Archive for August, 2009
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Sure, there’s probably a perfectly innocuous explanation why a woman called the Home Depot in Jacksonville, Illinois and asked how to remove a large quantity of blood from her carpets. But that doesn’t stop people’s imaginations from running wild, and didn’t stop the employee who took the call from alerting the police.
Toys R Us Wants Your Recalled Baby Gear [Recalls]
Responding to a rash of recalls involving cribs and other baby paraphernalia, Toys R Us is starting a trade-in program Friday, asking for recalled items in exchange for discounts on new stuff.
Before You Get Too Excited About Those Housing Numbers.
Like we have always said on this blog, “We’ll smile about housing when either Ivy Zelman orwww.housingdoom.comtells us it is time to smile.” They are not smiling at Housing Doom.
Study: Candles May Contribute To Indoor Air Pollution [One More Thing To Worry About]
You may want to think twice about covering up that stench in the bathroom by lighting up 25 votives. A new study by researchers at South Carolina State University found that “paraffin-based candles — the most popular kind — emitted toxic chemicals like toluene and benzene.”
Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked!
…..But there will be a little rest for Monkey Business!
The blog will be in semi-idle mode this week. Richie is out on the West Coast and I am in the process of moving Salzman LLC to its new Connecticut location. Therefore, blogging will be sporadic.
EPA And Academics Fight Over Notifying Public Of Weed-Killer In Drinking Water [Public Safety]
Atrazine—a widely-used herbicide—is one of those chemicals for which there is no evidence it will kill you or give you cancer or make your eyes fall out. It’s true that it’s been linked to egg production in male frogs, but I think we can all agree that frogs pretty much want to mutate and will [...]
Another "Crazy Goldman Sachs Conspiracy Theory".
You want to hear the latest nutty Goldman Sachs conspiracy theory? Check it out;
Goldman equity analysts put ratings out on individual stocks for investor consumption. For example, they may rate stock XYZ “neutral”.
Then they have meetings with the firms traders, including the proprietary trading desk, where the analyst gives his or her opinion that runs [...]
Study Finds Booze Sellers Are Using Cable To Ply Teens [Blame It On The A-a-a-a-a-alcohol]
Alcohol ads pop up on cable programming that’s popular with teeagers at a suspicious rate, a study by the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth and UCLA found.
iReel.com Offers Free Trial, Downloads Your Money Instead [Misleading]
iReel.com seems like a pretty neat and reasonably priced service, which allows you to harness the power of the interweb to beam recently released movies directly to your home computing device. However, two Consumerist readers have contacted us about the company, and their misleading or just plain dishonest “free trial” billing practices.
Apple, Google, And AT&T Respond To FCC’s Google Voice Questions [IPhone]
Apparently, Apple didn’t reject the Google Voice application for iPhone. They “[continue] to study it.” Yesterday, Apple, AT&T, and Google all turned in their responses to the FCC’s questions as part of the investigation into the bannination of Google Voice from the iPhone App Store.
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