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Sun March 01, 2009
(London Times) Sad "I resent the subliminal suggestion that some cabin crew might get intimate with you if you fly with Virgin. In my experience, and Lord I've tried, they won't and don't" (6)
(Reuters) Scary Warren Buffett says the U.S. Treasuries Bubble is going to dwarf the Tech and Housing bubbles (38)
(UPI) Sick Covering up a study that indicates your new drug is harmful is just a natural reaction, and natural reactions are good. Now go fill that prescription (20)
(BBC) Interesting Dear America, a memo from the perspective department: A million seconds is roughly 11 days, a trillion is 32,000 years. Enjoy your 11T national debt (391)

Sat February 28, 2009
(CNN) Misc Warren Buffett rumored to be looking for another income source. Now considering future as Wal-Mart greeter, crossing guard (34)
(Telegraph) Scary Sign of the times: Local zoo advertises 150 seasonal, part-time jobs - from cook to ranger - 3,000 show up to apply (28)
(Bloomberg) Scary U.S. 4th quarter GDP revised downward to -6.2%. For those of you measuring this in sporting terms, we've gone below the 2008 Detroit Lions (125)

Fri February 27, 2009
(Trading Markets) Interesting Stolen coffee seized. Must have been from a mugging (27)
(Dissident Voice) Interesting Author who got his master's dissertation in post-communist studies gets high Marx with article on Eastern Europe economics (15)
(Reuters) Obvious McDonald's chooses Coke over Pepsi. Again (280)
(Bloomberg) Spiffy Angry economists dig up the body of Milton Friedman just to kick him in the yambag a few hundred times. All hail our new, dead, economic overlord, James Tobin (41)
(Canada.com) Sappy Quebec's maple syrup industry, scarred by dwindling reserves and prices of up to $10 per can, fears consumers will downgrade to cheaper imitation pancake toppings (32)
(The Street) Spiffy While GM and Chrysler beg the government for more cash, Ford decides to repoen an Ohio Plant that will make fuel-efficient engines (133)
(Reuters) Obvious Anheuser-Busch InBev is starting to unravel on news that paying back $58 billion in debt is a real biatch (22)
(USA Today) Obvious Consumer Reports confirms what the driving public has known for decades: Chryslers are a piece of crap (262)
(Newsday) Unlikely Newsday to charge for web content, anticipating a huge response from people willing to pay for news about Long Island zoning board meetings (41)
(Mirror.co.uk) Stupid Iconic powdered gravy brand Bisto dropping its name after 101 years, will put days of the week on its packages instead. Come on, guys, even "New Bisto" would have been better than that (24)
(Reuters) Strange Bad news: Ryanair will start charging to use the lav on their planes. Good news: Free coffee and water, plus soothing waterfall sounds on the PA (78)
(Google) Followup Citigroup: Now with up to 40 percent ownership by the U.S. government (114)
(Canoe) Cool Wal-Mart quits Canada, closing all its Sam's Clubs there after customers refused to buy milk that didn't come in bags, or chips that weren't sold in ketchup flavour. Yeah, "flavour" (115)
(Media Matters) Dumbass Do you understand the difference between revenue and income? Congratulations. You are too smart to work at CNBC (64)

Thu February 26, 2009
(CNN) Scary Dude, you're getting a 48% plunge in net income (58)
(Vator.tv) Interesting Dear US Gov: Screw Detroit and invest in Silicon Valley (49)
(Rocky Mountain News) Sad Drop one more source icon from the submissions page - Rocky Mountain News closing doors Friday after 150 years (156)
(CBC) Obvious Women complain of feeling screwed by car-repair industry. Don't worry hon - it's nothing that a lube job and some rear-end work won't fix (220)
(Daily Mail) Dumbass His bank has been all but nationalized after he ran it into the ground and it just filed the biggest loss in British history, but Sir Fred Goodwin vows to fight to keep his $1,000,000/year pension. Pip pip, old chap, stiff upper lip and all that (21)
(Some Guy) Obvious Google adds Google ads to Google News searches, making it only the second corporation in the world to figure out how to make money from online news (16)
(Vator.tv) Weird Step 1: Have a job search site. Step 2: Attract old people. Step 3: Profit? (8)
(Idolator) Interesting Break out tiny violins, don't forget to pay royalties when they're done playing: Layoffs confirmed at RIAA (39)
(Forbes) Interesting General Motors lost $9.6 billion in the fourth quarter, for a total of $30.8 billion in 2008 losses. They could have lost less money just by paying you to buy one of their cars (76)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Automated external defibrillators save lives, but don't expect one at your hotel: Many of the best hotels don't have one in of fear of a lawsuit in case you keel over in your shrimp cocktail and an AED is not close (49)

