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Having trouble selling your home in this sagging real estate market? Clementina Marie Giovannetti of Ocala, Florida, apparently was, too.
So she’s decided to give her $1.25 million mansion away.
Crazy? Don’t answer yet.
She’s having a contest, and the submission of the winning “Pet Lover” essay gets the house. Contestants have to [...]

Consumerist reports that - suprise! - Cingular continues to find new ways to screw its customers.

Beckie is a reader who started out with a cell phone from a small company that got bought by AT&T. As you well know, AT&T was bought by Cingular. A few months later, Beckie received a letter from Cingular asking [...]

My grandparents, like most of their generation, believed in giving their kids a spanking when discipline was required. Some spankings called for the willow switch, which hard-spanking parents never kept handy in the house. They always sent the kid out to pick one.
Dread surging, the about-to-be-spanked child walked slowly out to the [...]

A few days ago I lamented the lack of useful billing software packages for Apple. Today I discovered I’m not the only one who feels the pain. Web design firm Blue Flavor does too.
One would think that this is a problem that has been solved, but we’ve had a hell of a time [...]

Krempasky’s very large PR firm is looking for communications staff.

Recall my post the other day about “ink by the barrel“?
That post was more prescient than my football picks. Tiff’s story got picked up by the Consumerist, Instapundit, and Doc Searls.
She’s gotten more eyeballs in three days than I’ve gotten total since I started blogging more than six years ago. And 90% of [...]

This week saw some significant revelations in the comedy of errors that we all know as the Xbox360 launch. In the wake of widespread reports of defects in the console, a Chicago man has filed what promises to be a significant class-action products-liability lawsuit against Microsoft.
The proposed class action suit claims that in Microsoft’s [...]

RedState reports that non-farm economic productivity has skyrocketed in the last four years - an astonishing 17%. The previous high-water mark was 12.8% for 1961 - 1960. Why is this important?
Productivity is a key factor that determines whether living standards are improving. Productivity gains allow companies to pay workers more from their increased [...]

So let’s say I drive up to a McDonald’s drive-through window with my son. The boy, who is two and a half, typically ges the kid’s meal. Being two and a half, he pretty much eats anything in nugget form, and disdains foods not available as nuggets (unless they serve as a vehicle [...]

Via 37 signals: Nick Denton’s Startup kit - the tools he and his companies use. Some of these look just right for a small law firm to adopt.

On my way in to work I saw the local discount gas retailer hawking gas for only $2.19 - prices I last saw almost a year ago. By comparison, picking up a six-pack of a decent beer will cost you about five bucks. That’s $8.88 per gallon. (128 fluid ounces per gallon, [...]