Instant Messages, Lingering Paper Trail - washingtonpost.com: "Instant Messages, Lingering Paper Trail
HP, Foley Cases Illustrate Risk
By Mike Musgrove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 6, 2006; Page A06
People who think their instant messages disappear after being sent should think again."
Friday, October 06, 2006
eMarketer.com - What Makes You Buy?
eMarketer.com - What Makes You Buy?: "What Makes You Buy?
OCTOBER 6, 2006
Check Out Your Prefrontal Cortex.
By Ben Macklin - Senior Analyst
Advances in the cognitive sciences and more sophisticated brain imaging are giving us an increasingly rich and detailed view of the brain's functions. With these advances it is perhaps not surprising that marketers have jumped on the 'brain bandwagon' to seek a neuroscientific explanation for why some brand or marketing campaigns work better than others.
The new field of neuromarketing apparently came of age two years ago after a study by Baylor College of Medicine was published in the respected academic journal Neuron. The study attempted to put to rest that age-old question: Which do you prefer, Coke or Pepsi?
The subjects in the experiment were given an anonymous taste test of each drink and their brain activity was scanned using a functional MRI (fMRI). The researchers were able to view, in real time, which parts of the brain 'lit up.' The subjects were then given the same drinks but with an image of a respective Coke can or Pepsi can visible to them. Their brains were scanned again.
The results were — you guessed it — 'Coke is it.' This is how the researchers expressed it: 'For the anonymous task, we report a consistent neural response in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex that correlated with"
OCTOBER 6, 2006
Check Out Your Prefrontal Cortex.
By Ben Macklin - Senior Analyst
Advances in the cognitive sciences and more sophisticated brain imaging are giving us an increasingly rich and detailed view of the brain's functions. With these advances it is perhaps not surprising that marketers have jumped on the 'brain bandwagon' to seek a neuroscientific explanation for why some brand or marketing campaigns work better than others.
The new field of neuromarketing apparently came of age two years ago after a study by Baylor College of Medicine was published in the respected academic journal Neuron. The study attempted to put to rest that age-old question: Which do you prefer, Coke or Pepsi?
The subjects in the experiment were given an anonymous taste test of each drink and their brain activity was scanned using a functional MRI (fMRI). The researchers were able to view, in real time, which parts of the brain 'lit up.' The subjects were then given the same drinks but with an image of a respective Coke can or Pepsi can visible to them. Their brains were scanned again.
The results were — you guessed it — 'Coke is it.' This is how the researchers expressed it: 'For the anonymous task, we report a consistent neural response in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex that correlated with"
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Don't cash that check! It's a scam - ConsumerMan - MSNBC.com
Don't cash that check! It's a scam - ConsumerMan - MSNBC.com: "Don't cash that check! It's a scam
Banks team up with questionable marketers to take your money"
Banks team up with questionable marketers to take your money"
The Great Shampoo Scandal | 100777.com
The Great Shampoo Scandal 100777.com: "REVERSING SHAMPOO
THE GREAT SHAMPOO SCANDAL
by Makoli
September 6, 1998"
THE GREAT SHAMPOO SCANDAL
by Makoli
September 6, 1998"
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Ananova - Police hunt farting dissident
Ananova - Police hunt farting dissident: "Police hunt farting dissident
Police in Poland have launched a nationwide hunt for a man who farted loudly when asked what he thought of the president.
Hubert Hoffman, 45, was charged with 'contempt for the office of the head of state' for his actions after he was stopped by police in a routine check at a Warsaw railway station.
He complained that under President Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw, the country was returning to a Communist style dictatorship.
When told to show more respect for the country's rulers, he farted loudly and was promptly arrested.
Hoffmann was arrested and released on bail but failed to turn up at a Warsaw court early this week to be tried, and the judge in the case rejected an appeal by defence lawyers to throw the charges out.
A court spokesman said: 'Such a case of disrespect is taken very seriously.'
Instead the court ordered the police to start a nationwide hunt for the man, and interpol have been alerted."
Police in Poland have launched a nationwide hunt for a man who farted loudly when asked what he thought of the president.
Hubert Hoffman, 45, was charged with 'contempt for the office of the head of state' for his actions after he was stopped by police in a routine check at a Warsaw railway station.
He complained that under President Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw, the country was returning to a Communist style dictatorship.
When told to show more respect for the country's rulers, he farted loudly and was promptly arrested.
