250,900 street signs in New York City will be changed from all-caps to initial caps, where only the first letter is capitalized. The legibility will save lives, say the federal guidelines mandating the change, which will cost the city $27.6 million to implement. [More]
your tax dollars at work
![Govt Report: Swine Flu Will Crush The Internet](../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/swine2.jpg?w=300&h=225&crop=1)
Govt Report: Swine Flu Will Crush The Internet
While most people have been worrying about the obvious effects of an H1N1 epidemic — you know, stuff like people dying, vaccine shortages, overcrowded hospitals, that kind of thing — the Government Accountability Office has identified a terrifying new threat linked to the flu: It will bring the Internet to its knees, as millions of bedridden patients spend all of their idle hours online.
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Czar Tells AIG Not To Hand Out As Many Bazillions More In Bonuses Come March
Not content with just one Worst Company in America victory, AIG is going for back-to-back titles by trying to give out $198 million in bonuses in March.
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Federal employees wasted over $145 million in taxpayer dollars by bumping themselves up to first-class seats. [NYT via Rick Seaney]
![DC Madam's Favorite Hotels](../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dcmadammap.jpg?w=300&h=225&crop=1)
DC Madam's Favorite Hotels
Inside, an interactive Googlemaps Mashup showing the most popular hotels from the DC Madam’s phone records.
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Top 10 Most "Ho-Friendly" DC Hotels, Based On The DC Madam's Phone Records
If you want to have sex with a prostitute in Washington D.C., try the Marriott.
Homeland Insecurity
In case there was an inkling that the Department of Homeland Security might not be up to snuff, well, here’s affirmation.
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Off-Duty Police Sometimes Like to Carry Guns
According to an informal poll held on on Massachusetts Police Department message boards, 58.27% of the 127 police officers responding sometimes carry a weapon off-duty, 26.77% always carry a weapon and 14.96% never carry a weapon.