Lord of the jungle

Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Rumble in the Jungle...

Phishing IQ Test

Will you take the bait? Think you can't get caught in the "phishing" net of online fraud?

Gmail broke, now fixed

"Google was recently alerted to a potential security vulnerability affecting the Gmail service. We have since fixed this vulnerability, and all current and future Gmail users are protected..."

Dremel for the serious punkineer

For those looking to carve more advanced pumpkins than the traditional jack o'lantern this Halloween, the Dremel Pumpkin Carving Kit allows fast, easy carving of spectacularly sculpted pumpkins.

Google buys Keyhole

Search giant Google said Wednesday that it has acquired Keyhole, a company specializing in Web-based software that allows people to view satellite images from around the globe. "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Keyhole's technology and products are an excellent addition to our efforts to do that. We do not have any announced plans regarding how this technology will integrate with our current products and services."

eBay worm (virus) spreads - "Myfip"

Difficulty to detect. Steals file, breaks security. Write-up on Symantec's site. Arrives as an E-mail from eBay.

Free PayPal day Oct. 28th

Recently, the PayPal site had technology issues that may have hindered your ability to conduct business using PayPal.

To show our appreciation for your continued business, we're going to credit you for PayPal transaction fees incurred on October 28, 2004, between 12:00:00 AM PDT and 11:59:59 PM PDT.

Google Cheat Sheet

Don't forget, Google's a calculator.

SEO your blog

Explainations on how to add keywords to pages, and how to make the post title link to the post page.

iPod Photo

Why should your ears have all the fun?

Fashion Fixes for LDS (Mormon) Teens

Can't find jeans that cover your stomach? Shirt too short, sheer or low cut? Pants too low? Jeans too low?

Caseless PC - Skyputer

Look ma! No case! This is what happens with a bored tech support guy and old parts.
I'm sure the FCC loves it.

GlucoBoy

My son Luke was diagnosed at age three with Type 1. At about age six Luke began losing his glucose meter way too often. But he knew exactly where his GAMEBOY was, even if it was under the sofa. So I thought - Why not combine the two devices into one.

"jayandmarie" breaks (200,000)

eBay sellers Jay and Marie Senese have reached a new milestone by being the first sellers to acquire 200,000 feedback points from eBay customers. The couple trades under the name JayAndMarie (formerly onecentcds@aol.com) and are celebrities in the online-auction world, starting every auction at one penny, no reserve. They were also the first to reach 100,000 feedback in 2002, an achievement only reached by 14 other sellers to this day.

NYT article on eBay Merchants

In the online auction world, they are called power sellers, and they have succeeded by researching consumer trends, finding reliable sources for goods and not sparing the bubble wrap.

eBay feedback ranking lists

Nortica
x-titles.com
Harry Glinos - both top and bottom

Survey of online shopping habits

BURST! Media, an Internet ad services company, in a survey on web shopping habits, has found that as household income increases so does the likelihood of making holiday purchases online.

Survey results on Return Policies

Interestingly, nearly 1 out of 4 respondents to the AuctionBytes survey did not have a return policy, and over 18% of those who did have a return policy did not publish it.

Ornithopter Zone

Fly with flapping wings...

Lace 'em up

Feel like a kid again...

Interactive Mona Lisa

A different look at the world...

Getting Mark's attention

If you are looking for money for any of the millions of wonderful or painful reasons someone might ask for money, DO NOT send it to me in a fed-ex or overnight delivery package. My first thought is always… if they need money so badly , why are the spending so much to send me this package.

ChannelAdvisor signs Rock Bottom Golf

ChannelAdvisor Corporation, the leading provider of channel management solutions, announced today that Rock Bottom Golf, the top discount golf retailer and one of eBay's top sellers, has chosen ChannelAdvisor's software and solutions as its infrastructure to help scale its business on eBay.

Introducing: eBay Sales Reports

We are pleased to introduce eBay Sales Reports, a new subscription-based product that will provide sellers with key sales information about their eBay businesses.
Free to Store subscribers.

FREE Microsoft Partner Pack for Windows XP

Play, explore, share, protect, do more... Later today.

Grandaddy Sports Mascots video

I wanna try to be nice to everyone...

Real version here.

Overstock Auctions attracting attention

Bidding for Barry Bonds' 700th home run ball has been feverish with the top bid exceeding $700,000 Wednesday night with a week still remaining in the online auction. 200+ bids.

eBay Q3 results

$805.9 million net revenues
$648.8 million gross profit (81%)
$8.3 billion gross merchandise volume
51.7 million active user accounts
348.0 million listings
56.7 million total PayPal accounts

Stuck Up Cat

Cat experiment. I don't have a cat to try this on.

2 invitations to a wedding I don't want to go to

Now it's 5 tickets...

