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Sun October 18, 2009
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(The Consumerist) Stupid Good luck cancelling that Best Buy Mastercard  (consumerist.com) (117)
(The Consumerist) Cool Canon rewards customer's laziness by replacing his out-of-warranty printer. Guess not all corporations are evil  (consumerist.com) (29)
(NYPost) Scary Rupert Murdoch in talks to acquire NBC Universal. Please, stop dividing by zero  (nypost.com) (65)
(AP) Amusing Colorado town claims cow manure can be converted into clean energy. Critics say that's just bullshiat  (hosted.ap.org) (35)

Sat October 17, 2009
(Japan Times) Cool Fragrant, full-body Belgian beer becomes increasingly popular in Japan, particularly with picky female drinkers. "I see more women taking their male bosses to our place"  (search.japantimes.co.jp) (42)
(Mercury News) Stupid AT&T to raise landline prices. In other news, Maxell to raise cassette tape prices  T-Shirt  (mercurynews.com) (96)
(Fox Business) Obvious When President Obama is being briefed on the collapse of the commercial real estate market, you might want to panic  (foxbusiness.com) (106)
(Some Guy) Scary Only one away from 100 failed banks in the USA with San Joaquin Bank in Bakersfield, CA. Who will assume your deposits America?  (fdic.gov) (38)
(Yahoo) Spiffy China Mobile will spend $4.4 billion upgrading its 3G service in 2010. AT&T to spend 2010 listening to you complain about your iPhone dropping calls  (finance.yahoo.com) (43)

Fri October 16, 2009
(Guardian.com) Interesting Ring ring Ring ring Banana war  (guardian.co.uk) (20)
(The Consumerist) Followup After threatening a small brewery and a beverage reviewer, Monster Energy threatens to sue an actual movie monster over trademark infringement. Cookie monster last seen fleeing to Canada  (consumerist.com) (36)
(Baltimore Sun) Cool Wal-Mart and Amazon are now in a race to see which company will be the first to actually pay you to read Sarah Palin's book  (weblogs.baltimoresun.com) (53)
(Reuters) Interesting Merck wins US approval to protect men from lumpy dick  (reuters.com) (19)
(The Consumerist) Weird Sony: It's been two months, time for a new PS3  (consumerist.com) (43)
(Reuters) Dumbass Rajaratnam and Kumar go to PMITA Prison for insider trading  (reuters.com) (17)
(Canada.com) Interesting Canada's annual deflation higher than expected. Also, if you strip out energy costs, its inflation was lower than expected  (edmontonjournal.com) (17)
(PCWorld) Cool FCC is threatening to open access to broadband networks to encourage competition  (pcworld.com) (44)
(Some Target) Amusing Apparently having never heard of the Streisand Effect, the makers of Monster Energy are threatening product reviewers with legal action if they rate Monster beverages poorly  (bevreview.com) (60)
(Chattahbox) Dumbass Since being elected, Fox News has blamed President Obama for the slumping markets. Dow Jones goes above 10,000. Fox News: Is this the Bush Recovery?  (chattahbox.com) (409)
(tipstrategies.com) Sad Time-lapsed US map of jobs gained/jobs lost from 2004 to 2009. Apparently, Skynet became self-aware sometime around October 2008  (tipstrategies.com) (90)

Thu October 15, 2009
(Some Guy) Obvious In today's best use of the Obvious tag, it turns out that complex financial derivatives are "intractable" - meaning it's impossible to tell whether they've been tampered with as they pay off (or don't)  (freedom-to-tinker.com) (22)
(Zero Hedge) Sad Don't get too excited by the DOW at 10,000; adjusted for inflation, that's 7,537. And compared to gold, it's near historic lows  (zerohedge.com) (96)
(The Virginian) Scary Who benefits from hyper-inflation? The government, since its debt gets wiped out. Who gets screwed? You. Enjoy your $3 billion loaf of bread  (moneyrunner.blogspot.com) (84)
(JSOnline) Obvious Harley-Davidson profits plummet as Baby Boomers realize their new mid-life crisis is funding their retirement rather than a desire to ride a Harley  (jsonline.com) (96)
(Financial Times) Sad Legendary corporate raider Bruce Wasserstein closes his final deal, yet AOL still lives  (ft.com) (12)
(USA Today) Spiffy Tim Geithner's IRS strong-arms 7,500 of the wealthiest Americans into paying their taxes, still trying to figure out his TurboTax® software  (usatoday.com) (99)
(Jalopnik) Interesting Miss the Buick Regal? Yeah, pretty sure nobody else did either, but it's back anyway baby  (jalopnik.com) (69)

