"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo Fraud in Lebanon
Topic: Israeli/Palestinian
1:19 pm EDT, Aug 17, 2006
Examples of photo manipulation to create more dramatic news stories. It's odd that they didn't pick out things which didn't have to do with lebanon. This sort of thing is pretty much standard.
Arrest Made in the Jon Benet Ramsey Case - AOL search?
Topic: Local Information
4:59 pm EDT, Aug 16, 2006
I couldn't help but wonder if this comes so fast on the heels of the AOL database search release. There was one person who just kept searching on Jon Benet related terms....or could be...just a mere coincindence....
This one: AOL user 59920: cats skinned in fort lupton co cats killed in fort lupton co jonbenets autopsy photos crime scene photos of the crawl space and duffle bag in ramseys house sexy bathing suits what a neck looks like after its been strangled pictures what a neck looks like after it was strangled pictures of murder victims that have been strangled pictures of murder by strangulation knitting stitches what jonbenet would look like today new jersey park police jonbenet in her casket ransom note in the movie obsession what did it read movie ransom notes scouting knots manila rope and its uses brown paper bags cops use for evidence rope to use to hog tie someone body transport boulder colorado
Ebay sellers continue to be very upset by increased insertion rates and final value fees for ebay stores. This comes after intense store promotion for months on the part of eBay and is the second increase this year.
Incensed after eBay claimed that the new fees would only raise prices by 6%, most of eBay soon worked out that the increases were 23% or more for the huge majority of sellers.
Calls for a boycott this week have been particularly successful in Great Britain. Ebay sellers ask that no one list regular auction style listings or BUY from auction style listings.
The BBC and several major media outlets in England covered the boycott, which has been largely ignored by US media. There's no denying that auction listings are WAY down, and fee hike protest auctions are going up as quickly as they can be pulled from the site. There are also several protest videos spilling over onto other Internet sites, such as myspace and YouTube.
Ebay countered the boycott with a listing sale enticement today - 10 cent listings when sellers move auctions from store to auction format, however, many sellers aren't biting. The timing of the sale was a bit too manipulative for many. For instance, if a seller stopped a store item today to move it to auction, it would be ending ON August 22 - the day that the new hike goes into effect. Furthermore, the fine print on the sale announced that the sellers were to pay full fees up front, only to be given a credit after the next quarter profits for the company came in.
All this comes after eBay announced its intention to buy back 20 million shares of stock. Could eBay be intentionally driving its own stock down? Many sellers think so! Ebay stock is near its current 52 week low.
"LIQUID TERROR: Training People To Act Like Subservient Slaves Terrorists planned to mix liquids so why are they all being poured into airport bins?"
I knew that something was bugging me while watching the footage on tv. Maybe it was the almost groveling level that people seemed to have sank to, as they willingly threw away their toothpaste. I thought to myself - How much more PERSONAL does this get?
But perhaps it was this, after all - all these liquids WERE being poured into bins and the same trashcan.
It did not take much investigating to follow the data trail to Thelma Arnold, a 62-year-old widow who lives in Lilburn, Ga., frequently researches her friends' medical ailments and loves her three dogs. "Those are my searches," she said, after a reporter read part of the list to her.
The detailed records of searches conducted by Ms. Arnold and 657,000 other Americans, copies of which continue to circulate online, underscore how much people unintentionally reveal about themselves when they use search engines -- and how risky it can be for companies like AOL, Google and Yahoo to compile such data.
I sense a class-action lawsuit coming on. Is there a case to be made here? Could Ms. Arnold recover damages from AOL Time Warner?
I sure do hope so. It was pretty easy to spot Tomora Torilini - http://ListedByTomora.com - too. Her dog had really bad mange.
I'm curious as to why multiple links from the aol main page were not working right prior to the release. Coincidence? I don't know, but it seems like such a big web presence would want working first tier links.....OR was there an accident, a hack, a mad employee with access to the web, or were they just scrambling to get everything about the release down as quickly as possible, taking large chunks of their first tier with them?
