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Sun November 01, 2009
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(CNN) PSA Everybody, duck and cover: the CIT has hit the fan  (money.cnn.com) (75)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Treasury Secretary Geithner says that banks are playing it too safe, should engage in more risky investing. No, really. Stop laughing. I'm serious -- he said that  (huffingtonpost.com) (41)

Sat October 31, 2009
(The New York Times) Dumbass Ford union workers reject deal to bring labor costs in line with GM or Chrysler. Bonus: rejection means 7,000 union jobs will be cut. Subby would add a snarky comment but his palm seems to be attached to his face  (nytimes.com) (133)
(CBC) Obvious Tim Hortons revenues increase by more than $50 million, so naturally they have to raise their coffee prices  (cbc.ca) (53)
(auto blog) Cool 725 HP V8? 0-60 in just 3.5 seconds? Now *that* is what I call a biatchin' Camaro  (autoblog.com) (75)
(The Consumerist) Amusing Boston Market sends out $1 chicken meal coupons to customers on its email list. The only problem: the coupon went viral, supplies ran out, and things just went downhill from there  (consumerist.com) (51)
(NYPost) Followup Bernie Madoff to the SEC: "How could you have been so damn stupid?"  (nypost.com) (37)
(Google) Obvious On Devil's Night, the FDIC reanimated 9 zombie banks as branches of US Bank  (google.com) (12)
(BBC) Sad 13-year old made redundant, considers going back to school  (news.bbc.co.uk) (70)

Fri October 30, 2009
(Google) Scary Stock market plummets on the preposterous realization that consumers are saving their money rather than spending it on crap they don't need  (google.com) (85)
(Some 5 Guy) Obvious It's official: Sonic has the best cheeseburger Bonus: It even beat 5 Guys  (pr-inside.com) (231)
(CBC) Followup Remember that guy who wrote song about United Airlines baggage handlers breaking his guitar? When flying to Denver to deliver keynote speech on customer service, UA lost his bags  (cbc.ca) (137)
(ABC News) Ironic Federal Reserve under fire for taking corporate retreats while admonishing the companies they regulate for doing the same thing  (abcnews.go.com) (62)
(Sun Sentinel) Scary Office Depot reports $413 million loss. Taking care of business, indeed  (sun-sentinel.com) (35)

Thu October 29, 2009
(Some Beekeepers) Interesting Time to stock up on food, guns, honey. Wait, what?  (thedailygreen.com) (43)
(The Consumerist) Fail Amazon launches new "PayPhrase" technology, which lets you buy a product by entering two words and a four-digit PIN. I'm sure this'll go over well  (consumerist.com) (47)
(The Consumerist) Asinine Copycat business is suing original artist to force him to abandon his own copyrights so the copycat can legally sell cheaper knockoffs. God Bless America  (consumerist.com) (35)
(Google) Spiffy Colgate-Palmolive 3Q profit rises 18 percent; competitors said to be crestfallen  (google.com) (13)
(Slashdot) Interesting You know how libraries stamp books they loan out? Amazon plans to do the same thing to eBooks  (yro.slashdot.org) (35)
(CNN) Interesting Exxon Mobil earnings drop 68%. One percent more, and the company might just be licked  (money.cnn.com) (25)
(VZW) Obvious Verizon Wireless' profits, subscriber growth up 25% this year based on ideas like "reliable coverage" and "not pissing off your customer base by blaming all your problems on them"  (news.vzw.com) (129)
(Yahoo) Asinine Shell makes $3 billion profit in the 3rd quarter. In light of such dismal results, plans to cut 5,000 jobs  (finance.yahoo.com) (35)
(Houston Chronicle) Interesting Economy grew 3.5% last quarter, signalling an end to the recession for companies that received billions in government money and the end of the beginning of the recession for the 10% of the population who don't have jobs  (chron.com) (64)
(Rochester D&C) Sad JoltColatoshutdownoperations  T-Shirt  (democratandchronicle.com) (225)
(JSOnline) Fail Not news: PepsiCo secretary ignores papers from two locals who claimed they invented bottled water. Fark: Judge awards them $1.26 billion when the company no-shows in court  (jsonline.com) (152)
(Google) Misc Boeing picks South Carolina over Washington for second 787 line. Last years machinist strike...... well, that's karma for ya  (google.com) (73)
(Some Guy) Weird Wal-Mart begins selling caskets and urns online. No word yet when the NASCAR versions will be available  (wsbtv.com) (56)

