Tuesday, August 31, 2004
HipTop 2
The T-Mobile Sidekick II went through a low-carb diet and is 25 percent slimmer than the popular original model. At the same time, it added muscle with a fully integrated camera, and flash, to capture those you-had-to-be there moments; enhanced phone sound quality and functionality such as a speakerphone; and enhanced battery life to give customers approximately 4.5 hours of talk time.
Can Microsoft Beat iTunes
With the opening on Thursday, Microsoft will land itself in a market that Apple Computer pioneered more than a year ago with its iTunes online music store, in much the same way that it took on Netscape in the Web browser business and Sony in the market for console game machines.
Outlook, Gmail & Yahoo! Calendaring
After completing my switchover from Outlook to Gmail this weekend, I'm left figuring out how move the other Outlook functions over to a web service. just found Yahoo! Calendar. This is a LOT more than I expected.
All that's left now is my Outlook "Notes". This is mostly accounts and passwords, and I'm still mulling the security aspect. I've just started using RoboForm, and I think combining this with a removeable device may be it.
- Reminders go to IM or E-mail
- Imports from Outlook
- Recurring appointments/events
- Sharing / Sync'ing
- Add your favorite Sports team
- Weather
All that's left now is my Outlook "Notes". This is mostly accounts and passwords, and I'm still mulling the security aspect. I've just started using RoboForm, and I think combining this with a removeable device may be it.
Help A Friend In Need, Go To Jail
Anthony Howell flew to Florida last week to help out a friend whose home was badly damaged by Hurricane Charley. Now, he may face a $5,000 fine and a felony charge.
Monday, August 30, 2004
Sunday, August 29, 2004
How eight pixels cost Microsoft millions
The software giant has seen its products banned in some of the biggest markets on earth--and it's all because of eight wrongly colored pixels, a dodgy choice of music and a bad English-to-Spanish dictionary.
Katie Says "Rescue Me"
I’ve come to the conclusion that these heroines for hounds are just fad whores. After adopting Chinese babies became passé, something had to replace it...
Saturday, August 28, 2004
Cellular - the movie
The movie's producers tried to get a cellular operator to sponsor the movie, but there were too many negatives aspects. Cingular, Sprint and Nextel confirmed they turned down a sponsorship. But Nokia jumped in. Their new 6600 camera phone takes a pre-eminent role.
Friday, August 27, 2004
Man Pillows
| Women of all ages have reportedly been rushing to buy their very own Boyfriend Arm Pillow - a snuggly alternative to the real thing. |
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A detailed analysis of the Swift Boat affair
I know you clicked through to this story expecting an analysis of the Swift Boat controversy. I'm sorry we had to deceive you.
Diamond auction with a "Gem" of a TOS
STUPID PEOPLE:
for those that are reading this it is most likely not for you. I personally don't deal well with stupid people. I define stupid people in some of the following ways:
1. Those that place bids and complain later on because they were neglegent in reading a description.
2. Those that send there hard earned money and never tell me what the item is that they have purchased.
3. Those that send me there hard earned money and give me no address to ship.
4. those that send there hard earned money with no item, no name, no return address, no clue whatsoever they are paying for.
5. Those that blatently disreguard the terms and conditions outlined in the description. And the list goes on and on...
for those that are reading this it is most likely not for you. I personally don't deal well with stupid people. I define stupid people in some of the following ways:
1. Those that place bids and complain later on because they were neglegent in reading a description.
2. Those that send there hard earned money and never tell me what the item is that they have purchased.
3. Those that send me there hard earned money and give me no address to ship.
4. those that send there hard earned money with no item, no name, no return address, no clue whatsoever they are paying for.
5. Those that blatently disreguard the terms and conditions outlined in the description. And the list goes on and on...
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Great Moments In Public Education
Atlanta's WSB-AM reports that "a student at Grayson High School, in Gwinnett County, was stopped by a school administrator when he was spotted wearing the shirt that read 'Hempstead, NY 516,' a reference to the Long Island town, and its area code. But, the administrator only saw the first four letters of the town's name, and believed it to be a drug reference":
After being questioned by school officials, Terrell finally convinced them to do a search on the internet and see that there really is, in fact, a Hempstead. After determining the existance [sic] of the town, the boy was allowed to return to class.
At least he didn't come from Pottstown, Pa. (610), or Weed, Calif. (530).
via WSJ's OpinionJournal
Schwarzenegger's "CA Garage Sale" on eBay
The item(s) included in this sale are offered from the California Surplus Property Program .. to "YOU"!
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
QOTD - The downfall of civilized states
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.
~~ Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart
~~ Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
U.S. Army Chief Of Staff’s Reading List
The Professional Reading List is a way for leaders at all levels to increase their understanding of our Army’s history, the global strategic context, and the enduring lessons of war.
