January 2009
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Unemployed no longer! →
December 2008
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“RIP best drink ever. You will be missed.”
– Anonymous comment on WSJ Health Blog : MillerCoors Drops Caffeine From Sparks Drinks
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“Direct-to-consumer promotion was the single worst decision for the industry”
– A Swiss drug executive, discussing America’s love of drug commercials. The Senate has held hearings questioning the practice, hopefully the new Congress will apply some standards.
November 2008
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Walmart Employee Trampled To Death In Black Friday...
Congrats, jerk ass Walmart shoppers, you already killed someone:
A Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after being trampled by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store early Friday morning, turning the annual rite of post-Thanksgiving bargain hunting into a frenzy.
The 34-year-old employee, who was not identified, was knocked down by a crowd that...
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“In November and December of 2007, consumers accumulated $12.8 billion in new...”
– Good Sheet #11
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Credit Card Minimum Payment Tricks Brain Into...
From ScienceBlogs: research has shown that “the mere presence of a minimum payment is enough to reduce the actual amount many people choose to pay on their bills.” The concept is called “anchoring,” “in which arbitrary and irrelevant numbers bias people’s judgments.” Although your brain will fight you on this, you should do everything in your power to...
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iPhone Glitch Randomly Mails Pics Of Your Junk To...
Oh no, the iPhone has another problem that Apple probably won’t bother addressing. Apparently it will automatically send photos of your genitals to women in your address book. It happened to this woman’s husband.
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NebuAd Gets Hit with Class Action Lawsuit
Aggrieved customers have filed a class action lawsuit against NebuAd, alleging that the web ad provider’s deep packet inspection violates several federal and state privacy and computer crime laws. The suit also names as defendants several affiliated internet service providers (ISPs) who partnered with NebuAd to track customers’ internet use and/or insert targeted ads. A copy of the pleadings is...
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“Small magnets inside the four game pieces that were sold with the “Cars”...”
– A particularly nasty CPSC recall
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Medical Prescription Co Blackmailed: "Pay Up Or...
Wired’s Threat Level blog reports that Express Scripts of St. Louis, Missouri has contacted the FBI regarding an extortion threat made against it in early October:
Express Scripts said it has received an anonymous letter containing the names of some 75 clients that includes dates of birth, Social Security numbers and their prescriptions. The letter threatens to expose millions of patient...
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Sprint Hit With $1.2 Billion Class-Action Over...
IntoMobile says this federal class action lawsuit against Sprint demands refunds on ETF fees unfairly collected on customers as far back as 1999, for a total of $1.2 billion dollars. It looks like it’s being led by the same legal team behind the successful $72 million California class action against Sprint over ETFs earlier this year. One of the lawyers says:
“After a full trial on...
October 2008
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FDA Still Can't Make Up Its Mind on Bisphenol-A
The FDA’s assessment of the safety of BPA is “inadequate,” according to a report by an independent group of scientists convened by the FDA.
The scientists’ report further damages the credibility of the FDA on BPA. Earlier this year the National Toxicology Program, a government panel of scientists, announced that there is some cause for concern about the risks of BPA. The FDA, meanwhile, has...