In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

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Wet Seal All Washed Up?

Wet Seal All Washed Up? 08/20/2004 02:10 PM
The retailer wallows in penny-stock pain.

Carol Channing, Gay History of the
World, TKTS Tale and Dell Guy Play in
Midtown Fest, July 12-Aug. 1

Carol Channing, Gay History of the
World, TKTS Tale and Dell Guy Play in
Midtown Fest, July 12-Aug. 1 07/12/2004 07:21 PM
Playbill Jul 12 2004 11:20PM GMT

Colgate-Palmolive Washed Away

Colgate-Palmolive Washed Away 09/20/2004 02:44 PM
The consumer products firm issues a profit warning for the second half.

TCS: Tech Central Station - "I Call the
President Imam Bush": A Turning Point in
Islamic and World History

TCS: Tech Central Station - "I Call the
President Imam Bush": A Turning Point in
Islamic and World History 12/24/2004 01:08 PM
“I Call the President Imam Bush": A Turning Point in Islamic and World History .. Let me quote an Iraqi: .. Stephen Schwartz

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Washed Up Or Not, Porn Spammers Are
Ignoring New Rules

Washed Up Or Not, Porn Spammers Are
Ignoring New Rules 05/26/2004 12:17 PM
When the FTC first announced that all porn spam would need to be labeled with "sexually explicit" in the subject line, we noted that they were now legaliz ing porn spam and that we should expect plenty of it. A new study shows that not only has the amount of porn spam increased since that rule went into effect, most porn spammers are ignoring the law in one way or another. It looks like many did try to put "sexually explicit" or some related misspelling in the subject line, but then ignored just about every other part of the law (such as no spoofing of the from address). Of course, it was just Monday that we pointed out that porn spam was fading as an overall percentage of spam. However, that should give you an idea of how much overall spam is increasing. While the absolute number of porn spam messages has jumped, the relative percentage in relation to financial and other spam messages is decreasing. And, to think, our politicians told us that by now we'd be living in a post-spam world thanks to CAN SPAM.

Goalie's Chelsea souvenir washed away by
mum (Reuters)

Goalie's Chelsea souvenir washed away by
mum (Reuters) 01/27/2004 07:22 AM
Reuters - Leigh Walker failed to save the shirt he had kept as a memento of the day he faced the millionaire footballers of Chelsea from a thorough cleaning by his mother.

Tsunami's Ripples, Unnoticed, Washed
Along Atlantic Coast

Tsunami's Ripples, Unnoticed, Washed
Along Atlantic Coast 01/07/2005 04:18 AM
The tsunami that ravaged countries all around the Indian Ocean also hit the eastern United States, though only the tide gauges noticed.

Fishing scam - weird fish washed up
after Tsunami email is a hoax

Fishing scam - weird fish washed up
after Tsunami email is a hoax 02/01/2005 10:00 PM
PFK Fish News | Deep sea fish in hoax tsunami email "An email containing photographs of bizarre-looking deep sea fish...

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up 05/24/2004 05:37 PM
The latest study on spam trends appears to show that financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam - though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to slow down the amount of spam sent.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | German
crowned world beard champion

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | German
crowned world beard champion 11/04/2003 05:18 AM
world beard and moustache championships .. German crowned world beard champion .. Beardy Weirdies!

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Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet
Security wins 2004 World Class Award
from PC World

Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet
Security wins 2004 World Class Award
from PC World 06/18/2004 10:08 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jun 19 2004 2:20AM GMT

Weinberger: "free access to every work
of creativity in the world is a better
world"

Weinberger: "free access to every work
of creativity in the world is a better
world" 09/21/2004 04:55 PM
Cory Doctorow: David Weinberger, author of the brilliant and seminal Small Pieces Loosely Joined, has posted a draft of a great speech on copyright that he's giving at the World Economic Forum in NYC tomorrow:

[F]or one moment, I'd like you to perform an exercise in selective attention. Forget every other consideration — even though they're fair and important considerations — and see if you can acknowledge that a world in which everyone has free access to every work of creativity in the world is a better world. Imagine your children could listen to any song ever created anywhere. What a blessing that would be!

...We publish stuff that gets its meaning and its reality by being read, viewed or heard. An unpublished novel is about as meaningful and real as an imaginary novel. It needs its readers to be. But readers aren't passive consumers. We reimagine the book, we complete the vision of the book. Readers appropriate works, make them their own. Listeners and viewers, too. In making a work public, artists enter into partnership with their audience. The work succeeds insofar as the audience makes it their own, takes it up, understands it within their own unpredictable circumstances. It leaves the artist's hands and enters our lives. And that's not a betrayal of the work. That's its success. It succeeds insofar as we hum it, quote it, appropriate it so thoroughly that we no longer remember where the phrase came from. That's artistic success, although it's a branding failure.

