Banks bleeding jobless for fees related to their state unemployment payments. This is happening because certain states are saving costs of administering unemployment by contracting the payments to...the industry that caused the financial collapse. Instead of receiving mailed checks the unemployed get "smart cards" with hidden fees.
No bank that receives Federal funds or assistance should be allowed to do this.
...by Bennett Williamson at Double Happiness.
"my lyfe in my apartment on the 36800th floor can’t decide what DVD to watch LIFE SUCKS but my wife wears pantyhose under her pants and LED cupholders are a must"
Also check out the group of posts before and after this (partially not work safe, fair warning); d.h. has been on a roll lately. The thing I like about the site is they wander around the wide web with eyes peeled back like Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange. No filters, no political correctness...
Club Internet's theme this month is "Reverse Engineering." Click "next" to see each of the pages.
The topic was announced at 4 pm today and the show went live at 8 pm in connection with the IRL exhibit in Brooklyn.
Thanks to Harm van den Dorpel for the invitation to participate, giving me an opportunity to stretch beyond my usual 450 pixel blog prison.
...commenters, that is:
"That artwork is not good, but if it is, it's something I did back in the '90s, with much lower bandwidth."
"You're a troll, and if you're not a troll you are posing as one for some perceived strategic advantage."
"You suck, and I would really like to buy you a beer sometime."
(based on actual online conversations with the regular commenters on the Rhizome.org chatboards)
Update: some revisions to make quips snappier.
