Transportation & Infrastructure
IKEA: Like Design, Life is Cheap
It used to be that owning IKEA just meant enduring some Fight Club barbs. A new product recall threatens to take away your ability to even turn the catalogue pages (which you read just for the articles).
UPDATE: Sleazy Prius Deal Ends in Warrant For Salesman’s Arrest
On Monday, we posted part of Mark’s story about how he tried to return a Toyota Prius and ended up incurring the wrath of vengeful salesman who placed obscene phone calls at all hours to his wife. A warrant is now out for the salesman’s arrest.
Toyota Prius Confuses, Confounds, Calls Your Wife A Whore
If you buy a Toyota Prius, your wife’s name and phone number will instantly find itself on many online escort websites. This we know. But it sucks for money in ways your wife doesn’t. In fact, the car’s so confusing that Consumer Affairs couldn’t even figure out how to turn one on:
Remainders!
It’s the weekend, and time to party. Therefore, tonight’s dangling odds and ends are presented in scream format.
Blogobitchin’!
• Buying a wedding dress on Craiglist is cheap, but you also have to factor in the cost of removing the boob padding. [Another Fucking Wedding] “Wedding dress redux”
Chrysler’s Final 0% Solution
There are absolutely no new ideas in advertising. In this latest proof, Chrysler rips off Volkswagen ripping off Mitsubishi by playing up the combustible engine’s ethnic heritage, in this case, as in VW’s, German. The campaign introduces Dr. Z as CEO and spokesmensch. To cries of “I can’t see any lederhosen,” Daimler replies, “Farfegcocca.”
The News; The Beat My Child Porn Skipped
• Maybe they should bring in Snoop Dogg, too. [CT] “GM goes back to 0% plan”
Ogling the Complainosphere
• Volkswagen likes to sponsor concerts by wives of convicted war criminals, and no, we’re not just talking Hitler’s Youth Army Dance Party this time. GENOCIDE! LIVE! AND IN CONCERT! Will the Jetta’s superior side-crash safety rating protect us from the pangs of conscience? [Report from a concert by a Serbian war-criminal]
Bitchin’ Heard Round the Blogosphere
• Insert your blogged complaint here. Why should these folks get all the traffic?
Toyota Recalls A Million Cars for Faulty Steering Wheel
If you own a Toyota Prius, you may want to bring it into your local dealership. Just pray that the steering wheel doesn’t break off in your hands on the way.
Baush Apologizes With Free Eye-Solution
Users of Baush & Lomb eyecare products received a letter today.
Lady Tells How Moistureloc Made Her Blind. Skeet. Skeet.
Here’s an eyewitness account of a user of the infamous Bausch & Lomb Renu Moisture Loc contact lens solution. She went blind in one eye. From the NYT:
Succumbing to Shirley Temple’s Deadly Charms
The children’s toy industry apparent refusal to stop putting lead in jewelry products lends itself to this morning’s best lede: “The good ship Lollipop has some unsafe cargo.”
