Mobile Vanity Numbers, Saudi Style
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Mobile Vanity Numbers
Mobile Vanity Numbers
06/22/2004 09:26 AMThe BBC carries word of a Bahrain man, Abdullah al-Hammadi, who
makes a living by selling unique phone and license plate numbers. His
latest, "9111119" has been put on the market for $13,200. And he'll
probably sell it, too -- a previous number sold for $7,000, and a "man
once bought his son a license plate for $16,000," to "encourage him to
work hard."
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Mobile numbers up for grabs
Mobile numbers up for grabs
01/22/2004 07:18 AMEurope in Brief Pay to play
Mobile customers hit with problem of
recycled numbers
Mobile customers hit with problem of
recycled numbers
07/06/2004 06:23 PMnewmediazero Jul 6 2004 10:54PM GMT
Saudi to punish 'immoral' use of 3G
mobile phones
Saudi to punish 'immoral' use of 3G
mobile phones
01/02/2005 11:12 AMEconomictimes Jan 2 2005 1:52PM GMT
High-flying Toshiba mobile computers
soar up the Saudi sales charts
High-flying Toshiba mobile computers
soar up the Saudi sales charts
12/17/2003 10:48 AMAME Info Dec 17 2003 9:35AM ET
Intel Centrino mobile technology users
get increased wireless access in key
locations in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
Intel Centrino mobile technology users
get increased wireless access in key
locations in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
01/06/2005 02:33 AMAME Info Jan 6 2005 6:46AM GMT
Portable Phone Numbers = Market for Cool
Numbers
Portable Phone Numbers = Market for Cool
Numbers
02/15/2004 10:32 AMClickgamer Launches Free "High Noon
Drifter – Dead Man’s Gulch,"
Western-style “Shoot ‘em up” Game for
Windows Mobile Pocket PC Handhelds
Clickgamer Launches Free "High Noon
Drifter – Dead Man’s Gulch,"
Western-style “Shoot ‘em up” Game for
Windows Mobile Pocket PC Handhelds
04/05/2005 02:21 AMGame offered for free in celebration of newly redesigned Web sites
[PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]
Vanity tinyURLing
Vanity tinyURLing
11/17/2003 09:17 AMErik Olsen writes,
So, we all started "tinyurling" our names
http://tinyurl.com/evo (my init) is rather odd.
http://tinyurl.com/erik leads to a dead link (sob!)
http://tinyurl.com/pnh is, well, Swedish. I think.
http://tinyurl.com/cory , however, May Well Lead To The Truth(tm).
Anyhow. Rules are simple, link is 1-4 chars after the tinyurl.com/
Link
(
Thanks, Erik!)
Vanity Font
Vanity Font
04/25/2004 10:10 PMThe Yale
Typeface: Someday I'll be cool enough to have my own
font.
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Vanity Fair Does It One Last Time
Vanity Fair Does It One Last Time
01/04/2005 08:27 PMThis month Vanity Fair will once again take readers to that galaxy
far, far away with superb photos by Annie Leibovitz and an interview
with George Lucas. This issue doesn't just touch on Episode III but
rather all six films. For more information, please visit the official
Star Wars website!
Vanity Fair Cover
Vanity Fair Cover
01/06/2005 12:01 PMRebelscum has received high resolution of next month's
Star
Wars Vanity Fair edition. Click on the thumbnail above to see the
150 dpi version, or download the
300 dpi file.
January Vanity Fair
January Vanity Fair
01/05/2005 01:34 PMLucas talks to Vanity Fair about
Star Wars and the next movies
he has planned. For a synopses of the main feature click through.
Vanity and Vulgarity at Enron
Vanity and Vulgarity at Enron
06/03/2004 10:20 AMTranscripts of conversations between energy traders are stranger than
fiction.
Vanity Plate Lookup
Vanity Plate Lookup
05/29/2004 06:12 PMDepartment of Motor
Vehicles/Vanity Plate: This is a great idea for a state Web site.
However, getting "Gadgetopia" in readable form on a license plate is
tricky.
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How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)
How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)
12/27/2004 02:30 AMFreeRepublic.com: How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity) .. improve
Firefox's
performance
freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts
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Manipulating Google For Vanity And For
Politics
Manipulating Google For Vanity And For
Politics
01/22/2004 06:28 AMIt seems some people just can't get over their obsession with Google
results. The practice of "Google bombing" - getting a bunch of people
to link to a specific page with a specific phrase, so that a search on
that phrase returns the page, even if the phrase has nothing to do
with the actual page - is
turning into a political war as people on all
sides of the political spectrum are trying to associate various
negative words or phrases with politicians or policies they dislike.
