THE PLUG MAGAZINE

Red Robin Fulfills Dreams, Offers Bacon Caramel Bourbon Milkshake

http://ift.tt/WV1JsL 2014 hasn’t been a great year for our planet overall, but here’s one bit of great news in our otherwise gloomy world. F...

Why Does The New England Aquarium Breed Jellyfish As Currency?

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http://ift.tt/1AHuKVS ( Grant Henderson ) When zoos first began in this country, there was nothing wrong with going shopping for the animals...

Tesco Abandons Plan To Have Sniper Shoot Protected Bird Living In A Store

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http://ift.tt/1D1dqzp ( LoopZilla ) It’s hard out there for a pied wagtail. First of all, your species is in decline. Second, it’s hard eno...

The Only Way To Avoid Paying A Fee For iPhone Upgrade Is To Pay Full Price

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http://ift.tt/ZjFwq3 Earlier this week, we looked at the various offers being thrown out by the four major wireless carriers in their attem...

MPAA Swears It’s Not Pushing For More Anti-Piracy Legislation

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http://ift.tt/1ByUKoR ( Jason Cook ) A few years back, the entertainment industry used its unique charms (read: money) to glamour several m...

When Your Company Owns Madison Square Garden, Your Band Opens For The Eagles

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http://ift.tt/WUuHZC (Flodigrip’s world) If I was a billionaire CEO of a cable company, I’d buy an island in the South Pacific and get a ho...

CashForiPhones Keeps My iPhone, Cuts Cash Offer By $222

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http://ift.tt/YE6cSo ( Rayce Sugitan ) Apple announced new iPhone models earlier this week, which means that for many people, it’s time to t...

Southwest Passenger Detained After Creating WiFi Hotspot Names Like “Bomb On Board”

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http://ift.tt/1qsOE78 ( zonaphoto ) Authorities detained a passenger aboard a Southwest flight that landed at Seattle-Tacoma Airport yester...

BJ’s Is Just Daring You To Move This Question Mark

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http://ift.tt/1qOdEVJ According to the warehouse club’s handbook for new employees, BJ’s is named for Beverly Jean Weich, the daughter of th...

Here’s Why American Stores Refrigerate Eggs While Some Other Countries Don’t

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http://ift.tt/1qOdEVu ( poopoorama ) At the sight of an egg sitting on an unrefrigerated store shelf, many Americans would shudder and thin...

Sprint CEO On Failed “Framily” Plans: It’s Hard To Sell A Talking Hamster

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http://ift.tt/1BytU02 If you’ve watched TV in the last year, you’ve likely caught one of the many, overly quirky ads for Sprint’s former “F...

General Motors Doesn’t Recall Corvettes, Stops Shipments And Sales Instead

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http://ift.tt/X7AzPL ( Mike Matney ) Remember how General Motors promised that it is totally done with recalling cars ? Well, strictly speak...

Apple Online Store, Some Carriers’ Sites Get Glitchy With Start Of iPhone 6 Preorders

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http://ift.tt/1D0klsw We’ve got a sneaking suspicion that whoever was in charge of handling Apple’s livestreaming announcement for its iPho...

Investor Asks Olive Garden Servers To Be Stingier With Free Breadsticks

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http://ift.tt/1qJZioZ The Starboard critique not only slammed Olive Garden for wasting breadsticks, but also said the new logo looks like i...

Starbucks Might Allow Employees To Show Tattoos

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http://ift.tt/X77DHD ( Steve ) In spite of Starbucks’ origins in tattoo-heavy Seattle and the fact that the coffee colossus employs thousan...

Nice People Donate More Than 200 Pounds Of Onions To School That Had Its Garden Plundered

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http://ift.tt/1qPwVEr ( ilovebutter ) After some total jerk or jerks stole 100 onions from a patch cultivated by elementary school kids in ...

Walmart, Best Buy Won’t Accept Apple Pay At Their Stores

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http://ift.tt/1rTmAFr NOPE, says Walmart and Best Buy. Though the highways and byways of America may be dotted with their stores, customers...

Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

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http://ift.tt/YDdzcI Here are nine of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usabil...

Walmart Focus Group Of 1,000 Kids Tells Us What Toys To Buy Them

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http://ift.tt/WPtseh Walmart started a new holiday tradition last year. It starts in the summer: the company invites a test panel of 1,000 c...

Here’s What Brands Tweeted Right Before Their 9/11 Tributes

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http://ift.tt/1suPi3r ( 910to911 ) On a day when the entire country is paying tribute to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, we usuall...