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• Games Workshop declares war on best customers. Again.

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 888
  Dan sez, "Game publisher and miniature manufacturer Games Workshop just sent a cease and desist letter to boardgamegeek.com, telling them to remove all fan-made players aids. This includes scenarios, rules summaries, inventory manifests, scans to help replace worn pieces -- many of these created for long out of ...
  21 hours ago

• The big cable TV ripoff

  
  Brokencountry.com — Authority: 135
  Okay.  Today is gripe time for me.    I opened my cable bill from Charter Communications,  and was a bit alarmed, because once again it appears that they have raised their rates for basic cable.    I am now paying sixty dollars a month for basic cable.    For this sixty dollars,  I get this.    About ...
  1 day ago

• Producers of the Television Show The Balancing Act, Announce the Chance to Win a TV Fashion Makeover

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 160
  Deerfield Beach, FL – O2 and Brandstar, producers of the Balancing Act, have announced a fashion sweepstakes in conjunction with Chadwicks™, a popular brand of women’s clothing. In light of the economy, O2 and Brandstar have been focusing on ways in which women can update their wardrobes on a budget. ...
  1 day ago

• Last Night’s Remy Martin Ripoff

  
  you thought we wouldn't notice — Authority: 118
  Remy Martin’s new campaign (all over the NYC Subway system) looks a lot like this photo by nightlife photographer Merlin ‘Last Night’s Party’ Bronques . (found via his blog ). You be the judge: The Original Merlin Bronques Photo The Remy Martin Ad To be fair, they did switch the ...
  1 day ago

• Bollywood Rip Off Of The Matrix

  
  Celebrity Odor — Authority: 634
  Here’s a clip from the Indian movie Awara Pagal Deewana that shamelessly rips of The Matrix’s famous lobby shootout scene.
  2 days ago

• Are Fake Academic Conferences the New Nigerian Prince Scam?

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 888
  Tired of snaring your Grandma with sob stories about deposed princes and their locked bank accounts, email scammers are branching out. Their new target: Academia. Researchers get invitations to a hot, new scientific conference and are asked to send their personal information in order to register. But when The ...
  2 days ago

• Apple offers discounts in Black Friday sale

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Apples Macs, iPods and other accessories have all been reduced in price to mark Black Friday - but UK consumers will still pay substantially more than their US counterparts
  2 days ago

• Microsoft Bends Consumers Over, Reaches for the Garden Claw

  
  Toronto Thumbs — Authority: 430
  Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adapter, pictured above beside a Garden Claw, has a suggested retail price of $99.99. Can you say “ouch?” Looks like I’ll be rolling out the 50-foot Ethernet cable each time I want to take my Xbox 360 online. For those who feel they must get their Xbox LIVE on wirelessly, however, ...
  4 days ago

• Beware of supermarket ripoffs

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 590
  From the NY Post : New Yorkers are getting short-changed by supermarkets, delis, drugstores and gas stations that illegally inflate weights and measures, charge higher-than-marked prices and slap the sales tax on nontaxable items. City inspectors issued 2,976 violations so far this year to retailers who soak ...
  5 days ago

• Gentleman arrested by fashion police at LA airport for wearing his living lizard suit

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 888
  A fashionable gentleman wearing 15 live lizards strapped to his chest was arrested by fashion police at LAX as he attempted to enter the country from Australia. US Customs agents said something about "smuggling," and claim the two geckos, eleven skinks, and two monitor lizards were worth a total of $8,500.
  5 days ago

• Monday Short and Sweet

  
  Economic Disconnect — Authority: 128
  Home very late so not much time to post. Economic Disconnect 6 Months of Trading A while back I posted a trading idea about "stomach stocks" and I highlighted Hormel Foods (HRL) and Campbells Soup (CPB). The original post can be seen here from September 8, 2009 . I opened positions in both HRL and CPB on September ...
  6 days ago

• The Biggest Rip-off of All Time

  
  Jutia Group — Authority: 573
  In the scenario I’m about to paint for you, the dialog is fictional, but all the facts and figures are real. The time: 1 AM, November 23, 2011, exactly two years from now. The place: the White House, suddenly and unexpectedly under siege as a new financial crisis erupts.The economic booms of 2010 have morphed ...
  6 days ago

• The craziest international bootleg superheroes

  
  Asylum Australia — Authority: 147
  Filed under: Humour , Video , Weird While superheroes as we know them are largely American creations, characters like Superman, Spider-Man and Batman are highly recognisable in the western world, but all over the globe. Countries love taking them and making their own version. Is this ... Read more   ...
  1 week ago

• OysterCard max fare rip-off: background information

  
  'mu:kaumedia — Authority: 115
  Have you been had by the OysterCard ‘max fare’ rip-off? I bleedin’ well ‘ave I got ripped off to the tune of £10 in just four short journeys last week.  I blogged about it here .  My point was – and still is -  what do you call a system that lets you through the barriers knowing it’s going to ...
  1 week ago

• This week is fake devices: 5 totally different clones

  
  PhoneArea.net — Authority: 158
  And we’re continuing with our “this week in fake devices” series. We have 5 different phones to talk about: Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) 5730 clone – check out that stylus. It’s a clear…
  1 week ago

• More problems for Facebook: Sued again for various online scams

  
  Jewish Internet Defense Force — Authority: 493
  Via Vallywag : Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither companys top-drawer investors can be happy. The suit was probably inevitable. As we first reported, the ...
  1 week ago

• THE MAFIA, C.I.A. & GEORGE BUSH Sr. Part 1 fr

  
  nikkypals.com — Authority: 170
  really great stories but the shows are an hour long and sometimes it’s hard to absorb all the information at once. So what I want to do here is break them down into 5 or 10 minute segments. We start with a 2 hour special on the 1980’s savings & loan scandal the cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. ...
  1 week ago

• Google puts a stop to tooth-whitening, belly-flattening scumbags

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 888
  The Big Money reports that Google has made a "minor shift in its policy that has major implications." Instead of banning scammy ads for bogus teeth whiteners and stomach flatteners, Google will now ban the advertiser itself, "effectively neutering the advertisers ability to shift from one ad and shell site to ...
  1 week ago

• EFF takes on Volomedias stupid attempt to patent podcasting

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 888
  A company called Volomedia just got the US Patent Office to grant them exclusive rights to patent podcasting. Say what? The Electronic Frontier Foundation is fighting, and is putting out a call for help for all the O.G. podcasters out there. Paging Dave Winer and Adam Curry! Snip: The Volomedia patent covers "a ...
  1 week ago

• Pharmageddon 2012 – the end of an era for pharmaceutical marketing?

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 152
  Microsite Have you heard of Pharmageddon 2012 ? If you follow the pharmaceutical industry on social media at all, it’s almost impossible not to. It’s on YouTube , Facebook , Flickr . It has it’s own blog on the Wordpress site, it’s listed on Technocrati , there’s an RSS feed and they’re also on ...
  1 week ago

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