "Muhahaha"  |
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Bank of England cuts UK interest rates by 1.5%  |
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| (Some Guy) |
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Despite huge games like Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft, Activision still manages a huge net loss for 3rd Quarter  |
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International Energy Agency expects oil to go back above $100 a barrel by 2015 or Memorial Day weekend, whichever comes first  |
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Insatiable demand for single-malt scotch in China, India and Russia empties liquor store shelves in Canada, leaving Canadian residents with nothing to mix with Clamato juice or Sunny D  |
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Wed November 05, 2008
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As the price of crude oil plunges, the question is asked: where have all the peak oil zealots gone?  |
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Stocks tank on news that Obama wants to take all your money and spend it on ridiculous things like healthcare and education  |
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FCC gives the green light to the Verizon/Alltel merger. Which explains lack of faux Verizon Guy in those annoying Alltel commercials recently  |
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General Motors proves they're as good at making car loans as they are at making cars: not so much  |
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Oil plummets on news that Obama will make us all drive tiny cars that cause others to question our sexuality  |
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President-elect Obama already improving economy. Forces Chicago Tribune back to the presses. Is there nothing he can't do?  |
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Five myths about the Great Depression. An interesting read for anybody who may have just recently been elected to the highest office in America  |
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♫ Ba-da-da-da-da... he's pluggin' it ♪ |
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Suppliers of US military weapons prepare for downturn in business following Barack's election  |
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Asian and European markets soar on news of the election of Barack Obama. That is change we can take to the bank  |
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Tue November 04, 2008
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Boeing delays 787 Dreamliner test flight. No, this is not a repeat from last quarter, or the quarter before that, or the quarter before that  |
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Stock analysts downgrade Sirius XM to "underperform," based on inability to renegotiate debt and on horrible 2008-09 auto sales projections  |
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Oil surges to $71 per barrel upon news that the new Britney Spears CD is now in stores  |
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Nortel to cut 5000 jobs. This headline is a repeat from 2000, 2001, 2002 (twice), 2003, 2004, 2005 (twice), 2006 (threepeat), and 2007  |
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Yeah, hi Dell employees, if you could go ahead and not come in Sunday or the rest of the week so we can cut costs, that would be great  |
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Factory orders tumble again. I guess they didn't get the first tumble that they ordered  |
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US Airways to charge $7 for pillows and blankets, expected to crank the AC way up during flights  |
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ADM In $500 million brazilian ethanol joint venture. Just how may zeros are in $500 million brazilian anyway?  |
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You know the market is volatile when BMW won't even try to forecast its 2008 earnings  |
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If you picked AT&T as the next ISP to roll out bandwidth caps, come claim your prize  |
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Siemens ejaculates its 50 percent share in Fujitsu joint venture  |
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Brothel revenue falls on soft market and competition from bankers in screwing customers  |
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Marvell slashes outlook, citing gloomy economy. This is bad news... for Spider-Man  |
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Mon November 03, 2008
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Platinum surpasses gold as worst metal performer. Platinum apologizes to its fans, promises to get clean and rehearse more before touring again  |
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Oil chiefs fearing having to bathe in regular bathtubs filled with water instead of money, warn of price spike if investment wanes  |
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Dow plummets 5 points. EVERYBODY DO NOTHING  |
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Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, Steve Ballmer, Jeff Bezos, and Rupert Murdoch are the biggest losers of Great Depression II so far; have lost a collective $38.5 billion. Schadenfreude to the right |
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CNBC continues to try to put a positive spin on this "downturn"  |
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U.S. factory activity crashes to a 26-year low. This is bad news ... for the economy  |
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Former chief risk officer at Bear Stearns will soon be doing a heckuvajob at the Federal Reserve  |
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| (Some Guy) |
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Countries around the globe lower their personal taxes to attract labor. Denmark still tops the world with a 59 percent individual tax rate. But that includes all the free pastry you can eat |
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MasterCard number one prostitute in all of Kazakhstan. $1,000 per annum buys you a 0.04 carat inlay. Very nice  |
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News: One of Australia's largest share trading company says the dropping Aussie dollar will increase trade competition; Fark: It's using the "iPod price index" as a key indicator  |
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Chinese government urges citizens to "Buy Chinese." Even they won't buy that cheap crap  |
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