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Sun August 23, 2009
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(Some Guy) Interesting Economists across the political spectrum say sales tax holidays are a gimmick that hurt state revenues more than they help consumers  (mddailyrecord.com) (53)
(The Consumerist) Interesting Northwestern burger chain Burgerville is putting calorie counts on each receipt and is planning on opening "bicycle drive thrus."  (consumerist.com) (43)
(Snopes) Interesting News: E.J. Korvette does not stand for "Eight Jewish Korean Veterans." FARK.com: Actually founded by WWII Jewish Vet named You Farkoff  (snopes.com) (26)
(The New York Times) Scary Old and busted: Mom throwing out your baseball cards. New hotness: Mom destroying your credit record  (parenting.blogs.nytimes.com) (89)

Sat August 22, 2009
(ABC News) Interesting There are just two types of workers: Those who clock out physically and mentally each evening and weekend, and those who check their work e-mail after hours. Should you be entitled to overtime for monitoring business email during your off hours?  (abcnews.go.com) (106)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious The justification for the Postal Service's monopoly is long past  (online.wsj.com) (103)
(The Local (Sweden)) Spiffy Borg says economy gathering pace, assimilation imminent  (thelocal.se) (9)
(The Consumerist) Stupid Amid the growing fight against obesity KFC introduces a bacon sandwich that uses fried chicken for bread  (consumerist.com) (137)
(LA Times) Interesting All cable/satellite providers carrying Versus please step for WHOA...not so fast DirecTV  (latimes.com) (29)
(CNN) Sad Friday's bank closures in Alabama, Georgia and Texas bring the total to 81  (money.cnn.com) (13)
(Some golddiggers) Obvious Survey of Americans finds most would marry for money. Survey of their waist sizes suggests they'd do it for a Klondike bar  (lansingstatejournal.com) (16)
(Some Guy) Video "Chevy dealer training film from the Eighties makes you wonder how GM sold any cars back then"  (autoblog.com) (55)
(CNN) Misc Oil reaches $74 a barrel on news that Memphis's 2007-08 basketball season never happened  (money.cnn.com) (13)
(MSNBC) Fail According to Apple and AT&T, neither Apple nor AT&T rejected Google Voice. That's right, the App Store is now sentient  (msnbc.msn.com) (45)

Fri August 21, 2009
(Marketwatch) Obvious Smuckers makes more smackers due to more suckers losing jobs, eating at home like slackers, becoming snackers, needing something to put on crackers  T-Shirt  (marketwatch.com) (34)
(Some Boss) Stupid Today is "National Hug Your Boss Day", followed by "National Clean Out Your Desk Afternoon"  (nationalhugyourbossday.co.uk) (30)
(The Street) Scary Morgan Stanley hiring 400 new traders. And it all begins anew  (thestreet.com) (33)
(Washington Post) Unlikely Bernanke: US economy near recovery. Just like Amy Winehouse  (washingtonpost.com) (20)
(Some Guy) Stupid More and more d-bag shoppers are leaving crap all over the store because they change theirs minds before the checkout line  (wbaltv.com) (141)
(The Register) Unlikely All three US cell phone providers are delighted at the amount of competition in their marketplace  (theregister.co.uk) (76)
(Some Farmer) Fail Walmart: All your contaminated water are belong to us  (news-herald.com) (27)

