Call in the cryptozoologists

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Apple Q3 conference call analyst call --
live updates

Apple Q3 conference call analyst call --
live updates 07/14/2004 04:52 PM

Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML 1.0
Last Call Published

Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML 1.0
Last Call Published 04/30/2004 10:43 AM
2004-04-30: The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0 including major updates. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. Comments are welcome through 28 May. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive)

New Pay-Per-Phone Call Lead System
Empowers Partners to Ensure Clients
Charged Only for Successful Call Leads

New Pay-Per-Phone Call Lead System
Empowers Partners to Ensure Clients
Charged Only for Successful Call Leads 03/17/2005 03:01 AM
Developer of ZiffTalk and Click4Advisor ‘click-for-talk’ platforms launches ZiffLeads, first independent Pay-Per-Phone Call Lead platform, to target partners who want to offer online advertisers, local and national, a more Flexible and Reliable Phone Call Lead generation and measurement product. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Retiring Mandela Says 'Don't Call Me,
I'll Call You'

Retiring Mandela Says 'Don't Call Me,
I'll Call You' 06/01/2004 10:44 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 1 2004 3:11PM GMT

Dell to Hold International Strategy
Conference Call With Analysts; Call to
be Webcast Live at www.dell.com

Dell to Hold International Strategy
Conference Call With Analysts; Call to
be Webcast Live at www.dell.com 04/05/2005 02:02 PM
Business Wire Apr 5 2005 5:23PM GMT

Virtual Call Centre Provider Offers
Unique Chance to Win a Call Centre from
CallCentreVoice.com

Virtual Call Centre Provider Offers
Unique Chance to Win a Call Centre from
CallCentreVoice.com 03/17/2005 04:13 AM
i-CALL (a Division of Call Centre Recording Ltd) is pleased to announce “The launch of a fantastic new sponsorship agreement between i-CALL.co.uk and CallCentreVoice.com” [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

I will call you, I will call you out

I will call you, I will call you out 05/23/2004 04:51 PM
I almost dropped dead this morning. My uncle [the one from London] was talking about laptops and how he wants...

I Want to Be Alone. Please Call Me

I Want to Be Alone. Please Call Me 06/26/2004 08:44 PM
New York Times Jun 27 2004 0:15AM GMT

What Do You Call Yourself?

What Do You Call Yourself? 01/06/2003 09:37 PM
Here we go yet again - SEO vs SEM vs SEP vs WebMaster vs Designer vs etal.

I Want to Be Alone. Please Call Me.

I Want to Be Alone. Please Call Me. 06/26/2004 07:12 PM
Cell phones are turning settings previously devoted to eye-to-eye contact and earnest talk into venues for shutting out others.

Don't call & we mean it

Don't call & we mean it 12/19/2003 09:57 PM
USA Today Dec 19 2003 9:40PM ET

call 911 right away

call 911 right away 04/02/2005 02:14 AM
fake or not .. Snopes

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A Call For Help

A Call For Help 01/22/2004 03:01 AM

Why do they call it the loo?

Why do they call it the loo? 03/14/2005 04:25 PM

(It's going to be hard to write this one without resorting to all sorts of unclever puns, but I'm going to do my best.)

When I was in London a couple of weeks ago, a group of us was sitting around in a pub on Saturday afternoon (what a cliché!) and someone mentioned that the reason that the English "loo" is so named because the toilet was commonly located in room 100 of buildings and the two ("loo" and "100") look very much the same. (You can see that I jotted that tidbit down on my analog Palm Pilot (upper right quadrant) for later reference.) Turns out that pub chat aside, the jury is somewhat out on the etymology of "loo" (unless the OED, which I don't have access to, says otherwise tons of people wrote in with the OED entry for loo, summarized below).

One popular theory comes from this timeline of toilets:

When people flung their potty waste out of the window, they would shout "Gardez l'eau" [gar-day low]. That's French for "watch out for the water". We probably get the word "loo" from this expression, although some people think it comes from "Room 100" which is what European people used to call the bathroom.

Wikipedia backs this version as well (don't miss the list of euphemisms for toilet there, including poop-house (wtf?), dunny, and necessary).

