Damn you, Smashing Magazine! Like there’s all kinds of spare time floating out there now that needs to be used up. Jeez, Flame alone is deserving of a major time suck alert.

Tom Pick nails it over on Social Media Today.

From the Inside Zappos blog:

Hey everyone – As many of you may know (and I’m sure a lot of you do not), 6pm.com is our sister site.  6pm.com is where brandaholics go for their guilt free daily fix of the brands they crave.  Every day, the site highlights discounts on products ranging up to 70% off.  Well, this morning, we made a big mistake in our pricing engine that capped everything on the site at $49.95.  The mistake started at midnight and went until around 6:00am pst.  When we figured out the mistake was happening, we had to shut down the site for a bit until we got the pricing problem fixed.

While we’re sure this was a great deal for customers, it was inadvertent, and we took a big loss (over $1.6 million – ouch) selling so many items so far under cost.  However, it was our mistake.  We will be honoring all purchases that took place on 6pm.com during our mess up.  We apologize to anyone that was confused and/or frustrated during out little hiccup and thank you all for being such great customers.  We hope you continue to Shop. Save. Smile. at 6pm.com.

Bravo. Applause. Kudos. And all the rest o’ that kinda stuff.

With stories like this, this and this deluging us pretty much daily, now seems like a good time to take Lifehacker’s advice and consider these Top 10 Privacy Tweaks You Should Know About.

If you’re online today, it’s inevitable: Everywhere you go (including this blog), you’ll see links to photos and video (not for the faint-hearted) that are both appalling and compelling.