Trick of the trade
For every occupation, there is a catalog of secrets only its employees are aware of...
Delicious Library 3.0
Dad, here's your killer application:
Delicious Library offers several ways to enter information about your books, CDs and DVDs into your library, but the slickest method is iSight barcode scanning. Just pick up a book and scan its UPC barcode label with your iSight camera; Library uses image recognition to decode the video at a full 30 fps and then grabs the item's title, picture, and lots of additional detailed information from Amazon.com. The book then appears on your shelf.
The new "shelf view" is one of the most obvious changes to the interface, which emulates the experience of browsing through your bookshelf, allowing you to view the covers of all your books, movies, video games and music on realistic-looking wood shelves just as you would at a movie or book store. In addition, the "Incoming" shelf, where you add media to your library, is patterned after a warehouse with metal shelving units and cardboard boxes.
"Let Freedom Ring"
Just a week after launching RealPlayer 10.5 with Harmony Technology and unleashing a 49-cent song download promotion on its RealPlayer Music Store, RealNetworks announced that the service has sold 1 million songs.
Olympic Timing
1932 — Track events are timed with manual stopwatches. Twenty five people eyeball the finish line and average their stopwatch results to find the winner.
Bodies of WWI Soldiers Found in Glacier
The soldiers' uniforms were mostly intact including leather belts, a gas mask and a cap with a star on it.
Historians are already studying Vicenzi's find and believe the men died during a battle on Sept. 3, 1918, probably killed by a grenade. Italian and Austrian troops clashed in the mountains on that date in what has been called "the great battle." The Austrians won but 11 soldiers were killed.
Computer Gaming Nov. 1982
The games have their critics, of course. Physicians claim that maneuvering a joystick too many hours can lead to "video elbow" and "arcade arthritis." The mental side effects can be equally serious, according to U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. "There's nothing constructive in the games," says Koop. "Everything is kill, destroy, zap the enemy." Retorts TEMPEST virtuoso Leo Daniels, "I think Koop is a quack."
T-Shirt with storage
Keep your iPod® and cell phone accessible and secure.
The BlackCoat-T is designed to allow one to discretely transport mobile necessities whether wearing a suit or a flannel shirt. This Patent Pending t-shirt contains 2 specially designed compartments that are all interconnected by a single passageway.
Price Gouging: It's Not About Economics
My point is this: they don't believe the economic arguments are wrong, they believe they're irrelevant. And that's why no amount of economic instruction will win them over.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin author robbed
The author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin has offered a reward for the return of a stolen laptop containing the first 50 pages of his next novel.
Keyword Searches
I need to update my eBay store description. Here's some tools on selecting keywords:
Google Adwords Keyword Tool: This one is my favorite one. Just type in your product and you'll be provided a list of associated keywords.
Mastering Google Adwords: This tool is a spinoff of the Google Adwords keyword suggestion tool.
Good Keywords: The name speaks for itself. This tool is available as a free download.
Free Keyword Suggestion Tool: This is a handy little tool will show you the results of your query from both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often.
Metacrawler: Ever wonder what the world is searching for? Search the search engines.
A Day In The Life Of A Spammer
When kids dream of what they want to be when they grow up, bulk e-mail marketer probably doesn't rank as high as fireman or astronaut. So how does one become one of the great Scourges of the Internet?
Monday, August 23, 2004
Colorstrology
Color is a reflection of the sun's light in all its glory,
And you are a shimmering facet in that light.
Baby, you smell like Hummer...
The creators of the SUV are lending their name to an "eau de toilette" that melds the smell of thyme, fir, cardamom and sandalwood to create the Hummer Fragrance for Men.
AWoL (Alcohol Without Liquid)
Called Alcohol Without Liquid (AWoL), the machine is billed as creating a low-calorie, hangover-free buzz.
Alice slams anti-Bush rockers
"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."
eBay Mompreneurs: New Trend
I bought 10 wedding gowns for $250,” she says, “And I can obviously sell them on eBay at a really nice profit.”
Entrepreneurial Success via the Internet
While Rational Fashion began in earnest last summer, Mr. Mohrer has devoted most of his time to it only since graduation. He has become an eBay gold power seller, a prestigious rank among merchants who do high-volume business and get overwhelmingly positive feedback from customers.
Sunday, August 22, 2004
RealRhapsody Free Trial
They've got a free trial during the Olympics. I'm listening to Eddie James "Son" House.
Saturday, August 21, 2004
Friday, August 20, 2004
InkJet Refills
Just found them at Coventry Mall today. From the employment ad on the mall site, it says they opened 28 June. Kiosk is near the main entrance. Refill while you shop.