Michael Quinion offers a few more theories. The word appears to originate no earlier than James Joyce's usage in Ulysses in 1922 -- "O yes, mon loup. How much cost? Waterloo. water closet." -- perhaps Joyce came up with it. Or it could be "a British mispronunciation of the French le lieu, "the place", a euphemism." Maybe loo is short for bordalou, "a portable commode carried by eighteenth century ladies in their muffs" (!!). Quinion also notes that "a rather more plausible [theory] has it that it comes from the French lieux d'aisances, literally 'places of ease' (the French term is usually plural), once also an English euphemism, which could have been picked up by British servicemen in World War One" but that there's no real conclusive evidence to support any of these theories over the others.

Cecil Adams of Straight Dope offers many of the same theories as well as this additional one:

It's short for "Lady Louisa," Louisa being the unpopular wife of a 19th-century earl of Lichfield. In 1867 while the couple was visiting friends, two young wiseacres took the namecard off her bedroom door and stuck it on the door of the bathroom. The other guests thereafter began jocularly speaking of "going to Lady Louisa." In shortened form this eventually spread to the masses.

But Adams has no definitive answer either and so the question of the etymology of loo will continue to be debated on the Internet and in pubs around the world.

Update: the OED notes Joyce's usage as the earliest, but is also at a loss to explain things:

A. S. C. Ross's examination of possible sources in Blackw. Mag. (1974) Oct. 309-16 is inconclusive: he favours derivation, in some manner that cannot be demonstrated, from Waterloo.

Last Call: CSS 2.1

Last Call: CSS 2.1 06/17/2005 04:25 PM
2005-06-14: The CSS Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1). CSS 2.1 is derived from and is intended to replace CSS2. A snapshot of CSS language usage, the specification adds a few highly requested features, fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with implementations. Comments are welcome through 15 July. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)

Take-Two and Don't Call Ever

Take-Two and Don't Call Ever 04/14/2004 02:34 PM
The video game company's latest move can't be reassuring to investors.

No, Seriously: Do Not Call!

No, Seriously: Do Not Call! 09/16/2004 12:54 PM
The FCC uses fines to get its message across.

Now Call Me A Cynic But...

Now Call Me A Cynic But... 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
Last summer I was ranked as the #1 'gary' on the planet according to Google. Then they changed their ranking algorithms to favour weblogs less and I was demoted to 17th place. But, ever since Google purchased Blogger last month I've been climbing up the ranks and I'm now 10th and notably now more popular than the guitarist Gary Moore. I'm conducting this experiment purely for research purposes, honestly, nothing to do with massaging my battered ego and you should look upon it as a kind of service to weblogging. Ahem. Anyway, my point.

Have the Google guys tweaked their big ranking knob a little squeak towards blogs again or have blogs just become much more important in the last month or so for other reasons?

Hmm.....[scratches chin]

"Call in the second, err, first, err,
different team"

"Call in the second, err, first, err,
different team" 04/28/2004 03:02 AM

a call to action

a call to action 12/13/2003 09:22 AM
Dirk Deppey

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This Call Is Being Recorded . . . for
More Than You Think

This Call Is Being Recorded . . . for
More Than You Think 01/19/2004 08:24 AM
Turns out somebody's really listening to those taped customer-service calls after all.

Conference call

Conference call 09/07/2004 05:01 AM
USA Today Sep 7 2004 9:35AM GMT

Now just call it "AJAX"

Now just call it "AJAX" 03/14/2005 05:25 PM
Last year we wrote about how some applications -- notably Google Mail and Suggest -- were taking advantage of Javascript plus XML-over-HTTP for richer interfaces. Now Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path has written a nice summary and (perhaps more imporantly) come up with a new name for the approach: "AJAX." Some CMS vendors are beginning to use AJAX methodologies, although from what we have seen mostly in a tentative way (if you're a vendor using AJAX, do tell where and how. Asynchronous communication with the server has tremendous potential to make heretofore very linear authoring and workflow procedures in a CMS much more fluid and therefore more, well, lifelike......

