WSJ and Amazon Team Up to Get You Krunk

The classy way to get your buzz on

Guess print sales are really down: The Wall Street Journal and Amazon are launching online wineries in an effort to make more money trafficking in getting people wasted than they were by getting them to read। Amazon's site isn't up yet, but mosey on down to WSJwine to get all sorts of Sideways without ever leaving your small, dark apartment.


Sounds great. Especially if you're 16 and no one is checking IDs:

Oh, and I finally figured out the error pages: unless you pick a state and swear to being at least 21, you can’t order anything.

One needs only to supply a legitimate state name and credit card info to purchase a couple bottles of Merlot. Which means Rupert Murdoch can expect a 3am phone call from the home of Sarah Palin, who's furious one of the News Corp. chieftan's $300 bottles of Pinot Noirr got Bristol drunk and knocked up again.

Six-Year Old United Airlines Bankruptcy Article Bankrupts United Airlines

Bloomberg'd

Bloomberg News does it again: 'Shares of United Airlines lost nearly all their value Monday morning when a false rumor swept financial markets that the struggling carrier had filed for bankruptcy protection। United shares traded at one cent in late morning on the New York Stock Exchange, down 99।92 percent, or $12।29। … The circumstances surrounding the rumor were still being sorted out Monday afternoon. In a statement, United said the rumor occurred when the Web site of The Sun-Sentinel, a Florida newspaper, posted a six-year-old story from The Chicago Tribune archives about United's previous bankruptcy filing. The airline operated under bankruptcy protection from 2002 through 2006. "United has demanded a retraction from The Sun Sentinel and is launching an investigation," the airline said in a statement. On its Web site, however, The Chicago Tribune offered a different set of events. The Tribune said a reporter for Income Securities Advisors, an investment research firm based in Miami, found a Tribune story in the Sun-Sentinel archives during a search for information about bankruptcy situations. The reporter at Income Securities posted the story to Bloomberg News, where the rumor then spread rapidly, The Tribune said.' (NYT). Bloomberg'd