Peter's Outsource Proof Your Career
Notes gleaned from this interesting seminar:
"If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself, you won't get noticed, and than increasingly means you won't get paid much either." ~Michael Goldhaber - Wired
"Nobody gives you power, you just take it." ~Roseanne
"India will be the largest English-speaking country in the world by the year 2010." ~WSJ 05/03/04
"Software is a forklift for the mind" ~Tom Peters
Gmail Notifier
Celebrities bored her
| Jill Greenberg was born in July of 1967 in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in a suburb of Detroit. Graduated in 1989 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Photography and moved to NYC to pursue a career in photography. Jill was based in NYC till 2001 and now resides in Los Angeles. |
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1,000 Millionaires
And on paper, at least, Mr. Brin and Mr. Page are now worth $3.9 billion each, and among Google's 2,300 employees there are now an estimated 1,000 millionaires.
Thursday, August 19, 2004
The Price of Dissent in Venezuela
Hugo Chávez's thugs celebrate their "victory" by shooting my mother.
ImageShack
| Well, TheImageHosting is down (sorry Suzanne). Time to find another. ImageShack shows as most popular on Alexa. |
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Alligator Hunt
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with support from the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research, is on the hunt for the Alligator—the U.S. Navy’s first submarine.
Based in Ocracoke, N.C., the 2004 NOAA-ONR expedition is taking place August 22-30 off Cape Hatteras, N.C. in the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” where the Civil War-era vessel was lost during a fierce storm in 1863.
Built in Philadelphia in 1862...
Costco's got a casket
“Costco makes grave decision” - Globe Investor
“Shopping for all of life's needs, and more” - nwitimes.com
“Costco Wholesalers is testing a lay-away plan, an eternal one” - abc7.com
“ATTENTION, COSTCO SHOPPERS: Caskets Available in Aisle 9”- Abbott & Hast Publications
urShelf
urShelf, LLC started in the Summer of 2003 because as four college students ourselves we knew that college books are an unforeseen expensive cost. Being avid users of the internet and auction style websites, we knew that an auction site just for textbooks would create a perfect world for college students to find and sell their textbooks fast, easy and at good prices.
16 Player Mario Kart
The Ann Arbor Library is pulling in the teens with a five-month long Mario Kart Double Dash Tournament...
The Flying Munchkins With Hormone Problems
(aka USA Little Girls' Gymnastics Team)... Shark's Update
Def ppl luv 2 txt
Short message service (SMS) text is also creating new opportunities for deaf people to form relationships, says Associate Professor Mary Power from Bond University in Queensland.
"Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons"
Now we find that the Combined Federal Campaign checks this list. But wait, it turns out that under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, ALL employers are required to check. And since they can't ask birth date or age, if just the first and last names match, you're a suspected terrorist.
This Truck Can Hold All Your Tools
This is the third time up for this beauty. No inside pics., but one can imagine...
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
"Chilled" by the FBI
What we should have made clear was not that Cryptome was chilled but that telling about the visit chilled others from having dealings with Cryptome.
Cuban on the Olympics
I don't follow the Olympics, but I was definitely interested in Mark's take.
A smack in the head to the NBA for providing our most valuable players , at risk of injury and full subsidy by our teams, to enable a competitor to sell to the same advertisers that could be buying from the NBA and our partners.
The Image Hosting
TheImageHosting.com is a system developed by four university students in order to provide free hosting for pictures. We are not some large company that has developed such a service to make thousands or millions of dollars. Our goal is to become popular and to show that we have a good service and that we can develop software that can handle high loads.
Googled them while looking for a quick image host for my sister's auctions. Seems to work.
The Conscience of Joe Darby
He wouldn't mind talking, actually; he wants you to know the truth. The desire to tell the truth was how he got into this thing in the first place. He was the guy who stood up to evil when everyone else fell silent, the guy who put himself on the line when nobody else would. No wonder they won't let him talk. No wonder he can't say what he knows. It would be easier if he could, if Joe Darby could tell you himself, but this will do for now.
On Julia
"It's August 1961," as Morash told the story, "and I get a call from a woman I think may be dying from overinhaling Marlboro cigarettes, and she says: 'I will require a hotplate to cook an omelette on your program.' I was the cameraman on Professor P. Alfred Duhamel's program I've Been Reading, and he was about to review Julia's first cookbook. Maybe 4000 people saw her cook her eggs, and maybe six people out of the 4000 wrote letters saying: 'This woman is terrific!' And so Julia came into my life."
Flight ID Fight Revived
| Backed by a phalanx of civil liberties groups, civil liberties iconoclast John Gilmore on Monday relaunched his legal campaign against the federal government's requirement that airlines ask passengers for photo identification in order to board a plane. |
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Real Bites Apple on Downloads starting today
$0.50 ea., $5 an album. New RealPlayer v10.5 with Harmony built-in.
