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Lawsuit Claims Technology Industry Bigwigs Had Secret Anti-Poaching Pact To Keep Employee Salaries Low
The ability to play employers off bids from other companies seeking to snag the best in their fields is an important one. So much so, in fact, that workers in Silicon Valley have filed a lawsuit alleging that some of the industry's biggest players were involved in a secret anti-poaching pact that kept salaries down and workers stuck where they were. More Â»

DOT & Disney Team Up To Fight Distracted Driving, Promote New Movie
The Department of Transportation's campaign against distracted driving is becoming animated. Literally. More Â»

Disney Claims "Up" DVD Missing Captions Were A Mistake

—>Many Consumerist readers wrote to Disney about the missing captions in rental editions of the Pixar movie "Up," either because they were personally affected or they found the omission offensive. In their response, Disney at least acknowledges the unique issue and promises to make up for the mistake of consumers submit proof that they rented "Up."  More Â»

Disney Removes Closed Captioning From "Up" Rental Release

—>Imagine you're deaf or hard of hearing, and put off watching Pixar's "Up" until the DVD release. You rent the DVD from Netflix, Redbox, or Blockbuster, and the box or Web listing promises captions. But when you settle in to watch the movie, you discover that there are no captions to be found. Not in any language.   More Â»

Pixar Arranges Home Screening Of "Up" For Dying 10-Year-Old

—>We know, that headline just oozes treacle. But it's for real! The family friend of a dying child cold-called Pixar's offices and guessed her way through the phone tree to a live person, then pleaded her case: the child desperately wanted to see Up, but was possibly days away from death and too sick to travel or sit in a movie theater. The next day, a Pixar employee arrived with a DVD of the movie and sat with the family while they watched it. Sometimes people can be really decent to each other.  More Â»

Pixar's new movie Wall-E is about (SPOILER ALERT) a crass consumer culture that eventually ruins the planet by completely covering it with pointless garbage. Humanity, unable to consume itself out of an environmental crisis, moves to space, where it endlessly vacations on giant cruise-ship like habitats. The planet is governed by a huge Walmart-esque mega-store called "Buy ‘N Large." In order to celebrate this anti-consumption message, Disney has apparently been giving out cheap plastic watches, and has launched a "Buy 'N Large" website where you can buy movie merchandise. [Slog]  More Â»

Surprise, "Cars" Toy Box Full of Lead

—>Cars don't use leaded gasoline anymore, but boy, oh boy ... do toy companies still use lead paint! This Disney/Pixar branded toy chest is painted with red paint that "contains high levels of lead. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects."  More Â»