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Ubi Soft Selects Eiko Media to Help
Integrate Real World Products and Brands
into the World of Video Games

Ubi Soft Selects Eiko Media to Help
Integrate Real World Products and Brands
into the World of Video Games 01/07/2005 04:22 AM
Ubi Soft, one of the world�s largest video game publishers has selected Eiko Media Inc. as their preferred agency to assist in bringing real world products into their suite of video game titles. [PRWEB Jan 7, 2005]

VOIP Video Phones by Packet 8 and 5 LINX
Are Changing How the World Communicates
and Can Reunite Your Family No Matter
Where They Live in The World

VOIP Video Phones by Packet 8 and 5 LINX
Are Changing How the World Communicates
and Can Reunite Your Family No Matter
Where They Live in The World 06/24/2005 03:20 PM
VOIP Video Phones (Voice Over Internet Protocol) by Packet 8 and 5 LINX are revolutionizing the communications industry as you read this and reuniting families that in many cases haven't seen one another in years. There hasn't been a cultural or business change as dramatic since trains were being replaced by airplanes as the common way to travel. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2005]

Where's The Border For Real World Laws
In A Virtual World?

Where's The Border For Real World Laws
In A Virtual World? 12/04/2003 03:52 AM
Last month when everyone was making a big deal over the news that the online game Second Life had decided that players own any intellectual property they create in the game, I said it was a bad idea, since it basically took all of the problems of our intellectual property system and moved them into the virtual world - where it was likely to get more confusing. Over at LawMeme, James Grimmelmann, has been thinking a lot about that very idea and has written an insanely long - but absolutely worth reading - discussion about intellectual property issues as it relates to games. It's impossible to summarize his points, but he explores many of the issues in-depth and appears to have thought about these issues in much more detail than the designers of the various games. What it really seems to come down to is the question of whether or not in-game actions are simply covered by the End User License Agreement (which basically becomes the Constitution for that game) or if real laws in the real world should apply.

PC World gives World Class Awards to Mac
OS X, iTunes

PC World gives World Class Awards to Mac
OS X, iTunes 06/03/2004 07:16 AM
Technology business magazine PC World has announced the winners of its 2004 World Class Awards, and Apple is on the list. The magazine's editors make their selections for the awards "based on exemplary usability, design, innovation, features, performance, and value from a reliable manufacturer."

Indiagames to Bring �World Cyber Games
Mobile Competition�, the World�s Largest
Computer & Video Game Festival, to
Mobile Phones

Indiagames to Bring �World Cyber Games
Mobile Competition�, the World�s Largest
Computer & Video Game Festival, to
Mobile Phones 03/14/2005 05:26 PM
Indiagames secures global rights to bring the WCG Mobile Game Competition. [PRWEB Mar 7, 2005]

where earlier in the day there used to
be the biggest Toys R Us in the world,
in its place is now a store that sells
the nastiest sex toys in the world.

where earlier in the day there used to
be the biggest Toys R Us in the world,
in its place is now a store that sells
the nastiest sex toys in the world. 05/18/2004 07:24 PM
Choose Your Own New York You're in town to visit your wealthy and eccentric Aunt Ginny, who is spending the day having her blood replaced with Botox on the Upper East Side. Now you have the entire day to yourself to explore the most exciting city in the world! -- A Choose Your Own Adventure story, updated.

This one is going down in history

This one is going down in history 11/13/2003 08:48 PM
Today, I have done the MOST stupidest thing I've ever done in my whole entire life. Today in Canada, it...

The History of�You Name It

The History of�You Name It 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
it's like "behind the music" for everyday stuff

Tie-History-0.03

Tie-History-0.03 05/18/2004 12:14 AM

CSS History

CSS History 05/04/2004 10:23 PM

John Allsopp: Message To The Messengers - Props to the old school:

Of late, with the latest version of Style Master released, bedded down, and well received, I've been a little nostalgic about the old days of CSS. So I thought I might try to ride that wave a little, cast my mind back over my experience of CSS, and talk a little about some people you really should be grateful to if you work with CSS and web standards. Particularly some you might not have heard of.

There follows a tribute to some of the unsung heroes of the early history of CSS. And if that's piqued your interest, Lauren Wood's recent post about DOM Level 3 becoming a W3C Recommendation has some insights in to the early days of the DOM Working Group, which she chaired up until November 2001.

PHP History

PHP History 05/27/2004 03:13 PM

PHP programming language: Some interesting history on PHP. It used to be a Perl wrapper?

PHP was originally designed as a wrapper around Perl by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 to display his resume information and collect some data, such as how many hits it was generating. Others first used "Personal Home Page Tools" in 1995, which Lerdorf had combined with his own Form Interpreter to create PHP/FI.

Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, two Israeli developers of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology rewrote the parser in 1997, forming the basis of PHP 3. They also changed the name to its current recursive form. After months in beta, the development team officially released PHP/FI 2 in November 1997.

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AOL: A History

AOL: A History 03/23/2005 01:02 PM

History of the Present

History of the Present 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
That’s the title of an excellent 1999 book I’m now reading, by Timothy Garton Ash. It is real-time reportage focusing around the great transition from pre- to post-Cold War that happened so unimaginably fast, starting in 1989, before our watching eyes. But the History of the Present is what bloggers are writing, too; and Ash says some things that anyone who’s doing it should consider very carefully...

