Lost mail campaign gets lost in post (Reuters)

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Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub.

Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub. 11/15/2003 07:49 PM
So in addition to the standard-issue frissons to be found here (and one of the most startling involves only a light bulb), this book also attempts a Google ...

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities 04/15/2005 06:43 PM
Whenever we hear about established industries whining about how much money they're losing from alternative forms of media consumption, we just shake our heads. If you do too, then brace your neck before reading on. A new study by Accenture says that TV networks will "lose" $27 billion in the coming five years because of ad skipping by DVR users. Not being able to read the full story on AdAge, we can only assume that Accenture thinks advertisers will pull back from the networks to the tune of $5-plus billion per year, simply because DVR watchers can skip ads. Not likely. The connection is highly dubious and the figures are entirely far-fetched. Yet even more troubling is the age-old "lost money" methodology. Each ad skip does not proportionally diminish the network's coffers -- no money is being subtracted from their bottom line. Rather, any "losses" from ad skipping would come from the network's inability to adapt to new trends and attract those dollars elsewise. The networks are losing money to ad-skipping no more than record companies are losing money to downloads. The quicker they see these as lost opportunities, instead of lost dollars, the better for them.

Microsoft ordered to find lost e-mail

Microsoft ordered to find lost e-mail 05/24/2004 12:44 PM

Notes and Tips: Lost Mail Messages

Notes and Tips: Lost Mail Messages 08/28/2004 03:01 PM
Apple how to retrieve lost messages when Apple Mail gets overloaded.

Lost without Lost? You might be in the
Land Down Under

Lost without Lost? You might be in the
Land Down Under 04/05/2005 05:23 PM
Delays in getting new episode of US shows in Australia have led many to turn to BitTorrent. It may be time to rethink the broadcast model.

Lost? Your Phone Knows a Way Out
(Reuters)

Lost? Your Phone Knows a Way Out
(Reuters) 08/28/2004 09:43 AM
Reuters - Back when everyone believed the world was flat, people thought these rocky shores on Spain's windswept "coast of death" were the end of the world. In today's world, you only need a mobile phone to get there ... and back.

Japanese minister "lost election bet"
(Reuters)

Japanese minister "lost election bet"
(Reuters) 07/13/2004 05:33 AM
Reuters - A Japanese cabinet minister says he lost 1,000 yen (5 pounds) after apparently incorrectly predicting the results of a weekend election in which his party suffered an embarrassing setback, Japanese media has reported.

Zoo bans man who lost finger to jaguar
(Reuters)

Zoo bans man who lost finger to jaguar
(Reuters) 05/18/2004 08:52 PM
Reuters - A New Mexico man made a hasty exit from a zoo after climbing close to a cage to illegally pet a jaguar, but police were able to track him down by the severed finger he left behind.

Chirac gives lost D-Day veteran a lift
(Reuters)

Chirac gives lost D-Day veteran a lift
(Reuters) 06/07/2004 10:02 PM
Reuters - French President Jacques Chirac gave a D-Day veteran a lift back to Paris in one of his jets after the New Zealander got lost following Sunday's ceremonies in northern France to honour World War Two Allied troops.

Floridians Who Lost Homes to Charley
Frustrated (Reuters)

Floridians Who Lost Homes to Charley
Frustrated (Reuters) 08/16/2004 12:11 PM
Reuters - Relief supplies poured rapidly into southwest Florida after Hurricane Charley's devastating punch but some of the thousands of newly homeless on Monday were frustrated as they faced rebuilding their lives.

Turtles Kept Lost Peruvian Fishermen
Alive (Reuters)

Turtles Kept Lost Peruvian Fishermen
Alive (Reuters) 06/14/2004 08:28 AM
Reuters - Three Peruvian shark fishermen lost at sea for 59 days survived by eating turtle meat and drinking the reptiles' blood, a newspaper reported on Friday.

Jaguar fear diamond lost forever
(Reuters)

Jaguar fear diamond lost forever
(Reuters) 05/24/2004 04:41 AM
Reuters - Diamonds might be forever but not when embedded in the nose of a Formula One car, as Jaguar has discovered.

Lost Conan Doyle Archive Sold (Reuters)

Lost Conan Doyle Archive Sold (Reuters) 05/20/2004 08:32 AM
Reuters - A collection of long-lost papers giving a rare glimpse into the private life of Sherlock Holmes' creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was sold at auction in London for almost $1.7 million Wednesday.