This was sort of amusing the first time it happened, but now it just
seems really childish on all sides. It certainly doesn't do anything
to impact anyone's political beliefs. To me, it seems like the online
equivalent of a writing something bad about someone on a bathroom
wall. Meanwhile, though, there's another interesting trend that is
less annoying:
buying
ad keywords on your own name. The idea is not to influence the
main Google search terms, but to have some say in pointing people to a
specific site if they're searching on your name. It also lets you
know how many people are searching for you, as that will show up in
your Adwords statistics. It's becoming especially popular with
freelancer or individual professionals (doctors and lawyers) where
people are likely to search on their names. Apparently, it's become
quite a trend. I have no idea when this started, but the first person
I heard do this was
Glenn
Fleishman last July. Of course, there's a price involved - you
have to pay each time someone clicks on your ad.
Connecticut Has Vanity Plate Lookup
Connecticut Has Vanity Plate Lookup
05/29/2004 01:51 PMThe state of Connecticut has put up a vanity plate lookup at
http://www.dmvplate.state.ct.us/VanityPlate.asp. If there is no match
to your lookup, you'll get a sample of what the plate would...
Vanity License Plate Brings Tickets (AP)
Vanity License Plate Brings Tickets (AP)
07/22/2004 09:40 PMAP - A vanity license tag chosen as a gag has left its owner holding
the bag. Jim Cara thought the "NOTAG" plate he got for his Suzuki
motorcycle would give people a laugh.
GOTMILF? Not anymore, for vanity plate
car owner
GOTMILF? Not anymore, for vanity plate
car owner
07/22/2004 06:40 PM
Michael Syravong thought he'd
pulled a fast one on Washington's Department of Licensing when he got
a license-plate that read "GOTMILF." He told the department that MILF
stands for "Manual Inline Lift Fluctuator," But eventually, bluenoses
who are somehow familiar with the true meaning of the acronym (Google
it for the not-safe-for-work answer), complained to the department and
Syravong lost his plates.
Link (Thanks,
Eric!)
Vanity Fair Editor Got $100,000 for
Suggesting a Movie
Vanity Fair Editor Got $100,000 for
Suggesting a Movie
05/14/2004 10:36 AMGraydon Carter received a $100,000 payment from Universal Studios in
2003 for suggesting that the book "A Beautiful Mind" be made into a
film.
"FreeRepublic.com: How To Speed Up
Firefox (Helpful Vanity)"
"FreeRepublic.com: How To Speed Up
Firefox (Helpful Vanity)"
12/27/2004 11:25 AMMotorola's i285 cellphone/vanity mirror
Motorola's i285 cellphone/vanity mirror
07/02/2004 11:35 AMEngadget Jul 2 2004 2:18PM GMT
the President was forced to start
planning a war with Iraq and share his
plans with Saudi Arabia after 9/11
because when those Saudi hijackers took
Prince Bandar's money and killed 3,00o
americans with it, we realized that Iraq
was the greatest threat to
the President was forced to start
planning a war with Iraq and share his
plans with Saudi Arabia after 9/11
because when those Saudi hijackers took
Prince Bandar's money and killed 3,00o
americans with it, we realized that Iraq
was the greatest threat to
04/19/2004 09:43 AMnytimes.com/2004/04/18/international/middleeast/18CND-TALK.html
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SIGNATURE STYLE Goody Steinberg Letting
in the light Silicon Valley homes
exhibit modern style tailored to fit
SIGNATURE STYLE Goody Steinberg Letting
in the light Silicon Valley homes
exhibit modern style tailored to fit
05/01/2004 06:27 AMSan Francisco Chronicle May 1 2004 10:24AM GMT
Washington Post on the Vanity Fair photo
spread of Valerie Plame, the outed CIA
agent
Washington Post on the Vanity Fair photo
spread of Valerie Plame, the outed CIA
agent
12/04/2003 09:33 AMHoward Kurtz article ..
