SUBSCRIBE!

RKNet Blog… thing

you know the drill
Loading

Posts Tagged ‘consumers’

Holiday Shmoliday: Perfect Summation

By Giania • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: History

Hot: Simple links that summarize my feelings for this particular pseudo holiday that inspires more jealousy, depression, and ill-will than possibly even Christmas! Wordlab – $122.98 Says I Love You In which the spending habits of the besotted and pussywhipped are discussed. Ectomo – Lupercalia: Happy Fucking Valentine’s Day In which the dubious history of [...]



Screw You Comcast

By Giania • Dec 10th, 2007 • Category: Fnord

Hot: Did it ever occur to you that I might work from home? I’m cancelling the minute I find a viable alternative. In the meantime? I’ll be checking this out.



Prince Loses Points: DMCA Nonsense

By Giania • Nov 26th, 2007 • Category: Articles of Interest

Hot: I came across an article in The Register a little while ago about one mom’s fight to keep a 29 second video clip of her son dancing to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” up on YouTube. In summary: The PA resident, Stephanie Lenz, had placed a 29 second clip of her dancing baby boy up [...]



So, I heard you like Mudkips…

By Giania • Aug 29th, 2007 • Category: Memes

Hot: Perhaps so much that you wish you were one? Deck out your hellspawn in Mudkips this year for halloween, via BuyCostumes.com. Note the maniacal expression on the model’s face. Clearly, he loves him some Mudkips. Tip off courtesy of loyal reader from the ormgas IRC: efiloN! :D Editor’s note: you may have come here [...]



Carbon Footprint Labels on Food Seems Like a Waste of Ink

By Giania • Jul 30th, 2007 • Category: Articles of Interest, Internet Tools, Nature, Science!

Hot: Via The Underwire: UK Food retailer Tesco is going to spend $10 million on testing of foods at Oxford University in order to develop a carbon labeling system, letting their customers know exactly what kind of “carbon footprint” their cereal and steaks leave on the environment. It seems to me that putting “Carbon Footprint” [...]