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  • iPad Released with Misleading Pricing

    iPad Released with Misleading Pricing

    Posted on January 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Today Apple finally unveiled its new iPad tablet PC (“price starting at $499″). “What this device does is extraordinary,” Jobs said. “It is the best browsing experience you’ve ever had. … It’s unbelievably great … way better than a laptop. Way better than a smartphone.”...

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  • What’s Inside a Slim Jim?

    What’s Inside a Slim Jim?

    Posted on June 9, 2009 | No Comments
    I don’t intend to mock the gravity of the situation as two workers died and more were critically hurt, but does it disturb anyone else that a factory that makes a food product (Slim Jim‘s) can explode? We’ve heard of grain elevators exploding from dust...

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  • Liar, Liar Pants on Fire

    Liar, Liar Pants on Fire

    Posted on February 14, 2009 | No Comments
    It’s no wonder no one believes anything the banks and corporations say these days anymore (at least they shouldn’t). Back in October of 2008, General Motors (GM) said: “Bankruptcy is not an option that GM is considering,” Maureen Kempston Darkes, Group Vice President and President,...

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  • Trickle Up Economics?

    Trickle Up Economics?

    Posted on December 9, 2008 | No Comments
    Since I’ve brought up the “Big 3″ automakers demise previously, I thought Philip DeFranco had an noteworthy solution in this video:

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