Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Million Dollar Apps






Remember the old bumper sticker that says "I'm spending my kids' inheritance"? Turns out that the little rugrats are turning the tables and spending our retirement money. But instead of spending it all at the local head shop like I did my friends did, kids these days are blowing them all on Apps for their smart phones.

According to the Washington Post,

Over the winter break from school, 8-year-old Madison worked to dress up her simple mushroom home on the iPhone game Smurfs' Village. In doing so, she also amassed a $1,400 bill from Apple.


Consumeraffairs.com was raising alarms about this about two months before The Post got on the case. Of course, you could read all about it on The Post's own iPad App for just $3.99 a month.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Playboy Mansion Hit With Really Boring Illness





What's the world coming to? People who have visited the Playboy Mansion are reporting that they have been struck by a disease, and it's just a respiratory illness. And they got it at a conference. Don't they understand that "social disease" is supposed to be a euphemism?

Plus, why do all these women have a great-grandpa fetish? Eww.