Title: "Movin' on out"
Caption: "It's time to pack! Still a while before we move, but I'll be studying for my exam right before we plan on moving."
By: unleashedlive

Title: "please don't feed me 8"
By: missdesigndiva

Title: Credit Card Eliminator
By: frankieleon

Title: washing
By: Nykoh

Title: SOAP
By: jimlittle2

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Title: "Enchanted Forest"
By: Lisa Brewster

Title: "Economic Suicide"
Caption: "So Much Fun"
By: frankieleon

By: soraxtm

Title: "Our 92 Integra at 100k"
Caption: "Tonight our 1992 Acura Integra turned over 100,000 miles. We got it 16 years ago for $14,000 out the door. It has been a great, reliable car and worth every penny. I love that car!"
By: sfxeric

Title: "The world's largest Sheetz"
Caption: "20 pumps. Endless canopies. MTOs. It's no Wawa, but it was still pretty damn big and fed my late-night hunger."
By: voteprime

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Title: "Banksy: Bunny putting on makeup"
By: dooleymtv

Title: "Mr. Businessman is happy"
Caption: "I've jumped in to the world of stock trading. Why now? I'm not sure. With the economy seeming to be going down the shitter, I guess there are some deals to be had. Not investing a lot as I don't have much. If I mess this up it means I have to work during my 4th yr of school, eek. On the other hand if I don't mess it up, I can foresee a 5D MKII in my future :) ... or at least break even.. "
By: Unleashedlive

By: dooleymtv

Title: "View"
Caption: "View from our Hotel Room at the Stratosphere Hotel...unfortunately, this was taken the morning before we left. We only stayed a night...but I definitely want to go back now. What a great trip."
By: jayRaz

Caption: "Emma poses with a bit of Coca Cola."
By: sfxeric

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Caption: "my 27th secret is a secret because i'm ashamed of it, but here it goes. i've got $13k in credit card debt, mostly racked up years ago from a combination of foolishness and being broke. thankfully i at least have decent APRs."
Photo: me and the sysop

Title: "The Cow is going to eat me!!!"
Photo: speezer9999

Title: "Economic Madness"
Photo: frankieleon

Title: "Crossing The Line"
Photo: Hoong Wei Long

Caption: "This is the day I really started to feel sick, all I wanted to do is pass out, surrounded with cold medicine"
Photo: yoshiffles

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Title: "Man of concern"
By: Lisa Brewster

Title: "Bank of America Building"
Caption: "Bank of America Building, Atlanta, Oct 2008"
By: idyllopus

Title: "Fireworks Supermarket Aftermath 4"
By: gongus

Caption: "Smoking Kills... Rats"
By: Kevin Dean

Title: "FLUFF"
Caption: "Went shopping in the U.S. and stocked up on essentials."
By: BILLBINS

Caption: "One of my favorite toys, my Wal-Mart shopping cart."
By: Little Miss Becca

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Title: "18:365 The choice is yours. Choose wisely."
By: unleashedlive

Title: "jump"
Caption: "Wall Street news that didn't make the front page..."
By: shorty63136

Title: "Sell Stocks, Buy Shoes"
By: Atomische.com

Title: "FDIC"
By: smcgee

By: jbuck

Title: "Bombay Sapphire"
Caption: Camera: Nikon D200 Lens: Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D AF
By: themikepark

Title: "DCBliss"
Caption: "Taken at the National Arboretum, Washington DC."
By: ryanhollowayphotography

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Title: redandjonny shoe shopping
By: RedandJonny

Title: hood2
By: Ciclamino Photo

Title: mine
By: jinhiang

Title: Early junkie
Caption: "Get 'em going on the diet caffeinated sodas early, I always say."
By: kilgore

Title: Silhouette
By: Rushup Edge

By: j.buck

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By: j.buck

Title: "Electric Car"
By: Artnchicken

Title: "Jack Colker Union 76"
By: nailmaker

Title: "13 sept cooling tower"
Caption: "it swallows all those fossil fuels, sends light through all its wires;
metabolized, digested, gone, exhausts to heaven, then expires."
By: Wayne Gunn

Title: 1987
By: Rushup Edge

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Melanie at All About Content has the entire story, from the original office prank that went viral thanks to sites like Digg and BoingBoing, to 3M's attempt to appropriate it, to their shabby treatment of the owner of the photo and their subsequent workaround.

