Last week a clutch of protesters sang parodic carols outside the Goldman Sachs Christmas party at the hoity-toity BLVD club to protest the companies involvement with subprime mortgages.
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Protesters Taunt Goldman Sachs Employees By Singing "Frosty The Goldman" Outside Company Christmas Party
By 1.8.08
Ben Popken On Fox Business News Chatting About FICO '08
By 1.2.08
Here’s the clip of yours truly, Ben Popken, on Fox Business News discussing some of the changes in store for FICO ’08, the credit-scoring system lenders use to determine how punitive a rate they get to charge you. You may notice that I have a strange look on my face at the beginning.
Odd Gadget Turns Man Blue
By 12.20.07
Paul Karason is blue. He has been drinking colloidal silver for the past 14 years. He gets his silver fix by putting a device with two metal prongs running electricity that injects silver into water.
By 12.10.07
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To celebrate CompUSA’s demise, this BestBuy store made a music video to the beat of DJ Khaled’s “We Takin’ Over.” A bad music video. [YouTube]
Maybe Landlord Will Fix Ceiling After It Collapses?
By 12.6.07
After ripping down the almost collapsed ceiling and the neighbor’s kitchen floor, the guy discovered at least three different leaks, all converging on my ceiling.
Original Video: Attention Macy's Shoppers, Are You Debt Free?
By 12.5.07
We sent Gawker video wunderkid Alex Goldberg to the front of Macy’s in New York to ask shoppers if they were debt free, and if that would have any effect on their holiday spending. Overall the answer is no.
"Free Money" Computer Glitch Leads To Kmart Melee
By 11.27.07
A computer glitch at Kmart leads to everyone being granted store credit cards – and a large-scale brawl erupting.. Two women started scrapping and then several men got involved. A Kmart worker was punched in the nose and smashed through a glass display case. Customers were calling up friends and telling them to come down to get the “free money,” $850 to $4000 in credit After applications ran out, one customer grabbed more from another Kmart and started selling them in the parking lot for $20 a pop. Watch out, when the American Dream is a blue-light special, consumers are liable to get bloodthirsty.
Thousands Mash Through Boise Mall Doors
By 11.23.07
Doors were broken, and shoppers were scraped and bruised as thousands surged through the Boise Towne Square Mall in Boise, Idaho at 1am this morning. Raw video shot by KTVB shows rampage hordes trying to squeeze themselves through just two doors at one mall entrance. It appears that some of the doors swung outward and it was impossible to open them with the crush of consumers pushed up against the glass.
30% Of Dinner Plates Contain Lead
By 11.21.07
A PDF containing the results and brands tested is available here.
Great Moments In Commercial History: Good Old Tom
By 11.15.07
As a criminal defense attorney, I must say, I am extremely suspect of where all these heaps of “scrap gold” Tom’s customers have lying around came from.
Verizon Misquotes Rates 93% Of The Time
By 11.13.07
1) What is the data overage rates for the basic 10MB data package for $29.99?
Devoted Customer Upset Jimmy Dean Downsized Sausage 16oz To 12oz But Charges Same Price
By 11.13.07
Enraged by Jimmy Dean reducing the size of their sausage from 16 oz to 12 oz but still charging the same price, Randy Taylor left a voicemail complaint on Jimmy Dean corporate line. Randy has a southern accent and is quite upset with the Jimmy Dean sausage company.
Reader Run Over By Bus That Slammed Doors In His Face
By 11.7.07
UPDATE: Here is the full video of the incident (32 MB, ZIP).
It's Been Declined: Dedicated To Bank Of America
By 11.6.07
The perils of credit card abuse are given play in this amusing music video made by YouTube personality Remy. It’s set to the tune of “A boy named Sue” by Johnny Cash (we think, or at least it’s channeling it). A college student maxes out his credit cards and gets declined in a fancy restaurant.
The Business Of Death
By 11.2.07
GOOD magazine presents a quirky little video looking at the multi-million dollar business of dying. It’s crazy to think how much steel, concrete, wood and brass we bury in the ground in one year just to take entomb our useless corpses.
How Gmail Stops Spam
By 11.1.07
My spam has gone down like a million % since switching to Gmail from Yahoo mail. This amusing video shows you some of the techniques Google uses to keep spam out of your inbox. Just about all the spam we get is as a result of the forward set up from our old yahoo to our new gmail account.
Airport Security Lapses Revealed On PBS Exposé
By 10.31.07
The latest episode of PBS’s Exposé shows local new investigators uncovering three different chasms in airport security. At one airport, a graveyard shift security guard lets in employees and delivery guys without doing a security screening, how easy it is to walk up to a regional commercial jet, and a woman with a IED taped to her leg getting past the TSA. The full show is available for free online.