The history of bacon

The history of bacon 03/17/2005 02:53 AM

Science.Ars rocks on for another week. This edition looks at some medical problems in the developing world. For a long time, it was commonly assumed that cancer rates were lower in poorer countries than in the developed world. A new study shows that as life expectancy increases in developing nations, so do cancer rates.

Where you live and what you eat have a large influence on the types of cancer you are at risk from. Richer countries have more breast, colon, rectum and prostate cancer, whereas poorer countries have a greater incidence of cancers of the liver, stomach, and esophagus.

There's also news on the history of bacon and a loss of meltwater. Read on.

Eyewitness to History

Eyewitness to History 06/17/2005 04:20 PM
Am erican's censored Nagasaki A-bomb report unearthed after 60 years: The first reporter to reach Nagasaki following the August 1945 “Fat Man” atomic attack had his newspaper stories censored and banned by US General Douglas MacArthur’s office. The reporter, George Weller, who worked for the (defunct) Chicago Daily News, was prevented from reporting on a mysterious “Disease X” out of fear that the stories of radiation poisoning would horrify the world and shift public attitudes regarding the bomb.

Weller died two years ago. Carbons of the articles were discovered by his son, Anthony.

Four of them were published today for the first time by the Tokyo daily Mainichi Shimbun, which purchased them from Anthony Weller.

Rewriting history

Rewriting history 07/23/2004 09:35 AM
Ever eager to prove it's fair and balanced, the Fox News Channel brags that it broke the Bush DUI story in 2000. Warning: You've entered the spin zone.

3G already on road to history

3G already on road to history 06/03/2004 03:16 PM
Times of India Jun 3 2004 6:26PM GMT

History of the Laptop

History of the Laptop 03/23/2005 12:46 PM

Chris Null over at Mobile PC Mag does another great follow up to his Top 100 Gadgets of All Time, this time detailing the history of the portable computer, from the IBM 5100 Portable Computer pictured here, up to the first modern laptops. It's a tear-jerker for those of us who lived through this era, seeing old friends like the Compaq luggable (mine had more wonky than usual floppy drives) and catching a glimpse of a few I'd not known about.

It also inspired me to keep on with my current tinkering project goal (which let me tell you, is way beyond my limited abilities): getting an Epson HX-20 laptop online via serial cable -> IR -> cellphone. Of course, I've got to buy a working HX-20 first, and every time I mention it on here, you bastards go out and outbid me on all the eBay sales. Stop that.

The Birth of the Notebook [MobilePCMag]

History hopefully never repeats itself

History hopefully never repeats itself 03/06/2004 01:51 AM

Ernest Miller takes a look at the history of the anti-miscegenation ammendment. While you read that, don't forget to celebrate Alabama's 3 and 1/2 years of legal interracial marriage.

History of Podcasting!

History of Podcasting! 06/17/2005 03:51 PM

Seems someone with an agenda is over on Wikipedia making changes to the History of Podcasting. Specifically removing Dave Winer from all mentions. This is beyond a travesty, and even though the majority of us that have been in the space for a while know the real history, it upsets me to see people using the WiKi to make changes that attempts to write people, that contributed to the success of Podcasting out of existence.

RSS is the Glue that makes Podcasting a unique audio delivery vehicle, and "Dave Winer" is the man behind RSS 2.0, Granted others in the space made significant contributions, but to remove Dave's part from the history of podcasting is wrong and a injustice.

Getting the History right in my book was important, people will be hard pressed to alter what is on paper. [Scrip ting News]

This day in history…

This day in history… 04/10/2005 05:17 AM

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History Buff

History Buff 04/10/2005 05:17 AM
History Buff, krantenartikelen van heel lang geleden .. HistoryBuff

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9/11 As Part of History

9/11 As Part of History 09/11/2004 09:19 AM
The Library of Congress American Memory site is a good place to start in looking back at 9/11. They feature a twin towers poster that I have always liked and a "Stop Hate" graphic that's now my PC wallpaper (at least for the week). There are also multiple links to a wide variety of related content.

history of support

history of support 06/24/2004 03:21 AM

"Rewriting History"

"Rewriting History" 06/11/2004 03:17 AM

WebCrawler's History

WebCrawler's History 04/22/2004 06:30 AM
qui trovate una breve cronistoria .. 20. April 1994 .. WebCrawler

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IMDb History

IMDb History 07/17/2004 02:59 PM

Internet Movie Database - Wikipedia: An interesting few paragraphs on the history of the IMDb.

The database started out in 1990 as a collection of shell scripts created by Col Needham which could be used to search the FAQs posted to the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies.

In 1993, a centralized e-mail interface for querying the database was created, and in 1994 this interface was extended to allow the submission of information as well. The database then moved to a Web-based interface, which initially ran on a network of mirrors with donated bandwidth. In 1996, the project was incorporated in the United Kingdom to form Internet Movie Database Ltd., and banner ads were added to the web site.

In April 1998, the company was bought by Amazon.com, the current owner; however, a number of the original creators, including Needham, remained as site managers.

How many great things in the world started as shell scripts somewhere? It's a hacker's world.

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