Wishlist 2. Jewelry by Da'oud Celtic Wedding Rings and Diamond engagement rings, Welcome to Jewelry by Da’oud. We are a small company of devotees to giving you great service and a beautiful wearable product to be savored for many years to come. Da’oud is a perfectionist, and gives each and all orders his full attention. When wedding orders pile up, sometimes he must focus on the work at hand, and we appreciate your patience when emails and phone calls must occasionally take back seat to getting rings off to an impending wedding! We are now approaching the last four weekends of the Carolina Renaissance Festival. As this will be our last year at this show after ten years, please come in and visit us in person! We shall continue to make fine jewelry for you all, and will always be here via the web.
We are showing our Vintage Inspired handcrafted adornment and rings. The weather has been wonderful in this Southeastern kingdom. Visit this site for full directions and information: Carolina Renaissance Festival. Cat using Toilet. The Subprime Mortgage Primer. Next Page -> BusinessPundit.com in conjunction with Top Business Degrees. Dial "M" for Musicology: You want postmodern? I'll give you postmodern. So you wanna play rough , huh, Jonathan? By way of the fabulous UBUWEB , I give you David Soldier's " American Most Unwanted Song . " I actually own this CD. An explanation: in the 1990s two Russian artists named Komar and Melamid did a kind of conceptual-art thing where they hired a market-research firm to determine the American public's likes and dislikes in art. As the project's pleasingly retro-90s* website explains , In an age where opinion polls and market research invade almost every aspect of our "democratic/consumer" society (with the notable exception of art), Komar and Melamid's project poses relevant questions that an art-interested public, and society in general often fail to ask: What would art look like if it were to please the greatest number of people?
The project expanded to include preference polling in several countries; you can find the raw data here and paintings here . *Actually not retro, just old. Homeless: Can you build a life from $25? | csmonitor.com. Seifun Group Web Site. Here Comes Another Bubble - The Richter Scales. If Life Ran on a Solaris Cluster. High Availability: Solaris Cluster. 666 Cough Syrup. (First published in X Magazine, May1994) I was walking the aisles of the local IGA grocery store with my friend Diane when she stopped and silently pointed to an item on the top shelf. It was a yellow box marked with the mark. You know the one I mean—THE mark: the number 666. Closer inspection revealed (1) this was a box containing a bottle of cough syrup, and (2) it was the only box the store had.
(I've since been on the lookout every time I go to a grocery or drug store, but this is the only instance I've witnessed of a Satanic haunting of an Arizona cough-syrup aisle.) Naturally, I had to find out why in the name of Madison Avenue anyone would name their product after one of the most enduring prophecies of evil in all the Western world. Hi! Uh, well, not really, but... Well, I have a question about one of your cough syrups. Great! I wanted to know what the name of it was. Yeah, that's what this is, it says "Cold Preparation. " Yeah. But that's the name of it? I'll get the bottle.
Okay. Yep. The New York Times > Week in Review > Sex May Be Happiness, but Wealth Isn't Sexiness. PROVERBIALLY, money buys neither love nor happiness, only sex. ("Success in the boardroom guarantees success in the bedroom. ") But nobody ever tried to prove it. Recently, however, two economists, David G. Blanchflower of Dartmouth College and Andrew J. Oswald of the University of Warwick in England, submitted a working paper called "Money, Sex and Happiness: An Empirical Study," to the National Bureau of Economic Research, one of the leading organizations in its field. The authors say their study is first rigorous econometric analysis on the topic, and it that the received wisdom may require some revision. As the paper states: "Money does seem to seem to buy greater happiness. Mr. In their study, Mr. Furthermore, the economists compared the levels of happiness produced by a vigorous sex life with other activities whose economic values had been calculated in prior research, allowing them to impute, in dollars, how much happiness sex was worth.
Likewise, Mr. Mr. Inkling Markets. BoA Buys MBNA, Starts Charging Customers Extra For Not Paying Balances Off In Full - Consumerist. But First, The Whores. 12" Male Right Hand Manikin. Quarantine Walmart : Index. Call that a knife? | Consumer and ethical living | Life and Health. Swiss Army knives are obviously good things to own.