NetFlix Tracker on Listology

This is exactly the application I was thinking would be interesting to create. It automatically reads in my NetFlix data, then asks me to mark when I receive a DVD, and when I place it in the mail. The author is going to aggregate the data and create some "mean" reports.

Journalist's Life Saved By Google

National Nine News reports that an Australian journalist in Iraq who was captured had militants check his articles out on Google to save his life. (via InsideGoogle)

1955 Chrysler Highway Hi-Fi Press Release

Using a new principle of design worked out by CBS Laboratories, the player and position of the stylus on a record are not affected by the angle of a car, its highway speed, or even severe cornering. Tests demonstrate it is extremely difficult to jar the arm off the record or even make the stylus jump a groove.

Firefox users to place full page NYT ad

Let’s mark the launch of Firefox 1.0 with a community marketing campaign that will take the buzz around Firefox to the next level: the first-ever, full-page advertisement in a major daily newspaper created and paid for by the open source community.

FREE Reach Access Daily Flosser

Introducing the REACH® ACCESS™ Daily Flosser, the latest breakthrough in daily dental care. Click pic. for form. Reviewed at Cool Tools via Boing Boing.

Cuban's in the movies

Vertical integration and the ability to control the supply chain. Thats the vision for the entertainment properties that Todd Wagner and I have put together.

TV B-Gone

Leaving, he passed 48-year-old Mitch Altman, who was twiddling a matte-black plastic fob on his key chain. Altman's blue and purple hair reflected the pizza shop's neon, and he was smiling excitedly.

USAToday on the new eBay ads

EBay hangs up the song-and-dance act from its "Do It eBay" ad campaign with new work starting Monday that celebrates the worldwide community of 115 million eBay shoppers.

New eBay Ad Campaign - The Power Of All Of US

Today we are launching a new advertising campaign. As you, the eBay Community, are at the heart of this new campaign, we’ve made the advertisements that will be running on television available for viewing online as well. The campaign, which is centered on The Power of All of Us, helps to express our core belief that people are good.

Watch http://www.ebay.com/thepowerofallofus

My Heart vs. The Real World

"My Heart vs. the Real World" is a photo-documentary project on children with heart disease by Max S. Gerber.

Sushi USB

Light up chunks of plastic sushi with USB memory.

ROFL-3000 Keyboard

The way keyboards *should* be.

Wired Moose

It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a bull moose hanging by its antlers from an electrical power line in the middle of the Alaska wilderness.

The Enduring Magic Of Software

My optimism for the future of computing has never been greater. By Bill Gates.

747-200 nails 50' runway

The plane was being delivered to a museum at the Rand Airport in South Africa (elevation 5568 feet with 4898 long x 50 feet wide runway). The 747-200 outer-to-outer main gear tire width is 41.33 ft. Empty aircraft Vref (landing speed) was 115 kts. (via AvWeb)

PayPal Welcome Screen

This is the face of "trust"?

Click Fraud

If there is any single axiom of the digital age, it must be this: for every advance, there is a scourge.

Understanding Marketing

A party pick-up analogy. via Small Business Trends

Editor & Publisher endorsement tally

Kerry has a 3 to 1 lead in circulation numbers.

Houston, It's Worth It

If Houston were a dog, she'd be a mutt with 3 legs, one bad eye, fleas the size of Corn Nuts, and buck teeth. Despite all that, she'd be the best dog you'd ever know.

Italian Woman's Veil Controversy

Sabrina Varroni, an Italian mother of four and Muslim convert, has been fined $100 for wearing a veil that covers her face in Drezzo, Italy, a small town on the Swiss border. The case has created a dispute involving politicians, civil rights groups and a fashion designer.

Sony bullies RetroPod off the net

Cory Doctorow: Sony sent a bullying shut-down notice to Retropod, a website selling hand-made iPod cases made out of recycled Sport Walkman housings. From defending consumer rights in the Supreme Court in the 1984 Betamax case to this in 20 years: what a pack of sellout assholes. Hey, fuck you too, Sony.

Moreover, they will be misled into thinking that Sony is backward in its design of products and is going away from miniaturization, as the size of the tape player housing is quite large by today's standards.

A Cunning Stunt

"Check this out..."

Blockbuster to $17.49 undercutting NetFlix

"We were growing our business at a very nice clip, but would not have elected to lower our prices. Having said that, we are determined that we are not going to be beaten from a price/value perspective," Antioco said.

Special Offers for eBay members from Fidelity

You buy & sell on eBay. Now you can invest with Fidelity.

“Ten Years, Ten Trends”

Ten years after electronic portals to the Worldwide Web were first opened to millions of computer users, ten significant trends have emerged that vividly illustrate how the Internet affects America, according to findings from the comprehensive year-to-year study of the impact of online technology by the USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future.

