a food article about avoiding the complicated newfangled thanksgiving dishes, instead enjoying tradition, relying on good ingredients, and having a stressfree (ur, less stressful) thanksgiving meal. the article doesn’t mention dealing with your family, however, i like my family, so this comment is there merely for those that fear and loathe going home for the holidays…you know who you are.
slate: turkey shoot, by regina schrambling
the times investigates ghost calls, those phone calls where you pick up and get no answer. most of the time (apart from actual stalkers and ghosts), these come from predictive dialing machines that telemarketing companies deploy to relay their messages. the hangup occurs when the machine succesfully connects to a person, but there are no free telemarketers available, thus the fcc requires that the dialer hang up. lovely.
technology: battling ghost calls, that telemarketing annoyance, by peter wayner
late 70′s chevrolet suburban.
in case you didn’t get it, the enormous mustache on the credit card driving the harvesting machine connotes evilness…bwahaha!
SOME issuers of credit cards are “quietly collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in profits selling nearly worthless, predatory credit cards targeting vulnerable consumers, including those with bad credit,” according to a report published this week by the National Consumer Law Center (consumerlaw.com).
nytimes.com: what’s online, by dan mitchell
slate: yes, this is your grandfather’s ford
carmakers have fallen in love with geographic car names, hoping to connect the feelings of a location with their car (think suv + outer-mongolian-rain-forest-dessert, now that’s tough). to this end, slate makes some suggestions of more apt geographic names and automobiles.
slate: yes, this is your grandfather’s ford, by aaron kremer