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15 minutes of fame
Guy Who Protested Mortgage Denial And Took Out $190,000 In Twenties Ends Up Putting It All Back In Very Same Bank
New Zealand artist Roger Griffiths is having one dinky-di bonzer of a week. First, he was denied a mortgage by Westpac, his bank of 25 years. In protest, he then More » -
tagged.com
NY Attorney General Unfriends Tagged.com, Files Lawsuit
New York's crusading Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has a new target:social networkingcontact-spamming site Tagged.com. He intends to stop the company's practices and seek fines from them. Were the fine $1 per spammy e-mail they've sent, the total would be $60 million. Too much? More » -
Airlines Have Bumped 343,000 Passengers This Year
Over a quarter-million passengers were bumped from flights in the past eight months, a number that is set to grow as airlines try to boost anemic profits by slashing fleets. The Department of Transportation requires airlines to compensate bumped passengers with cash or vouchers, but savvy passengers can leverage their situation to negotiate heftier payments... More » -
violations
350 Of New Jersey's Gas Stations Are Violating State Regulations. Here's A Map Of Them.
A recent sweep of New Jersey gas stations by state and local inspectors resulted in over a third of them receiving citations for posting the wrong gas prices on road signs, changing the price of gas too often, and other other violations. The New Jersey Star Ledger made a very helpful map of the violator stations, available inside. More » -
new york
How To Spot IDT As They Snake Up Manhattan's Spine
A reader on Manhattan's Upper West Side spotted an IDT energy salesman going door-to-door this week. The tipster nabbed a copy of IDT's enrollment forms so you know what to look for when the scammy salesmen try to wrangle you into signing up for services that can triple the cost of your energy bill. The IDT representative said he was winding his way north to the tip of Manhattan with plans to reach 125th Street in time for Christmas. More » -
retail
Is Express Taxing Tax-Exempt Items?
An Express in New York City charged a sharp-eyed reader tax on a belt that cost $34.50. Neither the city nor state levy tax on items costing less than $110. More » -
technology is awesome
Kodak To End Flash Photography?
Kodak says they may be able to end the need for flash photography and the resulting red-eye with a new sensor. From Reuters:The world's biggest maker of photographic film says its proprietary sensor technology significantly increases sensitivity to light. Image sensors act as a digital camera's eyes by converting light into an electric charge to begin the capture process.
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decisions
Should You Buy New Or Used?
Buying used items can save a great deal of money, when done properly. Personal finance guru Gregory Karp suggests several factors to consider before buying items with wear and tear: More » -
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best buy
Best Buy to Open 90 New Stores In The US
Stock of companies making ugly-ass blue polo shirts should be trending upward on Best Buy's announcement that they will open 130 new stores worldwide, 90 of them in the US. From MarketWatch: More » -
gamestop
Is It New If GameStop Already Opened It?
GameStop has a policy of opening their new games before they sell them to you, and that has some customers understandably pissed off. From Aeropause: More » -
avis
Avis Rental Cars Are Wi-Fi Hotspots
According to an Avis press release, soon you will be able to turn your rental car into a portable wi-fi hot spot. Yay, internet while driving. We suppose this is more awesome than driving around searching for an open network or a Panera Bread.... More » -
shopping
Endless: Amazon Launches A New Brand
Amazon has launched a new site, Endless.com, specializing in shoes and handbags. The site has 250 brands and 15,000 styles and makes the unusual, but tempting, offer of "Free Overnight Shipping." Really? Really. More » -
deals
Winter Coat Crisis of 2006
The New York Times is reporting on a phenomenon they call "Coat Crisis of 2006, a fashion fiasco measured in racks of unsold fur-lined shearlings at Saks Fifth Avenue and down puffer jackets at Bloomingdale's." More » -
pennies
Restaurant Rounds Up to the Nearest Nickel?
Maybe this is something new that we're missing out on, but since when is there a "rounding" charge? This restaurant in Brooklyn rounded up $.02 to make this bill an (even?) $22.95. Uh, what? Maybe it's part of the war on pennies. —MEGHANN MARCO More » -
jellyfish
Smack Deal Of The Day
Jellyfish's Smack Deal of the Day goes on at 1pm. It's like Woot! except a reverse auction: as units sell, the price goes down. The game is to buy the product at the lowest price possible. More » -
airlines
Fly the Friendly Skies in a Coffin
Call it "Standing Tomb Only" airplane seating, a new cost-cutting measure proposes shuttling passengers across the sky strapped into coffin-sized spaces. More » -
complaints
DirecTV Loses Customer Over Hi-Def, Doesn't Care
Chuck from Brooklyn, "one of the lemmings who bought a HD TV recently" writes that he's "puzzled by the nonchalance with which [DirectTV] let me switch over to their mortal enemy [TimeWarner]." More »
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