Archive for April, 2009

Barclays seems to have something to hide. Oops.

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

I'll open with the line TechCrunch opened with, because it summarizes this situation perfectly: The lawyers never seem to get the fact that some things just aren’t that interesting until they try to force people not to talk about them. And that’s certainly the case with London headquartered Barclays bank, which ...

WPIX falls for April Fools joke and tries to use the DMCA to hide it

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I hate companies like this and I'm glad that the internet can show everyone how stupid and arrogant they are.  Improv Everywhere is a group based in New York that does funny improv stunts around the city, such as sending a bunch of people into Best Buy in blue golf ...

MIT police officers are perfect, got it?

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

It's happened over and over.  Something is printed in a newspaper that an individual doesn't like, so they try to hide it by stealing and trashing as many of the newspapers as they can find.  How's that usually work out for them? In this case, it was police officers at MIT.  ...