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Kittens on a treadmill

Dear nbc.com on demand video…

Your interface is a serious stinker. Great idea moving off of iTunes. Gives you a chance to showcase that stinker of an interface *and* force me to listen to the same commercial over and over and over again. Are your advertisers totally hooking you up for that? Because after hearing the same jingles over and over again, I can promise I won’t buy anything being advertised.

That is all. Xoxo, Erik

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Privacy disclosure for credit application

I’m looking into buying a new car, and they have an online credit check. I clicked on the privacy policy and read this:

Disclosure of Private Information
We may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements. We may make such disclosures about you as a consumer, customer, or former customer.

We may share Private Information that consists of transaction information with our affiliates. Our affiliates include other automobile dealerships and financial companies.

We may also disclose Private Information about you as a consumer, customer, or former customer, to non-affiliated third parties as permitted by law.

Is that normal language for a credit check? If I include all my information, including social security number, can they legally share that info? I get that that info gets shared around with other finance companies, but with marketing companies? Marketing companies with my social security number?

*Weirded out*

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Spam of the day: Jesus is… Japanese, big-boned, and fashionable?

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And I heard luxe products were the first casualty of a recession.

Spam of the day: Enormous device is your main luck

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What is a male aggregate? Also, I love me an Ursula.

Spam of the day: Effing Uggs

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goddamn right it’s junk. uggs. gross. How did chanel and prada end up in the same email as uggs?

Milestones

Number one google result for these queries

  1. Crocs are retarded
  2. Dumbledore’s magic wand

Ha.

WTF

Google earned $1.21 billion, or $3.79 per share, during the final three months of 2007. That’s a 17 percent improvement over net income of $1.03 billion, or $3.29 per share, in the same period a year earlier.

It’s the first time Google’s quarterly profit has climbed by less than 25 percent since the Mountain View-based company went public nearly 3 1/2 years ago. · (Read More)

Not that I usually post about or defend the GOOG, but seriously: what. the. fuck. ?. How is 17% growth is BAD?

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Huckabee’s run on sentence

“what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards” (embedded somewhere in the run on sentence).

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More facebook personalization

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I don’t think I’ve ever logged on to facebook using a PC.