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Sun June 28, 2009
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(The Tennessean) Interesting Everyday is happy hour for the Jack Daniels master distiller, he just doesn't swallow  (tennessean.com) (36)
(Concord Monitor) Spiffy Town tells store to buy 'pay-as-you-throw' trash bags, devote inventory, floor space to them, send all money to out of state company with no profit for store. Store says, "Fark you."  (concordmonitor.com) (72)
(LA Times) Obvious Time Warner is thrilled that TMZ is starting to draw a lot of attention, thanks to their Michael Jackson scoops. Less thrilled by the fact that they're drawing attention to what a bunch of unscrupulous dirtbags they are  (latimes.com) (62)
(Some Associate) Followup Amazon also pulling the plug on Hawaii Associates for "unconstitutional tax collection scheme." Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all  (fireflyfans.net) (28)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Newspaper takes long, hard, throbbing look at how the recession is hitting Nevada's brothels  (guardian.co.uk) (14)
(Slate) Obvious Problem: non-union plant manufactures cars faster and more efficiently than the union ones. Solution: close the plant  (slate.com) (64)

Sat June 27, 2009
(Orlando Sentinel) Obvious "What will signal consumers are back? Look for facials and massages"  (orlandosentinel.com) (21)
(Bloomberg) Followup Porsche is Farfromgrüven after discovering that Volkswagen holds the trump card  (bloomberg.com) (19)
(Pringles) Amusing The best banner ad in the history of the Internet  (awardshome.com) (271)
(Bloomberg) Scary Subby counts one, two, three, four, FIVE failed banks, ah ah ah (bringing this year's total to 45)  (bloomberg.com) (21)
(Washington Post) Asinine Bernie Madoff forfeits "assets" worth $170 billion that never actually existed. In related news, subby forfeits his control of Mars and Uranus to settle debts with creditors  (washingtonpost.com) (43)
(The Consumerist) Amusing "My life mission is to share my love of bacon and that is the point of the club: To give bacon love."  (consumerist.com) (27)
(Bloomberg) Strange GE plans to open a state of the art research center to study unemployment, depression and failure in Detroit  (bloomberg.com) (19)

Fri June 26, 2009
(FDIC) Scary The FDIC just announced the end of 43 more banks for May, making 212 for the year, which doesn't include the 40 "failed banks" or similar Cease & Desist orders from the OTS or OCC  (fdic.gov) (33)
(Yahoo) Stupid Female brokers sue Bank of America because they apparently received less grossly exorbitant needless bonuses than their exorbantly paid male counterparts. Golden penis  (news.yahoo.com) (9)
(Seattle Times) Unlikely BMW claims factors that put Mini at bottom of quality rating aren't problems, they're features: "Mini has some idiosyncrasies that we engineer into our cars"  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (50)
(Dealbreaker) Amusing One of the richest men in the world also looks like an 80s porn star, and has a new photo shoot that recalibrates the unintentional comedy scale  (dealbreaker.com) (51)
(Some Guy) Scary Red Roof Inns taking the "red" part too seriously, defaulting on $361 million in loans. Sucky economy driving cheaters and swinger's parties to Motel Six, which is about to declare a profit  (dailyfinance.com) (27)
(Gawker) Interesting Google's thirst for power will not be satisfied until it devours San Francisco  (gawker.com) (39)
(Some Guy) Sad Rite Aid to close 117 stores in wake of $98.4 net quarterly loss. CVS and Walgreen's perched nearby waiting to pick at the bones  (dailyfinance.com) (64)

Thu June 25, 2009
(Financial Times) Amusing Gazprom Please  (ft.com) (18)
(Slate) Interesting Why French people love the Royale with Cheese  (slate.com) (28)
(LA Times) Sad Kimberly-Clark wipes out 1600 jobs  (latimes.com) (83)
(AP) Unlikely Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke: "I did not have threatening relations with that man, Ken Lewis"  (hosted.ap.org) (16)
(BBC) Hero At a time when Bear Sterns is giving record bonuses for failure, British Air employees volunteer to work without pay in order to save the company, even the CEO  (news.bbc.co.uk) (31)
(AJC) Sad The "Punching People in the Face" industry is the latest victim of our struggling economy  (ajc.com) (23)
(Network World) Dumbass Buy our furniture #Iran #iPhone #Apple  (networkworld.com) (12)
(Gizmodo) Interesting Advertising on the Simpsons costs more via HULU than on broadcast TV  (gizmodo.com) (55)
(Bloomberg) Interesting Former IBM CEO says short-term gains should be taxed at 80%, and 5-year+ gains should be taxed at 0%  (bloomberg.com) (372)
(Chicago Tribune) Obvious You know how all the soda companies are switching to "natural sugar"? Yea, it's all marketing hype  (chicagotribune.com) (138)
(LA Times) Cool ZeniMax buys Id, in market for Ego  (latimes.com) (35)
(Bloomberg) Interesting Warren Buffett criticizes Steve Jobs for concealing his serious illness from investors and for raising song prices on Buffett's favorite death metal bands to $1.29  (bloomberg.com) (52)
(Yahoo) Obvious Citigroup to raise salaries by up to 50% in an attempt to dodge legislation imposing caps on bonuses. EVERYBODY PUNDIT  (finance.yahoo.com) (135)
(Reuters) Obvious Weiner inserted as CEO of Linked-in. Frankly, that site is a sausage party anyway  (reuters.com) (10)

