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YouTube
Wes Anderson's American Express Ad
The ad by Wes Anderson starring Jason Schwartzman is pretty fantastic, and almost too post-modern for its own good. More » -
Annoucements
Most Popular Posts of The Week
The $60,000 iPod ad. Who knew a whole bunch of iPods knocked over in domino fashion would become an internet sensation? We did. More » -
Ethical Consumerism
Dangerous Companies: Safety Bingo
While celebrating Worker Memorial Day, our eye was caught by the mention of Safety Bingo Inc as being one of the top twelve most dangerous companies. At first glance, we assume it was one of those psyop-like games the therapist use to make us play i.e. "Johnny steals your apple. Do you a) punch him b) yell at him c) cry d) tell a teacher?" And guess what, answer D lets you move forward four spaces in the game, whereas answer D in real life gets your ass kicked. More » -
YouTube
What's Net Neutrality?
There's been a lot of buzz lately about "net neutrality," which is basically how your ISP might have a financial incentive to make Google or YouTube or any site it pleases slower or even block it. This is a pretty important issue and if the failure by the US House is any indication, one that's in danger of being won by the bad guys. More » -
Scams
Soho Store a Scam?
Ten 60 gb iPods for $2699? Why that's over a grand in savings from the retail price. How do they do it? Well, we have no conclusive proof but we're pretty sure the "Soho Store" website is a total fraud. More » -
British Petroleum
America's 12 Most Dangerous Employers
Today is Worker Memorial Day, commemorating workers who have died on the job. To "celebrate," the nation's 12 most dangerous employers were named in a report released this week by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (NCOSH). More » -
Gas
Gas Companies Profit During Consumer Plight
As quarterly earnings rolled in yesterday, Exxon announced it earned $8 billion in profits. The oil company earned 9.5 cents per dollar of gas, "cashing in on skyrocketing prices at every stage of the process," reports MSNBC. More » -
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Barclays Photo
Barclays/PriceRite, Devious Camera Mongers, Strike Again
Barclay's Photo employees are a pile of snivelling scum bucket sleazebags not fit to clean the sluice gate of a pig factory killing floor. More » -
Dell
50% Off Dell Desktops!
Dell's cleaning out the second quarter closet and we find not cobwebs, skeletons or Tom Cruises, but a bundle of savings. More » -
Amazon.com
Shopping in the Valley of the Amazons
Amazon Marketplace is awesome but perils lurk among the shadows of the the merchant's stalls... More » -
Gas
Gas by Dash Snow
Your pain at the pump is palatable, but what ring of the underworld inferno should we consider this? More » -
Plan B
FDA Says Plan B Causes Teen Sex Cults
What the hell? The Manhattan-based Center for Reproductive Rights is grilling FDA officials on their failure to approve the Plan B pill as a drug that can be distributed without a prescription. Why might they not have approved it? More » -
Microsoft
Microsoft Fingerprint Reader Does Passwords, Not Security
We hate remembering passwords. We have enough arbitrary code phrases in our life to remember, like the one we have to try to remember when our girlfriend cinches that plastic sack over our head. So Microsoft's Fingerprint Reader software seemed pretty cool to us. More » -
Ringtones
The Thirty Five Words You Can't Use In Your Ringtone
In a preemptive move to prevent the FCC from regulating mobile phone content, Cingular and Verizon have come up with a comprehensive list of prohibited terms that vendors can't use in content sold over their services. More » -
Customer Service
Southwest Launches Corporate Blog, But Where's The CS?
Southwest Airlines have launched a pretty respectable example of a half-decent, minimally-manipulative, somewhat-entertaining corporate blog. If you know what we mean. This isn't McDonald's stupid "Horse Whsiperer" Corporate Responsibility nonsense. For example, we got a kick out of the entry about a bee hive that was found in the tail of a plane that was being repaired and the bee keeper who was brought in to deal with the problem. More » -
Canada
Reach A Human With Roger's Wireless
This one's for our Canadian pals, all too often ignored by us as America's Hat. If you're a Robert's Wireless Pay-As-You-Go Customer, once you dial up their customer support line the chances of you escaping the plunging maze of robot menus by speaking to an actual human is roughly equivalent to your chances of doggy paddling through the cold vacuum of space your way outside the event horizon of the black hole of oblivion towards which you're being inexorably sucked. More » -
Starbucks
Starbucks Alienates Doofus Teen
Ah, the casual stupidity of power-tripping barristas and idiot teens. From Mike's Blog: More »
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