It's Consumerist's fun time of the year, when they do their Worst Company in America competition, in the theme of March Madness. Their bracket this year is a doozy.

Mind you, I have no idea how the actual NCAA Tournament is going to go. I'll just go with "some team in North Carolina wins it all", since that would've been the right call 4 times in ( Read more... )

For fun:

Consumerist's The Worst Company in America, 2010 Edition.

For those curious, this is how I've got my bracket figured. Yes, I'm picking GM over Toyota, and I'm picking AIG being upset in the first round by Cash4Gold. I admit, my bracket is probably doomed to Kansas-level failure. At least I didn't have to deal with being embarrassed in ( Read more... )

Don't know if ziggybecket or kuronosho or me or anyone else has put up a post on this already. I'm sure people other than us have posted about this before. But since I've seen at least 3-4 people I know get burned or nearly get burned by this, including recently, I figured I'd better post about this and drill it in.

WHEN BUYING CAMERA EQUIPMENT ONLINE, YOU NEED TO ( Read more... )

Um, just a reminder: check your credit card & debit card statements on a regularly basis. If you don't recognize a charge, call the bank or number listed on the transaction and find out. And if you really don't know who made the charge, it's time to place some fraud alerts.

I guess you folks at WaMu will be banking at Chase Bank soon enough.

EDIT: Totally off-topic, while I'm making a serious post here:

"Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy"
Um, gee, can someone tell Palin's handlers to pull back on her meds. I ( Read more... )

I work on spreadsheets. I like spreadsheets sometimes.


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'As Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, put it Friday morning on the ABC program “Good Morning America,” the congressional leaders were told “that we’re literally maybe days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system, with all the implications here at home ( Read more... )

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Jesus. O_O

Wholesale gasoline prices up along US Gulf CoastThis is due to Ike coming soon to the area. Considering that the wholesale price of gas should, in theory, get passed along to consumers, I don't even want to think about how much gas must likely go up near the hurricane strike zone. My guess is "a metric buttload". Spikes in the Gulf ( Read more... )

Ugh.