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Sun June 07, 2009

Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		GM exec claims that Prius is what made Toyota a success. As opposed to, say, three decades of not sucking (slate.com)	(108)
		InBev stands behind their Bud Light "Drinkability" $192 million advertising campaign, even though it isn't a real word and sales are lagering (stltoday.com)	(109)
		Retirees protest at Molson brewery after company cuts their free beer rations. Oh the brewmanity (cbc.ca)	(38)
		"Cow pooling" - it's not just for lonely Friday nights in Wyoming anymore (time.com)	(15)
		Saturn deal is called a new business model. Subby didn't know that "business model" was an euphemism for clusterfark (freep.com)	(36)
		This year you've learned about Ponzi schemes. Now learn about tunnel fraud (guardian.co.uk)	(26)

Sat June 06, 2009

(Some Guy)	We used to like employing you, but now we're just not Intuit (employmentspectator.com)	(21)
	Surging gas prices will most likely lead to a recession within a recession. Which, when you carry the one, adds up to a depression (money.cnn.com)	(90)
	Friday's bank closure brought to you by Lincolnwood, IL. That's 37 this year for those of you keeping score at home (upi.com)	(18)
	As if GM didn't have enough trouble, Evan Dando is suing the company for using a Lemonheads song without permission (contactmusic.com)	(16)
	Cute commercial for Microsoft's Bing search engine gets release date of "Breakfast Club" wrong. They oughta spend a little more time trying to make something of themselves and a little less time trying to impress people (watching-tv.ew.com)	(28)
	We've replaced this state's mental health services unit with squabbling greedy corporations. Let's see if anyone notices (miamiherald.com)	(12)
	Large health insurers are taking billions in excess cash and investing it in tobacco stocks (news.com.au)	(21)
	Foreclosed Florida homes may be put to good use, as state excitedly considers opening them up for refugees from this year's hurricanes. 'This option didn't exist two or three years ago before the real-estate market crashed" (miamiherald.com)	(15)
	That's not a repo man. THIS is a repo man (profanity in article) (salon.com)	(111)

Fri June 05, 2009

		Mr. Penske, hopefully your purchase of Saturn doesn't bite you in uranus (money.cnn.com)	(44)
		Stockmarkets rally after statistics show that only the equivalent of the population of Tampa, Florida lost their jobs last month, not Kansas City, Missouri as previously forecast (msnbc.msn.com)	(125)
		"...Going by the numbers Warren provides, medical bankruptcies actually fell by almost 220,000 between 2001 and 2007, a fact that they not only fail to mention, but deliberately obscure" (meganmcardle.theatlantic.com)	(107)
		Colorado and New York want you to be licensed before fracking someone's hole (finance.yahoo.com)	(42)

Thu June 04, 2009

	Good BMW's new Mini E will charge on a standard 110 volt wall socket. Bad: but nothing else. Fark: so it takes 23 hours to charge (content.usatoday.com)	(80)
	SEC charges Countrywide Financial founder, Angelo Mozilo, with insider trading, fraud and general douchebaggery (reuters.com)	(47)
(Some Guy)	Target misses by 6.1% (wsbtv.com)	(23)
(Some Guy)	Pennsylvania woman, with support of her attorney, sues Victoria's Secret over bra design (eveningsun.com)	(33)
	France's unemployment rate at all time high, or as the French call it, "summer vacation" (news.bbc.co.uk)	(34)
	'Medical bills underlie 60% of US bankruptcies.' But I thought that these were just losers with three SUVs in the driveway and a plasma widescreen in every room (news.yahoo.com)	(662)
	GOP proposes overhauling the financial regulatory system to favor bankruptcy over bailout and "stop rewarding failure" (foxbusiness.com)	(205)
	The recession has given us Kentucky Grilled Chicken; Pasta Hut; Domino's Subs; and $5 burgers at Morton's. Recessions are awesome (tennessean.com)	(217)
	Costco's salecos slippcod sevenco percentoco (forbes.com)	(16)
	Ssshh...Latvia's central bank does not want anybody to talk about devaluation of currency. I SAID, LATVIA'S NATIONAL BANK DOESN'T WANT ANYONE TALKING ABOUT DEVAL--DAMNIT (latimes.com)	(19)
	Good: One company plans to expand in 2009 and create 22,000 jobs. I'll give you one guess who it is. Wharrgarbl to the right (news.yahoo.com)	(452)
	United looks to Boeing or Airbus for some friendly recessionary pricing, to purchase 150 new planes for their friendly skies (washingtonpost.com)	(23)

