• eLoan joins the high-yield online savings game with 5.5% interest. What are you getting on your brick and mortar bank savings now? 2%? 1? Point?
BLOGS
How To Tell If A Diet Is A Sham
By 10.19.06
Jared points out his amusing list of the top 10 ways to tell if a weight loss program is a buncha snake oil.
New Word For Corporate Shill Blogs
By 10.19.06
Dovetailing with the whole Wal-Marting Across America scandal, we thought flogs, for fake blogs, was pretty good.
Protect Yourself Online With A Firewall Bank Account
By 10.19.06
It’s one thing to protect your identity, weed out phish emails and shop safely, but if you *really* want to prevent a thief from stealing your account online…
Holiday Shopping Secrets
By 10.18.06
• Befriend the store staff. Ask with your best bambi eyes if there’s any unadvertised coupons or sales going on that week.
Edelman Apologizes For Fake Walmart Blog
By 10.17.06
Yesterday, Edelman president, CEO and namesake, Richard Edelman, apologized for Walmarting Across America.
Post Photog Repays Walmart For RV Trip Expenses, And Other Fallouts
By 10.13.06
• The Writing On The Wall explains to Laura St. Claire why what she did was wrong.
Blithely Ignorant of Wage Caps, Walmart Cashier Goes ‘The Extra Mile’
By 10.12.06
More from the Walmarting Across America website that had to be pulled.
How Do You Get Walmart To Pay For Your Family Vacation?
By 10.11.06
Before the Washington Post made Jim Thresher take down the pictures from pro-walmart blog, Walmarting Across America, BusinessWeek noticed the effort and cried foul. But how did Jim and his girlfriend Laura St. Claire get roped into the affair?
Rebate Company Admits Rebates Are A Scam
By 10.11.06
That’s the gist a reasonable person would gather from the language surrounding U.S. Patent No. 7,120,591, granted yesterday to Parago, the company behind Circuit City rebates.
Wal-Marting Across America, Banned Pix Revealed
By 10.11.06
Walmart’s minions may have pulled down the photographers blog that was a blatant front for Edelman PR. But that doesn’t stop us or you from using the magic of Google cache to see what flackery filled the pages of Wal-Marting Across America.
Wash Post Photog Bitchslapped For Sucking Off Walmart
By 10.11.06
A Washington Post photographer has been disciplined for taking a cross-country RV trip to shoot photographs for a pro Walmart blog.
Delta’s Sassy New Steward Outfits
By 10.4.06
A scan from a recent Delta in-flight magazine announcing their new attendant costumes.
Suck My Pricematch, Chase Bank
By 10.4.06
It certainly didn’t help John’s mood that before reaching the specialist, Chase suspended his account. Chase stopped service because John called in from an “unrecognized number” (his office line) and was disconnected mid-department transfer. [More]
Alton Brown Saves Us Money With Proper Knife Care
By 10.3.06
The Food Network’s Alton Brown explains proper knife knife care, and how to get the most bang out of your cutlery chums. The video also features some *very* dynamic camera blocking.
Consumer Reports Launches Blog
By 9.28.06
Consumer Reports magazine has a new blog focusing on families and safety. It’s helmed by Donald Mays, senior director for product safety at Consumer Reports, and Caroline Mayer, formerly consumer reporter for The Washington Post.
Jump Lines At Verizon Stores
By 9.28.06
A great hack for dealing with the interminable queues at Verizon Wireless stores.
