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Martha Stewart Tables Are Still Exploding Glass In Your Face
FOX31 reports a family in Colorado was just chilling on the porch during a barbecue when all of a sudden their Martha Stewart glass table exploded, sending shards of tempered glass flying all over the place. The son and his girlfriend bled from cuts and lacerations after they were hit by the glass. This is a line of tables that have racked up similar exploding glass complaints for years and though they are not being sold any more, there are some still out there in people's homes, ticking glass bombs waiting to go off. More »

Some Fancy New Laundry Products Are Utterly Pointless
Our colleagues at Consumer Reports test all sorts of products to determine which are worth buying, and which aren't. This month, they rounded up some laundry products currently on the market that aren't worth picking up in the store: including a detergent blessed by Martha Stewart herself that wasn't any more effective than plain water. More »

Science Shows That Martha Stewart's Laundry Is Probably Stained
Those lovable nerds over at Consumer Reports decided to test laundry detergents — and what they found when they tested Martha Stewart's detergent... well, it ain't pretty. More »

Martha Stewart And Home Depot Enter Pact

—>Starting in January, you'll be able to buy Martha Stewart-branded patio furniture, storage bins, and toilet wine kits at your local Home Depot, thanks to a new multi-zillion dollar business deal the two companies have cooked up. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's old deal with Kmart—which a company tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution earned them upwards of $1 billion annually at its peak—expires that same month.  More »

Martha Stewart And Kmart Settle With Magician Who Lost Fingertip In Lounge Chair

—>It looks like a certain Des Moines magician/hand model will be able to afford a fancy new gold fingertip soon, or at least a gold-plated one, because he's settled his lawsuit against Kmart and Martha Stewart Omnimedia for an undisclosed amount.  More »

These Martha Stewart/Kmart Lounge Chairs Keep Cutting Off Fingertips

—>Holy $#!@, this lounge chair will eat your fingers! Fox5 New York has a video report on dangerously unsafe lounge chairs sold at Kmart under the Martha Stewart brand. Naturally (we're not making this up), the chairs are designed to complement the Martha Stewart Spontaneously Shattering Glass Patio Tables also sold at Kmart.  More »

Martha Stewart Dodges Questions On-Camera About Exploding Glass Tables
When Fox5 confronted Martha Stewart on the street about tempered glass patio tables branded under her name that have been exploding all over customers since 2000, in some cases causing cuts, bleeding, and scares, she offered only denials and deflections. She said the glass cracked like a windshield, as opposed to the imploding documented in case after case, and said she had never heard of any injuries, despite that Fox5 had a copy of an email sent by her asking her company internally what they were doing about the "shattering" tables. The problem seems to be that the tempered glass table has jagged, rather than smooth, edges, and these grind against the metal frame and weaken the tabletop. A class action suit is in the works.
Shame, Shame, Shame: Martha Stewart-Branded Glass Tables [Fox5]
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Here's a "fun" summer project: make your own homemade Oreo cookies! Will you save money? Who can say! Will they be healthier? Probably not! Will your friends think you have too much time on your hands? Yes, but they'll appreciate the free baked goods. [Post Tribune]  More »

The power of science (toys) confirms that Martha Stewart pillow cases do indeed have 360 threads per square inch. [Cockeyed via BoingBoing]  More »

Macy's Confiscates Your Item Because "Another Customer Wants It"

—> Reader Dyan isn't sure if she's right on this one and wants to know if we think Macy's owes her an apology. She was shopping at Macy's last Saturday when she noticed a cast-iron pot on sale for $19.99. The display item was the last one in stock, so she asked if she could have it. An employee said she could, but before she could pay for the item the store's manager stopped her and took the pot away because "another customer want[ed] it."  More »

Martha Stewart Takes Lead Poisoning Seriously
THE QUOTE:"We take consumer product safety very seriously. We do not comment on pending litigation."  More »

Is The World Ready For Martha Stewart Wine?

—>Is the world ready for Martha Stewart-themed wine?   More »

Will Jessica Simpson, Donald Trump and Martha Stewart Convince You To Shop At Macy's?

Other celebrities in the campaign include Sean Combs, Kimora Lee Simmons, Russell Simmons, Marc Ecko, Emeril Lagasse, Tyler Florence, Tommy Hilfiger and Kenneth Cole. Some ads also feature Tim Gunn, co-host of the TV show "Project Runway." The ads were created by WPP Group's JWT.  More »

How Much Does It Cost To Get Martha Stewart To Say Whatever You Want?

—>Here's a heck of a deal: For only $250,000, Martha Stewart will personally shill your product on her show. She even promises to "work in an advertiser's talking points." If you don't have that much dough, you can grab a "one-time in-show oral mention with product close-up" for only $100,000.   More »

Lawsuit: Martha Stewart Dishes Not Microwave Safe
Ooooh, internal documents! Holy crap, we want a Martha Stewart whistle blower of our very own. We are so jealous. —MEGHANN MARCO  More »

Thanksgiving Shopping List

—>If you're like us, you're going to someone else's house for Thanksgiving. If you're not, and you haven't gone shopping yet, here's some last minute help getting yourself organized. We're linking two shopping lists that you can print out and take with you to the store, you slacker.  More »