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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Chillax Standards: Sweatshops? Don't Sweat 'Em! NY Times Columnist Tells 'O' Magazine Readers |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 12:30 pm |
| Tags: Chillax Standards, Compensation Packages, Consumerist, Gawker, Nicholas Kristof, O Magazine, Top |
| We were totally down with the message of the O magazine August cover story "Chill: 21 Things You Should Stop Worrying About Right Now" (Sample entry: 'Worry Lines -- stop worrying about 'em!' LOLZ.)... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Cock-blockers: Jezebel Not Appropriate For Hilton Hotels; Porn Still OK |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 11:30 am |
| Tags: Cock Blockers, Consumerist, Gawker, Hilton Hotels, Milfs, Pornography, Top |
| Jezebel reader 'Jen' has written in with the following curiosity:I'm at the Hilton for a conference and the computer won't let me access your site, saying that the word is in their blocked list. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Business Casual: Dear New CEO Of The Gap: A Few Tips From People Who Wear Clothes |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 1:30 pm |
| Tags: Business Casual, Consumerist, Feature, Glenn Murphy, The Gap, Top |
| Dear new Gap CEO Glenn Murphy, Happy first day on the job! Soooo, your company's a piece of shit, and the industry seems reeeeallly confident in your ability to turn things around. NOT! To quote the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| A Guy's Opinion: Planning A Wedding Is No Big Deal |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 5:30 pm |
| Tags: Guy S Opinion, Consumerist, Hell S Bells, Wedding Industrial Complex |
| A funny thing happened the other day when we drinking heavily at a bar in DC with our college friend Mike. His fianc e didn't show up to meet us, and we began to wonder whether there was a reason we... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Travel: Korean Air's Coach Cabin is as High-Tech as Their Country |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 10:20 am |
| Tags: Consumerist, Gadgets, Travel |
| While the air travel industry in the States disintegrates into madness, with overbooking, delays more often than on-time flights, and people being crammed into uncomfortable seats like cattle, it takes Korea to come along and show us how it's done. Korean Air has just won the "World's Best Economy Class" award in the Skytrax 2006/7 World Airline |
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| I Work Retail: Anthropologie Doesn't Care About Black People |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 5:01 pm |
| Tags: Anthropartheid, Consumerist, Feature, I Work Retail, Top |
| Working retail sucks; this is a given. You make $9 an hour hanging up clothes made by people who make 90 cents a day so that people like Dick Hayne of Urban Outfitters and Mike Jeffries of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Glaring Omissions: "Just Like Fresh Needle Marks On A Heroin-Addicted Hooker's Toes" |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 3:15 pm |
| Tags: Glaring Omissions, Homos, Some People Need To Start Reading Consumerist Com |
| Glaring Omissions reproduces tips received from readers in the last week that weren't covered on Gawker, either by accident (it happens!) or by design (it happens more often). This joker should... |
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| Travel: Watch out for hidden car rental fees |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Car, Consumer Protection, Consumerist, Travel |
| How many of us have found out the hard way about those nasty hidden fees when renting a car? Financial blog Sound Money Tips aims to end these surprises with a few tips on avoiding these unnecessary tolls. A few things to watch out for: check out if your car insurance covers car rental fees before ponying up the dough for the agency's insurance, |
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| Jezenomics: Why People Buy Expensive Shit, Explained At Last |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 1:58 pm |
| Tags: Consumerist, Expensive Shit, Jezenomics, Veblenomics |
| Expensive shit just keeps getting expensiver and expensiver, and both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal run stories today trying to come up with reasons people keep buying it. But while... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| I Work Retail: The Devil Wears Prada Because Prada Is Hell |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 2:05 pm |
| Tags: Connie Darrow, Consumerist, Feature, I Work Retail, Prada, Top |
| Welcome to our second installment of "I Work Retail," in which we investigate the very peculiar torture of selling designer goods. The anonymous author, C, worked at the Soho Prada flagship store,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Consumer Protection: The scoop on credit scores |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Consumer Protection, Consumerist, Credit, Credit Cards, Credit Report |
| Credit scores and how they work should be standard knowledge for anyone who wants to stay on top of their financial situation. HowStuffWorks has a good six-part article on how credit scores are calculated, how you can improve your score, what your score affects, etc. Credit scores are starting to be factored into more and more of life, |
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| Today In Catalogs: 'Free People', August 2007: Luxuriating Lolitas and $400 Shoes |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 2:30 pm |
| Tags: Consumerist, Free People, Today In Catalogs, Top |
| The Free People catalog is beautifully shot, but the half-naked teenage girls and $400 shoes give us pause. Hey, $400 shoes have their place -- but when everything else in the catalog is relatively... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Money: Educate yourself with 20 Investments |
| Published: August 19, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Consumerist, Finances, Financial, Money |
| Want to diversify your financial portfolio? Try reading Forbes' writeup of twenty investment options, part of their stellar Investopedia service. You'll learn about all sorts of good stuff here: annuities, common stocks, corporate bonds, etc. Each definition is short and to the point, including information on objectives and risks. 20 |
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| Shop Girls: Marketers To Women: You Shop, Therefore You Exist |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 1:00 pm |
| Tags: Consumerist, Marketing, More Than You Make, People Actually Get Paid For This Shit, Shop Girls, Shopping, Yeah Like Lot |
| The AMP marketing agency has done a survey of the habits of 3,000 women shoppers, and boy are they pleased with their results. What they've discovered is that as shoppers, women fall quite neatly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Shopping: Organize Your Receipts at Shoeboxed.com |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 11:31 am |
| Tags: Capture Tools, Consumerist, Personal Organization, Shopping |
| Track and manage purchase receipts from off and online shopping excursions using the new webapp, Shoeboxed.com. At first glance an online receipt organizer may seem unnecessary to most, but tracking expenses your company will reimburse alone is a useful service. Shoeboxed gives you a unique email address that you give to online stores. When |
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