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Spam-erican Apparel « DIS Magazine
the post-everything cyberheck of zazzle
zazzle  commerce  clothing  ha 
10 weeks ago by ignatz
Dollars for Doctors - ProPublica
investigative series on payoffs to physicians by medical companies
medicine  commerce  doom  villainy  propublica  journalism 
january 2012 by ignatz
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin | Magazine
A farmer in Massachusetts named David Forster began accepting bitcoins as payment for alpaca socks.
bitcoin  failure  commerce  finance  welp 
november 2011 by ignatz
Shakti Innovations
SHAKTI Noise Reduction Technology otherwise known as hilarious fraud
ha  commerce  villainy  fraud  audiophiles 
october 2011 by ignatz
McRib Locator
google map tracking McDonalds McRib sandwich availability
mcdonalds  food  gis  geo  gmaps  mapping  commerce  doom 
october 2011 by ignatz
Viva Zapata? Mmmm...No BEATING FISH MEAL INTO WEB SYNERGY - August 17, 1998
Fishmeal company attempted web portal empire. "We're going to be in the Internet," he adds, "as long as it makes sense."
bubble  1998  ha  90s  failure  commerce  portal 
october 2011 by ignatz
Murder Auction
your one stop shop for John Wayne Gacy's paintings and the Manson rookie card
crime  commerce  murder  art 
august 2011 by ignatz
LRB · John Lanchester · Once Greece goes…
The economic crisis in Greece is the most important thing to have happened in Europe since the Balkan wars.
economics  finance  commerce  villainy  failure 
july 2011 by ignatz
Study Says Spam Can Be Cut by Blocking Card Transactions - NYTimes.com
Most spam goes through just three processing companies, who are now known.
spam  commerce  villainy  finance  banking  uce 
may 2011 by ignatz
Druckversion - The Bittersweet Wars: Battle Pits Cocoa Speculators against Chocolate Makers - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
Anthony Ward, the man behind the attack on Nauck, is sitting in an office in London. The fund manager and trader has been given the nickname "Choc Finger," a play on the James Bond villain Goldfinger. In the industry, though, it is meant as a term of admiration.
food  chocolate  cocoa  commerce  villainy 
april 2011 by ignatz
systemwise
Blog of an organizational sociologist studying the U.S. health care industry
sociology  healthcare  usa  research  blog  commerce  doom 
march 2011 by ignatz
Pleasant Family Shopping
A nostalgic look back at supermarkets, discount stores and more from the past
design  obsess  retail  architecture  history  commerce  supermarkets 
march 2011 by ignatz
Ark Music Factory
vanity press for aspiring stars with cash
music  outsidermusic  vanity  commerce  ha 
march 2011 by ignatz
N.Tel – What’s It All Mean?
"New Balance looks at the military as a group of athletes"
war  marketing  commerce  advertising 
january 2011 by ignatz
Collapse of a Closed Society: The ... - Google Books
The "Coffee Crisis" of 1976-79 in which currency failures screwed up the coffee supply and near revolt occurred
coffee  government  failure  commerce 
january 2011 by ignatz
Condo Hammer - Lee Valley Tools
Empires in Decline: the Hammer for People who Shouldn't Have a Hammer
stupid  tools  failure  commerce 
january 2011 by ignatz
New Menu Item Archive | βurgerβusiness
Track the decline of civilization through fast food new menu items
food  doom  commerce  failure  burgers  marketing  slurm 
june 2010 by ignatz
At University of Phoenix, Allegations of Enrollment Abuses Persist - ProPublica
surprise! degree mill fibs to students. they're the single largest recipient of federal educational grants, too.
education  commerce  villainy  fraud 
november 2009 by ignatz
Where The Buffalo Roamed « Weather Sealed
Where is the point in the continental U.S. furthest from any McDonalds?
usa  mcdonalds  commerce  architecturef  failure  geography  mapping 
september 2009 by ignatz
Billboard Frees Charts for Web Audiences
Dead magazine offers irrelevant top 40 charts, joins online music sales too late. "So lame it hurts" is about right.
via:whatevernevermind  music  failure  commerce  entertainment 
august 2009 by ignatz
Marketers Get Valedictorian to Plug Movie in Speech
FOX marketers pay a high school valedictorian $1800 to promote "I Love You, Beth Cooper" in the graduation speech.
via:kcetlocal  commerce  education  edutainment  marketing  doom  advertising  yeesh 
july 2009 by ignatz
The cost of body parts around the world | Life and style | The Guardian
So what else are people around the world harvesting from their body for cash – and how much can they expect to earn?
