Website tracks people's pet peeves


	Website tracks people's pet peeves

Newfman

4-24-2007 6:20 AM

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4-26-2007 11:54 AM

hzj_clipmarks

wonder what my pet peeves are...?
thanks for the clip~~

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<P class="inside-copy">People talking too loudly in public, yakking away on cellphones or speaking in theaters during the movie are among the leading complaints his company's website,    <A target="_blank" href="http://www.mypetpeeves.com" set="yes">mypetpeeves.com</A>, has catalogued since it began keeping track a couple years ago. Then there are people who don't listen when you do talk (a favorite pet peeve of women) or dogs that won't stop talking (in their case it's called barking).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2007-04-23-pet-peeves-site_N.htm"><P class="inside-copy">"We've had over 100,000 from people all over the world," since MyPetPeeves began tracking them, he said.</p> <P class="inside-copy">MyPetPeeves is proposing that people fight back with stuffed animals, electronic cards and other feel-good doodads it offers. Or, if buying stuff is also a pet peeve, they can sound off for free on the website.</p> <P class="inside-copy">Since he's been tracking pet peeves, Williamson has found that as the culture evolves so do people's gripes.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DBF6D7EC-380A-463D-B787-A6B4B2EFFEE4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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