Wed June 24, 2009
(BBC) Ironic Ryanair to offer gambling, flying on Ryanair  (news.bbc.co.uk) (8)
(London Times) Followup Silvio Berlusconi's TV stations fail to cover Silvio Berlusconi's sex romps with young women for some damn reason or other  (timesonline.co.uk) (29)
(Some Guy) Fail R.I. newspaper to charge customers twice as much to view their website than paper subscriptions. That ought to sustain them until this silly Internet thing blows over  T-Shirt  (chiefmarketer.com) (38)
(CNN) Stupid New home sales fall unexpectedly according to people who just got to 2009 by way of a DeLorean  T-Shirt  (money.cnn.com) (25)
(Some Grumpy Old Man) Scary Gang of geriatric Germans lays Zimmer frame smackdown and torture session on financial adviser over $4m of missing "black money"  (weinterrupt.com) (68)
(Canada.com) Obvious Canada ends up dead last in world sawmill rankings, losing $27 a cubic metre in 2008. Wood you believe they rank sawmills?  (vancouversun.com) (27)
(Politico) Asinine Completely having forgotten that they were solely responsible for the demise of such things as the American auto industry, union leaders see what further damage they can cause on Capitol Hill by handing out "Made in China" hardhats  (politico.com) (96)

Tue June 23, 2009
(Yahoo) PSA When your business model relies on "people (that) have more money than brains," it's best not to state that in an interview  (tech.yahoo.com) (62)
(Bloomberg) Interesting Ford: We don't need any federal money... ooh look $5.9 billion  (bloomberg.com) (46)
(MSNBC) Dumbass Woman amasses $60k in credit card debt, plans to just keep spending until she gets big enough for a federal bailout (with "you're nearly there" bonus pic)  (msnbc.msn.com) (478)
(Yahoo) Interesting Toyota to now be run by Akio Toyoda. Bob Fjord, General Motore and Jim Forsche wait anxiously by their phones  (news.yahoo.com) (70)
(Reason Magazine) Asinine "The IASB and FASB reiterated their objective of achieving broad convergence of IFRS and GAAP by 2010, which is a necessary precondition under the SEC's proposed roadmap to adopt IFRS." Welcome all to the new regulatory world  (reason.com) (59)
(Marketwatch) Interesting In their never-ending attempt to prevent us from stacking our elderly up like cordwood, Boston Scientific invents some heart doohickey that will keep people alive long after they serve any useful purpose  (marketwatch.com) (48)
(Some Guy) Fail Ford's plan to become profitable again? A revamped Taurus  (autoweek.com) (163)
(Some Guy) Interesting Increased email activity could indicate your company is about to go belly up  (switched.com) (8)
(Marketwatch) Sad MySpace workers to have 300 fewer friends. Mood: Sad  T-Shirt  (marketwatch.com) (15)
(Yahoo) Unlikely U.S. maintains its perfect credit rating, may already be approved for a brand new car  (news.yahoo.com) (13)
(The Consumerist) Interesting Cash4Gold warns consumers to be aware of other companies stealing their name. So make sure it's really Cash4Gold screwing you out of a fair price, not someone else  (consumerist.com) (39)

Mon June 22, 2009
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Study: US housing recovery faces uphill climb, as opposed to the much easier downhill climb  (online.wsj.com) (43)
(Autoblog) Obvious GM chooses August as the perfect time to bid farewell to their best car, which is actually a Toyota  (autoblog.com) (61)
(CNN) Cool Oil drops to $67 a barrel, a two-week low, on news that it's too hot in the Midwest to drive anywhere  (money.cnn.com) (26)
(The Atlantic) Obvious Burger King's ad agency hasn't been exactly a bunch of hip, brilliant, Chivas-sipping Mad Men with their "creepy King" ad campaign: BK has lost business share to McDonald's  (business.theatlantic.com) (98)
(The Scotsman) Obvious Financial industry speaks in plain, every day language: "Any obfuscation could precipitate a dead cat bounce, not to mention jobbing backwards going forward"  (thescotsman.scotsman.com) (19)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Amusing Maybe now's not a great time to spend $95 million on a new printing press  (businessinsider.com) (29)
(Bloomberg) Stupid Government to pay farmers to slaughter cows because the price of milk is too low; taxpayers smell the dairy air  (bloomberg.com) (222)
(Reuters) Interesting Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke indicates that critical timing in tightening the money supply should ward off inflation. It's almost as if he thinks he has something to say about it  (reuters.com) (31)
(MSNBC) Ironic The solution is the problem  (msnbc.msn.com) (44)

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