They're standard equipment for Nasa's astronauts, and feature in the Museum of Modern Art in New York as an example of outstanding functional design. When Chris Bonnington headed a Himalayan expedition in 1970, he used every one of the blades in his Swiss Army knife except the fish scaler; as he apologetically pointed out to the manufacturers, there are no fish on the south face of Annapurna. In 1989 Professor John Ross, a doctor in rural Uganda, wrote that he had used the saw blade attachment to perform six emergency amputations, his surgical saw having been stolen. I myself have brought many a seemingly desperate situation to a happy conclusion by the employment of the corkscrew on my own Swiss Army knife.
Just as you can't be too rich or too thin, I'd always thought, so you can't have too many tools on your Swiss Army knife - but that was before I took delivery of the new Giant Swiss Army knife. The Tart Cart - Home Shopping Network Moron. バラエティコンドーム2：ＡＲＵＮＥ. Sex. What's new in Weekly Standard, etc. - By Christopher Beam, Zuzanna Kobrzynski, and Blake Wilson. AOL Said, 'If You Leave Me I'll Do Something Crazy' The Art of Driving Your Competition Crazy. “The purpose of competition is not to beat someone down, but to bring out the best in every player.” Walter Wheeler One of the signs of boom--or at least a boomlet--is that companies start wanting to drive their competition crazy. This occurs when “survival” is no longer an issue and optimization or maximization can become a corporate goal. However, the desire to do things to the competition can lead a company astray--or drive it to even greater heights.
Companies go astray when defeating the competition becomes more important than taking care of customers. 1. 2. 3. 4. You succeed at doing things for the customer by using the knowledge that you've gained in the first three steps: understanding what you do, what your customer wants and needs, and what your competition doesn't do. 5. 6. 7. 8. During the Korean War, the U. If you like this topic, let me know, and I'll try to write a posting about how to avoid being driven crazy. Technorati Tags: competition, entrepreneurship. Wealth from worship. This Very, Very Old House. Fast and Foolish: Audible [Fool.com: Motley Fool Take] February 10, 2006. Audible (Nasdaq: ADBL ) is a dot-com business that survived the bursting of the Internet bubble.
Perhaps that's because, like another survivor, Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN ) , Audible sells real products: downloadable audiobooks, radio programs, newspapers, and magazines that can be played from your PC, burned to a CD, or played on virtually every MP3 player out there. The key to Audible's success in selling such wares is digital-rights-management technology, which not only protects the copyright of the content but also tracks users, registered devices, and purchased content. The vast majority of Audible's revenue -- about 97% -- comes from downloadable audio.
Content is sold on a per-item or subscription basis. It provides all of Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL ) popular iTunes spoken-word content via an agreement that lasts through 2007, and it has partnered with Amazon and XM Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: XMSR ) , thereby turning would-be competitors into collaborators. Madison Avenue's 30-Second Spot Remover. Pamela Anderson takes on Colonel Sanders - Jan. 13, 2006. TV star leads campaign to remove a bust of 'cruel' KFC founder from Kentucky state capitol.
NEW YORK (CNN) - Television star Pamela Anderson is leading a campaign to have the bust of Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Harland Sanders removed from the Kentucky state capitol. In a letter to Gov. Ernie Fletcher, the former Baywatch star says suppliers for the fast food chain, now called KFC, engage in cruel and unusual treatment of chickens, including tearing the heads off of live birds, spitting tobacco into their eyes and spray-painting their faces. Anderson wrote the letter with the help of People for the Ethical Treatment of animals. In a statement issued by PETA, Anderson said, "The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state capitol.
" A spokeswoman for KFC told CNN that the letter is "just another misguided publicity stunt by PETA in their attempt to create a vegan society. " -- from CNN Business News Assignment Editor Tom Ziegler. News: E-Paper's Killer App: Packaging. Mastercard Commercial Spoof. In Nomine: Ethereal Player's Guide. These Dreams . . . Once they were gods who ruled the lands of sleep. Once they were spirits who sent their images to slumbering mortals. Once they were elves, unicorns, dragons, and more. The angels tried to kill them. The demons tried to enslave them. But the ethereal spirits survive - and are born anew every night from human dreams! The War may be about Heaven and Hell, but humans aren't the only ones caught in the crossfire.
Now you can play those mysterious "neutrals," the ethereal spirits - pagan gods, creatures of myth, and even the dancing toothbrushes from the last time you ate anchovies on your pizza. Play ethereal spirits in their home territories of the Marches . . . or in the corporeal realm, as they try to regain the glory and worship that was theirs before Uriel's Crusade. Warning: This book is intended for mature readers. You will need the In Nomine basic rulebook to play. Written by R. Indie Press Revolution. One Red Paper Clip. RPG Blog: The 2005 RPG Holiday Gift Guide Has Arrived! That's right! RPG Blog's 2005 RPG Holiday Gift Guide, featuring the best in RPGs and RPG accessories, is available right here as a free pdf download.
