roundups

Consumerist Ask Metafilter Round-Up

• Why is my credit score so high? [Link]

Monday Morning Reader Round-Up

Monday Morning Reader Round-Up

It’s Monday. Our cup of tips, complaints, recommendations and outrage over the state of our RSS feed — on Thursday overflowething — has run dry.

This Week in Popular Posts

Dell Helps You To Uninstall, For A Price

Consumerist Ask Metafilter Round-Up

• Around August 8, the price of unleaded regular gasoline in Ohio and Oregon were the same, at about $3.01/gallon. Since then, the price of gas in Oregon has dropped only a nickel ($2.96/gallon), whereas the price of gas in Ohio has dropped a whopping 60 cents a gallon ($2.41/gallon) (figures via gasbuddy.com). Why? [Link]

Mon… Er…. Tuesday Reader Round-Up

Usually, we plead on Mondays. Give us your complaints, your stories, your tips! Save us the drudgery of working for our measly Gawker allowance.

Most Popular Posts Ever, This Week

Why Target Kicks Walmart’s Ass. Answer: Fewer poor people.

Best Posts Ever, This Week

Time Warner Pays Inexplicable House Call, Consumerist Helps

Hack Your Life Roundup

Know which aisle it’s in with the Grocery Shopping Helper

Best Posts Ever, This Week

UPDATE: RIAA Sucks Own Loogie Off File-Sharer’s Grave

Hack Your Life Roundup

Learn to detect lies. Is the mechanic telling the truth when he says you need a new defribrisnazzer?

Best Posts Ever, This Week

Big surprise, the top winners are AOL user search history related. Good looking there, America Online! You’re having your best week ever!

Search AOL User Searches Like The Pros!

Search AOL User Searches Like The Pros!

Why should we get all the fun of looking at AOL user search profiles? With these database programs people quickly scrapped together, now you can play too!

AOL’s Data Release Bothered People So Much They…

• Wrote some haikus.

Best Posts Ever, This Week

HOWTO: Actually Use Your Frequent Flyer Miles.

Best Posts Ever, This Week

Krap Kroger Gets It Wrong, Gets It Right. An engaging insight into the naming system behind Georgia Krogers, including Disco Kroger and Gentrifikroger.

Top Stories of The Week

Scientologists Bullying Man’s Mind. The most pitiful thing is that these guys probably paid a lot of money to learn how to be complete dicks.

Hack Your Life Roundup

Hack Your Life Roundup

How should I handle poor customer service? “This past weekend I had to deal with 3 large companies that just bullied me around.”

Best Posts Ever, This Week

Best Posts Ever, This Week

Most popular stories of the week so far, excluding anything that has to do with AOL. We’re gonna play it cool like that, and ignore the top seven results or so.