493 mln pairs of athletic shoes sold in 2004

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"ABC13.com: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs
of shoes filled with bu..."

"ABC13.com: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs
of shoes filled with bu..." 11/11/2003 09:14 PM

ABC13.com: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs of
shoes filled with butter in woods

ABC13.com: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs of
shoes filled with butter in woods 11/11/2003 07:06 AM
Mystery surrounds 70 pairs of shoes filled with butter in woods .. well, okay, actually it WAS butter

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$4.5 bln of workstations sold in 2004

$4.5 bln of workstations sold in 2004 04/16/2005 07:34 PM
ZDNet Apr 16 2005 10:26PM GMT

19 Handsets Will Be Sold Every Second in
2004...

19 Handsets Will Be Sold Every Second in
2004... 07/06/2004 08:29 AM

...if the market achieves current volume predictions of 600m units.

If it doesn't achieve current volume predictions it will be another number, perhaps the dreaded seventeen or, god help us, eleven.
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Wanted: Athletic Supporter

Wanted: Athletic Supporter 03/22/2005 04:31 PM
In a sport where the point is to vigorously kick balls, I don't think I'd be as free with my equipment as Igor Biscan of Liverpool.

Bush: The Athletic Supporter Candidate

Bush: The Athletic Supporter Candidate 05/25/2004 05:52 PM
Bush Will Win Because He's A Jock
(warning National Review filter)
Sorry, I had to post this because its about the dumbest article on why Bush will win the election that I have ever seen.

via Bush Must Go

Ohio State Athletic Director to Retire
(AP)

Ohio State Athletic Director to Retire
(AP) 01/05/2005 11:09 AM
AP - Ohio State athletic director Andy Geiger is retiring, the university said Wednesday. The nation's second-largest athletics department has endured several blows in the past year, including NCAA investigations of its football and basketball programs.

Philips' athletic MP3 player hits the
track

Philips' athletic MP3 player hits the
track 09/08/2004 05:07 AM
Monitors performance to the sound of Chariots of Fire

Sasebo's athletic field sports new
high-tech turf

Sasebo's athletic field sports new
high-tech turf 09/03/2004 05:49 PM
European and Pacific Stars and Stripes Sep 3 2004 9:15PM GMT

Scare Pairs 1.0

Scare Pairs 1.0 11/14/2003 03:36 AM
A frightfully fun matching game.

stereo image pairs

stereo image pairs 01/05/2004 04:57 AM
Raw Image Gallery .. RAW PHOTO FEED .. Images

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Town Sold On eBay Not Really Sold

Town Sold On eBay Not Really Sold 12/29/2003 04:51 AM
Earlier this month, I wrote about how it's become popular to use eBay as not just a buying and selling platform, but also as a PR platform for such things as selling towns - because you're almost guaranteed to get press coverage for selling something weird. Of course, it looks like there might also be a downside. Last year, a town in California received a ton of press for being put up on eBay, after conventional attempts to sell it had failed. That press coverage helped push up interest in the town until someone "won" the town with a bid of $1.8 million. Of course, as we pointed out at the time, with many such high profile auctions, the top bid is likely to be bogus. A few months after the original auction, it was reported that the sale still hadn't been finalized. Now, exactly a year after the original eBay auction happened, the folks who "own" the town are admitting that the buyer disappeared and never sent a check. Even worse, the sellers then went down the list of everyone else who bid on the town and failed to find a single legitimate buyer. Thus, the town is back up for sale - but not on eBay and at half the price of what they "sold" it for last year.

Stereo Reconstruction from Image Pairs

Stereo Reconstruction from Image Pairs 04/30/2004 11:58 AM
Mars Rover Stereo Reconstruction

Inoue and Baldwin Win First Pairs Title
(AP)

Inoue and Baldwin Win First Pairs Title
(AP) 01/09/2004 09:53 PM
AP - Good thing the United States only has to send two pairs to the world championships. Even those two barely belong. Rena Inoue and John Baldwin Jr. won their first pairs title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Friday night — by default.

