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Despite the world’s trials and tribulations, it seems like a lot of inventors are hell-bent on creating products which are nothing more than a worthless gimmick. This is because people would rather try and buy their way to health and happiness than work toward it. Money-hungry inventors and investors are all too eager to give […]
Image: Aldo Gonzalez/Flickr It’s tax man time. Around the country every April, private citizens and most business owners scrape together 25% or more of their income and send it off to the IRS. So how is it that giant multinationals, purportedly taxed at around 35%, manage to pay close to nothing—or, in GE’s case this […]
Image: Herb Knufken/PBase What are we supposed to do with the American Dream? You know, the one where you work hard at a friendly, faceless corporation, have a McMansion with a white picket fence and 2.5 kids, and vacation on the Kona Coast every year?
Food is great until you realize that most of it’s laden with chemicals, hormones, and other health-depreciating nonsense. It seems the only way to stay healthy is by turning into an evil, pretentious vegan, so most of us settle for pretending counting calories and carbohydrates truly matters. On the brighter side, at least our food […]
Image: cdedbdme/Flickr If you’ve ever been on hold for two hours trying to resolve a mistake you didn’t make in the first place, then been sent to a different department, then never received the money a company owed you, then you’re one of many victims. Of cheating, that is, which is implicit in too many […]
Celebrities wear clothes. And due to our culture’s fascination with the daily goings-on of famous people, they often have their pictures taken while wearing the clothes. Then people write about these fascinating occurrences in magazines, newspapers and on blogs. Sadly, this ability to wear clothes and then have a photograph taken seems to have given […]
From the Industrial Revolution onwards, people have toiled for too little money in cramped conditions, often under abusive conditions. The phenomenon has expanded worldwide and products made in sweatshops have expanded from mere clothes to all manner of commodities, from seafood to virtual video game gold. Here’s a look at fifteen of the most infamous […]
Image: Reibart/Flickr You may not look at your local airline ticket agent, hospital employee, or scammer who pretends Alka Seltzer is acid again. Alright, ixnay on the latter, but the point is that everyday people can be sneaky criminals. Here are five real-life stories of how they’ve done it.
Celebrities and celebrity news are everywhere. Even normally high-brow publications can’t help but occasionally be tempted to comment on Lindsay Lohan’s latest shenanigans or Charlie Sheen’s offensive outbursts. The problem with all this attention is that celebrities occasionally believe their own hype. What’s even worse is that sometimes they think can develop a product that […]
Some employers expect perfection, but don’t express that wish outright. Instead, they use phrases like “I run a million miles per hour and you need to run ahead of me” and “non-union, English-speaking plasterer with own tools and vehicle required.” See what kinds of perfectionists you can find in the listings below: 1. Beverly Hills: […]
Image: Lili Viera de Carvalho/Flickr If you’re John Smith, you might be out of luck. On Google, that is, where a million other John Smiths are drowning you out, just when you want someone to find you. In today’s media-rich economy, “even not having an online presence tells people something about you,” says Vizibility founder […]
When you think about anonymous threats to your business, you probably haven’t thought about a dispersed online collective taking down your web presence in the name of Internet justice–or just for the the lulz. That is, you haven’t thought of Anonymous. But Anonymous has certainly thought of the businesses below, and wreaked temporary havoc. Here […]
