Google IPO: Too Clever by Half

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Too clever by half

Too clever by half 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
On the one hand, I do appreciate that my ISP does security scans, presumably checking for vulnerable and compromised machines on its part of the network. Yay them. On the other, I really wish they wouldn't do this from their nameserver machines. Having all the machines in your resolv.conf black-holed for security violations makes life somewhat less fun than one might otherwise like......

Gizmo Guy: Google engineer is
half-Indiana Jones, half-mad scientist

Gizmo Guy: Google engineer is
half-Indiana Jones, half-mad scientist 01/05/2005 08:40 AM
Saratoganews.com - Wed Jan 5, 11:39 am GMT

Google slashes IPO sale almost in half

Google slashes IPO sale almost in half 08/18/2004 04:58 PM

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Google slashed the value of its initial public offering almost in half Wednesday as a cool reception by investors, regulatory problems and a poor market for Internet stocks dogged the search engine giant on the eve of its market debut. Google cut the range of its IPO price to $85-$95 per share from $108-$135 per share and the number of shares that shareholders plan to sell to 5.5 million from almost 12 million. The cuts…

Google Inc. has announced it is slashing
almost in half the size of its IPO and
lowering its estimated price r

Google Inc. has announced it is slashing
almost in half the size of its IPO and
lowering its estimated price r 08/18/2004 04:57 PM
Sympatico Aug 18 2004 8:14PM GMT

im liking this ny times ombudsm...ur,
public editor. half the newspaper should
be bs reporting and the other half
should be used to deconstruct the
articles

im liking this ny times ombudsm...ur,
public editor. half the newspaper should
be bs reporting and the other half
should be used to deconstruct the
articles 01/05/2004 06:08 AM
we will see if they quit misrepresenting Dean remarks .. finally comments .. weighed in

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Half-male, half-female, all crab

Half-male, half-female, all crab 06/17/2005 03:35 PM
David Pescovitz: Fishermen caught a crab in the lower Chesapeake Bay that's literally half male, half female. Among other differences, male blue crabs have deep blue claws while females' claw tips look like they were painted with red nail polish. The fishermen noticed that this particular crab had one of each. Researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science say that the condition, known as bilateral gynandromorphism, is caused by a "chromosomal mishap." Studying the rare animal could increase understanding of crab sexual development and breeding behavior. From the Washington Post:

Before turning over the crab to the scientists, (boat captain David) Johnson and other watermen conducted their own experiment into its sex life, with bewildering results. They dropped a female crab, which was just about ready to mate, into its tank.

First, the half-and-half crab cradled the female under his legs, as a male crab would do in preparation for mating.

Then, the crab seemed to lose interest in the female and let her go, Johnson said.

Then a day later . . .

"He ate half of her," Johnson said.

Link to Washington Post article, L ink to Virginia Institute press release (Thanks, Vann Hall!)

How clever

How clever 06/23/2004 03:49 PM

Clever

Clever 05/27/2004 12:36 PM

I have a lot of ideas. Maybe a handful are good ones. Once in a great while I might have a clever idea, but I'm constantly impressed by people that can truly be creative. To take a problem thousands of years old, turn it on its head and solve it with a new clever idea is something to behold.

These two ideas are just about the most clever things I've ever seen.

A clever URL hijack

A clever URL hijack 08/04/2004 08:26 PM
Wading through the comments on Microsoft's IE blog I discovered a clever URL hijack. The domain http://www.trustworthycomputing.com resolves straight to a Google search: "microsoft security OR privacy flaw OR flaws OR hole OR holes". Trustworthy Computing is the wrapper around...

JetBlue's Clever Virus

JetBlue's Clever Virus 06/29/2004 08:58 AM
Taking the edgy carrier for a test drive provides more than a passing grade.

El Reg accused: not right, not funny and
not clever

El Reg accused: not right, not funny and
not clever 02/13/2004 10:38 AM
Letters Part I - devoted to the point of dotGNU

this clever send-up of boingboing

this clever send-up of boingboing 04/02/2005 05:11 AM
BoringBoring

hanasiana.com/boringboring
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Clever Vendor Trick No. 17

Clever Vendor Trick No. 17 04/09/2004 11:43 PM
Shark Tank: This software company has just sold its very pricey software to a bank, and as tech pilot fish heads out to install it, his boss reminds him, "Try to distract them when you load the software off the two floppy disks." ...

