Well, maybe I shouldn’t quit my job just yet. Turns out I overpayed my Providian credit card by a whopping 4 cents and that sum was just sitting in my account. Yesterday I got a letter in the mail with a 4 cent check attached. So Providian spent 37 cents plus whatever [...]
Gas prices crossing the $2 / gallon average is causing an odd problem. Stations are running out of “2s” to put on their signs. Turns out most companies that sell numbers for gas station signs give extra 1s in the packages, but not enough 2s. Extra numbers cost about $150 a piece. [...]
Gertrude Walton is the latest victim of the RIAA in their quest to catch music pirates. Sure, everyone has an excuse when the RIAA knocks on their door; but Ms. Walton has a really, really good one. She died last December.
Mercedes-Benz is now offering ‘leather-free’ versions of its cars. This in a move spearheaded by PETA claiming that thousands of cows are slaughtered each year for leather car seats.
The German chapter of PETA complained to Mercedes-Benz and they listened. A spokesperson from the company stated that they feel their customers will not want [...]
A McDonald’s resaurant in Hermiston, Oregon, is outsourcing its drive-through lane. When a driver places an order they will be talking with an operator in Grand Forks, North Dakota, almost 1,400 miles away.
Every good software developer knows that they need to test their program. But, how many really read all the text that their program displays.
Wal-Mart is selling a book titled ‘How Walmart is Destroying Amerca And The World: And What You Can Do About It.” Seems pretty ironic. For those interested, here’s a link to the page on Walmart.com and the same book on Amazon.com, since I imagine that Walmart will take the book offline as soon [...]
A San Antonio pizza delivery man is fired after sending half a dozen letters to customers who failed to give him a tip. Steven Gordon, a substitute teacher delivering pizza for extra money, decided that he needed to take a step to call out the cheap customers.
Fox is taking a step in in sheer bad taste with a new reality show called “Who’s Your Daddy?” The show has one woman trying to pick between 8 men; one of which is her biological father.
TiVo is doing everything it can to keep its company name from going where Google has gone before; to becoming a verb. Apparently, TiVo is fighting to keep phrases like ‘I TiVoed my favorite show’ from common use.