Archive for September, 2003

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Lover Spy, Spying on Lovers

SAN
FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) — A company calling itself Lover Spy
has begun offering a way for jealous lovers — and anyone
else — to spy
on [...]

See, They’re Just Like Us

Iraqis logging onto news and porn
LONDON, England (CNN) — The Baghdad bloggers became famous for their insights into life during the Iraqi war.
The Internet pioneers courted danger and risked death by messaging to the outside world. Now Internet cafes are opening up across Baghdad giving Iraqis the chance to connect without restriction or hindrance [...]

Role Models

When I was a child I had but one ambition for my future life and career.
All my friends wanted to be firemen and astronauts, certainly worthy
pursuits, to which I devoted occasional [...]

No Relation. Yeah, Right.

BU Wins World’s Deadliest Pathogens

Finally! BU wins SOMETHING! As
posted
here in August, Boston
University has been hoping to construct a $1.6
billion dollar [...]

Woe Is Joe! Death Sentence Possible

Little
Joe’s saga continues: (for those of you too lazy to scroll down to yesterday’s
entries, Little Joe is a teenaged 300-lb gorilla
who keeps sneaking out of the house and on Sunday was [...]

Dept. of Homeland Security to Unveil VISIT

The Federal governemt is about to unveil the new VISIT system, which aims to keep track of when and where each of the one million foreign visitors to the US each year enter and leave the country. In a way, it is incredible that they don’t already have a system to keep track of [...]

Plastic Banana Protection

When
I teach marketing and we get to the unit on packaging I always bring
a banana to class and use it as an example of perfection in packaging;
colorful, iconic, easy-to-open, bio-degradable. Common [...]

No Such Thing as Coincidence

It is my confirmed belief that there are really no such things a Coincidences.
Everything in this universe is connected, its just that some of the connections
are obvous and some are obscure and indecipherable. Like why a worldwide icon [...]

No Such Thing as Coincidence part II

In
the biggest deal in recent Boston business history, the 141-year-old
John Hancock Financial Services has been sold to Manulife, a Canadian
insurance and financial services conglomerate, for $10.9 billion. In
[...]

Russian Posters Depict Rape of Dollar

 

My God, is nothing sacred? Iconic Russian pornography espousing Eurosupremacy!
The US as Eurobitch! The Russian text reportedly reads "They all look the same in the dark!"
Advertising authorities in Moscow have banned a poster campaign showing
the [...]

Ever Wish You Could Just Get Away?

 

Alanis Morissette shocked fans when she ended her first gig in Peru by
shouting: "Thank you Brazil!"
Morissette made the mistake in front of a 14,000 crowd at the Monumental
Stadium in Lima.
Before the [...]


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