Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Monitoring the DEW-Line

Because that's just the kind of nice guys we are:
Starbucks realizes how hard these economic times are on the customer so they are offering special two-fers. $3.95 will get you a tall latte with a coffee cake, or, a regular coffee with a breakfast sandwich.

That's a good deal. We'll probably take advantage of it soon. But come on, isn't Starbucks itself the real economic victim that this new deal is trying to help?

We honestly thought you wouldn't notice:
Beware of ads sprinkled in with your CitiBank Account Activity.
The Consumerist reports a user who saw line items which looked liked charges, but were really links to advertisers. Ninety-one percent of their readers who voted in a mini poll thought it was "very uncool". The other 9% are probably Nigerian telemarketers.

Why don't Saskatchewaners like summer?
If you're looking for one place where the economy has actually been growing, try www.saskjobs.ca . The Premier of this western Canadian province is calling Canadians to come for the jobs. I checked, and lots of those jobs are in mining, agriculture, and places named "Moose Jaw". But if you can stand the cold and like living in sparsely populated places, give it some thought. Oh, and Saskatchewaners don't like summer because it's two weeks of bad snowmobiling.

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