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• The Consumerist's 2011 Valentine's Day Garden Of Discontent
• DirecTV Drains Customer's Bank Account To Pay For Her Dead Friend's Satellite Service
• Vermont Teddy Bear Gets Guy Dumped On Valentine's
• Walmart Employees Fired For Stopping Armed Robber
• The Secret Economy Behind Free Food Samples

—>G.'s young son was recently ill with H1N1, but no pharmacy in the city where he lives had liquid Tamiflu in stock. (Even the federal government released its stockpile not long ago.) He writes that nearly every pharmacy he called turned him down. Then he learned that the liquid can be made from Tamiflu capsules by pharmacists, or even by parents at home. Why didn't the pharmacy staff, or his doctor, tell him this?  More »

—>If a Snuggie is just a blanket with sleeves, doesn't it follow that as the crazed hybrid of a blanket and a sweater, it makes an ideal crochet project? One yarn manufacturer thinks so, and has released a free pattern which, coincidentally, requires at least $21 worth of their cheap acrylic yarn.  More »