Wed October 28, 2009
(Bloomberg) Interesting Actual headline: "Trial Dogs Fiat Family Firm as Heir Bets on Asia Fund." Well, you know what they say about the heir of the trial dogs that bet your Asia Fund  (bloomberg.com) (9)
(AP) Interesting Little known fact of the day: Wisconsin produces 95% of the country's ginseng. Which is probably great with cheese  (hosted.ap.org) (35)
(Forbes) Spiffy Thirty minutes after you finish doing business with them, you want to do business with them again: Three myths about business in China  (forbes.com) (49)
(Guardian.com) Obvious South America is experiencing an economic boom after shunning US ideas and influences  (guardian.co.uk) (79)
(The Consumerist) Obvious Former Citigroup CEO: Maybe repealing Glass-Steagall wasn't such a great idea  (consumerist.com) (35)
(SacBee) Interesting 6% drop in Qwest Communications' third-qwarter profit  (sacbee.com) (10)
(Google) Interesting GMAC wants $2.8 billion more in taxpayer bailout money. But will they give you any leeway on your car payment? No. So screw them  (google.com) (47)
(Live Science) Cool Sick of fiat currency shenanigans? Tired of old-fashioned gold-backed scrip? First Bank of Antimatter to issue new currency backed by positrons, currently trading at $10 per 10,000 positron note  (livescience.com) (30)
(The Consumerist) Ironic Wachovia's Way2Save account accumulates over $5,000 in penalty fees. Way2Save, indeed  (consumerist.com) (70)
(Oregon Live) Sad The hops season in the Pacific Northwest was so bountiful, growers left hops unharvested this fall. But if you think this means the microbreweries will lower their prices, you must be drunk. "Hops are what makes a beer come alive."  (oregonlive.com) (107)
(Reuters) Spiffy U.S. consumer confidence up for first time since 2007  (reuters.com) (27)

Tue October 27, 2009
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Former Anheuser-Busch exec sues company on grounds of sex discrimination. As if their beer didn't already violate several basic human rights already  (online.wsj.com) (22)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Sony, who just had a record-breaking box office summer, says they cannot make any more movies. Reason? Piracy is taking all of the profits  (tomsguide.com) (351)
(Globe and Mail) Interesting Canadian bank warns of danger of strong Canadian dollar, demands government hire that Ben Bernanke guy to fix it  (theglobeandmail.com) (46)
(CBS New York) Asinine Got perfect credit? Now there's a fee for that too  (wcbstv.com) (152)
(CNBC) Interesting The latest victims of the global recession: Cows  (cnbc.com) (27)
(USA Today) Hero SEC's Elisse Walter wasn't defeated by ovarian cancer and she'll be damned if she'll let the Masters of the Universe screw up the economy again  (usatoday.com) (15)

Mon October 26, 2009
(Wall Street Journal) Fail It turns out the Northwest Flight 188 pilots really weren't sleeping. They were watching porn on their laptops instead  (online.wsj.com) (107)
(MSNBC) Interesting Congress and Obama administration eye reining in 'too big to fail' institutions  (msnbc.msn.com) (56)
(The Consumerist) Interesting The US has never gone to war against a country with a McDonalds. Iceland is looking a little scared  (consumerist.com) (59)
(Marketwatch) Cool Dodd: We're imposing new rules on credit cards. CC Companies: Then we'll jack up interest rates before the rules go into effect. Dodd: Then I'll freeze card rates, you c*ck  T-Shirt  (marketwatch.com) (147)
(Rasmussen Reports) Interesting Thirty-three percent of voters think the $787 billion stimulus plan helped the economy, while 31 percent said it didn't and the remainder asked the pollster if he wanted to buy some pencils or an apple  (rasmussenreports.com) (46)
(Yahoo) Cool If you own Netflix stock you're in luck as it's out of the toilet after news leaks of potential streams on PS3 or Wii that will keep the service number one and flush with success  (finance.yahoo.com) (76)
(Marketwatch) Obvious That sound you just heard was the pop of the commercial real estate bubble. Hold still, this might hurt a bit  (marketwatch.com) (37)
(New York Daily News) Stupid After 500 resumes for $13/hr job, company hires person based on answer to "if she were in the stands at a baseball game and a foul ball came her way, would she stand up to try to catch it, or wait in her seat and hope it fell her way?"  (nydailynews.com) (105)

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