Wed October 14, 2009
(Buzzfeed) Amusing That Sally Mangina has one hell of a name  (buzzfeed.com) (64)
(CNN) News The Dow passes 10,000 for the first time since the last time the Dow passed 10,000  (money.cnn.com) (204)
(Bloomberg) Unlikely My industry is recovering, my job, salary and bonuses are secure, so the next thing I would do is quit that job to take another in the same industry, at an 83% pay cut. Am I doing it wrong?  (bloomberg.com) (30)
(The Newspaper) Interesting Pennsylvania's plan to charge $100 toll on I-80 is typical shortsighted government greed: the free road generates $50 million annual profit and tolls would wreck the economy  (thenewspaper.com) (84)
(Yahoo) Interesting How Krispy Kreme took a flying fark through a rolling doughnut  (finance.yahoo.com) (107)
(First Coast News) Florida Woman reprimanded by employer for calling 911 without permission after accidentally drinking oven cleaner  (firstcoastnews.com) (176)
(Bloomberg) Wheaton Price of wheat rises on news of new Wil Wheaton book  (bloomberg.com) (20)
(Washington Post) Obvious For the first time in more than 35 years the, U.S. military has met all of their recruitment goals. Three hots, a flop, and all the incoming fire you can take  (washingtonpost.com) (64)
(MSNBC) Obvious PC World calls T-Mobile's $100 apology an insult to Sidekick owners. All six of them nod approvingly  (msnbc.msn.com) (47)
(The New York Times) Interesting Disney has turned to Apple to help re-imagine their Disney Store Chain. Employees will get the Apple Store feel with their own iPod Touch  (nytimes.com) (19)
(Detroit News) Asinine Ford announces 4.5 million additional recalls over faulty cruise-control deactivation switch that could turn Windstars into Deathstars  (detnews.com) (75)

Tue October 13, 2009
(Political Wire) Fail PricewaterhouseCoopers backs away from its insurance industry report on health care reform, completely undermining client  (politicalwire.com) (54)
(News.com.au) Asinine Employees required to enter time spent on toilet in "compliance diary". Submitter knows what he'd use for ink  (news.com.au) (61)
(Fox News) Ironic Nobody puts Bernie in a corner  (area93.com) (35)
(Some Timbit) Spiffy Don't look now America, but Canada has taken over Fort Knox with a honey cruller  (ottawacitizen.com) (35)
(autoblog) Interesting VW to address a problem that nobody cared about: The ability to fornicate in the back of a VW New Beetle  (autoblog.com) (54)

Mon October 12, 2009
(Burlington Free Press) Hero Local "Vermonster" brewer stands up to Monster Energy drinks' trademark bullying  (burlingtonfreepress.com) (58)
(Forbes) Dumbass Forbes columnist still doesn't realize the last ten years' growth were totally illusory  (forbes.com) (141)
(Marketwatch) Fail Obama fails to win Nobel Prize in economics  (marketwatch.com) (267)
(Some Guy) Cool Canadian tourism campaign launched to combine the two activities that Canadians find most thrilling: long stretches driving interspersed with stops to read roadside historical plaques  (vancouversun.com) (17)
(BBC) Cool First woman wins Nobel prize for economics. So it looks like all those home ec. classes paid off  T-Shirt  (news.bbc.co.uk) (45)
(Daily Mail) Amusing Britain is in awe of new import from America - the Snuggie. Except they call it a 'Slanket' the way the Brits call a Quarter Pounder a Royale with cheese  (dailymail.co.uk) (51)
(The Earth Times) Interesting Lufthansa to reintroduce internet service on its jets, allowing passengers to biatch about the latest Fark redesign while plunging to the earth from 20,000 feet  T-Shirt  (earthtimes.org) (15)
(Reuters) Obvious KKR is about to preside over the largest collapse of private equity investment in financial history. Good night, EFH. Hello, energy re-regulation  (reuters.com) (24)
(Reuters) Sad Lionel Pincus invests himself in worms, six feet under  (reuters.com) (5)
(Bloomberg) Fail Bank of America thinks it wise to place their fate in the hands of 12 Angry Men. What a puny plan  (bloomberg.com) (23)

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