Wed June 03, 2009

	Obama: We are going to tax your overseas profit. Microsoft CEO: Let me explain to you what "Windows Mobile" means (bloomberg.com)	(111)
	"Dear citizen: The government is helping us, not you. It would be illegal for you to sell any of our product after June 9th. Have fun selling your entire car lot in 6 days. Sorry you're losing millions." - Car company (cnn.com)	(125)
	Uncle Ben warns that massive government deficits threaten the country's financial stability. Well, thanks for telling us NOW (bloomberg.com)	(87)
	Step 1: Check underwear sales. Step 2: Invest in Stock Market. Step 3: Profit (nymag.com)	(7)
	If the Pittsburgh Penguins win the Stanley Cup, it's good news for the stock market. Here comes the bizarre economics (theglobeandmail.com)	(38)
	More than a year before Colgan Air crashed a twin-engine turboprop on approach to Buffalo, FAA inspector predicted that the airline was going to have trouble flying that model. Of course, his superiors suspended him for saying such nonsense (nytimes.com)	(24)
	Controversial topless coffee shop goes tits up (foxnews.com)	(235)
	If you're making iPhone apps, don't even think about linking to anything that links to a Hitler parody video, because they hate that (theregister.co.uk)	(32)
	Wired: Get rid of dealerships, and adopt an Apple Store approach to selling cars. Where skinny know-nothing douchebags can scoff at you for not having the most recent model (wired.com)	(87)
(Some Guy)	June marks the 35th anniversary of the mark of the beast, otherwise know as the UPC barcode (mddailyrecord.com)	(29)
	Old and Busted: Investing in companies. New Hotness: Investing in lawsuits (yro.slashdot.org)	(12)
	Maryland's millionaires didn't move away, they just got poorer (blogs.wsj.com)	(74)
	California appeals court tells tip-greedy Starbucks baristas to suck it, suck it Venti time (seattlepi.com)	(334)
(Some Realty Guy)	Treasury Secy Geithner bought his home for $1.6M, tried to sell it for $1.575M, ends up renting for $7500/month, not enough to cover mortgage and taxes. That's change we don't need (wbbm780.com)	(49)
	Ryanair finds themselves in a sticky wicket after paying too much for Lingus (telegraph.co.uk)	(23)
	Remember how you thought your Social Security and veterans benefits were protected from creditors? Yeah, about that (cbsnews.com)	(36)
	Budget outlook for states downgraded from atrocious to California-esque (online.wsj.com)	(24)
	Toyota introduced the new Prius in Japan two weeks ago, and since then sold more of them than GM sold cars total in the US in the past month. So, yes, one of these companies needs to be Baled out (salon.com)	(80)

Tue June 02, 2009

	General Motors claims it has 16 potential buyers for Saturn. It is unclear if that's for the actual cars or the brand itself (news.yahoo.com)	(63)
	Desperate GM offering Hummer for cash. Their partner is anonymous, but they have an oral agreement (reuters.com)	(54)
	Ford, the only one of Detroit's Big 3 automakers not in bankruptcy, now could be at a competitive disadvantage for taking the high road (usatoday.com)	(145)
(The Daily Beast)	Amid the General Motors bankruptcy, the American auto industry is now claiming another victim: satellite radio...siriusly (thedailybeast.com)	(137)

Mon June 01, 2009

	The ten cars that bear the brunt of the blame for GM's bankruptcy, all on one page (jalopnik.com)	(199)
	JP Morgan to Feds: Tarp? We no longer need your stinking Tarp (thestreet.com)	(52)
	AMD says "Fark everything, we're going to six cores" (pcworld.com)	(106)
	How Southern California survived the collapse of aircraft manufacturing without a bailout (reason.com)	(46)
	Michael Moore dances on GM's grave...as much as a fatguy can dance (alternet.org)	(88)
	Remember when Obama recommended buying stocks back in March? If you'd listened to him, your gain since then would be 32%. Suck it, Cramer (marketwatch.com)	(41)
	Now that the UAW has a piece of GM, the gold-plated health benefits of its retired members, the cost of which helped kill the company, will be pared down substantially (forbes.com)	(37)
	Stocks gain 234 points on the news that GM Has filed for Bankruptcy...Wait, what? (money.cnn.com)	(66)
	Upset GM bondholder who lost $69,800 goes on CNN, whines about not having a say in the deal. Bonus: Invokes Michelle Obama's name during her tirade (amfix.blogs.cnn.com)	(85)
	Depending on who you ask, GM is either a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis or a dung beetle exchanging one pile of crap for another (breitbart.com)	(10)
	Some advice for the new owners of GM--the taxpayers--on how government makes the crappiest cars, from a guy who ran Romania's car industry (online.wsj.com)	(6)
	GM and Citigroup get booted from the Dow Jones index, will now live in a dog cage in Geithner's basement (bloomberg.com)	(36)
	Bausch & Lomb settles 600 eye-fungus lawsuits for $250 million. After attorneys fees are paid, plaintiffs aren't expecting to see much (google.com)	(44)
	GM files for bankruptcy to spin off an even less-relevant company (bloomberg.com)	(356)
	Samsung edges out Sony. You can tell from the pixels (pcworld.com)	(19)
	Chrysler could exit bankruptcy reorganization as soon as Monday, just as General Motors enters bankruptcy. It's almost like some sort of assembly line (online.wsj.com)	(25)
	If you own the 1972 Z28 Camaro that Papa John's founder sold in 1983 to start his pizza biz, he wants to buy it back for $25,000 (ajc.com)	(82)
	Why free newspapers are just as dead as the ones that make you pay real money for them (independent.co.uk)	(19)
	By this time tomorrow, "taxpayers will own a 60% stake in GM," which is a fancy way of saying "GM now stands for 'Government Motors' " (fe20.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com)	(148)
(Some Russky-Canuck)	Russian-Canadian consortium wins bid to buy Opel from General Motors, will produce car that runs on vodka and back bacon (themoscowtimes.com)	(20)