BOGUS:
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29782-2003Dec2.html
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FEAR, BETRAYAL, LIFE IN DANGER: CIA
Agent Valerie Plame Goes Undercover,
Poses In Vanity Fair
FEAR, BETRAYAL, LIFE IN DANGER: CIA
Agent Valerie Plame Goes Undercover,
Poses In Vanity Fair
12/04/2003 08:26 AMwashingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29782-2003Dec2?language=printer
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The Mobile Technology Webl0g - "Location
Based Services and all about Mobile
Marketing" - Porn 4 UR Mobile
The Mobile Technology Webl0g - "Location
Based Services and all about Mobile
Marketing" - Porn 4 UR Mobile
03/29/2005 04:35 PMCARNIVAL OF THE CAPITALISTS .. week's
edition
mobile-weblog.com/archives/carnival_of_the_capitalists_part_
1.html
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L.A. Times and N.Y. Times Investigating
Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter
L.A. Times and N.Y. Times Investigating
Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter
05/13/2004 05:05 AMGraydon Carter enriching himself? PERISH THE THOUGHT! .. uses his
close ties to Hollywood .. web-only scoop .. NIKKI FINKE .. an
article
laweekly.com/ink/04/24/deadline-exclusive.php
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Local Dallas, TX Auto Dealer Receives
800 Phone Calls in One Day After
Featuring Vanity 800 Phone Number in
Radio and Television Jingles
Local Dallas, TX Auto Dealer Receives
800 Phone Calls in One Day After
Featuring Vanity 800 Phone Number in
Radio and Television Jingles
06/05/2005 11:17 PMEmpire Suzuki opened in the Dallas market in November 2004. In
February 2005, Empire Suzuki launched their ad campaign featuring a
vanity toll-free phone number, 1-800-NEW-RIDE in a jingle – written by
Tom Georgalis, owner of Empire Suzuki. Within six weeks the
dealership received over 5,500 calls, with an all time high of over
800 calls in a single day. Speak with Tom Georgalis, owner of Empire
Suzuki, about his recent business success in Dallas. [PRWEB Jun 2,
2005]
THINK
GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL: PETER SINGER'S
ONE
WORLD
THINK
GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL: PETER SINGER'S
ONE
WORLD
04/23/2004 09:24 AM
 If
you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that I'm
opposed to unregulated 'free' trade, very worried about the
extraterritoriality of the WTO, NAFTA, Davos and other corporatist
captives, strongly opposed to domestic corporations 'offshoring' jobs,
using influence with the Bush regime and other right-wing governments
to circumvent social and environmental laws and responsibilities, and
a
great believer in taking the pledge to buy local, and in community
self-sufficiency.
At the same time, I'm a strong supporter of the UN and other
multi-lateral NGOs, and I believe that we each have a responsibility
for the well-being of all the people and creatures of this world. Some
readers have said this view is inconsistent, and I wasn't quite sure
how to respond to such charges. Fortunately, Peter Singer, in his
recent book on global ethics, One World: The Ethics of
Globalization,
has come to my rescue. Singer sees no inconsistency between strong
local autonomy, community, and self-sufficient economies on the one
hand, and global responsibility on the other. The book is based on the
Dwight Terry lectures at Yale in 2000, but has been updated to
incorporate reflection on the events of 9/11 and the appalling Bush
social, environmental and economic record.
I'll have more to say next week about Bush's fraudulent and despicable
Earth Day media blitz, and the major media's shameless lack of
critical
evaluation of the utter nonsense that his propaganda machine has been
churning out this week on the environment -- newspeak of Orwellian
proportions. The first part of Singer's book deals with environmental
responsibility, and his prescription for increasing it -- immediate
ratification of Kyoto by the US and other holdout countries, and
introduction of an emissions trading mechanism to make the realization
of Kyoto feasible (subject to the need for some oversight on the
disposition of the proceeds of such trading when it involves
autocratic
governments).
The second part of the book deals with the global economy, and Singer
adroitly tears apart the Economist's (and other neocons') naive
assertion that economic globalization somehow benefits both rich and
poor countries. He then goes on to prescribe a substantial reform of
the WTO and the GATT, which could actually lead to more equitable
distribution of wealth and more efficient production of economic
goods,
while safeguarding human rights, labour and the environment.
Unfortunately, the multi-national corporations and corporatists who
hold sway in the WTO would never tolerate Singer's prescription, since
it would entirely divert the benefits of economic globalization from
their pockets to those of the world's poor.
The third part of the book deals with international law, and Singer
lashes out at Bush for his unconscionable refusal to ratify the
International Court of Justice, and for the UN's continued hesitancy
to
accept a duty (not a right) to intervene in situations of genocide and
other humanitarian crises, even within a single nation. Singer is
sanguine about the limitations and dangers of 'global government', but
supports strengthening the UN to enable it to act as a 'protector of
last resort', and including in its mandate the responsibility to
supervise elections in all
member nations.
The fourth and final part goes back to ethical principles and proposes
that countries must, in this world where national boundaries no longer
have any logistic meaning, set aside national interest and embrace,
once and for all, global interest, impartially. That does not mean
cultural homogenization, but imposes a responsibility for the
reduction
of inequality, both of economic resources and personal rights and
freedoms.
