• John discovered that if you miss one leg of a round trip flight, American Airlines cancels the entire ticket. Simultaneously, he discovered a new exercise routine for his middle fingers. [John Carrol]
• Millionchesthairhomepage: “For $1, I will pluck a hair from my chest, take a picture of it and display it with your site name and a link back to you from the “Yank Out My Chest Hair” page.” [Chench]
• Cingular’s solution for fighting text message spam is to disable all text messages. [Expat Leo]
• A certain big blue box retailer uses fake statistics in ads to argue against minimum wage increases. Color me classy. [Beachwood Reporter]

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