Runway Scarecrow Machine Lost in
Translation (Reuters)

Runway Scarecrow Machine Lost in
Translation (Reuters) 03/23/2005 01:07 PM
Reuters - China imported a U.S.-made scream machine to scare away the birds at Beijing airport -- except they didn't recognize the noises and refused to budge.

campaign against "Lost in
Translation"

campaign against "Lost in
Translation" 02/15/2004 02:24 PM
not sure I agree, but lost-in-racism.org lists some grievances with what is inarguably a well-made movie

Programs: No Love Lost for 'Love
Detector' Software (Reuters)

Programs: No Love Lost for 'Love
Detector' Software (Reuters) 04/11/2004 08:59 PM
Reuters - (Gene Emery is a columnist who covers science and technology. His Internet address is GEmery(at)Cox.net. Any opinions in the column are his alone.)

Lost Sappho love poem published after
2,600 years (Reuters)

Lost Sappho love poem published after
2,600 years (Reuters) 06/24/2005 09:58 PM
Reuters - A love poem written 2,600 years ago by Sappho, the greatest female poet of ancient Greece, was published on Friday for the first time since it was rediscovered last year.

"Lost"

"Lost" 09/24/2004 03:00 AM

lost at sea

lost at sea 12/19/2004 03:48 PM

I am having a really hard time sleeping. For almost three weeks, I try to go to sleep between ten and midnight. I fall asleep for about ten or fifteen minutes, and then I wake with a start. My legs feel antsy behind my knees, my brain won't shut up, and I end up tossing and turning for about twenty minutes, until I get so angry that I get out of bed and read until at least one in the morning. Last night, it was two-fucking-forty before I was able to fall asleep. When I wake up, I have a headache, my neck hurts, and I feel like I haven't slept at all. This is really getting old.

I know it's not diet, but it could be lack of exercise. I was pretty damn sick the last two weeks, and running when I have a cold is the opposite of enjoyable. Darin says that I should exercise more, and I agree. I miss running, and I discovered, to my horror, that I've put on nearly ten pounds since August — a product of my Body By Guinness and Linux fitness fatness program.

But it's more than just that. If I'm honest with myself, I actually think my brain is kicking me out of bed every night because there's stuff I have to deal with that I've been avoiding: things I need to write, people I need to talk to, and issues I need to resolve. Anne recently did what she calls "Emotional Housekeeping," and I think I'm going to do it myself.

So today, I will catch up on e-mail (I got it down to 200-ish, but it's swelled back up to > 500), and finish several interviews (including Slashdot's Ask Wil Wheaton Anything). I will also take some ideas that have been brewing in my brains and move them into my The Writer's Notebook, to make room for new ones. A symptom of my insomnia (and maybe it's wrapped up in the cause) is a lack of inspiration. I haven't sat down to do any real creative writing in far too long, and I'm starting to feel performance anxiety, you know? It's like standing at the edge of a pool that you know is filled with cold water: the longer you stand at the edge, the harder it becomes to get up the courage to dive in.

I hope that getting all these unresolved e-mails and related issues taken care of will encourage my brain to actually quiet down when I want to go to sleep.

Weird . . . when I started writing this, I truly didn't know why I've been so agitated, but I think I just got it — or at least I've got it narrowed down. Who says blogging isn't therapeutic?

for want of a pen a kid was lost?

for want of a pen a kid was lost? 05/12/2004 09:59 PM
The pen is mightier than...? Remember Afghanistan? Terry, former Nitpicker, is now a public affairs specialist in Kandahar. He's learned that the children of Afghanistan want nothing more than they want a pen. Maybe we can help them out by sending some?