La-Z-Boy's Clever Ploy

La-Z-Boy's Clever Ploy 06/24/2004 01:05 PM
Things may look bleak, but La-Z-Boy is showing signs that it will right the ship.

Gorilla no think of clever title

Gorilla no think of clever title 08/09/2004 07:59 AM
Koko goes to the dentist
About a month ago, Koko, a 300-plus-pound ape who became famous for mastering more than 1,000 signs, began telling her handlers... she was in pain. They quickly constructed a pain chart, offering Koko a scale from one to 10. When Koko started pointing to nine or 10 too often, a dental appointment was made. (There's a rather funny development at the very bottom of the story)

Accredo's Clever Strategy

Accredo's Clever Strategy 07/07/2004 11:33 AM
Accredo's acquisitions have been successful, but is this strategy the best way to grow?

Clever e-mail virus

Clever e-mail virus 03/06/2004 02:08 AM
I received this e-mail today, with an attached file called "Readme.pif". Dear user, the management of Bergersen.net mailing system wants to let you know that,...

Those clever devils at Customized
Classics

Those clever devils at Customized
Classics 12/10/2003 04:20 PM

When I first saw Customized Classics a few weeks ago I felt like kicking myself. It's hard for most people to understand what "public domain" really means, and what value it can give us as a culture, and directly as capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Project Gutenberg has recently uploaded their 10,000th public domain book, and Brewster and the gang are working on the "million book project". To demonstrate the potential of the public domain, and show people what movies, music, and stories used to be like when there was an active public domain (that at one time was only 14 to 28 years old -- imagine making new movies and music from 60s stuff totally free of copyright), I've been kicking around ideas of how to exploit these free works (again, for demonstration purposes more than anything else).

One idea I called "judge a book by its cover." Take these public domain classics, create exciting, artistic cover designs (perhaps by famous designers), and sell them via the new crop of print-on-demand services. A few months ago there was news of Oprah's book club coming back to life and only selecting classics from the public domain, and how publishers would have to rush to meet the demands, but how anyone could print them up.

I've been coming up with other ideas but nothing is as good as customized classics. They just do a search-and-replace on names of your choosing, and spit out a custom book to you for 25 bucks or so. Brilliant and simple.

Clever Caller ID Tricks With VoIP

Clever Caller ID Tricks With VoIP 07/07/2004 11:04 AM

Shark Tank: But it's still a really
clever solution

Shark Tank: But it's still a really
clever solution 01/06/2004 12:57 AM
It's the late 1980s, and this Cobol programmer pilot fish gets a new assignment: Write a program that can slice and dice mainframe security information. But that's not exactly a job for Cobol.

Devilishly clever comment spam

Devilishly clever comment spam 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Go to pystl dot org. Looks like your standard open source Wiki, in this case for the Python St. Louis user group, doesn't it? If someone left a comment with that as the url, it would seem pretty innocuous, even if the comment was a little random and unfocused, wouldn't it? But check out the links at the top of the page. All for commercial products that have nothing to do with Python. One almost has to respect the artistry of the scam and the degree to which they have studied bloggers, and know our prejudices. It is amazing the lengths that people will go to get a few links to their site. I guess somebody must buy their trash. I said almost respect them. It is still comment spam, so into the trash bin it goes. But the spammers get points for effort on this one....

IE7, a clever workaround of IE's CSS
bugs

IE7, a clever workaround of IE's CSS
bugs 03/08/2004 11:17 PM
the name's bad, but the idea of wrapping up all these fixes in a behavior is extremely clever

How to shield your network from clever
hackers

How to shield your network from clever
hackers 07/23/2004 09:55 PM
Microsoft Jul 24 2004 1:41AM GMT

Clever as ever, Drudge makes it personal

Clever as ever, Drudge makes it personal 09/24/2004 06:29 PM
Employing some crude editing techniques, Matt Drudge today tried to convey the impression that one of Sen. John Kerry's staunchest defenders was backing off his praise for Kerry's war service. The misinformation attempt forced historian Douglas Brinkley to clarify his statement of full support for Kerry.

