Well Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in Economics today…I can just feel the smarm growing in him…and Keith will probably be over the moon tonight.
Totally un-shockingly, Todd Stroger has found a way to plaster his name all over things again….*sigh* Can we please seceed from Cook County? Please?
From the Park Grill at Millennium Park:
Seriously, this teeny tiny thing was like $15. Feh.
Lovely new “environmentally friendly” bottle that Evian has. Basically they’ve just taken the normal squat bottle and tapered it out…mmmyeah, that’s making it green. feh.
Booking my latest trips for work, I saw that AMEX travel had updated the flight selection mechanism to let you know how much CO2 you’ll emit as you wing your way somewhere…feh. Here’s an idea, instead of writing some stupid greeny thing into the application, you just book my damn travel.
Turns out the new incoming-head of Eli Lilly may have the ethics of a slug:
“[W]e are losing scripts to Risperdal for treatment of disruptive kids, because Johnson & Johnson has the data and we don’t.”
-Dr. John Lechleiter
The only problem with this…turns out Lilly’s product is kinda bad:
Because of Zyprexa’s physical side effects, many psychiatrists now [...]
Check out this herb shelving:
AOL’s done it again, and added a bot “buddy” to my contact list without my approval.
This is just unacceptable…AOL should not be adding bots willy-nilly to people’s buddy list to flog whatever the heck it is they’re flogging at the moment.
Feh to them.
Ugh, I had to uninstall some HP DeskJet utilities today, and afterwards, I had to reboot my computer. Now, I don’t mean that the computer had to be rebooted to finish up the uninstall (well, it technically did), but rather the uninstaller didn’t offer me the chance to defer the reboot until a more opportune [...]