Michelle, the "eMarketing Supervisor" who was negotiating with Scott, comes across as particuarly disingenuous in her email to him:

We were quoted about $750-$1000 to shoot our own, but if you could allow us to use yours on a couple in-store displays for 6 months within that range, we could arrange for that instead.

Really, Michelle? Only two displays throughout the entire country? Are you a really bad eMarketing manager, or lying to Scott about how much you'd use the photo? [We think mmmsoap makes a good point about how this was probably meant.]

We guess what's most offensive about this is 3M can surely afford to pay a legitimate licensing fee to the owner of the photo, which would have also served as a goodwill gesture to the community that most likely gave it the campaign idea to begin with. As Melanie puts it in her article:

But let’s pretend the legality of this move wasn’t even a question for now, and focus on this: Social media marketing campaigns rely on the social media community to carry them. As a marketer, you have to respect the community and its members. Ripping off community members and then turning around and asking that same community to generate buzz for your campaign is just ballsy... or stupid.

The irony: The YouTube contest rules say “Remember, creativity and true brilliance will get you noticed.”

Is that part of the rules, or a threat from 3M?

"3M Carjacks the Post-It Note Jaguar" [All About Content] (Thanks to Craig!)
(Photos: 3M display and original Post-It car by Scott Ableman)

By: Danno @ The Photo Collective

Title: dolla
By: donbuciak

Title: Cold Winter's Mourning
By: jayRaz

Title: Chevron Tanker
By: So Cal Metro

By: bradym80

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Title: "[Day 5] Making It Up"
By: Cavale

Title: "IKEA West Chester Opening Day"
By: verybigjen

Title: "Fries with Gravy"
By: Morton Fox

Title: "Rip everything!"
By: giraffmunky

Title: "Bright Eyes"
By: bedpanjohn

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Title: "08-16-08 The Damselles 11"
By: CharlieChu

Title: "You Can Only Take So Many"
By: soraxtm

Title: cart
By: donbuciak

Title: DEviaetpost (1 of 1)-10
By: soraxtm

Title: "Sucks to be this guy"
By: emilybean

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Title: "Sam, Sam, the Gorilla Man"
By: BohPhoto

By: Kevin Dean

Caption: "Thanks to these lil red guys, I'm able to deal with the pain in my hip while I'm getting it worked on. Hopefully soon I'll be able to climb stairs normally, run, and maybe even box again."
By: darabidduckie

Title: "Chuck Array"
By: spinadelic

By: speezer9999

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Title: "obama"
By: Boh Photo

Title: "Chicago Theater"
By: chloeloe

By: me and the sysop

Title: "Audi"
By: hagner_james

Title: "Ronnie Rage"
By: jrodgersart

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Caption: "Drinking a coke (finally finished staining the deck today, thus the "dirty" hands)"
By: yoshiffles

Caption: "This photo was taken by a buddy after we had just gotten done going to a few thrifts. I was worn out."
By: Thrift Store Addict

By: thoughtfix

Caption: "Sleeping Car attendant Tom helping a traveler with her luggage."
By: Madbuster75

Title: "Excalibur Casino"
By: Madbuster75

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Title: "shine"
Caption: "Taken at Prive photoshoot, Belmont Country Club, Ashburn Va"
by: ryanhollowayphotography.com)

by: nrivera

Title: "Shooting Coke"
by: corsec67

by: cleighud

Title: "No Smoking"
by: oldmanmusings

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Title: "Space Fashion //3"

By: Mareen Fischinger

Title: "Burger King"

By: By Nick Albertson

Title: "Light Record"
By: jayRaz

Caption: "A miniature Mercedes at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit "
By: J Dailey

Title: "Yay candy!"
By: fantasysage

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Title: DSC00416a
By: jetsetpress

Caption: "While I was picnicking near Lake Michigan I dropped a piece of cheese. I noticed the results a few seconds later and it ended up quite photographic."
By: sdsparks

