(AP)(50) OPEC draws a line in the sand, promises that oil will not drop below $100 a barrel
(InfoWorld)(9) Red Hat buys Israel-based Qumranet. Now to be known as Black Hat
(Some Guy)(51) Wal-Mart sued for paying employees with gift cards. An injunction was also filed to stop arranged marriages for customer associates
(Some Guy)(60) Cabbage Patch kids turn 25, find it difficult to shed their adolescent image
(The Consumerist)(18) Comcast decides to use its Department of Motor Vehicle powers to remove the elderly from the roads- and you thought they only controlled the FCC
(Baltimore Sun)(20) Future tolls on DC highways could run over $1 a mile, but that's small price to pay to get the hell out of Washington
(Some Guy)(8) One in 14 people has lied to their insurance company. In related news, 13 of 14 people have had their insurance company lie to them
(MSNBC)(608) All your mortgages are now our mortgages
Sat September 06, 2008:
(News.com.au)(58) Why men visit brothels - a prostitute's view. "There is even one man who asks the girls to sit on his back, smack him and call him Blacky the horse"
(Reuters)(90) United States outstanding debt to increase by $5 trillion on Monday, from $14 to $19 trillion excluding all future obligations and municipal, county, state, corporate, and personal debts
(Marketwatch)(13) Altria (aka Philip Morris) might buy smokeless tobacco and wine maker UST. Smokless wine, what will they think of next?
(Yahoo)(306) The 10 most affordable housing markets: why doesn't anybody want to live in MI, IN, OH, or PA?
(Telegraph)(19) Prices for chicken, ham and rice have soared 40 percent this year in trend economists warn could spell the end of jambalaya as we know it
(AP)(28) Good news: Microsoft deploying in-store customer-service reps. Bad news: you're not allowed to pummel them with Vista boxes
(SeattlePI)(18) What do you get when you combine four computers, $100,000 in capital, and two really, really clever guys. If you don't know the answer, try Googling it
(Yahoo)(39) Large financial institution fails where the son of a presidential hopeful was a board member. Haven't we heard this before?
(Washington Post)(23) Beer sales post highest increase since 1990. "People gotta drink no matter what's going on with the economy"
(Yahoo)(183) If you had September 5th in the "Government seizes Fannie and Freddie" pool, come forward to collect your winnings
Fri September 05, 2008:
(BBC)(15) Energy company decides it's been undercharging family-run hotel for the past four years, sends six figure bill to make up the difference. It's not all bad though, they're giving them 25% off
(Reuters)(155) Continental Airlines introduces $15 fee for 1st checked bag
(Yahoo)(65) Samsun to aquire Sandisk. New company to be named Samsan Sundisk
(CNN)(340) Up in the sky is it a bird, a plane... oh hell it's the unemployment rate
(BBC)(13) Brazil declines to join OPEC, believes that it is still strong enough taunt and extort its oil customers all by itself
(AM New York)(42) Coney Island's legendary Astroland amusement park will close for good on Sunday, after 50 years
(NoName247)(75) The Start of the Microsoft $300 Million Dollar Image Campaign. Seinfeld and Gates in the commercial that is selling nothing - what's the deal?
Thu September 04, 2008:
(Marketwatch)(34) Stocks fall on news that field-dressing a moose isn't actually a qualification for VP
(Bloomberg)(40) Two words you don't want to hear describing the continuing economic deterioration: "Financial Tsunami"
(Bloomberg)(6) JPMorgan, facing stiff Federal probe, pulls out of the muni-interest rate swap business. Wife-swapping at the executive level still kosher
(ClusterStock)(12) OPEC won't cut oil production this month because the Miami Dolphins are undergoing a rebuilding year
(MSNBC)(95) Americans' productivity stronger than expected, despite what you are doing right now
(Reuters)(19) Ever wonder why oil inventory predictions never seem to match actual inventory reports? Commodity market regulators are wondering the same thing
(CNBC)(30) Fine upstanding business analysts from CNBC's Fast Money would like it if you purchased: Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc, Schlumberger Ltd, Huntsman Corporation and El Paso (the company, not the town)
(Komo)(48) Boeing machinists vote to strike, shirley they can't be serious
(The Consumerist)(35) Citibank, All the evil of Superman 3. Minus the red Kryptonite
(Daily Mail)(49) Why gas companies refuse to lower prices, despite crude falling 25 percent since July. Surpringingly, answer not, "Because we can. Fark you and your Escalade"
Wed September 03, 2008:
(Marketwatch)(14) Ford Motors says sales off 27%, optimistic about Flintstone foot-powered car in development
(Advertising Age)(119) HR executive accidentally sends out information about upcoming job cuts to the entire company. Oops
(CBS News)(82) Not News: The median weekly income for American workers has not grown in real terms in the last eight years
(CNN)(33) U.S. gives Venezuela 250K barrels of oil. Wait, wut?
