From: Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO of Netflix To: FastLaugh.com Subject: An Explanation and Some Reflections Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 Dear Netflix Subscriber, I fucked up. Big time. Now, with Netflix’s stock tanking and subscribers fleeing, I’m forced to do damage control since my board of directors and our PR folks told me I [...]
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Posted 19 September 2011
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Also tagged: AOL, Borders, DVD, Elmo, investor, joint, Los-Gatos, mail, Netflix, postal-service, Qwikster, red-envelope, Reed-Hastings, Sesame-Street, Steve-Jobs, stockholder, streaming, USPS, video-game
AUGUST 13, 2011 Marlins demote LoMo to Triple-A following repeated Twitter rants LoMo retaliates by tweeting nude locker room photos of Jack McKeon by shf MIAMI (FastLaugh.com) — The Marlins shook up their roster on Saturday night, serving harsh notice to a new generation of social media obsessed ballplayers by demoting one of their young, [...]
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Posted 13 August 2011
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Also tagged: baseball, demotion, Giants, iPhone, Jack-McKeon, Logan-Morrison, LoMo, Louisville-Slugger, Marlins, MLB, piñata, shf, social-media, Triple-A, tweet
Gilbert Gottfried lands new voiceover gig in Japan following firing by Aflac over tasteless Japan tsunami jokes March 14, 2011 by shf TOKYO (FastLaugh.com) — Hours after being abruptly fired by Aflac for his series of tasteless tweets about Japan’s tsunami crisis, Gottfried has already landed a new voiceover gig. Gottfried will provide the voice [...]
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Posted 14 March 2011
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Also tagged: Aflac, dolphin, Dolphin-Safe Tuna, drag fishing net, duck, ear-splitting, fishing net, Gilbert Gottfried, Japan, Japanese tuna fishing industry, spokesdolphin, tasteless, tsunami, tuna fishing, tweets, voiceover
Y2K redux, Sony’s PlayStation 3 units crippled by 8001050F error likely due to calendar rollover screw up March 1, 2010 by shf FOSTER CITY, Calif. (FASTLAUGH.com) — Demonstrating a cautionary tale of the extraordinary power being ceded by humanity to advanced technology, and being wielded by seemingly innocuous calendar bugs to thoroughly disrupt daily life [...]
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Posted 01 March 2010
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Also tagged: 2010 Prius, 8001050F error, 999, abacus, advanced technology, apoplectic, Attila the Hun, automobile recalls, beads, boredom, botch job, brake problems, brakes, calendar bugs, calendar error, calendar glitch, calendar reset, Calendar rollover problems, catapults, cautionary tale, complacency, computer programmer, corrupt data, crusader, dependency, derision, disruption, distribution errors, dolls, drawbridges, dumbass, edge of the world, electronics, embarrassing meltdown, expiration date, explorer, explorer’s ship, falling off the edge of the world, fat PS3, fiasco, firmware, firmware update, Flash Flood, frequent crusader miles, GPS, hacker, hacking, havoc, Heavy Rain, hysteria, internet, Japan Inc., knights, leap-year, leap-year calendar glitch, log on, logging in, malfunctions, mass hysteria, mead, Medieval Express cards, meltdown, merchants, missing data, moats, Mr. Barbarian, navigation, navigation systems, online gaming, parts shortages, party like it’s 1999, payroll error, peasant, pillories, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network, prince, Prius, PS3, PS3-exclusive game, PSN, racks, recalls, redux, revolt, ritual sacrifice, robots, rollover, screw ups, seemingly innocuous calendar bugs, shipping errors, shortages, singing, slim line PS3, slim PS3, songs, Sony, Sony's PlayStation 3, startup routine, sundial, synchronization problems, tech savvy, technicians, technologist, technology-dependant world, timers, toy stalls, Toyota, toys, trained technician, troll, trophy data, trophy-sync check, user base, vehicle recalls, vulnerability, window of vulnerability, Y1K, Y2K, Y2K consultant
Toyota dealership unaware of recall February 23, 2010 by shf TORRANCE, Calif. (FASTLAUGH.com) — Despite rabid media and congressional attention focused on the massive failures of Toyota Motor Corp. for a host of safety issues, at least one Toyota dealership in Southern California was in the dark regarding details of the recall of millions of [...]
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Posted 23 February 2010
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Also tagged: accelerator pedal, anger, auto dealership, automobile, car, Congress, congressional district, criminal investigation, defect, ethics, Fail Whale, failure, fiasco, General Motors, GM, jobs, lawmakers, lobbyist, media, Prius, profits, recall, safety, semantics, Toyota, vehicle
Tehranosaurus Wrecks Twitter by shf December 18, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (FASTLAUGH.com) – Iranian Cyber Army 1, Twitter 0. Twitter challenges rematch, proposes best two-out-of-three.
First Bank of Madoff issuing 79.9% interest credit card December 17, 2009 by shf BUTNER, N.C. (FASTLAUGH.com) — The First Bank of Madoff skirted newly enacted credit card interest regulations today, introducing a 79.9 percent interest credit card. It had been widely believed that Bernie Madoff’s prison financial interests were limited solely to controlling the [...]
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Posted 17 December 2009
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Also tagged: 79.9%, Bernie Madoff, credit, credit card, financial abuse, First Bank of Madoff, First Premier Bank, interest regulations, loopholes, Ponzi, prison, subprime, U.S. consumers, Zhu Zhu Pets