Monday, August 16, 2004
Other Than That, the Story Was Correct
From the Houston Chronicle's corrections column, Aug. 8:
An article that ran on Page A1 on Saturday misstated information about a Sam Houston State University graduate. Marie Williams did not submit an application to the university while in high school, two of her siblings died in infancy, and her Huntsville home is in a rural area. She never worked more than 10 hours while in high school, and it is unclear how old she was when she picked cotton as a child.
via OpinionJournal-botw
Tom Peters Seminar
You can attend a seminar given by famous business author Tom Peters for free (Microsoft's picking up the tab).
Digital Shoplifting
Kyobo Book Centre in Seoul's Gwanghwamun, the nation's largest bookstore, recently posted a placard that reads, "Photographing the cover and contents of books here violates the copyright law."
The bookseller said it hung such a warning because increasing numbers of people are secretly photographing book contents at the store rather than buying the books.
eBay on Charlie
Many areas of Florida remain without power and phone service after Hurricane Charley hit this weekend. Our thoughts go out to our eBay members in these areas. If you have trading partners in the affected regions, we encourage you to be patient over the next few days, as you may encounter delays in communication, shipments, and other auction-related activities.
Readings by IM or E-mail
I am a clairvoyant/clairsentient/clairaudient with channelling capabilities. I have been reading for many people and have had a 99.9% success rate.
$15 for one, $25 for three, or $45 for an hour.
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Saturday, August 14, 2004
SimilarMinds
SimilarMinds.com is a resource for personality tests and personality psychology. Currently, there are a number of personality tests online (Enneagram test, Advanced Enneagram, Compatibility test, Myers-Briggs, Big 5, Word Association, and others).
Friday, August 13, 2004
Top 50 fast food chains (by sales)
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10 Dunkin’ Donuts
11 Arby’s
12 Sonic Drive-In
13 Jack in the Box
14 Dairy Queen
15 Hardee’s ... The full list.
11 Arby’s
12 Sonic Drive-In
13 Jack in the Box
14 Dairy Queen
15 Hardee’s ... The full list.
The Google / Playboy interview
The Playboy interview with Sergey and Larry that might delay the Google IPO:
Just five years ago a googol was an obscure, unimaginable concept: the number one followed by 100 zeros. Now respelled and capitalized, Google is an essential part of online life. From American cities to remote Chinese villages, more than 65 million people use the Internet search engine each day.
Net Publishing Made Profitable
"Publishing is broken," he said. "Sales are low, there's no money, and deadlines and delays are a headache. You have three months to sell a book and then it's obsolete. Last year, I realized all the pieces were there finally for publishing e-books."
Too Much Information?
The agents, according to Young, a 69-year-old architect, stressed they knew that nothing on the site was illegal. Young added: "They said, 'What we'd like you to do, if you're approached by anyone that you think intends to harm the United States, we're asking you to let us know that.' "
...said a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman. "We discourage Web posting of detailed information about critical infrastructure. This information is not helpful to our ongoing efforts to protect the American people and our nation's infrastructure."
Blogging Charley
| Well, I made it to Ft. Myers, Florida! My flight was smooth and on time. Actually the plane landed a little bit ahead of schedule. The airport was crowded with people trying to get away from Charley. After retrieving my luggage, I went to get a rental car. Unfortunately, they don’t offer insurance on vehicles during hurricanes which made me nervous and was more than a little disconcerting. |  |
eBay buys into CraigsList
Unbelievable... THIS is going to piss of a lot of people.
Ah... but there's more to the story. eBay has acquired a "preexisting" 25% equity interest in craigslist from a former shareholder. I wonder how much "a guy who was working with me at the time" walked away with?
Noise should start showing up here.
Copyright Crusaders Hit Schools
A copyright-crusading cartoon ferret is the latest brainchild from the BSA. The software trade group will sponsor a contest in September to name the weasel mascot, which will be used in marketing campaigns to teach kids to be good cybercitizens.
"Kids may not have such fully formed ideas about how the world works," Bucholz said. "For older students, that stuff doesn't wash."
He said once students develop critical thinking skills, read the news and learn about content owners suing their customers, for instance, it decreases the industry's ability to "take the moral high ground." Encouraging students to discuss issues related to file sharing would be more productive.
Goldfish Day
FISHY STORY: Somehow Goldfish Day won't be the same. For four decades, reports the Chicago Tribune, children in Glenview, Ill., have celebrated the day by jumping into Roosevelt Pool with nets and buckets in hopes of catching some of the 1,000 goldfish dumped into the water. But after a complaint about animal cruelty, authorities decided that the children will now scoop the goldfish out of 100-gallon tubs of fresh water and be educated about proper fish care. "We wouldn't find it acceptable to throw kittens or puppies into a pool," a representative of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals told the paper. "It is not more acceptable to throw fish into a pool."
