Consumer Thoughts

Apparently, many freeware sites give out 5-star ratings indiscriminately to junkware. Check out this article at Successful Software about the awards scam.

There are several items, including lamps and banks, based on the Titanic.
Fifteen hundred people died the night the ship sank. That is half the number of people who died in the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York. In 80 years, will there be banks and lamps that appear to be collapsing in [...]

My dad’s been in the hospital with a blocked artery – nothing contagious. Today around 10am, he was moved out of ICU to a regular room, at which point he asked for some water. The nurse’s aide brought him a small pitcher full of ice water, large enough to hold 3-4 glasses’ worth [...]

This is the Knork, which I’ve seen floating around in a few catalogs, like Harriet Carter. We’re all familiar with the Spork… well, the Knork is a fork where the outside edges of the 2 end tines are sharpened to make a knife. This is so you can cut your food with only [...]

Two sites that everyone should have in their feed readers or live bookmarks are the CPSC recall site and the FDA recall site. (At the FDA site, in the center column click Recalls, Product Safety and on the page you go to, click RSS Recalls News Feed in the right column.)
Just today, my family [...]