(Atlanta Journal Constitution)(25) Coke purchases Chinese juice maker for $2.4 billion, hoping to prevent another "pee pee in Coke" joke
(CNBC)(19) Cramer feels that the negative sentiment on Wall Street is "totally overblown." Like, totally
(Bloomberg)(13) The fastest-growing part of the global bond market is faltering after a Bahrain-based group of Islamic scholars decreed that most bonds ran afoul of religious rules
(ClusterStock)(36) OPEC to cut oil supply production to celebrate the kickoff of the NFL season
(CNBC)(25) Even if the European Central Bank holds rates, the euro's supremacy on the currency markets is close to an end
(ClusterStock)(15) Goldman Sachs: My oil price target is still waaay bigger than your oil price target
(CNBC)(21) Fartknocker fartknockers want fartknockers to knock farts onto Staples, Joy Global and Fartknockers
(The New York Times)(29) Vogue India editor defends 16-page fashion spread featuring toothless women modeling $10,000 Hermès Birkin bag and starving babies wearing $100 bib: "Lighten up, Vogue is about realizing the power of fashion"
Tue September 02, 2008:
(CTV)(15) John Deere sends a Dear John letter to Canada
(Silicon Alley Insider)(19) Yahoo's stock breaks $19. Microsoft's "massively undervalued" $31 offer looking pretty good right now
(C|Net)(104) After installing Chrome, make sure to read the fine print
(The Consumerist)(120) In a rare moment of compassion, United's plan to stop serving hot meals on international flights and to instead throw a $9 sandwich down your throat has been axed, after several "feedbacks" were received
(ClusterStock)(33) I survived Hurricane Gustav and all I got was this cheap barrel of oil
(CNBC)(24) The Fast Money Fartknockers had three whole days to come up with their picks, and the best they could do is Excel Maritime, Gold ETF, Golar LNG and Wells Fargo
(Financial Times)(35) GM expected to flog its OnStar system with ads showing how it helped people fleeing Gustav after their POS cars broke down on the highway
(Baltimore Sun)(57) Recession can be good for your health. Well, not you specifically. Just society as a whole
Mon September 01, 2008:
(CBC)(32) Canadian shoe magnate Thomas J. Bata dies at age 93. May God have mercy on his sole
(Canada.com)(52) Study finds call centre workers "stressed and depressed." Boo hoo. Like it's our fault they didn't go to college
(Bloomberg)(19) Oil down almost $5 on news that Bush's hurricane making machine is having technical difficulties
(Telegraph)(104) The ugliest cars of all time - and proof that Americans do ugly better than anyone else (pics)
(ABC 7 Washington DC)(16) Countrywide suit could throw the entire title insurance business into disarray. Bank of America ponders $1,000 ATM fee to offset their poor investment
Sun August 31, 2008:
(London Times)(54) "The days of cheap airline travel are coming to an end and the omens indicate they won't be coming back any time soon"
(London Times)(17) Mortgage lenders learn that "let the market decide" only sounds good when times are good. When times are bad? Not so much
(CTV)(59) Coffee shop bans pennies, declares itself word's first "Penny-Free Zone." "It became clear to us that the amount of time we spent taking care of pennies wasn't valuable in the long run"
(MSNBC)(29) GM thinks they'll be making money again in 2010, maybe
(ABC)(67) Sucky economy has an upside: Americans are producing less trash. Well, maybe not in Hollywood, which is still out of ideas, but everywhere else
(ZDNet)(28) Google says AOL is a lemon, regretting $1 billion investment
(AP)(22) America's restaurants hope to lure diners back with lower-priced dishes, such as Burger King's chicken strips wrapped in a burrito
Sat August 30, 2008:
(Atlanta Journal Constitution)(53) Integrity Bank credited their success not to themselves, but to God. So who's fault is it they were just seized by the Fed?
(Financial Times)(43) Economists warn that Canada "is on brink of recession", point to thousands of Canadians frantically hoarding poutine, Carling Black Label and Celine Dion box sets to get them through the coming hard times
(London Times)(12) Mortgage lenders are shocked, SHOCKED that some of their no doc loans were used to support drug manufacturing, illegal immigration and money-laundering
Fri August 29, 2008:
(MSNBC)(40) Now that the rebate checks are gone, the economy resumes its previous flight toward the basement of Hell
(Some Guy)(154) Reason #473,665 why GM sucks: they just recalled one million vehicles . . . because the WINDSHIELD WIPERS CATCH ON FIRE
(BBC)(14) Dell: "Apparently we didn't think our cunning pricing plan all the way through"
(The Business Sheet)(8) Merrill's mortgage gamblers lose one-quarter of the money the firm made in past 36 years
(Some Guy)(189) "More US consumers plan to buy a Mac in the next 90 days than any other brand" Suck it, Windows fanboys
(Some Guy)(63) Top eight public works boondoggles in the world, and why they blew their budgets and failed to meet expectations. Denver airport, Chunnel, and the Big Dig head a tough field
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