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"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." |
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Buffett remains confident in stocks - Sep. 25, 2002 |
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Topic: Markets & Investing |
2:10 pm EDT, Sep 25, 2002 |
"Warren Buffett says he remains bullish on U.S. stocks and the U.S. economy despite recent market declines, although he could not predict when the current bear market will come to an end. " Buffett said he doesn't believe things are that bad right now, and that stock markets are, "way out of sync with the economy." Buffett remains confident in stocks - Sep. 25, 2002 |
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Mercedes Benz Maybach: At the peak of perfection |
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Topic: Cars and Trucks |
11:21 pm EDT, Sep 24, 2002 |
"Every auto engineer and designer dreams of building the best car in the world. Yet rarely does this dream become a reality. However, a team of Daimler engineers and designers have now fulfilled this ambition by producing a luxury car uniting the highest standards of comfort with leading- edge technology: the Mercedes Maybach, a realistic and realizable study of the luxury sedan of tomorrow. The Mercedes-Benz Maybach, a design study for an exclusive sedan which provides a glimpse into the technology and fittings likely to be gracing the luxury automobiles of tomorrow. " Mercedes Benz Maybach: At the peak of perfection |
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Yahoo! News - Unleashing Hell? |
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Topic: Movies |
5:10 pm EDT, Sep 24, 2002 |
"A hero will rise again, if Gladiator producers get their way. Sure, Russell Crowe's character, General Maximus--the heart and soul of director Ridley Scott's 2000 Oscar-winning Best Picture of 2000--died triumphantly at the end of the film. But, according to the Hollywood Reporter, that's not stopping producers of the sweeping swordplay epic from proceeding with a follow-up flick. " Yahoo! News - Unleashing Hell? |
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British Dossier on Iraq's WMD |
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Topic: Society |
3:18 pm EDT, Sep 24, 2002 |
Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government Tony Blair: It is unprecedented for the Government to publish this kind of document. But in light of the debate about Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), I wanted to share with the British public the reasons why I believe this issue to be a current and serious threat to the UK national interest. British Dossier on Iraq's WMD |
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Google search gets newsier - Tech News - CNET.com |
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Topic: Tech Industry |
9:59 am EDT, Sep 23, 2002 |
"Google unveiled on Monday an expanded test version of its search engine for current events and news, the latest step in the company's move into new markets. The search tool brings the company's highly respected statistical methods for ranking the relevance of information on the Web to the specific category of news--an experimental approach compared with traditional methods of news selection, said Google product manager Marissa Mayer. "From the reader perspective, this changes news reading habits because (usually) you pick a source and pick the story that interests you," said Mayer, who developed the tool with five staff engineers over the last nine months. "With this service, you pick the story that interests you and then pick the news source."" Google search gets newsier - Tech News - CNET.com |
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Topic: Technology |
9:42 am EDT, Sep 23, 2002 |
"Roomba dancing robot vacuums and sweeps automatically -- even when you're asleep or out of the house." Roomba Floor Vac Robot |
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KFC Customer Gets Pot With Chicken |
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Topic: Current Events |
9:31 am EDT, Sep 23, 2002 |
"A Mill Valley KFC restaurant employee was arrested after a customer received a little something extra with his chicken dinner. This customer received two bags of marijuana Friday, instead of the extra biscuits he had requested. The customer gave the marijuana back to the employee, got his extra biscuits and called police. " KFC Customer Gets Pot With Chicken |
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Topic: Tech Industry |
3:59 pm EDT, Sep 19, 2002 |
Hubzilla is stomping through town and he means business. With piercing red eyes and an open mouth that lights up when plugged in to the Firewire bus, Hubzilla is as menacing as he is useful. When he's not destroying your desk* he's helping you with your Firewire connectivity problems. --Check out the picture Disclaimers: *Charismac claims no responsibility for broken personal or business related property should Hubzilla go on a rampage. As always, a clean and fed Hubzilla results in a happy Hubzilla. **Please keep small children away from Hubzilla, just in case CharisMac - Hubzilla |
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Bin Laden Targeted U.S. Defense, State, CIA Chiefs |
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Topic: Current Events |
11:27 pm EDT, Sep 18, 2002 |
Osama bin Laden targeted the heads of the Defense Department, State Department, CIA and FBI, and offered a $9 million bounty for the assassination of four top intelligence officers, a congressional investigator said on Wednesday. In August 1999, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained information that bin Laden's organization had decided to target the top officials at the State and Defense departments and the CIA, said Eleanor Hill, staff director of the joint 9/11 inquiry of the House and Senate intelligence committees. Bin Laden Targeted U.S. Defense, State, CIA Chiefs |
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