Caption: "I did not notice that there was a guy in this picture. Hi guy."
By: sdsparks

Title: Billboard and wall
By: chloeloe

Title: Prescriptions
By: voteprime

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Title: 06-15-08 Maria Deluca43
by: CharlieChu

Title: Lazy ass rabbit
by: jb0

Title: First Attempts at Miniature Tilt Shift
by: bedpanjohn

Caption: "Where they belong come September 1st? Yet another complaint about the loss of profiles. The DVDs I have in my 3 profiles will not fit into a single queue, much less the effort to move them."
by: corsec67

Title: AutoZone
by: SA_Steve

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Title: "Sears and ABC Store?"
by jritch77

Title: "Nachtspiel"
by flaimo

Title: "Tiny Man on Shopping Cart"
by: spinadelic

Title: "runway 28 L color test"
by daiji

by Hendrick Guerra

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Advert [Flickr]

Title: "Selling Nivea deodorant in Causeway Bay"
(Photo: Maeve79)

(Photo: rsplatpc)

Title: "Pay Me Tips!"
(Photo: rsplatpc)

Caption: "The new diet is begun"
(Photo: Sam Wilkinson)

Caption: "Waiting for shaved ice at the Point Marion Regatta in Point Marion, PA."
(Photo: Sam Wilkinson)

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Title: "Most awkward smile evar"

(Photo: Maulleigh)

Caption: "They must be using some kind of magic butt-mold to hold these things in that shape."

(Photo: stirwise)

Title: "i suppose this is cheap"

(Photo: dejay181)

Title: "Walk a Mile In His Shoes"

(Photo: Breslow)

Caption: "I got a deal just for you!"

(Photo: iDream_in_Infrared)

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Caption: "Outtake from 5/17/2008 Photoshoot for the DC area punk band So Damn Thirsty"

(Photo: rsplatpc)

Title: "Refrigerate After Opening"
(Photo: Meggito)

Caption: "Canal Street, NYC"
(Photo: Breslow)

Caption: "Testing a lighting set up in preparation for a Product shoot I am going to be doing tomorrow. A few color adjustments in LR.580EX Under the bottle, and 580EXII pointing at the wall and zoomed in a little."
(Photo: beautifoto)

(Photo: gongus)

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Caption: "Weird."

(Photo: rightonbro)

Title: "Little bananas"

(Photo: yarnzombie)

Title: "caboose.side"

(Photo: damageinc86)

Caption: "I drove my wife to the airport early this morning, so I decided to spend my morning in a coffee shop in my old neighborhood of Ballard."

(Photo: smohundro)

Title: "May 10, 2008 : Tylenol, the Hangover Cure"

(Photo: The GlassPeople)

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Here are five special photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, chosen because they're both neat and could possibly be used in a Consumerist post. Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consumerist readers go and upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Just be a registered Flickr user, go here, and click "Join Group?" up on the top right, and start hitting "send to group" on your individual photos you want to add to the pool.

Title: "Resume Builder"

(Photo: Breslow)

Caption: "I feel this is sort of a portrait of me right now - this smattering of meds has really changed me lately - more internally than externally i feel. Some of these i take daily, some are no longer used, some are taken as needed. Anti-psychotics, anticonvulsants, benzos, allergy meds, stomach meds, mood stabilizers, acid reducers, ibuprofen, naproxen, etc."

(Photo: xysmas (Aaron))

Caption: Two factories in DUMBO, Brooklyn

(Photo: Breslow)

Title: "Another Day"

(Photo: albinogoldfish)

Title: "Dark clouds over Walmart"
Caption: "It seemed somehow appropriate."

(Photo: yarnzombie)

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Caption: "I hate WalMart."

(Photo: big-film)

Caption: "out of 11 good/decent shots of the lightning storm I piled them on top of each other"
Comment: "evil descends upon the taco bell"

(Photo: .nutter)

(Photo: Crawfishpie)

Title: gas line sunset 2

(Photo: ennailuj)

Caption: "I had read about this toothpaste in the August issue of National Geographic, and wanted to try it. I thought it'd be easy to find, but after checking out about 10 places that sold toothpaste, I gave up. My aunt called National Geographic in Seoul to track it down and found the toothpaste at a place called Orga Whole Foods about 30 minutes away from metropolitan Seoul in Bundang (?). Bundang!