No pause in DVD rental wars

Seven years ago, Reed Hastings returned a copy of Apollo 13 to his local Blockbuster six weeks late and got slapped with a $40 fee. A former computer scientist, Hastings responded by launching Netflix, a DVD rental-by-mail service where "overdue" doesn't exist.

Bling Bling medallion

“Imagine the money you can save on brand clothes by wearing jut this item.”

NetFlix Q3 - Dropping price to $17.99

For $17.99 a month (effective November 1, 2004), Netflix subscribers rent as many DVDs as they want, and keep them as long as they want, with three movies out at a time. There are no due dates, no late fees and no shipping fees.

Meg speaks on PayPal

Providing outstanding service is our top priority at PayPal. Although we didn’t meet your expectations -- or our own -- in the past few days, we look forward to the opportunity to regain your faith in our service.

FCC Clears Broadband Over Powerlines (BPL)

The Federal Communications Commission adopted rules on Thursday that would enable the utility companies to offer an alternative to the broadband communications services now provided by cable and phone companies.

Google Desktop Search

Use Google Desktop Search to find: Web pages you've previously seen in Internet Explorer Email you've sent or received via Outlook IM chats you've had using AOL Instant Messenger Files in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint A direct hit at Microsoft.

Google Instant Messaging

The Picasa team let me in on a little known secret: Google actually has an instant messenger. It's in Hello, a part of Picasa, and it's pretty powerful, as well as, in their words, "more secure than AOL's".

New eBay feature: Seller's Digest

Sign up to receive a summary of the most recent new listings from your favorite sellers so that you know firsthand the latest and greatest items for sale.

You're Hired

You knew it was coming. When Chicago entrepreneur Bill Rancic won a job with Donald Trump on the first season of NBC's The Apprentice, a tell-all book was more or less inevitable, and here it is.

America, at 10 miles per hour

Josh Caldwell is riding a Segway HT from Seattle to Boston. After we're all done, the stories we discover and the experiences we have will culminate in a feature-length documentary.

ABC cuts back Cuban's 'The Benefactor'

On the finale, Mr. Cuban will give one of two remaining contestants $1 million after they have 60 seconds to "explain why he should pick them," ABC said in a statement scheduled to be released nationally today.

Last Comic, now Benefactor... after Apprentice, I've got nothing left to watch.

DEA Microgram Bulletins

Drug smuggler's digest. Lollipops, fire extinguishers, nail polish, a hollowed out Princes Di biography, and these capacitors in Philly.

$100 Philly Cheese Steak

Barclay Prime owner Stephen Starr admits the haute cheese steak is a marketing ploy for his steakhouse, which opened last week on south 18th Street. And he thinks it'll sell.

Nick Nolte blog

This morning they duct taped the storm door shut in a way that not only made me walk right into it, but to also rip the thing off it's aluminum hinges.

Dynamite Clock

$125 a pop, but there's a mini for $70. via Gizmodo

Jux2 - A "Comparison" Search Engine

The leading search engines are much more different than people think, and typically have fewer than 3.5 of their top 10 results in common. By using only one search engine, you are likely missing very relevant results.

Here's SubEWL. And here's SubEWL on Yahoo! and Jeeves, but NOT Google.

To Philly, from Alaska, w/love

My first year teaching in the Alaska Bush after four years teaching in Philadelphia.

Another difference between here and Philly: you can take your class out of the building without worrying about permission slips, and more importantly, without worrying about anyone getting lost (or going AWOL).

Wireless Purple Pill

Core body temperatures are obtained from ingestible and, of course, disposable, JonahTM core temperature sensors, which are contained in a capsule about the size of a multi-vitamin. Jonah only weighs 1.6 grams.) Once activated and swallowed, transmission begins immediately.

What happened at PayPal?

These PayPal issues are the result of unforeseen problems that resulted when a new code base to upgrade the site architecture was introduced to the PayPal platform on Friday morning. The code worked well when tested and during the first hours of launch. Unfortunately, problems handling peak levels of traffic developed later in the day that created intermittent availability and errors for members.

B(E) -- read as "B to the E power"

B(E) infuses beer with caffeine, guarana and ginseng, along with berry aromas for a sweeter, yet more tart taste at 6.6 percent alcohol by volume, said company brewmaster Nathaniel Davis.

Anheuser-Busch

PayPal problem update

Slowly they admit to this being a more significant problem.

Interview your grandmother for $10

WNYC has an interesting project underway -- this booth in New York's Grand Central Station is a "StoryBooth."

Hot-Air Balloon Collides With Radio Tower

Bill Chapel was piloting the balloon — shaped like the face of Smokey Bear — when it blew into the radio tower near a park where the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta was being held.

DynAdvance Gmail Notifier

Does multiple Gmail accounts, as well as HotMail, Yahoo!Mail as well as POP3.

I've already got Trillian doing HotMail & Yahoo!, all my POP3 is going to Gmail, and I believe Google is adding multiple access to their notifier; so I believe I'll just wait.

