It looks like the specialty shopping website Etsy really stepped in the hand-crafted, organically-sourced dog doo. The popular site recently changed its privacy settings without adequately informing users they could opt out, and now their real names, reviews, favorites, and shopping histories are available to their Facebook friends. What this means is that if you're shopping for a gift for your Aunt Sylvia, and you use Etsy's new Facebook-linked "personalized suggestion" feature, you may find out a little too much information about Sylvia's kinky purchases. And some people are finding that if you search a name on Google, that person's Etsy profile comes right up! more ›

A new study by several professors at NYU and Yale has taken a close look at the purchasing habits of fast-food consumers in poor NYC neighborhoods with high rates of obesity. Researchers were curious to find out if the law requiring chain restaurants to prominently display their calorie information was influencing customers' choices, and what they found was probably not what the Health Department had hoped for when implementing the rules in 2008. more ›

The Federal Reserve Board may be sending distress signals about a “prolonged and severe economic downturn,” but ultrarich individuals like hedge fund manager Lee Tachman aren’t sweating it; the 38-year-old Tachman just spent $50,000 on a four day vacation to Miami with three of his bros. According to a ‘Happy Monday’ article in the Times, Tachman’s crew rolled with a “private jet, helicopter, Hummer limousine, Ferraris and Lamborghinis; stayed in V.I.P. rooms at Casa Casuarina, the South Beach hotel that was formerly Gianni Versace’s mansion; and played 'extreme adventure paintball' with former agents of the DEA.” more ›