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- PetopolyIt's still early days in the process, but the retail pet supplies industry is becoming an oligopoly. It used to be that pet stores were exclusively a mom-and-pop local enterprise. But two massive chains, based on the models of other megaretailers like Toys 'R' Us and Circuit City, are grabbing market share through massive superstores dedicated only to pet supplies. It's a growth industry, as 62% of all American households now have a pet , and those pets are more pampered than ever, according to Forbes article ("Dog Days", 6/21/2004).One of the great sillinesses of the Internet bubble was the proliferation of highly-capitalized Internet pet supply services (like Pets. |
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- staring through the eyes of the dead is available at www.cannibalcorpse.net |
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- It's only fair that there should be some sort of virus that makes cancer cells sick.Title and link stolen from Gene Expression |
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- Know Portuguese? Rodolfo S Filho and friends are translating Free Culture. Join in here.… |
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- Know Portuguese? Rodolfo S Filho and friends are translating Free Culture. Join in here.… |
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- The BeO5Max project has just released their first ... |
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- ERIE, Pa. - Kenny Baugh pitched seven strong innings to win his third straight start as the Erie SeaWolves beat the Harrisburg Senators 5-1 Sunday in the Eastern League. |
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- Long before the world heard of the mass graves Saddam Hussein filled in Iraq, the Khmer Rouge slaughtered millions of Cambodians in the mid-1970s after the United States stopped bombing their sanctuaries in Indochina. Today, Cambodia's co-defense minister urged Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld not to allow the United States to be discouraged or dissuaded from completing its work in Iraq. Prince Sisowath Sirirath made his comments to Rumsfeld during a question-and- answer session following Rumsfeld's keynote address here before delegates to the 'Shangri-la Dialog,' an annual Pacific security conference sponsored by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He expressed the hope that the Abu Ghraib prison scandal will not affect what the United States is doing for Iraq, as the My Lai massacre helped to erode public support for the Vietnam War in the 1970s. |
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- Not only was David Winters declared missing in action in Vietnam, but his name was missing from Merced County veterans memorials. A typo had robbed the Delhi man of his hometown. Now, after more than three decades, the error is being remedied.'I'm glad he's getting recognized,' said one of his brothers, Larry Winters of Oroville. 'We grew up in Delhi and Hilmar. |
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TechnoHonks (Jun 06 2004 21:58 GMT) - Ok ik weet het dit raast al een paar dagen over het net heen maar toch wil ik het jullie niet onthouden, De nieuwe feauteau fuck rage is van 2 techno dansers. Er staan nu al een kleine 67 feauteau fucks op de site en er komen steeds nieuwe bij. |
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OutKast (Jun 06 2004 21:57 GMT) - The Way You Move |
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- Bill Joy On His Own Future, And The World's [Slashdot] |
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- A year on trail, Kerry projects confidence. From the darkest days of his presidential campaign in Iowa in November, to his string of primary victories this winter, the anthem that kicked off John F. Kerry's rallies, whether there were 100 voters in a union hall or 1,000 filling a gymnasium, was Bruce Springsteen's war cry of resolve, "No Surrender." [Boston Globe -- Front Page] |
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- If you go to www.thedailykos.com or www.democraticunderground.com you will view the unbridled pessimism that has wholly consumed left wing traitors. |
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- Reagan, all-American, dies at 93. Ronald Reagan, a Hollywood actor whose greatest dramas were performed in the White House, and a New Deal Democrat who reinvigorated American conservatism, died yesterday. The 40th president of the United States was 93. [Boston Globe -- Front Page] |
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Ellipsis (Jun 06 2004 21:56 GMT) - Enterprising girl in Singapore is offering WordPress installations for $5, and pledges to donate half. |
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- At first I thought John F. Kerry was showing a rare bit of class: Kerry Suspends Campaign Events in Honor of Reagan. TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) - Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry canceled all public campaign events for the week on Sunday in deference to former President Ronald Reagan, ... |
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- The Empty Cradle. Our everyday personal experiences with traffic, sprawl and other irritants of modern life tell us there are too many people in the world and the problem is getting worse. However in truth world population growth peaked 40 years ago in 1963 and has been trending downward since. Demographers predict that absolute human population will peak at 9 billion by 2070 and then contract. Long before then, many nations will shrink in absolute size and the average age of the world's citizens will shoot up dramatically, including the fastest aging part of the world: |
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- Size does matter. The size of your species' telomeres. Reinhard Stindl proposed a new theory for extinction -- the internal clock model. "It could explain the disappearance of a seemingly successful species, like Neanderthal man, with no need for external factors such as climate change. |
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- Patrick Henry's revolutionary slogan ought to be updated: "Give me my car or give me death." |
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- Which brings me, roundabout as it has been, to the point of this essay: California Governor Schwarzenegger's proposal to axe $20 million from AC Transit's budget [see yesterday's entry] is patently unfair. To reiterate an important point made by AC Transit authorities: |
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- Study finds obstacles to retirement. The leading edge of Massachusetts' 1.87 million baby boomers will reach retirement age in less than five years, but many who hoped to retire in their early 60s will be forced to work longer, because they won't have enough Social Security and other income, a study to be released tomorrow says. [Boston Globe -- Front Page] |
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- Thomas Friedman writes about the rising aspirations of the Indian people: If you want to understand why the antiglobalization movement — which was always a mishmash of groups and ideologies — has lost its edge, you should study the recent Indian elections. And if the antiglobalizers want to understand how they could again become relevant, they should study those elections as well. To everyone's surprise, India's elections ended with the rightist Hindu nationalist B.J. |
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- It's been a little while since I've updated with some political fun, so enjoy these video gathered from around the... |
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- Eric Sink digs into 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing. Eric Sink is tearing into one of my favorite books: Reis and Trout's 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing. He's doing a post every day about each chapter and applying each principle to the software industry. Really interesting stuff. |
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Lunch (Jun 06 2004 21:55 GMT) - 2:30, I suppose. I guess we shouldn't bother Tom with it :)... |
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- dunric writes "CNET.com reports that Apple Computer may be previewing a new Power Mac, complete with dual G5 processors and a more advanced memory ... |
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- Letzer Beitrag in diesem Thema: bariton6 am 06.06.2004 um 23:39 Uhr |
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- Bizarre Photoshop images created by Trinder of Bile and Meanwhile... fame. |
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- In the typical American home, the television set occupies the center of the living room, as if it were the household deity. People immersed in TV’s caricature of reality indulge in a delusional sense of intimacy with people they do not know — and who usually don’t exist — at the expense of relationships with the most consequential people in their lives: their parents, children and neighbors. Passive consumers of television also submit to the powers of people skilled in the use of fantasy as a means of re-calibrating public attitudes and values, not just about family life and sexual morality, but also about any other moral question of consequence. |
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- Come on Pentagon! We can do better than this! I thought getting the hospitals up and functioning was a priority in the rebuilding of the Iraqi infrastructure! |
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- Once more, Americans will be forced to vote for a man instead of a policy. It doesn't say much for self-government that the American people are almost never given a chance to vote on major policy issues. The trouble is that Sen. John Kerry, as his campaign has developed, is saying essentially this: I support the same goals as President Bush, but I can pull them off better than he can. |
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- 18 Faux Diebold Voter posters, designed with a retro Saturday Evening Post flavor to them. Most are very clever, quite a few are chilling. |
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