Thursday, August 12, 2004
Spanking the Tongue
"Hot saucing," or "hot tongue," has roots in Southern culture, according to some advocates of the controversial disciplinary method, but it has spread throughout the country. Nobody keeps track of how many parents do it, but most experts contacted for this story, including pediatricians, psychologists and child welfare professionals, were familiar with it.
McGowen will not pass her saucing experience down to her son.
"I don't need to resort to chemical warfare," she said. Though she does not blame her mother for the punishment "because she was probably ill-informed," McGowen believes that "today we are more educated about the psychology of children."
The Blog Beautifiers
Mena and Ben Trott thrilled the world of bloggers with their Movable Type software. Then their company, Six Apart, received venture financing and they decided it was time to get serious.
Salon covers Six Apart's Movable Type.
NYTimes on FireFox, Opera & Mozilla
Ms. Sandlin is so devoted to her browser that she has taped a note to her monitor warning guests not to click on the desktop shortcut to Internet Explorer. "Do not touch the blue 'E!' " the note says.
"I didn't want to fool with it anymore," said Ms. Sandlin, 51, an administrative assistant at Halifax Community College in Weldon, N.C. "I spent more time clicking pop-ups than I did surfing the Web."
Woman Lands Plane After Parents Pass Out
| "The pilot of the plane is not well," Truman said on the recording. "We have to go back to Laconia. Please help me." |  |
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Bend it like Beckham
It has been noted that the ball that David Beckham kicked into the stands in a failed penalty kick had been purchased by Golden Palace Casino for about $44,000 Canadian. The Ball will travel Europe and then be launched into space by the Casino. The Online Casino is the major sponsor of da Vinci Project, their entry into an international space competition. Their rocket is called Wildfire, and it will launch from Kindersley, Saskatchewan October 2nd. The Prize is $10 million dollars. The recipient of the $10 million prize will be the first team to travel safely to space twice within a two-week period on a privately funded, re-useable spacecraft. Inside will be the Beckham ball and the space crafts pilot.
Terms and Conditions
- I don't care that your cat died.
- I don't care if you have to sell plasma to pay for your auction.
- I don't care if you were stupid enough to let your teenager on the internet unsupervised.
- I don't care if you were drunk when you bid.
We have heard it all! All four of the above excuses are genuine articles from past buyers. We hear them every day.
Elvis' Circle G Ranch Diamond Ring
| The current owner was given this ring directly from Elvis in 1968 on a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles. |  |
McNamara on Security
1966 in Montreal: "The decisive factor for a powerful nation already adequately armed is the character of its relationships with the world."
Gmail Apps
If you like Gmail, here are some tools to make it easier. I think it may be time to take the plunge and convert wholesale.
Perseids Tonight
| A nearly moon-free night and a predicted dense concentration of comet debris are combining to make this year's Perseids even better than usual, several astronomers are reporting. |  |
Girl Meets Boy, at 60 Miles an Hour
| Federal highway officials are so alarmed by this that they put it near the top of a recent press release, citing among 15- to- 20-year-olds a 42 percent increase in young female driver fatalities from 1992 to 2002 (the rate for young males rose 15 percent). State Farm Insurance, a leading auto insurer, has monitored the trend and adjusted its rates for girls accordingly: from 61 percent less than boys' rates in 1985, to 40 percent less today. |  |
Out in the Cold: Moscow 1812
It is no accident that many at Stalingrad were reminded of 1812, or that Napoleon and Hitler are sometimes compared. In some sense, Napoleon's wasteful, hubristic march on Moscow was truly a harbinger of the greater devastation to come. For that reason alone, it is worth retelling.
How To Piss Off A Federal Judge
You have a pretty good idea that you're not going to get the relief requested when the judge starts his order with "When the undersigned accepted the appointment from the President of the United States of the position now held, he was ready to face the daily practice of law in federal courts with presumably competent lawyers. No one warned the undersigned that in many instances his responsibility would be the same as a person who supervised kindergarten."
Dassault Falcon Jet Opens Paint Facility
| Dassault Falcon's Wilmington, Delaware facility today opened a new world-class 40,000 square foot paint hangar that has the ability to service some of the world's largest business jets. The new facility is expected to add as many as 25 jobs to the Wilmington area. |  |
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Review of a Fergie Po' Boy
| This ignored, though, the central tenet of New Orleans cooking–if it’s not delicious, then they don’t sell it. |  |
“Gmail revealed to me my email behavior..."
The Information Architecture of Email
by Dan Brown
“Gmail revealed to me my email behavior — something I hadn’t previously given much thought.”
by Dan Brown
“Gmail revealed to me my email behavior — something I hadn’t previously given much thought.”