Always the pragmatist, Singer concludes by worrying out loud about how
the responsibility for a global ethic could be managed:
It
is widely believed that a world government would be, at best, an
unchecked bureaucratic behemoth that would make the bureaucracy of the
EU look lean and efficient. At worst, it would become a global
tyranny,
unchecked and unchallengeable. These thoughts have to be taken
seriously. How to prevent global bodies becoming either dangerous
tyrannies or self-aggrandizing bureaucracies, and instead make them
effective and responsive to the people whose lives they affect? It is
a
challenge that should not be beyond the best minds in the fields of
political science and public administration.
I'd like to believe that this was possible, because if it isn't, we're
in serious trouble. We cannot expect national governments to set aside
parochial interests, especially when this entails accepting a
responsibility that would, for the richer nations, inevitably lead to
a
drastic redistribution of wealth to poorer nations and hence a sudden
and sharp reduction in, at least, economic living standards (if not
necessarily well-being). But as John Ralston Saul has so eloquently
argued, larger organizations and institutions, whether public or
private, are almost always, and inherently, less efficient, less
agile,
more resistant to change, more hierarchic, and less transparent than
smaller organizations. So the challenge is to achieve the best of both
worlds, having organizations of global scope and authority and
responsibility, but broken up into sufficiently small, autonomous and
dynamic units that they are sensitive, resilient, responsible and
responsive to the people and communities they serve. We can only hope
that "the best minds in the fields of political science and public
administration", wherever they are, are up to the task.
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AirG Liberates Mobile Phone Users in
Iraq: AirG Launches Interactive Mobile
Community ‘MonAmi’ on Iraq’s First GSM
Mobile Network
AirG Liberates Mobile Phone Users in
Iraq: AirG Launches Interactive Mobile
Community ‘MonAmi’ on Iraq’s First GSM
Mobile Network
04/09/2005 03:48 AMAirG, the global leader in powering mobile communities announced today
that its mobile friend finder service MonAmi is now available to
customers in Iraq. [PRWEB Apr 9, 2005]
UBL by the Numbers
UBL by the Numbers
01/03/2005 02:56 PMVia Jon Bosak, a pointer to
this XML
2004 presentation (PowerPoint, sigh), about the Danish
Government’s deployment of a bunch of XML technologies including
UBL. Check out slides 4 & 5: they estimate the annual savings
achievable from invoicing in UBL at somewhere between €100M and
€160M. I may be out of step with the crowd but it seems
painfully obvious to me
that UBL is going to be huge and I don’t understand why more
technology vendors (including my employer) aren’t refocusing their
e-business strategy around it.
Their numbers were up
Their numbers were up
08/28/2004 12:56 AMUsatoday.com - Fri Aug 27, 08:26 pm GMT
Okay the numbers are in
Okay the numbers are in
03/31/2005 09:34 AM
Okay,
the numbers are in. Now that die hard fans of the
UK edition have
vented, I'm curious to know what those who have not yet had the
pleasure of Ricky Gervais' company make of the
American version of The
Office. Comments?
Oh, Those Pesky Numbers
Oh, Those Pesky Numbers
03/28/2005 08:19 AMNumbers are important. While computers are good with numbers, humans
still seem to have problems with them, and despite our use of
computers, it seems we're still not able to come up with foolproof
ways to stop people from making stupid numerical mistakes. It appears
that some
fairly costly
number typos are coming back to haunt some organizations. While
some numerical errors just lead to
humor
ous results, a misprint of a winning lottery ticket in a NY
newspaper and the incorrect voting phone number flashing on the screen
on a recent American Idol are causing all sorts of problems -- and
making some wonder how such mistakes can happen. The answer, it
appears, is that they always happen. We're just not that good with
number and tend to mess them up. And either because of, or in spite
of, the growing use of computers, it often seems that numbers are more
common than ever in our lives -- and yet they're just as easy to mess
up. As the article notes, though, as we enter tax season, it pays to
remember that your friendly IRS agent isn't always so forgiving.
Beautiful numbers
Beautiful numbers
02/01/2005 09:33 PM I love pretty numbers. I get excited when I see a pretty license
plate. Or when the time is 16:32. Or when my car has driven 36912
miles. Or when I can get my car to drive at a speed that makes the
speedometer and the tachometer be at the same place in the dial. I
remember phone numbers and pin codes via the relationship between the
numbers. And so on. This morning I had 512 messages marked unread...
I don't believe the search numbers...
I don't believe the search numbers...
01/06/2005 02:41 AMA whole bunch of people at work today asked me if I had seen a recent
posting on the Google Blog News Channel: What Search Engines Do Search
Engine Companies Use? That posting summarizes a lot of data from
VisitorVille Intelligence, specifically looking at which search
companies use which search services. The thing that everyone seemed to
notice was this: Finally, at Yahoo, 68.9% of employees use Yahoo, but
a still-strong 29.8% use Google (compare that to Google’s 100%
loyalty)....
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