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They started playing Christmas carols on musak out there yesterday. The day after Halloween, traditionally the day of shopping for clearance-priced candy, apparently marks the beginning of the big sales push now.
I think I’m going to be shopping a lot less in stores over the next two months. If Amazon or a delivery guy doesn’t bring it, I’m not sure I need it. Yes, I realize that an anti-consumerist attitude like that risks plunging the country into recession, but I think it’s worth it. Someone has to send a message.
- Yesterday morning, while eating breakfast at McDonald’s, The Twelve Days of Christmas was playing on the musak. Ugh. Isn’t there another holiday between now and Christmas that they can be selling things for?
- Got a beef with some company? The Ultimate Consumerist Guide To Fighting Back will help you organize yourself to convince them to make things right. [boing boing]
- Worried you might end up on a list? Hasan Elahi is a Bangladeshi-born artist who actually got on the terrorist watch-list, so he decided to make his life an open book: How a photoblog kept Hasan Elahi out of Guantanamo Bay is the story. Interesting. [metafilter]
- I got 4/10 on the Fox News Anchor or Porn Star quiz. I clearly need to either watch more Fox Business News or more porn. Hmm. Let’s see… [accordionguy]