Hoffmann was arrested and released on bail but failed to turn up at a Warsaw court early this week to be tried, and the judge in the case rejected an appeal by defence lawyers to throw the charges out.
A court spokesman said: 'Such a case of disrespect is taken very seriously.'
Instead the court ordered the police to start a nationwide hunt for the man, and interpol have been alerted."
The Truth About Food Expiration Dates
The Truth About Food Expiration Dates: "OCTOBER 1, 2006
Top News
By Pallavi Gogoi
The Truth About Food Expiration Dates
Since the spinach scare, food safety is foremost on the minds of grocery shoppers nationwide. Dates on labels? Here's what you need to know
The latest spinach food scare, which has claimed at least one life and sickened 183 other people, took many by surprise. After all, previous E. coli bacteria outbreaks were mostly associated with raw meat.
Nervous folks are peering more closely at dates stamped on the produce they buy from supermarkets. But how helpful are these dates really? Many of them are actually quite confusing. 'Is a food fresh until Feb. 1, 2008, if that's the date stamped on it, and then do you throw it out on Feb. 2?' asks Jeanne Goldberg, professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University. 'It's a very inexact science since those dates include a wide margin of safety.'
Top News
By Pallavi Gogoi
The Truth About Food Expiration Dates
Since the spinach scare, food safety is foremost on the minds of grocery shoppers nationwide. Dates on labels? Here's what you need to know
The latest spinach food scare, which has claimed at least one life and sickened 183 other people, took many by surprise. After all, previous E. coli bacteria outbreaks were mostly associated with raw meat.
Nervous folks are peering more closely at dates stamped on the produce they buy from supermarkets. But how helpful are these dates really? Many of them are actually quite confusing. 'Is a food fresh until Feb. 1, 2008, if that's the date stamped on it, and then do you throw it out on Feb. 2?' asks Jeanne Goldberg, professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University. 'It's a very inexact science since those dates include a wide margin of safety.'
The Identity Project
The Identity Project: "'Papers, please!'
This mantra of totalitarian societies has become familiar to Americans – not from movies, but from their own government. From police encounters to airport security, from political protests to public buses, your right to move around freely without 'accounting for yourself' is increasingly challenged.
The Identity Project (IDP) exists to uphold the freedom to exist, wander, and live anonymously within our own country if we so choose. We believe all Americans have the fundamental right to exist without seeking or getting permission of the government, to live without constantly proving who we are or why we are here, to freely move around our country. IDP explores and defends these rights.
IDP questions the motives behind, and effectiveness of, identity based domestic security programs and asks whether the degradation of our civil liberties is justified."
This mantra of totalitarian societies has become familiar to Americans – not from movies, but from their own government. From police encounters to airport security, from political protests to public buses, your right to move around freely without 'accounting for yourself' is increasingly challenged.
The Identity Project (IDP) exists to uphold the freedom to exist, wander, and live anonymously within our own country if we so choose. We believe all Americans have the fundamental right to exist without seeking or getting permission of the government, to live without constantly proving who we are or why we are here, to freely move around our country. IDP explores and defends these rights.
IDP questions the motives behind, and effectiveness of, identity based domestic security programs and asks whether the degradation of our civil liberties is justified."
Museum Field Trip Deemed Too Revealing - New York Times
Museum Field Trip Deemed Too Revealing - New York Times: "Museum Field Trip Deemed Too Revealing"
Monday, October 02, 2006
Is he dead yet?
Accused of killing deputy, suspect shot 68 times
Sheriff: 'That's all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more'
MIAMI - A fugitive gunman accused of killing a Florida sheriff’s deputy was shot 68 times by SWAT team officers who found him hiding in the woods, according to autopsy results.
Police fired 110 shots at Angilo Freeland, 27, the target of a massive manhunt in central Florida following the shooting death of Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Matt Williams Thursday.
“That’s all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Congressional analysis puts cost of Iraq war at $2 billion a week - The Boston Globe
Congressional analysis puts cost of Iraq war at $2 billion a week - The Boston Globe: "Cost of Iraq war nearly $2b a week
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | September 28, 2006
WASHINGTON -- A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week -- nearly twice as much as in the first year of the conflict three years ago and 20 percent more than last year -- as the Pentagon spends more on establishing regional bases to support the extended deployment and scrambles to fix or replace equipment damaged in combat."
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | September 28, 2006
WASHINGTON -- A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week -- nearly twice as much as in the first year of the conflict three years ago and 20 percent more than last year -- as the Pentagon spends more on establishing regional bases to support the extended deployment and scrambles to fix or replace equipment damaged in combat."
Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry
Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry: "Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry"
The Conservative Voice News and Columns
The Conservative Voice News and Columns - check out this site. Balance your views.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Why Aren't Newspapers Breaking Out of the Box?
Why Aren't Newspapers Breaking Out of the Box?: "Why Aren't Newspapers Breaking Out of the Box?
Why does the newspaper industry, for the most part, have so much trouble adapting to the changing of the media environment brought on by the Internet and digital communications technologies? Some newspaper new-media managers and workers talk frankly about what they see as their companies' flaws.
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Why does the newspaper industry, for the most part, have so much trouble adapting to the changing of the media environment brought on by the Internet and digital communications technologies? Some newspaper new-media managers and workers talk frankly about what they see as their companies' flaws.
"
Monday, September 25, 2006
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Ann Coulter, 43 or 45, Conservative Commentator, Dies
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Ann Coulter, 43 or 45, Conservative Commentator, Dies: "Ann Coulter, 43 or 45, Conservative Commentator, Dies
Posted by Evan Derkacz at 6:28 AM on September 25, 2006.
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Posted by Evan Derkacz at 6:28 AM on September 25, 2006.
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
The Blog | Gary Hart: The October Surprise | The Huffington Post
The Blog | Gary Hart: The October Surprise | The Huffington Post: "It should come as no surprise if the Bush Administration undertakes a preemptive war against Iran sometime before the November election.
Were these more normal times, this would be a stunning possibility, quickly dismissed by thoughtful people as dangerous, unprovoked, and out of keeping with our national character. But we do not live in normal times."
Were these more normal times, this would be a stunning possibility, quickly dismissed by thoughtful people as dangerous, unprovoked, and out of keeping with our national character. But we do not live in normal times."
Saturday, September 23, 2006
The Seattle Times: Health: Latest energy drink gets some bad buzz
The Seattle Times: Health: Latest energy drink gets some bad buzz: "Industry experts seem less alarmed than drug experts and say marketers for energy drinks merely are trying to take on a 'street attitude' and stand out from the crowd.
'They are going after the savvy, sophisticated 20-something male. They used to show extreme sports, like skateboarding. Now they are taking on a street attitude,' said Sarah Theodore, editor of Beverage Industry magazine."
'They are going after the savvy, sophisticated 20-something male. They used to show extreme sports, like skateboarding. Now they are taking on a street attitude,' said Sarah Theodore, editor of Beverage Industry magazine."
The March of Nanotechnology - New York Times
The March of Nanotechnology - New York Times: "ENJOY WITH A CANDY CIGARETTE If your friends aren’t boring and longwinded enough, just serve them a new energy drink called Cocaine.
Yes, it’s real. A company named Redux Beverages last week introduced the product, which it called “the legal alternative” to the expensive, illicit and life-destroying drug.
Redux promises that “doing Cocaine” yields a better rush than drinks like Red Bull, but without the comedown. The effects last five hours, the company says. The drink is 350 times as strong as Red Bull, thanks to having more simple sugars and vitamin B-12.
The man responsible for Cocaine is Jamie Kirby, chief of Redux Beverages, based in Las Vegas. He told the Australian news site News.com.au that the drink’s kick also relies on “some psychological effect.”
One woman who tried Cocaine, the energy drink, told the site, “I don’t like the tingly feeling in my chest. I feel my heart racing and I’m not being paranoid ... I feel looped.”
Except for the lack of paranoia, it sounds as if Redux at least got the formula about right." Holy batcave!
Yes, it’s real. A company named Redux Beverages last week introduced the product, which it called “the legal alternative” to the expensive, illicit and life-destroying drug.
Redux promises that “doing Cocaine” yields a better rush than drinks like Red Bull, but without the comedown. The effects last five hours, the company says. The drink is 350 times as strong as Red Bull, thanks to having more simple sugars and vitamin B-12.
The man responsible for Cocaine is Jamie Kirby, chief of Redux Beverages, based in Las Vegas. He told the Australian news site News.com.au that the drink’s kick also relies on “some psychological effect.”
One woman who tried Cocaine, the energy drink, told the site, “I don’t like the tingly feeling in my chest. I feel my heart racing and I’m not being paranoid ... I feel looped.”
Except for the lack of paranoia, it sounds as if Redux at least got the formula about right." Holy batcave!
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