Wed February 25, 2009
(UPI) Obvious Cut, clarity, carat, color, closing (91)
(CNN) Obvious Airline launches campaign against "idiot" and "lunatic" bloggers who believe they found a website flaw allowing them to get free tickets, unaware that most bloggers will be pathetically grateful for any kind of attention (46)
(Vator.tv) Obvious Newspapers used to be used for informing the public. Now they're just used as toilet paper for bums (114)
(Dilbert) Amusing Dilbert and the art of throwing rocks in glass houses (88)
(St. Petersburg Times) Stupid How Tropicana squeezed us for $35 million to redesign orange juice boxes for a generation that doesn't remember New Coke (60)
(News.com.au) Obvious Leaked corporate document from McDonalds suggests gouging fat people for more cash (70)
(MSNBC) Cool Amid stories of execs firing employees to boost their own pay, two Ford execs take 30% paycuts (32)
(The Local (Sweden)) Sad Sweden to shed 20,000 construction jobs on news that it doesn't take that many people to push the sides together and fasten the screws with allen wrenches (18)
(The Age (Melbourne)) Sad Lonely Planet sends 50 employees on a one-way trip (19)
(Some Guy) Ironic The GPS gadget that helps skiiers survive an avalance also comes in handy after a night of heavy boozing. If only the inventor had known (8)
(News.com.au) Cool Bill Gates progresses from being a douche to investing in one (93)
(Reuters) Obvious San Francisco Chronicle the latest dead-tree newspaper to be farked (15)
(Some Fly Guys) Obvious American Airlines pilots "plan chaos" with flight schedules if contract mediation talks fail. Slight Drizzle, Ambiguous Fog Report, and Unspecified Mechanical Delay laugh hysterically, slap knees, shout "AMATEUR CANDY ASSES" (20)
(Reuters) Interesting Good news: Ketchup sales up 9%. Bad news: It's because that's all some people can afford to eat (28)

Tue February 24, 2009
(Reuters) Scary Bernanke: Recession could extend to 2010 (174)
(Fox News) Cool Bernanke: Recession may end this year (99)
(Statesman) Asinine Monday: Fire 35% of employess. Tuesday: Restore executives to their full salary (450)
(TMZ) Asinine Northern Trust bank, recipient of much bailout money, has lavish Beverly Hills private party, complete with rock band Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire and Sheryl Crow (154)
(Reuters) Asinine AIG expects to post a loss of $60 billion for the fourth quarter of 2008, which would be the largest loss ever posted by a corporation. So, of course, they're in talks to get still more government bailout money (66)
(Guardian.com) Obvious RecessionRecession slamsslams TomTom profitsprofits (26)
(AP) Spiffy Thomson Reuters' fourth quarter profits go up 52 per cent. It appears as if bad news is good for the bottom line (13)
(CNN) Obvious CNN is shocked... SHOCKED to discover that some people work 7 days a week (87)
(Yahoo) Obvious Macy's earnings drop 59 percent on news that you can get everything they have at other stores way cheaper (42)
(Stuff) Dumbass Foster's accused of ripping customers off after reducing beer bottle sizes by 10% but leaving prices the same. In related news, some people consider Foster's "beer" (49)
(Wired) Dumbass Some equations, f=ma, e=mc^2, are things of beauty. Then there's this one (119)
(CBS San Francisco) Interesting Bank Of America heiress calls current bank management 'idiots' and says bank's condition is "totally repulsive" (67)

Mon February 23, 2009
(MSNBC) Sad In recognition of Best Picture of the Year, Stock Market closes at lowest level since 1997. A little late to be recognizing "Titanic", but the message is obvious (271)
(CBC) Obvious Study shows that employees leaving a company are more likely to steal data from their employer. Just find someone who's really good with the credit union software first (74)
(Bizjournals) Obvious Scammers already using the stimulus bill to phish small business owners. So don't respond to a letter or e-mail from the Obama Bank Info and Check Clearinghouse Company (15)
(BizJournals) Strange American Express offers some customers $300 to cancel their cards (65)
(CBS New York) Spiffy New Jersey 1, Ticketmaster 0 (22)
(The Local (Sweden)) Amusing Owner of Gothenburg, Sweden's Starcups Café doesn't understand why Starbucks has a problem with his coffee shop's name; says "Starcups is a totally different thing." McDowell's unavailable for comment (86)
(ClusterStock) Silly We've milked about all the horror stories we can out of this economic crisis thingy, so let's take a look at what Paul Krugman has on his Amazon wish list (19)
(AP) Obvious Who neds a hi skool diploma. i got me a gud job. huh? better git me one of them geds (87)
(Reuters) Sad Ritz Camera processes Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Story developing (55)
(LA Times) Fail Times are tough when a even a beloved doughnut shop can't survive. Wait -- $3 for a doughnut? I think we found your problem (80)
(LA Times) Interesting As job losses mount ever higher, the "farewell email" has become an art form (211)
(Houston Chronicle) Scary 3Bdrm, 2bth, crown molding, meth contamination, granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, new pool liner (18)
(Telegraph) Silly India trying to reclaim patents from westerners stealing their proprietary knowledge. Fark: For yoga positions (37)
(Mercury News) Interesting The Japanese know how to pinch a yen (22)
(Reuters) Obvious U.S. Government seeks 40% ownership stake in Citigroup. And so it begins (132)

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