Charcoal has cleaning and odor-removing properties. That part's great. The toothpaste left my mouth squeaky clean! Good stuff...until charcoal's moisture sucking properties kick in. About five minutes after I brushed my teeth, my mouth was as dry as a desert and my lips were starting to chap. "

(Photo: La Mariposa)

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(Photo: dylan.greene)

(Photo: Robrrt)

(Photo: Breslow)

(Photo: AComment)

(Photo: CurtisJoeWalker)

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(Photo: NYCArthur)

(Photo: vp_bsu)

(Photo: Breslow)

(Photo: Tincho.·.·. / Andrés Martín)

(Photo: el daverino)

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Flickr, however, is standing firm. The videos will stay.

Here's our response to what we see as frequent feedback here in the forum (I've paraphrased the feedback in some instances):

"I don't want video on Flickr."
We're sorry, but video is here to stay. We'd love for everyone to give it a shot. If it's not to your taste, then you should change the default on autoplay. You can distinguish between video and photos by the white arrow bottom left.

"I think video should have it's own separate site."
Just as with our international launch last year and building language on top of our global community, we wanted to avoid siloing what is after all, just another format.

"...did none of the staff see this coming?"
Given our experience with the outrage in moving sets from the left-hand side of the page to the right a few years ago (and various adventures since then), we're very familiar with the passionate response of our members. We can't be afraid of that. We need to continue to improve, release new features and iterate.

Feedback and iteration are very much part of our process. We very much value the feedback that we receive after features launch. It gives us a chance to take something good and give it that extra polish.

We suppose the real question is: Are they willing to put their memberships where thier mouths are and cancel their accounts in protest?

(Pssst, the headline is a joke. We love you, Flickr.)

We Say No To Videos On Flickr [Flickr]
(Photo:AngeloM)

(Photo: La Mariposa)

(Photo: AComment)

(Photo: Scarequotes)

(Photo: tmq666)

(Photo: hanapbuhay)

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My two years on my initial Sprint contract was up in January of this year, so I worked through Retention and got them to agree to a plan I was happy with. This included free incoming calls (like I had on my old contract), 300 more minutes of other calls than I had before, and free text messaging. I got them to commit to the same price I was paying before - $50/month.

Naturally, because this is Sprint, my January, February and March bills have all been issued with enough errors to this custom-built plan that I have had to call Billing to get things squared away on each one. Surprisingly, they've been easy to deal with and have processed the fixes for me without any trouble at all.

So, I've grown to expect Sprint to screw up my bill a little bit. A *little* bit. I'm not sure a teenage girl in Prom season could use up all these minutes I was mysteriously granted...

(Photo: bg_poker)

(Photo: groovnick)

(Photo: cajunstyle)

(Photo: nailmaker)

(Photo: the idealist)

(Photo: Dan Lussier)

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(Photo: DonDiego87)

(Photo: mwreeve)

(Photo: nailmaker)

(Photo: damageinc86)

(Photo: AaronKSmith)

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(Photo: afagen)

(Photo: C.Barr)

(Photo: !!!! scogle)

(Photo: !!!! scogle)

(Photo: u2acro)

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(Photo: brokenimage)

(Photo: the dancing kids)

(Photo: BILLBINNS)

(Photo: michael.kinne)

(Photo: CurtisJoeWalker)

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(Photo: SisterLoquacious)

(Photo: Charliux)

(Photo: SisterLoquacious)

(Photo: bcbeatty)

(Photo: Arryll)

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Caption: "Wal-Mart is a popular place to shop for last second Valentine's Day cards."

(Photo: msmail)

(Photo: themikepark)

(Photo: damageinc86)

(Photo: TheeErin)

(Photo: groovnick)

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(Photo: romulusnr)

(Photo: videodvdcombo)

(Photo: supertrixiecat)

(Photo: The Joy Of The Mundane)

(Photo: Industry Is Virtue)

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