Just like us, radnauseum is sick of myspace and wants off the Similac merry-go-round. He’s being trying to cancel for three days now, with no success. Which is odd because we too, after clicking all the right cancellation buttons, never got that email in our inbox to let us remove our profile. He pursued further and emailed asking to please please let him leave. They said sure, but first you have to send us an arts & crafts project, like so:
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Fuck Myspace, We’re Deleting Our Profile
By 5.18.06
Tom is not our friend anymore. Neither is MAGIC CYCLOPS, ElectroBOOBIES, Larry TEE or Mr. Pacman.
eBay’s Soviet Style Moderation
By 5.12.06
At first he though it was a phish but it turned out to be for real. Adam’s flawless eBay account was suspended for being “associated” with a previously suspended user.
Cingular: We’re So Union
By 5.9.06
If you’re a union member, you can get 5% off your Cingular cellphone plan. That’s because Cingular is a unionized wireless company, according to this sub-level of their cingularswitch website.
Myspace the Secret Garden of Conmen and Spammers?
By 5.1.06
According to these reports summed up over at Valleywag, Myspace isn’t a megatacular grassroots operation run out of a garage by “Tom” and his buddy Chris, but a multi-million operation created by the cons and insider traders of Intermix Media. Among their other business ventures were installing spyware on millions of computers. Chris and Tom were just the “cabin boys” or “poster boys,” the Valleywag source alleges.
Apple’s Customer Service Needs Shining
By 4.18.06
Dan got a worm when he tried to fix an online transaction with Apple.
Sprint Launches Cellphone Tracking Service
By 4.14.06
Stalkers and overzealous parents, rejoice! Sprint has a new service “Family Locator Service” that allows you to track on an online map where a registered cellphone travels.
eHarmony Discriminates Against the Bibulous
By 3.31.06
Here’s another way to get into eHarmony’s secret love club.
AOL Gets Punk’d by Ashton Kutcher
By 2.15.06
s denizens. The results will be documented and used to create original programming, AOL Keyword “I pay for this service, so thanks for messing with me and my time, Time Warner douchebags.”
A Look Inside a Newegg Warehouse
By 2.15.06
Nerd nexus Anandtech.com has a look inside one of Newegg’s shipping and distribution centers, made especially interesting considering how consistently the online electronics retail giant is able to quickly put product in shoppers’ hands. Newegg is said to have an internal goal of getting every order into customers’ hands two days after they order online—no matter what method of shipping is chosen. In our experience, they hit that target more often than not.
In Your Darkest Ages, Amazon Cares
By 2.8.06
I think maybe they meant to use “grief” as a keyword, not greif, though maybe there’s an argument to be made about the similarities of widowhood and medieval trade…”
Urban Outfitters Rips Designer’s Panda T-Shirt
By 1.21.06
The Urban Outfitters design theft accusations just don’t stop. Molly Roth writes:
For the past year, I’ve been struggling to get my e-tee shop off the ground. Madapollam.com has 4 original t-shirt designs that I made myself. I’ve been using Myspace.com and Livejournal as avenues to advertise my site.
Europe On Track to Pay Too Much for American Imperialist Pap (Still)
By 1.19.06
Poor Europe. Our friends in the Old Countries are constantly being squeezed by American technology companies, with prices for items like electronics and software at a huge premium to their American equivalents.
