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Top 10 Most Butt-Blimping Fast Foods
By 11.6.07
A Calorie Counter has put together an awesome graph of all the fast food offerings. Based on his charts, here’s the most calorie packed fast food items, the ones most likely to bloat your belly:
ComcastMustDie.com Seeks Theme Song
By 11.5.07
ComcastMustDie, a blog about how much Comcast sucks, is looking for someone to make a theme song for an upcoming podcast. They want it to be 90 seconds or less, contain instrumentals, vocals and it would be nice if they contained these suggested lyrics:
What You Need To Know Before Buying A Timeshare
By 10.30.07
Alex Moskalyuk has a great post with all you need to know about timeshares. Timeshares are condos divied up among a pool of owners, each of which owns a slice of it for usually one week of the year. Alex is mainly of the hey, a discount weekend in Vegas ain’t bad for the price of listening to a salesman. He goes over how your basic timeshare presentation breaks down, and how there’s different kinds of timeshares. For instance, in some situations you actually save up and use “points” and the “point cost” of a timeshare varies based on “peak” or “non peak” times of the year. He sees just about only one time when they’re a good deal:
Delta Downgrades Early-Bird Holiday Travelers To Make Room For More Profitable Latecomers
By 10.29.07
Beware if you managed to snag a cheap Delta nonstop flight for the holidays, you might find yourself downgraded. Airfarewatchdog Blog reports that a reader got an insane $138 roundtrip from JFK to Denver for peak Christmas travel. Then a few weeks ago Delta told him they were adding a connecting flight both ways, and now it’s on a regional jet instead of a nice big jet. Why? Probably to make room for the $600 tickets Delta wanted to sell to last-minute customers.
Top 10 Trans Fattiest Foods
By 10.26.07
A Calorie Counter went through a ton of restaurants and came up with the places that serve up the highest doses of trans fats. Here’s the top 10 of the 88:
How To Make Prank Signs Look Like They're Corporate
By 10.25.07
This nifty Instructable teaches you how to mimic the look and feel of corporate branding so you can create signs and images that blend in better. With a a digital camera and some photo editing software and skills and your creative brain you’ll be keeping “on message” like the pros. Even if your message is that we should all quit our jobs and run naked through fields of broccoli.
By 10.24.07
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Just to ask his mortgage service about his home loan cost $9.99/minute – the same rate charged by many phone sex-operators. But only with the former do you have a chance of really getting schtuped. [Credit Slips]
By 10.24.07
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Here’s a frequently updated list of the top 100 blogs focusing on health and medicine. The site uses rankings from Google, Bloglines, and Technorati, along with its own editorial ranking, to create the list, and it makes a good starting point if you want to fatten up your RSS reader with some…
That Airfare Site May Not Be As Impartial As You Think
By 10.23.07
The impression of airfare aggregator sites is that they’re mechanical purveyors of ticket information, but this is not always the case, writes Airfarewatchdog. Some sites won’t list some airlines, either permanently or temporarily, and for no reason transparent to the consumer. Case in point:
36% Of Identity Thieves Are Women
By 10.23.07
The Economic Crime Institute at Utica College was allowed to look through Secret Service files and they found some interesting real statistics about identity theft that tell a different story from what we usually hear. Based on their data slices:
Verify Extra Payments Are Applied To Your Principal
By 10.19.07
The Chief Family Officer blog outlined her strategy for paying off student loans faster.
Make Changing Credit Cards Across All Your Accounts Easier
By 10.19.07
If you’ve ever had to change your credit card number across a ton of different accounts, you know it’s a major hassle.
By 10.19.07
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111 shirtless men of average builds prank a huge Abercromibe & Fitch store. [ImprovEverywhere]
Streetwear 101
By 10.19.07
If you’re not familiar with streetwear culture, it involves lots of limited edition sneakers and worshiping Japanese youths, and that’s about all you need to know. If you need to know more, read the satirical “So You Wanna Be A Streetwearer?” over at Don’t Believe The Hypebeast:
4. Buying IS rebelling. The more you buy, the more you’re showing that you’re against the system of mass consumption. Get as many overpriced sneakers, tees, jeans, jackets and shades as you can. Also make sure that you have at least one (two max) small luxury items like a Gucci belt or LV wallet, to show off your well rounded sense of style.
So You Wanna Be A Streetwearer? [Don’t Believe The Hypebeast]
By 10.19.07
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The next big leap forward in spam technology: mp3 spam! [Red Tape Chronicles]
Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites
By 10.19.07
It can be hard to get a straight answer out of airlines sometime about the real reason a flight is delayed. For some reason, though, they’re more straight up about their packages than their passengers. See, the airlines have special cargo websites which are supposed to be for people tracking packages they’re shipping through the airline. Here’s the cargo sites for some of the major carriers…
10 Worst Housing Markets For Sellers
By 10.18.07
Moody’s economic research company released new projection models sussing out the top ten places in which you don’t want to be trying to sell a house.