Just how lost PFF is

Just how lost PFF is 09/09/2004 11:12 AM
I continue to be astonished at how far PFF has moved from its roots. The group has issued a press release demanding Supreme Court review of Grokster, buttressed with supporting blog entries by Bill Adkinson and a "grid" by Solveig Singleton with a six (yes, count them, six, with some including italics) factor test that courts are to apply to decide whether a technology is legal or not. I can well understand New Dealers racing to craft multifactored tests to regulate innovation. But I thought the whole point of the conservative (economic) movement was to teach us how harmful such regulation was to innovation and growth. Any test that cannot be applied on summary judgment guarantees that federal judges will be forced into a complex balancing to decide which innovation should be allowed. And thus, any industry threatened with competition can then use the courts to extort from these new competitors payment before they are permitted to compete. That is precisely what Valenti says the VCR case was about. He didn't want to stop the VCR, he tell us. He wanted only to force VCR manufacturers to pay for the right to sell consumers VCRs. Courts, and lawyers, have ruled Silicon Valley long enough. The great hope of the Grokster opinion was that it would return us to the time when entrepreneurs could invent without seeking a permission slip from a federal court (to borrow from the President) . It is simply bizarre to see PFF now call for a return to the days of industrial policy regulated by federal judges. Especially bizarre when you consider how taxing this policy will be to many of the "supporters" of PFF. Many (e.g., Apple, Microsoft, Intel), but alas not all (EMI, Vivendi, BMG). Thus the danger of putting principle up for bid.

All was not lost

All was not lost 09/27/2004 03:10 AM
USA Today Sep 27 2004 6:14AM GMT

The Lost Art of the CD-ROM

The Lost Art of the CD-ROM 04/08/2005 12:27 AM

I was reading today about how Wikipedia is going to release a CD or DVD of all its content. Very cool idea.

This got me reminicising about "The Golden Age of CD-ROMs." Remember when CD-ROMs were the big thing? From, say, 1996 to 1999 or 2000. Remember when Encarta and Cinemania amazed you with the depth of their content?

I remember Encarta 95. Man, that was amazing. Pictures, video, a little trivia game — I had a double-speed CD-ROM drive, and could get lost in Encarta for hours. I remember too that it had an update feature, where you could dial-up to the Internet and it would download new versions of articles that needed to change. The first one to update was the article on Yitzhak Rabin after he got assassinated. I was blown away.

And Cinemania — that was a really great product too. Thousands of reviews from Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin, video clips, star biographies — I could blow an afternoon just exploring. Cinemania was what got me hooked on Roger Ebert. (I still read him religiously, and he's emailed me twice. Once in response to this post over on my personal blog.)

And "The Ultimate James Bond" CD-ROM was heroin for me at the time. I reviewed it nine years ago for Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. It was the first writing I did for that site. The review (and the CD-ROM screenshots — first time I had ever screencapped anything) still hold up today. That was a great, great product. Did anyone else have this?

When I worked at Best Buy for eight months in 1998, DVD-ROM drives were just coming out. I remember thinking that I had to have one, because then I could browse Encarta without having to switch CDs. I wanted a DVD-ROM drive for four or five years because of this, but could never justify it. When I finally bought a machine that had one...it was kind of anti-climactic, because I was already hooked on Wikipedia.

But whatever happened to the CD-ROM? The Internet killed them. You just don't see them anymore. Now we have the Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia, so there's no need for Cinemania or Encarta.

If you get the urge to publish a CD-ROM, you may as well just put it in a password protected Web site — you get continuing membership fees, better tracking, and you can keep it updated.

The CD-ROM is truly a lost art. It's too bad because I firmly believe that you get more involved with reading offline than online. See this post — when you're online, more content is just a click away. When you're offline — like when you were browsing a CD-ROM — you have a tendency to get into the reading more and with greater comprehension.

I miss CD-ROMs.

To the Lost City.

To the Lost City. 03/19/2005 02:56 AM
To the Lost City. Researchers at the University of Washington discovered an undersea hydrothermal vent field that promises new information about the origins of life. A monthlong research trip in 2003, documented online, yielded results that have just now been published in Science (subscribers only, sorry). The UW's Lost City site has much of interest, including an online journal from the excursion; pictures and video are also available here and here.

I lost my leg in an accident

I lost my leg in an accident 06/22/2005 02:04 AM
I'm pretty. I'm 23. I'm in a wheelchair. Now what?

CEO Says EDS Has Lost Several Contracts

CEO Says EDS Has Lost Several Contracts 05/11/2004 09:00 PM
Companies rarely boast about cutting the shareholders' dividend, so it was noteworthy this week when officials at Electronic Data Systems Corp. alerted reporters to one paragraph in a 27-page filing in which the company suggested it may do just that.

Lost Labyrinth

Lost Labyrinth 05/16/2004 10:43 AM
Multiplayer!