commerce  medicine  bioethics  parts 
july 2009 by ignatz
Toys - we make money not art
art exhibit about the collapse of a fictional enron-like company
art  finance  enron  fraud  commerce  villainy 
july 2009 by ignatz
LRB · John Lanchester: It’s Finished
John Lanchester on the British side of the Great Financial Collapse
economics  finance  banking  crash  financialcrash  failure  commerce  villainy  via:acblicious 
may 2009 by ignatz
Common Surgeries and Charges Comparison
Compare costs for common surgeries in the State of California, a web tool.
medicine  commerce  healthcare  california  tools  money  surgery 
may 2009 by ignatz
Vioxx maker Merck and Co drew up doctor hit list | The Australian
AN international drug company made a hit list of doctors who had to be "neutralised" or discredited because they criticised the anti-arthritis drug the pharmaceutical giant produced.
villainy  commerce  pharmaceuticals  drugs  medicine  business  crime 
april 2009 by ignatz
Tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room
sociology paper: an "ethnology of arbitrage" from Industrial and Corporate Change
commerce  finance  sociology  money  arbitrage 
february 2009 by ignatz
Client data from mortgage broker found in trash
Folders with personal information for numerous clients of a local mortgage broker sat for days at a public recycling site, overflowing from the tops of several bins in an apparently glaring identity theft risk.
orangecounty  failure  commerce  news  privacy  newportbeach  security  mortgage  financialcollapse 
february 2009 by ignatz
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
For five years, Li's formula, known as a Gaussian copula function, looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before
failure  commerce  finance  economics  money  math 
february 2009 by ignatz
IBM Offers To Move Laid Off Workers To India -- InformationWeek
IBM offers employees the chance to outsource themselves to faraway places and make pennies on the dollar
failure  commerce  villainy  grimmeathookfuture  ibm  outsourcing 
february 2009 by ignatz
Camel introduces "Crush" to flavor up cigarette industry - Swagwell [beta]
Camel Crush is a unique tobacco technology, allowing adult tobacco consumers to smoke a non-menthol product and at any point, squeeze the filter to change the taste experience to menthol.
commerce  yeesh  marketing  tobacco 
january 2009 by ignatz
Palin Fan Mistakenly Buys Notorious Effigy With Noose On eBay - cbs2.com
A Sarah Palin supporter has suffered buyer's remorse after winning an eBay auction for an effigy that was hung by a noose from a West Hollywood home.
failure  commerce  usa  politics  sarahpalin  effigies 
january 2009 by ignatz
ABC News: Government Regulators Aided IndyMac Cover-Up, Maybe Others
Treasury regulators assisted and even suggested fraud by IndyMac bank and maybe others
commerce  villainy  banking  fraud  indymac  financialcollapse 
january 2009 by ignatz
FT.com / Comment / Analysis - California scheming
Everyone wants a piece of the green action that supposedly will get hot with the new administration
commerce  usa  politics  obama  technology  environment  green  stimulus 
january 2009 by ignatz
Northrop Unveils Bitchin' Bomber-Cycle | Danger Room from Wired.com
Novelty motorcycle built to commemorate the 20th anniversary of weapon of mass destruction.
failure  commerce  villainy  usa  toys  advertising  war  weapons  motorcycles  b-2 
january 2009 by ignatz
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption - The New York Review of Books
Collusion between pharm companies and influential doctors is way worse than I thought even.
commerce  villainy  medicine  science  psychiatry  pharmaceuticals  pharm 
january 2009 by ignatz
Real Time Economics : A Chorus of Cassandras
some of the people who, to varying degrees, saw the housing bust and credit crisis coming
commerce  finance  crash  economics  cassandra  predictions  toldyouso 
january 2009 by ignatz
Green Bible creates controversy
The Bible contains a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, essays from theologians and a "Green Subject Index" that organizes verses by topic, including air, dust and pollution... "But others fear the new Bible, which has been endorsed by secular groups such as the Sierra Club and the Humane Society, will mislead Christians."
failure  commerce  religion  trainwreck  environment  churchianity  bible  environmentalism 
december 2008 by ignatz
douglain: AGAINST SLEEP AND NIGHTMARE ON PONZI SCHEMES
Excerpt from "Against Sleep and Nightmares" on Ponzi schemes and capitalism. Pithy and smart.
commerce  villainy  finance  fraud  left  capitalism  ponzischemes 
december 2008 by ignatz
Green Grows Up at Santa Monica’s Eco Gift Festival | Los Angeles Metblogs
This is exactly the problem with Green. It's lifestyle marketing, which is part of the problem.
failure  commerce  usa  environment  marketing  green 
december 2008 by ignatz
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