Inside, you'll find plenty of ideas for your gamer shopping list (as well your own wish list) for the upcoming holiday season. The Guide is just a little something we've cooked up, partly out of nostalgia for our days as kids flipping through all the catalogs before the holidays, dreaming of fantastic presents (even if our parents persisted in buying us sensible presents like socks and not the clearly superior Castle Greyskull set we wanted), and partly as a way to recognize some truly outstanding products from the past year or so.
Inside, we hope you'll find a few products you weren't aware were out there, or perhaps some you've just been meaning to give a closer look. Well, here's your chance! This RPG Holiday Gift Guide is not a comprehensive work, nor could it ever be one. Wi-fi cities spark hotspot debate. A growing number of cities in the US are treating high-speed internet as a basic amenity for citizens, like running water or the electricity grid. But as the concept expands so does the battle with big business. Earlier this month, Philadelphia - one of America's oldest and most historic cities - thrust itself onto the technological frontline by announcing plans to build the biggest municipal wireless internet system in the country. The 135-square-mile network will be built and managed by Earthlink, and will offer low-income residents a service for about $10 (£5.70) a month.
A clutch of other cities are hoping to follow suit with free or low-cost services aimed at reconnecting poor communities, growing local businesses and giving new flexibility to the emergency services. In a couple of weeks, San Francisco will announce the results of its call for proposals on providing a wireless service to the city's 750,000 inhabitants. 'Wasting their money' Rural access Mobile future Your comments Wow. Thirteenth century tally sticks. These narrow shafts of wood are receipts. They are made of hazel wood and were originally stored in leather pouches or canvas bags. The notches in the wood indicate the amount that has been paid. According to the Latin writing on them, several of the tallies were issued to Nicholas de Turevill.
He was sheriff of the counties of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between 1293 and 1296, during the reign of Edward I. One tally was a payment relating to royal forest in the counties. Another cleared some of his outstanding debts to the king. Tally sticks were used by accountants and by officials of the Exchequer who managed the revenue of the Crown. "the distance between the tip of the forefinger and the thumb when fully extended ... After the notches were made on the stick, the shaft was split lengthways into two pieces of unequal length, both pieces having the same notches.
Humanheadgames: New NORMALTEXAS.com is online! The White Wolf LiveJournal Community - A Contest and a Party. Do you want a free copy of Mage? Here's what you need to do: Send an e-mail to magecontest@white-wolf.com. 1) Your e-mail must be titled "But I'm Not Going to Be at GenCon! " 2) Your e-mail must contain a compelling reason for your absence from GenCon as well as the reason you, out of everyone else, should receive a free copy of Mage. 3) Your e-mail must be 100 words or fewer. If you can't follow the rules, you can't win.
The due date for this contest is 9:00 AM EST (Atlanta and New York time) on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005. This isn't really an "official" contest run by Phil. If you are going to be at GenCon, bully for you. This year's White Wolf party is going to be held at the Ugly Monkey, which is a short walk from the convention center.
We'll have drink tickets. Japan recruits romantic otaku geeks to revive economy. Self-Storage Nation - Americans are storing more stuff than ever. By Tom Vanderbilt. Consider the four square feet immediately around you. Now consider that are you occupying your average per capita share of the Great American Self Storage Empire. According to the Self Storage Association, a trade group charged with monitoring such things, the country now possesses some 1.875 billion square feet of personal storage. All this space is contained in nearly 40,000 facilities owned and operated by more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, including a handful of publicly traded giants like Public Storage, Storage USA, and Shurgard.
What this translates into, apart from one hell of a lot of stationary bikes kept behind padlocked metal doors, is an industry that now exceeds the revenues of Hollywood (and doesn't have to deal with Tom Cruise). One in 11 American households, according to a recent survey, owns self-storage space—an increase of some 75 percent from 1995.
How did self storage, or "mini storage," as it's sometimes called, become such an enormous enterprise? How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart. America's Truth Deficit. Welcome to The Purple Store! Clothes, Office Supplies, Flowers, Hair, Cars, Kitchen, Cell Phones - Find anything in purple at The Purple Store. The New Blacklist.