"Print: The Chronicle: 4/15/2005: Clever
Canines"

"Print: The Chronicle: 4/15/2005: Clever
Canines" 04/19/2005 08:36 AM

Wiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book

Wiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book 07/23/2004 11:21 AM
Letters It's a Children's Encyclopedia

clever solution for filtering your kid's
mail

clever solution for filtering your kid's
mail 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
i have to agree, there's a huge market for a category-killer app here

Clever trick speeds sending of group
e-mail

Clever trick speeds sending of group
e-mail 11/03/2003 02:36 PM
Los Angeles Times Nov 3 2003 1:48PM ET

GAME REVIEW: Voodoo Vince a Clever Time

GAME REVIEW: Voodoo Vince a Clever Time 12/24/2003 05:59 PM
AP via Daily Press Dec 24 2003 5:40PM ET

VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Voodoo Vince's clever

VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Voodoo Vince's clever 12/24/2003 12:13 PM
Boston Globe Dec 24 2003 10:01AM ET

Everybody still think it was clever of
the Republicans to spend all that money
to give this man a platform? Ben Stein?
Anybody?

Everybody still think it was clever of
the Republicans to spend all that money
to give this man a platform? Ben Stein?
Anybody? 08/13/2004 06:00 PM
Nader has fired back

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58007-2004Aug11.html
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Creeper Sweeper Caster - Clever New
Product is Long Overdue

Creeper Sweeper Caster - Clever New
Product is Long Overdue 05/31/2004 02:11 PM
Any auto mechanic who has used a creeper knows the frustration of rolling into a stray nut or bolt; it's like an unforseen panic stop.Inventor Bob Butler knows all about that problem..... [PRWEB May 24, 2004]

Clever zooming tricks improve mobile
user interfaces

Clever zooming tricks improve mobile
user interfaces 03/19/2005 03:03 AM
Mark Frauenfelder: In my latest piece for TheFeature, I wrote about way researchers are using zooming tricks to make web sites easier to use on mobile phones.

[Patrick] Baudisch's solution to this problem is called "summary thumbnails," which he developed in collaboration with Heidi Lam at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. It is a mobile browser that renders pages as thumbnails, but keeps the text large enough to read. It achieves this by displaying readable text fragments. For example, a CNN.com headline that reads "Chimpanzee Attacks Supermodel at Circus" might be shortened to "Chimpanzee Attacks." All the other headlines and story summaries on the page get the same treatment. There's no artificial intelligence at work here -- it's simple truncation. But it's surprisingly effective. Baudisch and Lam conducted a user study and discovered that users found what they were looking for in web pages 41% faster and at a 71% lower error rate than they did when they looked for the same content on browsers that rendered pages as single columns, and that they zoomed 59% less than when they used ordinary thumbnail rendering browsers.

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Boxing clever How small internet firms
boost sales at Christmas

Boxing clever How small internet firms
boost sales at Christmas 12/18/2003 05:46 AM
BBC Dec 18 2003 4:53AM ET

Update Memo: Google's Gmail Goes
Semi-Public via Clever Viral Marketing

Update Memo: Google's Gmail Goes
Semi-Public via Clever Viral Marketing 06/09/2004 07:01 PM
Marketing Sherpa Jun 9 2004 11:07PM GMT

Flikr is the newest offering from the
clever kids at Ludicorp. If you only try
one social networking software this
year, make it Flikr

Flikr is the newest offering from the
clever kids at Ludicorp. If you only try
one social networking software this
year, make it Flikr 07/06/2004 01:45 AM
�� ��� �� ������� ��������� ��� ������ .. flickr beta .. Flickr

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we don't know the half of it

we don't know the half of it 09/15/2004 12:37 AM
It's Worse Than You Thought .. Checkmate

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"But it's still not enough by half:"

"But it's still not enough by half:" 04/12/2004 03:24 PM

Six and a half hours

Six and a half hours 12/19/2004 03:53 PM
That's how long it took to get my laptop running with the new hard drive. It sure would be nice...
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