Thu August 20, 2009
(AP) Scary Leading Chinese newspaper: Since the US dollar's not going to worth the paper it's printed on in a few years, China should only buy bonds redeemable in gold or silver, or a REALcurrency like the Yuan. Uh-Oh  (shanghaidaily.com) (126)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Italian banks may take ham and wine as collateral on loans. Fark: They already accept cheese  (guardian.co.uk) (12)
(BBC) Interesting Prosecutors raid Porsche offices on charges they're aiding and abetting that douchebag your ex-girlfriend is dating now  (news.bbc.co.uk) (10)
(Some Guy) Amusing Amazon is imposing a strict one PS3 Slim per household limit for some damn reason or other  (reghardware.co.uk) (60)
(Bloomberg) Scary Mortgage delinquencies rise to all-time high, move beyond subprime into prime fixed-rate mortgages. But don't worry, the recession is over  (bloomberg.com) (70)
(Marketwatch) Misc Heinz profit down 7%. To meet year-end goals, will have to spend rest of year playing ketchup  (marketwatch.com) (25)
(Seattle Times) Obvious Seersucker making a comeback. As in, "you bought stock in Sears, sucker"  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (35)
(Washington Post) Sad The US is up to number 50 in the world in life expectancy. We're totally kicking Albania's ass  (washingtonpost.com) (412)
(Free Press) Fail Guess what tag shows up when The New GM® previews its new Buick compact crossover hybrid to a group of consumers?  (freep.com) (60)
(Bloomberg) Spiffy Dr Pepper sees positive signs in the U.S. economy. Hopes to destroy Coke and Pepsi with the cunning use of 'Death Panels'  (bloomberg.com) (23)
(BBC) Wheaton History celebrates 25 years of Powerpoint. Obvious tag missed his flight and Dumbass didn't review the slide deck, so Wheaton gets stuck doing the presentation  T-Shirt  (news.bbc.co.uk) (65)
(Financial Times) Scary Hedge funds bet that gas prices will triple by winter. Enjoy the warmth of the Free Market whilst you freeze to death  (ft.com) (65)

Wed August 19, 2009
(NPR) Ironic Hundreds of dealers are pulling out of the Clunkers program after dealing with miles of paperwork, and waiting on that pushy, arrogant government clerk that keeps going to the back room to "check with the manager" every ten minutes  (npr.org) (122)
(Reuters) PSA BJ's spurts out a bigger wad than expected, despite flaccid sales. Investors gobble up stock after a long, hard look at the data  (reuters.com) (31)
(BusinessWeek) Obvious Not news: BusinessWeek tells business owners to plan for the obvious. Fark: Business owners pay BusinessWeek to tell them to plan for the obvious  (businessweek.com) (9)
(Bloomberg) Cool Nothing nets profits like a Deere®  (bloomberg.com) (29)
(Daily Mail) Asinine Airline gives little girl her lost purse back. After charging her the €10 lost item return fee, of course  (dailymail.co.uk) (29)
(Washington Post) Misc Oil falls to $69 on news that Jim Cantore hasn't been dispatched to Bermuda  (washingtonpost.com) (16)

Tue August 18, 2009
(Daily Kos) PSA The FDIC is broke. Seriously. EVERYBODY PANIC  (dailykos.com) (137)
(Some Guy) Interesting AT&T moves to send the residential phone book the way of the phone booth and rotary telephone  (wsbradio.com) (72)
(Some Guy) Asinine TSA forbids snow globes as a carry on. It's for your safety, citizen  (chicagotribune.com) (91)
(The Local (Sweden)) Followup GM's long Saab story has happy end, pleasing Jonsson  (thelocal.se) (26)
(Bloomberg) Spiffy German investor confidence rises to highest level in three years; Poland breathes sigh of relief  (bloomberg.com) (10)
(Washington Post) Sad Rosetta Stone cuts outlook, stock offering. La piedra de Rosetta corta la perspectiva, ofrecimiento común. La pierre de Rosetta coupe des perspectives, émission d'actions. Rosetta Stein schneidet Aussicht, Aktienemission  (washingtonpost.com) (103)

Mon August 17, 2009
(Reuters) Followup Reader's Digest condenses Chapter 11 into just a few pages  (reuters.com) (51)
(CNBC) Fail U.S. stock markets headed for a major correction on news that a bunch of idiots thought we could get out of a major recession in a matter of months  (cnbc.com) (139)
(Some Cynic) Unlikely Since government spending counts toward GDP, recession technically over. CNBC blows up "New Bull Market" font another four sizes  (meltingpotproject.com) (51)
(Washington Post) Stupid The inventor of this gadget thinks 300 million people are too stupid to figure out how to use a towel  (washingtonpost.com) (111)

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