• 2¢ the amount he stole by charging his Segway for 1 & 1/2 hours source

• » And he gets his job back: While his German employer didn’t want to reinstate him, going so far as to appeal his claim, the court decided that their grounds were unfair, partly due to the fact that people regularly charged their cell phones or digital photo frames using the company’s power. Oh, and he had been with the company for 19 years. Problem is, they didn’t look like douches for riding around on a Segway, which we’re guessing was the real grounds for dismissal.

• yes Hulu plans to expand its base to the Xbox 360 and iPad very soon. (About time, guys.)
• yes You will have to start paying for the service soon. (Grr… this is our angry voice)
• no You won’t have to pay for new episodes of shows, just older, “classic” episodes. source

• first States complain because
  Craigslist allows anyone
  to post sexually-oriented
  ads which can be used
  for illegal prostitution.
• second In an effort to appease
  the states, Craigslist
  charges for the section
  for purposes of creating
  a paper trail.
• third A group of 39 states,
  noticing the profits made
  from the for-pay section,
  subpoena Craigslist over
  the ads. source

• bad pr In an attempt to get people to
  stow more of their luggage, Spirit Airlines starts charging as much as $45 for carry-on items. Instead of, you know, not charging extra to stow luggage.
• good pr Seeing a perfect opportunity,
  the American Association for Nude Recreation leaps on the news as a chance to promote nudism, because, hey, you’ll need less
  luggage! source

• $45 cost each way to store an item overhead if you don’t join some stupid little club
• $30 cost each way to store that same item if you are smart and reserve a spot ahead of time
• $20 cost each way if you join their club; join our “don’t fly Spirit Airlines” club instead source

• What a convoluted system. For a week, we told you about our trials and travails regarding Newsday’s subscription advertising. We got bored of making fun of them admittedly (and tired of the useless “news alerts” that felt like vectors to send ads to us more than actual news alerts), but now they’ve actually given us some ammo.

• Shoddy service Today, they finally sent us an e-mail, two and a half weeks after we signed up, asking for money, with full details of the process. Nobody ever called us or asked us about it. If Newsday wanted our service, they would call us first.
• pay all at once? We definitely don’t like the $40/every two months setup, instead of just subscribing for a week just to try it. So yeah, we’re not signing up for this. It’s seemingly designed to discourage you from subscribing to Newsday.
• Our advice to newsday Paywalls can work, but your all-or-nothing paywall system seems broken. There’s no online component at all. Also, people outside of Long Island are interested in what happens in Long Island. Consider that, guys.

A final tally of our Newsday adventures

• 17 days it took for Newsday to decide to charge us

• 17 number of text-message updates we got from Newsday; nearly all of them had ads as long as the news itself
• six of the updates said “Officials: 5 killed, 12 injured in Conn. power plant blast” (spread out over two days)
• 4-5 number of e-mail updates we’ve been getting from Newsday each day, and they’re kinda annoying

• The gray lady’s change from free to pay makes sense. Simply put, if there’s one newspaper in the U.S. that can blaze the trail for online pay walls and get it right, it’s the New York Times. Here’s why:

• one They’re big enough to take the kind of risks that smaller papers can’t.
• two They understand the Web better than most papers – there’s no tired cynicism here.
• three They get the sharing nature of the Web, and so does their planned model.
• four They’ve had a long history of online innovation already, such as Times Skimmer.
• five They have content that’s good enough that people will pay for it. Duh. source

• That’s one way to get our money back from the banks. A year after being handed one of the worst financial crises to ever hit the U.S., Obama’s considering his options for making something back on that $700 billion investment that George W. Bush made back in the day. The one that’s standing out? Charging fees to companies like AIG and Bank of America. The nature of that fee hasn’t been decided yet, but we bet taxpayers might enjoy the just desserts. source