NOW! BUY SOME WOOD ON THE INTERNETS! CHEAP!

We've just been informed that this is such good quality wood that it will actually PROTECT you from the terrorists and various other enemies of the United States! This is truly an excellent buy!

Top 10 Oscar Failures

The Shawshank Redemption has been voted the best film never to have won an Oscar in a poll conducted for the Radio Times Guide To Films.

"Regular Guy" Sean Hannity

First-class ticket and private jet not good enough...

Police raid Susan Herndon's home

Alexandra reports:
Just received this email from Detective Trent Johnson of the Park City Kansas Police Department:
On October 7, 2004 the Park City Police Department issued and performed a search warrant on the residence of Susan Herndon of 2026 E. Ventnor. Approximately 275 items were seized.

My previous entry.

G.W. & Crew Catalog

Flip-flops only. Very creative.

the eric update - day 96: welcome home, odin!

he's home! he's home! he's home! he's home! he's home! he's home! he's home! he's home! If you don't remember...

The lost art of Diagramming

Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog Diagramming sentences is one of those lost skills, like darning socks or playing the sackbut, that no one seems to miss.

Carved human skull on eBay

This antique real human skull from private collections is estimated at least 500 years old. It is HEAVILY carved with mysterious buddhism objects, symbols and Tibetan letters.

Good to be in D.C.

Jib Jab does it again. Top right, click to watch.

Cuban on Dallas Benefactor reviews

Thats a self inflicted wound that could have been avoided.

eBay PowerSeller won't ship to Canada

Due to the fact that Canada harbors draft dodgers we DO NOT ship to Canada. Canadian buyer IS NOT WELCOME until they send the draft dodgers back to the USA to be prosecuted!

Interesting feedback. He states there that Canadian shipping policy was a customs issue.

HELLO, my name is Scott

You know, that guy with the nametag.

Cute Japanese Flash Game

A dog on a baloon. You've got the fan.

This was before Colson got religion

E. Howard Hunt talks about Guatemala, the Bay of Pigs, and what really happened to Che.

John Lennon would have been 64 on Saturday

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?

Auto Exposure Control

Great example of the problem of shooting extremely light or dark scenes, and how the camera tries to compensate.

Sheep Shearers

...and the third year??? We sold the damn beasts.

This bike took my kidney

I am selling this due to taking a spill and loosing my right kidney in the process.

50mph Shopping Cart

IT’S the ultimate trolley dash. Wacky Andy Tyler sits in a 50mph shopping cart after fitting a JET ENGINE.

My Two Years with NetFlix

Last month was my second anniversary of being a Netflix subscriber.

It's Murder on eBay

Author Biff Mitchell is looking for someone to kill – and the victim has to bid at eBay for the honor of being done in.

T-34 Lima Lima Flight Team

"Top Cover for Chicago". The photo, was taken by Scott Sayre "from the back seat of the lead T-34 on the Lima Lima Flight Team just before the start of our act."

23,000 Swarovski Crystals

$8,000 dollar Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head. Good money for 40 hours work.

Largest Video Game Lot

Almost 3/4 of a ton of video games!

Gmail Skinning

Somebody's doing some neat work on Gmail's appearance.

Google Print

Google Print puts the content of books where you can find it most easily; right in Google search results.

The man who made $3,000,000,000 off Google

"Wealth makes a few things a lot easier, but it does not have that much of an effect on your life. It means you don't have to worry about spending 100 bucks in a bookstore or jumping on an aeroplane. But you can only eat so much in a day."

Scarfidoos

Interesting use of Ralph Lauren fabrics.

A Zoo of Fallacies

The fallacist, like the zoo-keeper, develops an affectionate relationship with his specimens. He keeps them correctly labelled in their separate enclosures, and looks them over from time to time pausing to stroke a petitió principii, or allowing an ignoratio elenchi to nuzzle against his hand. Most of all, he hopes the public will enjoy the exhibits as much as he does.

Great branding is a spiritual exercise

The primary job of an advertiser is not to communicate benefit, but to communicate conviction.
Benefit is secondary. Benefit is a product of conviction, not vice versa.

4x4 Ford Quigley Van behind the pet

When you're that big, you stand pretty much wherever you want to... (2nd & 3rd photos)...

Norwegian Sunglasses

You've probably wondered why there's never been a Google domain in Norway...

Overstock Auctions continue to make noise

11 Million visitors in August. Comment by Scott Wingo of ChannelAdvisor.

Nice Kitty

Please adopt this cute fun-loving furball... (1.9MB WMV file)

Policy Change: Ending Listings Early

Beginning next week, if a listing has 12 or fewer hours remaining and has, or had, a winning bid during the final 12 hours of the listing, the seller will no longer be able to end the listing, except to sell to the current high bidder on eBay.