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• Facebook Confirms Nobody LOLs Any More. What’s Your Excuse Texas And California?

  By Not The Worst News on August 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Business Insider reports Facebook conducted a study in which they studied posts and comments in the last week of May.  The most popular way of laughing online was: “Haha.” “LOL” was used by just 2% of users, and saw highest… Read More ›

• 3 Tips For A Globe and Mail Writer On Writing A Piece About A Debate

  By Not The Worst News on August 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  The Globe and Mail published a piece by Kate Taylor today in which she rants about her inability to watch last night’s Republican Candidate Debate on a television.  Taylor wrote: “The debate was airing on a channel well above the… Read More ›

• Costco Sends Letter With Funnier Organic Food Labeling Correction Strategy Than Whole Foods

  By Not The Worst News on August 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  We recently wrote about Whole Foods’ response to allegations that the company sold items at New York stores with labels indicating inaccurate weights.  Their apparent strategy was to apologize. Yawn! Let’s see what Costco did in a similar situation… We… Read More ›

• If You Want Asparagus Water, You Are Going To Have To Shop Elsewhere.

  By Not The Worst News on August 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Yahoo reports that Whole Foods Market has pulled $5.99 jars of “Asparagus Water” from a California store after a photo of the product went viral.  Spoiler alert: the jars contained several stalks of asparagus in water. 3 Frequently Asked Questions… Read More ›

• What Does A Robot Have To Do To Hitch A Ride Around Here?

  By Not The Worst News on August 4, 2015 • ( 2 )

  A Canadian hitch-hiking robot that successfully toured parts of the world was reportedly destroyed in Philadelphia by vandals. CBC reports that fake surveillance footage of the destruction of “HitchBOT” has surfaced online. 3 People We Suspect Decimated HitchBOT 1. The… Read More ›

• 3 Excuses For Sirius-XM’s Jenny Eliscu For Her Apparent Lack Of Metallica Or Lollapalooza Knowledge

  By Not The Worst News on August 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Yesterday, we made light of the fact that Sirius-Xm Host Jenny Eliscu asked Metallica’s James Hetfield if they ever played Lollapalooza before in an interview aired on Alt Nation. We pointed out that a quick search on Google and Wikipedia… Read More ›

• 3 Tips For Sirius-Xm Alt-Nation When Interviewing Metallica

  By Not The Worst News on August 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Sirius-Xm’s Jenny Eliscu was interviewing James Hetfield of Metallica during this weekend’s Lollapalooza festival. One of the first questions was along the lines of “So, you’ve never played Lollapalooza before?” Since we considered this a pretty uninformed interview on a North… Read More ›

• Ford has figured out how to make coin-holder out of $400 in shredded U.S. currency

  By Not The Worst News on August 1, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Yahoo Finance reports in this video that Ford is creating non-oil based plastics out of interesting materials: dandelions; stuff left over from manufacturing Ketchup; and shredded U.S. currency. Specifically, $400 worth of old currency, that would have been destined for… Read More ›

• Study: Retirement Is Good For Your Health… Unless You Retire While Driving In A NASCAR Race

  By Not The Worst News on July 31, 2015 • ( 3 )

  Yahoo Finance reports that a recent scientific study proves that retiring is good for your health, although the effects may not be noticeable for a few years. 3 Times We Suspect Retirement May Be Bad For Your Health 1. Retiring right… Read More ›

• Now We Try To Guess Who Facebook’s New 49 Million Monthly Active Users Are

  By Not The Worst News on July 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Facebook reported yesterday that monthly active users increased to 1.49 billion, or 49 million users.  This compared to Twitter reporting 2 million new monthly active users earlier this week. We’ve been trying to guess this week who the 2 million… Read More ›