Remember the recall on every Segway ever built?
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Laptoppa Non Gratta: Virgin Atlantic Restricts Dell and Apple Notebooks
By 9.19.06
Virgin Atlantic becomes the latest airline to limit laptop use on board, thanks to the threat of exploding batteries. Qantas and Korean Air already have imposed restrictions.
“Grass-Fed Beef” No Longer Means “Grass-Fed”; Still Means “Beef”
By 9.18.06
Savvy and sensitive supermarket shoppers love informative labels that also make them feel good about their meat purchases. Phrases like “free-range” or “grass-fed.” Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, knowing the animal lived a naturalistic, humane life in the great outdoors before meeting its fate on the kill floor. Viva cognitive dissonance!
Waiters Lobby for 20% Mandatory Tips
By 9.18.06
Anyone who’s ever waited tables knows the agony of the crappy tip. But should diners be forced to pay mandatory 20% tips?
Harass Your Way to (Eventual) Refunds
By 9.18.06
If at first you don’t succeed, fax, fax again. And again.
Announcement: Ben’s “On Vacation” This Week
By 9.18.06
I don’t think I’m alone when I say that we were all a bit sick of Mr. Fancy Pants Ben Popken running the show. Despite his smug, girlish demeanor and Woody-Allenesque voice, Ben proved quite capable of hogging the spotlight, jetting around in Gawker-billed limousines to his various 20/20 interviews about stories I broke. Meanwhile, I — John Brownlee (“Who?”) — was pushed back into the shadows of a site I’d been working on for months before he first burst through our door with a high-pitched and smart-alecky “Hey hey hey!”