Lost Vagueness

Lost Vagueness 01/10/2004 02:17 PM

Got in at 10:53am yesterday, with lots of plans about what I needed to cram into the day after I dropped my stuff off at the hotel. At 4:30 I finally arrived in my room, at a hotel so far out of town it might be in Utah. There's a long story about what happened between those two events (the lost notes, the endless phone calls, the hotel that changed its name everywhere but on its building, yada &c.). But I've got a day at CES to start, I'm on dial-up here, and I'm late for my first meeting.

So I gotta go.

I've Lost My Man To An iPod

I've Lost My Man To An iPod 12/17/2004 06:27 PM

It can hold 10,000 songs. It can shuffle them 27 different ways before breakfast... What it can't do is set itself up. By Rosemary Lewis, Sydney Morning Herald

"Remember those who were lost"

"Remember those who were lost" 09/13/2004 08:43 AM

Less Lost in Translation

Less Lost in Translation 08/03/2004 01:50 AM

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Free registration is required to read the article.”…A tool introduced recently in China by Microsoft helps writers who are not native in English to write better English. Called the English Writing Wizard, it is the first product that addresses the difficult task of giving suggestions to someone who has little or no ability to distinguish between good and bad advice. Although the wizard can help with translation, it is not, strictly speaking, a machine translation…

Lost malls of the 50s and 60s

Lost malls of the 50s and 60s 06/24/2005 06:28 PM
Cory Doctorow: Malls of America is a blog that lovingly documents the lost shopping mall glory days of the 1960s and 1970s. Link (via Kottke)

Lost in Meatspace

Lost in Meatspace 12/29/2003 11:43 PM
Rumors of my velocitation are true. For reasons having to do with bread and bread, this correspondent has lately become a commuting, buttoned-down member of Cheever's professional archetype. Not precisely a salaryman, mind you, just a consultant on a gig that takes all his energy. It features slit skirts on city streets, glorious validation, real life and cash, and comes on the heels of a watershed. My grandfather died. He was my giant. Everything I'm worth is traceable to him....

Lost your Job to Outsourcing?

Lost your Job to Outsourcing? 02/13/2004 07:47 PM
I just received this message (below) from a news group... If you have recently lost your I.T. job due to outsourcing, you might be interested. -Kevin ------- I am IEEE-USA's Legislative Representative for Grassroots Activities. My job is to help individual engineers contact and influence elected officials. IEEE-USA was just contact by a senior Democratic Senator. He was looking for a few engineers from the DC area who have recently lost their jobs due to outsourcing....

the Palestinians lost

the Palestinians lost 06/19/2004 04:40 AM
Charles Krauthammer

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50910-2004Jun17.html
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Lost in lust

Lost in lust 06/14/2004 08:25 AM
Why does he leave me to go rollerblading on the esplanade and surf Match.com?

DVD Cartel Gives Up Lost Cause

DVD Cartel Gives Up Lost Cause 01/22/2004 05:08 PM
The Electronic Frontier Foundation rep orts that the DVD consortium has abandoned the argument that its widely disseminated scrambling software, which prevents people from playing DVDs on non-authorized devices and operating systems, is a trade secret.

The lost art of eating

The lost art of eating 07/10/2004 09:03 AM
Loved a feast .. reviews .. more .. more

nybooks.com/articles/17237
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Honour lost, indeed

Honour lost, indeed 08/05/2004 10:46 AM
Forbidden Love: The Romance That Masqueraded as a Bio In early 2003, a Jordanian woman named Norma Khouri published a book entitled Forbidden Love (or Honor Lost in North America). This book was a memoir about how Norma Khouri's best friend, Dalia, was killed by her own father after she fell in love with a Christian military officer, and Norma's subsequent escape from Jordan. Forbidden Love was a bio that read like a sensational romance, and it sold 250,000 copies around the world and made Norma Khouri a celebrity in her adoptive country of Australia. However, it turns out that the book really was just a romance. Dalia never existed. Norma Khouri left Jordan at the age of 3 and grew to adulthood living in Chicago. So, one very disturbed woman has ex ploited Western prejudices about Arab cultures, fooled the general public, plunged her publisher into an enormous legal and financial embarrassment, and impugned the very real and serious problem of honour killings. And she got away with it for a full year and a half.
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