Ad-Aware "SE" Released
| Lavasoft, with its Ad-Aware technology, is widely known for delivering comprehensive and secure performance. Together with several newly developed techniques and our newly developed scanning technology Ad-Aware SE delivers heretofore unseen performance on both PCs and workstations. Just like in the past, where Lavasoft was one of the first to offer a comprehensive anti Spyware solution, we're proud to be the first again to offer a new generation, ground-breaking anti Spyware solution.
Get your copy here... |
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New Item Specifics
Now Home & Garden sellers in Sheets, Decorative Pillows, Bedspreads, Candles, Home Fragrances, Table Lamps, Floor Lamps, Chandeliers, Ceiling Fans, and Valances will be able to distinguish their offerings by details such as Color, Material, Style, Threadcount, and Pattern. Sellers can choose to include Item Specifics in their listing or not, and buyers can choose whether or not to search for these details. However, we believe the feature provides significant value to both buyers and sellers.
Quigley 4x4 Vans
| Quigley Motor Company, located in Manchester PA, is the oldest, largest and most successful manufacturer of high quality four-wheel-drive conversions for full sized vans and "cut-aways" in the world. It has sold over 10,000 of its unique four-wheel drive systems for vans. Quigley also manufactures and installs right-hand drive conversion systems for vans, pickup trucks and sports utility vehicles. And here's one on eBay. |  |
Ray/King Bathtub is back up
| In order to bid in this auction, you must be a registered eDeposit user and submit a $5,000.00 bid deposit. The seller is a civil rights advocate and founder of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel where King was shot. Huh? As Sam (of Muppet Show fame), the American Eagle would say, "and besides that, he's Church people". |
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Monday, August 09, 2004
Introducing Last-Minute Feedback!
First there was auction Sniping; now for sellers, there's auction Pouncing...
Diamond Life
| From the BBC comes news of a whole new approach to death.
Wear your loved one as jewelry. |
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Problem for Cops on eBay Beat
For the last 2½ years, Mr. Fawrup, a veteran California police detective, has been battling one of the Internet era's signature crimes: online-auction fraud. Most of the fraudsters use eBay, the Internet's biggest auction site, and they get craftier by the year.
WSJ, by way of Scot Wingo's blog
WSJ, by way of Scot Wingo's blog
AOL Instant Messenger Flaw
AOL confirmed the existence of the software vulnerability in an AIM feature that allows users to post automatic replies, such as "I'm away" messages, to instant messages that they receive. The company is planning to release a test version of the AIM client later this week that will fix the hole, said Andrew Weinstein, an AOL spokesman.
Explosion in Montville, CT
| Craig & Debbie Carlson? 131 Orchard Dr Uncasville, CT 06382 Now there's helicopter video. False alarm; apparently they're at #31. |
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Wardrivers Plead Guilty, Sentenced To Jail Time
Federal prosecutors in Charlotte, N.C. said last week that three men had pleaded guilty in a case that is likely the first criminal conviction of "wardriving," the hacker tactic of cruising for unsecured wireless networks.
Ahem... it's not the "wardriving", it's what they did inside, through that connection. But I guess that's not as sexy a headline.
U.S. Army Says 'G'Day'
| "U.S. Army Saying 'G'Day' to Aussie Controller in Baghdad"Peter Hartley of Mt. Crosby, Australia captured a U.S. Army copter departing Baghdad from the control tower |  |
3rd Century City Unearthed in Iran
The city, lying beneath the small town of Nushabad near Kashan, features labyrinth-like architectural structures, starting 2.5 meters under the surface and running 18 meters deep. Nushabad residents had been reporting about underground corridors and chambers when they were digging wells in their yards for sewage, since most Iranian cities lack a sewage network.
Be a "Ready Deputee"
| Winning school also gets U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge as your principal for a day! |  |
Red Adair
Paul ''Red'' Adair, the son of an immigrant Irish blacksmith, was born in Texas in 1915. He left school to work as a labourer, first on the railways and then in the oil fields.
In 1939 he joined Myron Kinley, a famous Houston oil fire expert, and stayed with him for 14 years, with a break for wartime service in the US Army as a bomb disposal expert.
The Other War on Terror
The nation's cyberdefenses need a major rethink. Here's what security experts need to do:
1. Stamp out spam.
2. Protect ordinary citizens.
3. Unplug the syndicate.
4. Empower the experts.
A Digital World With Analog as Its Workhorse
"On average, there's probably 15 analog chips needed for every digital processor you use."
