Consumer Bites: 05/05/08
- BMW is planning an all-electric lithium-ion car for European and American streets, thus adding to the number of environmentally sound products I won’t be able to afford. (link)
- Who’s on your currency? Check out this nifty Flickr pool of American currency all dressed up for halloween! ()
- One of the few mega chains I frequent (Dunkin’ Donuts) is suing their smaller franchise owners for the slightest slip up in order to secure franchise deals with larger partners. The goal? Compete with the other mega chain I sometimes avoid by buying Dunkin Donuts coffee. America runs on DD or from DD? (link)
- I find the idea of local currencies alluring for the social and economic advantages. Slate seems to think the social advantages are the only ones to be had. I say that’s only in an all-or-nothing game. What say you? (link)
- The new Castro in charge is letting Cubans purchase computers for home use, but most are still banned from having an internet connection. Don’t stop writing your Trystero-delivered pen-pal letters just yet. (link)
- Read . Watch . They are both fantastic, yet I still don’t know if the newly sought credit card rules are going to change much at all. (link)
Posted by consumatron on May 5th, 2008 filed in
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