Last Call: VoiceXML 2.1

Last Call: VoiceXML 2.1 07/28/2004 04:28 PM
2004-07-28: The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1. Fully backwards-compatible with VoiceXML 2.0, the draft standardizes eight additional features implemented by VoiceXML platforms. Comments are welcome through 1 September. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive)

Taking a call on IT

Taking a call on IT 12/31/2004 06:35 AM
Express Computer India Dec 31 2004 10:53AM GMT

HP Gets Call for Carriers

HP Gets Call for Carriers 08/16/2004 12:38 PM
Motorola taps the computer maker to team up on next-gen networks.

The Call to Peace.

The Call to Peace. 03/20/2003 10:42 AM
The Call to Peace. An astrological analysis of the September 11th attacks and their aftermath. Saddam Hussein, a Muslim despot who 51% of Americans think was personally involved in the September 11th terrorist attacks, is charted.

Don't call him chicken

Don't call him chicken 07/10/2004 02:43 PM
Sunjit Kumar of Suva, Fiji, was raised by chickens. As a young boy, his grandfather locked him in a chicken coop where he lived for several years. After Kumar escaped, he was taken to an old age home where the baffled staff confined him for twenty years. Now though, Elizabeth Clayton, president of a Rotary Club in Fiji's capital city, has, er, taken Kumar under her wing.

"Sujit would mostly hop around like a chicken, peck at his food, perch like a chicken and make noises like a chicken," she said. "He would prefer to roost on the floor to go to sleep rather than sleep in a bed."

Kumar currently resides in a former factory while undergoing therapy. Video available here. More of the story here.

do they call it an epiphany?

do they call it an epiphany? 10/29/2003 12:11 AM
In my vicodin state of mind I had a thought that most of the things that happen in our lives...

The Call to Voice

The Call to Voice 12/28/2004 07:17 PM
Large companies will have a tougher time at dominating the VOIP market.

A new era in networking is upon us: So
what do we call it?

A new era in networking is upon us: So
what do we call it? 01/17/2004 10:56 PM
"He who would travel happy must travel light." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

429,000 Do-Not-Call Complaints

429,000 Do-Not-Call Complaints 06/25/2004 11:58 AM

Don't call it a comeback

Don't call it a comeback 01/23/2004 03:54 AM
John Kerry may be the new front-runner, but he knows how dangerous that can be. Case in point: The retooling Howard Dean.

You call that a Mousetrap?

You call that a Mousetrap? 08/10/2004 08:03 PM
Ahh, Mousetrap.

Just turn the crank and snap the plank and boot the marble right down the chute, now watch it roll in into the pole, and knock the ball in the rub-a-dub tub, which flips the man into the pan...the trap is set... here comes the net...

Replace marble with "bowling ball", trap with "twenty three ton crane", and net with either "bank safe" or "piano", and you've got a pretty good idea of the Life Size Mouse Trap event that just hit San Francisco. (Summary pic / All pics).

And yes, of course there were protesters.

A Call to Action

A Call to Action 01/28/2004 06:46 AM
In her new column, this noted author and Harvard B-School professor says the 20th century model of capitalism is dead.

US to call for more aid for Iraq

US to call for more aid for Iraq 01/24/2004 12:02 AM
Vice President Dick Cheney will call on all countries to help with Iraqi reconstruction - even opponents of the war.

Who you gonna call?

Who you gonna call? 06/28/2004 11:24 PM
“The black-and-white Volkswagen Beetle pulled up in front of a suburban Antioch home, and a man wearing a white shirt, white socks, black tie and black pants got out and rang the doorbell, holding up an identity badge. ‘Hi, I’m Double Agent Mark, with the Geek Squad,’ he said to Louise Agnew, who answered the door. Agnew led him into her office, where her computer sat idle, surrounded by evidence of the many projects she uses it for — Soroptimist speeches, photos from scuba diving, stamp collecting. ‘I came back from vacation, and AOL sent a message saying they had detected a virus,’ she said. ‘It will not let me open Word. I’m lost without my Word.’

mail call!

mail call! 04/10/2005 05:28 PM
I think it's time to open the WWdN mailbag . . .Subject:Wil how a terrible news that ya are a...

ZTE on top in Tunisia with first ever 3G
call

ZTE on top in Tunisia with first ever 3G
call 09/21/2004 09:01 AM
WebitPR Sep 21 2004 1:32PM GMT
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