Cold War Submarine Steinway SSBN610
| Later, on a second shift (where questions were less likely to be asked), the piano box was quietly loaded through the hull opening down through the interior of the submarine, until it reached the forward bulkhead of the crew’s mess. There, the box was inconspicuously kept until the submarine was closed up. |  |
Broken Arrow incident - more details
The author makes it sound as if a nuclear warhead is as fragile as an eggshell.
Submariner newbie
However, I am going to a submarine in less than a month and I am beginning to see how I am once again going to have to adjust to a new environment very quickly.
Some of the 430,000
"Customer service over the Internet can sometimes be like manning an airline ticket counter when all flights have been delayed."
"I'm selling to Australia, Germany, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands," said Jan Honn of Kankakee, rattling off an atlas of buyers seeking the health and beauty aids she specializes in. "They want over-the-counter medicine and vitamins, things they just cannot get in their country."
Hmm...
Best Buy sees a future on eBay
Best Buy’s strategy with end-of-life products is to send them directly from the warehouse or distribution center sale on eBay, rather than removing inventory from stores. “We’re not pulling from stores, we’re pushing to eBay,” Hungerford said.
Sunday, August 08, 2004
This Summer it's Molten Chocolate
| A 3-foot-tall, three-tiered fountain shaped like the Stanley Cup spews not water, nor even Champagne, but molten chocolate. |  |
ISO 10002 Customer Satisfaction
A new ISO standard offers a solution for organizations on those occasions when the customer is dissatisfied with a product or service - guidelines for handling complaints in a manner that gives optimal results for both the organization and unhappy customer.
I guess my customers are going to have to put up with my non-ISO service...
Fresh Competition
QuikDrop International announced today that Brian Collins and James Posca have been granted area development rights to open 17 QuikDrop eBay drop-off stores in Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lehigh, Luzerne, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, and York Counties in Pennsylvania.
Audi A8 4.2 1996 NON-RUNNER
Unfortunately there's more bad news...
Let's deal with the 'heart' scratched into the driver's side pillar first. My (now ex) wife did that in an angry mood one night because, as she put it, 'you love that car more than you love me' (admitedly she did have a point). Not long after that I moved to St Albans and started going to the now mysteriously disappeared Executive Audi for servicing, they called me 'the love heart man'. How we laughed.
Saturday, August 07, 2004
Home Offices Exploding
Nearly a third of the US workforce, or 44 million individuals, is expected to regularly work at home on at least a part-time basis in 2004, reports In-Stat/MDR.
This probably bodes well for eBay...
Katie Wins
Plume Re-titles Book by Katie Tarbox A Girl’s Life Online
In an effort to avoid an association between the book originally titled Katie.com and
the website Katie.com, Plume and the author decide to make this title change.
Eyes Without a Face
A man lives in Ypsilanti whose fate is to go through life terribly disfigured after a failed attempt to commit suicide by shooting himself.
Friday, August 06, 2004
Remember Sarah Cherry
On July 6th, 1988 Dennis Dechaine of Bowdinham, Maine came home from work (transporting frozen chickens from a slaughterhouse) and planned to work on constructing a greenhouse. However, that project hit a glitch and sometime that afternoon he decided instead to take some amphetamines and go exploring in the woods near his home. When he emerged from the woods, lost and looking for his truck, about 8:30 pm that night he was questioned by the police who were looking for a missing 12 year old girl named Sarah Cherry. Two days later, Sarah's body was found and Dennis Dechainewas charged with the girl's murder. He was convicted in March of 1989 to life in prison without parole and an entire generation of Maine girls were told to 'remember Sarah Cherry' as a caution to not talk to strangers.
The question before us now, is, of course, did he do it?
Rockwell Automation
Let me get this straight, every seventh conductor is being connected by a non-reversible tremiopipe to the differential girdle spring on the up end of the grammameters?
Get yours now!
The Shore
Clare is waiting beside my Realty-Wise sign (red block letters on a white field: “Realty” above, hyphen “Wise” below, plus the “Tel”—no “www,” no virtual tours, no talking houses, just like I like it, simple, satisfying, reliable, leading buyers toward a feeling of sanity, finality, and ultimate rightness).
A short story by Richard Ford.
Interview with Bin Ladin's Former 'Bodyguard'
I recall that my answer to them was that Usama Bin Ladin has a weapon that is far superior to all the US weapons. What is this weapon, the asked? I told them: "Among the believers are men, who have been true to their covenant to God: of them some have completed their vow (to the extreme), and some (still) wait: But they have never changed (their determination) in the least." (Koranic verse) The US arsenal is full of weapons, but it does not have the men.
Thursday, August 05, 2004
25 Years of the Brown Sisters
| Begun in 1975, Nixon's annual group portraits of the artist's wife Bebe and her three sisters comprise his most well-known series. Collectively, they represent a distinct take on the tradition of portraiture for their rigorous simplicity in mode of conception and overall romantic beauty. Through this picture-history of the four Brown siblings, Nixon chronicles, almost methodically, slivers in time of the dramatic, ever-changing aging process by way of which familiarity and permanence may also be found. |  |
Cold Beer for Hot Days
While drinking certain dark beers in the sun, I came to think about how to keep the beer cold until I finished it.
Inside the mind of Bezos
"Avoid helicopters whenever possible! They're not as reliable as fixed-wing aircraft." Then he laughs hysterically, as though his brush with death were the funniest thing imaginable.
Wednesday, August 04, 2004
Ridge Warns: "Injuns" Planning Major Attack At Little Big Horn
Tom Ridge announced today the raising of the Terror Alert Level to "RED" in the state of Montana, citing intelligence that indicates a group of Indian insurgents, led by wanted terrorist Crazy Horse, are planning to attack General Custer and the 7th Cavalry in the Valley of the Little Big Horn. Ridge says this information was gleaned from intercepted smoke signals between the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes, along with clues hidden on the back of labels from 40 oz. bottles of Crazy Horse Malt Liquor.
While Ridge admits this intelligence, which dates back to 1876, is a "little dated" he insists the threat is still real. "This is the most significant, detailed piece of information about any particular region that we have come across in a long, long time, perhaps ever," he said, adding, "We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland Security. This is not about politics. It's about confidence in government."
Jobs blows it again
Go back, for a moment, to 1984. While hard to imagine now, Jobs was so powerful, he could call Gates and order him to come to Apple's headquarters so Jobs could yell at the Microsoft co-founder — and Gates would go! Apple had the best technology in personal computing and a major market share.
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Digital memories survive extremes
They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy.
One Cent Subtitles
Sell more - get buyers to click and bid
This strikes me as pretty shady. How can a subtitle be worth twice the Gallery picture fee? I think eBay's targeting those people that gloss over the fact that the subtitle is not registered in the search engine.
Monday, August 02, 2004
Bean vs. Cloud Gate
| "I tend to give a work a title when I've had a chance to properly understand how it lives in the world" |  |
Quote - 21st Century
Phillip Dodd is leaving as director of London's Institute of Contemporary Art to focus on Asia. "In my usual pompous way, I have a kind of wager that the 21st century belongs to a constellation of China and India and my deepest feeling is that Britain shows no sign of understanding this. There is a lack of engagement with that part of the world which is just crazy. My real worry is that we spent the past 10 years being so in love with ourselves - that's what Cool Britannia was, like Narcissus - we thought we were the centre of the world. But the world has moved on and we are bewildered." Financial Times 07/27/04
"Beer is beer" she says
Sometimes it comes down to a decision of beer or milk. I can tell you then I eat my Boo Berry dry quite often.
Marketing in the Kingdom of Fear
"You could die, but you're so much safer. They're going to attack, but keep shopping."
Sunday, August 01, 2004
Apple CEO Jobs has pancreatic cancer surgery
"This weekend I underwent a successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from my pancreas," Jobs wrote in the e-mail. "I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was)."
DrugWipe
Be careful at work, 'cause now it's possible to instantly identify nanogram-size (that's one-billionth of a gram) traces of drugs left on surfaces.
Popular Mechanics assaulted by gun grabbers
Popular Mechanics, the magazine on all things mechanical and well...popular, is under a lot of heat from a small but vocal number of its readers who feel the magazine is too pro gun and features too many gun articles and advertisements.
Cuban takes on Google
I'm working with a company called IceRocket.com. IceRocket is a brand new search host that combines the best of spidered search, meta search, and what we hope are some unique and different features that make using the engine more efficient and addictive.
The Copyright Gap
Here’s the hypothesis: Today’s telecom and copyright laws often regulate similar subjects, but with a big difference. The telecom laws slightly favor market entrants, while the copyright laws favor the incumbent disseminators. The result is a “copyright gap” that grows larger every day.
Excellent comparison.
My Body, the Fixer-Upper
Modern Renaissance man John Perry Barlow (Harvard scholar, digital democracy agitator, ex-Grateful Dead lyricist, ex-Wyoming cattle rancher) will be filmed by The Discovery Channel as he attempts to defy death by getting seriously back in shape at the posh Canyon Ranch spa.
His Dying Debt Was $80
Just after 9:30 that night, he came back and stood his ground. The train that crushed him was No. 1006, the Chongqing-to-Beijing express. His jacket, containing one arm and his identification card, was found 30 yards from his body.
Serenity Prayer
The Serenity Prayer is associated with Alcoholic's Anonymous, but few know its origins, and it is sometimes misattributed as an medieval German prayer. In fact, it was composed in 1943 for a church service in Massachusetts by Reinhold Niebuhr, a German-American born in Missouri.
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