18 pairs of Dual Channel Memory Tested

18 pairs of Dual Channel Memory Tested 07/16/2004 03:41 AM

FMC pairs with Swift for global
securities network

FMC pairs with Swift for global
securities network 04/15/2005 11:11 PM
Computer Business Review Apr 16 2005 3:35AM GMT

VodaFone, BT Pairs Bluetooth to Cell
Phone for Handoff

VodaFone, BT Pairs Bluetooth to Cell
Phone for Handoff 05/20/2004 06:59 PM
British Telecom will deploy a Vodafone handset that switches from cellular to a local broadband connection at homes, offices: Project Bluephone would ostensibly use Bluetooth to handle the cell to broadband swapover when within the range of a local base station, and then transmit voice over that connection out to BT. Details are a little hazy about how well this will work in homes: Bluetooth typically runs at its 1 Mbps speed only within 30 to 100 feet, even with the more powerful flavor of Bluetooth. [via Engadget]...

Default username/password pairs in ON
Command CCM 5.x database backend

Default username/password pairs in ON
Command CCM 5.x database backend 09/20/2004 07:06 PM
Jonas Olsson (Sep 20 2004)

2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004

2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004 03/27/2005 05:50 AM
ZDNet Mar 27 2005 10:35AM GMT

Town Sold On eBay Finally Sold For
Real... But Not On eBay

Town Sold On eBay Finally Sold For
Real... But Not On eBay 05/21/2004 02:35 AM
Back in 2002 there was a tremendous amount of hype when Bridgeville, the small (mostly deserted) California town was put up for sale on eBay. It eventually sold in an auction for $1.8 million - and got a tremendous amount of press attention. The only problem: the $1.8 million bid was a hoax. A whole year went by and the owners of the "town" sheepishly admitted that the buyer (and his money) never showed up. Now, however, the town has been sold again - but not on eBay, and back down at its original asking price of $700,000. Even with the failure of the actual sale to go through, though, people still remember that you can "sell a town on eBay," contributing to the use of eBay as a PR platform beyond just its ability to match buyers and sellers.

It's All About the Shoes

It's All About the Shoes 09/07/2004 07:00 AM
When nearly all of his competitors were exporting work overseas, John Stollenwerk kept his 700 factory jobs in the United States -- but not for the reasons you'd think.

GNU/Shoes

GNU/Shoes 01/24/2004 10:36 PM
GNU Shoes 0.3/0.4 release

Blue Shoes

Blue Shoes 04/04/2005 11:08 AM

« One of the five bright blue towers of the 110 kV Salmisaari-Meilahti power line that crosses the seurasaarenselkä that are collectively called "Antti's Footsteps" in honor of their designer, Antti Nurmesniemi. Look at the tiny little people on the right for a sense of scale. [They were named from a HE contest with 1,496 entries and the winner receiving 5000 kWh of electricity for a year. The finalists were: Sinijätit, Johtokurki, Hattiwatit, Meritoverit (sea friends), Seireenit (sirens), Stadin Eiffelit (Eiffels of the city), Sinilinja (blue line), Sinimastot (blue masts), Virtaviivat (blood line) and Antin askeleet (Antti's footsteps).] »

Helsinki Energy seems to go out of it's way to make power plants look good as though people might notice, and perhaps blame them, that the Baltic is still so polluted that it's not recommended to eat Baltic fish more than once a week or the layer of smoggy gritty haze over the city today if they didn't sex them up a bit. As though they might be saying, "Yes, this is a coal fired power plant but, hey, aren't these lovely blue power lines beautiful?" Sure, they say the plants are ultra clean but the people they're saying that to probably don't live next to the strip mine somewhere with cheap labour and no pretty blue pylons. Energy production is with rare exception a dirty, ugly business that we'd all like to pretend that we don't participate in and depend on utterly each and every day. I look at those blue giants daily and I'm reminded of the lengths we will go in our own self-deceptions and how we are so willing to be fooled. We are energy junkies.

Of shoes and meat

Of shoes and meat 07/28/2004 06:17 AM

« Welcome to Missouri, land of meat and shoes! »

One of the most impressive things about Finns is their grasp of geography, well, at least all the ones I know seem to know far more detail about the planet we inhabit than any other people I've ever met, which is a dramatic contrast to Americans who seem to have some difficulty placing their own country on a political map of the world. If you read Finnish, you'll get a good chuckle out of Peter Elk's [Finnish expat living in NYC] look at an old geography book and it's descriptions of US states. If you don't read Finnish, well, the summary is that some of the state descriptions are pretty hilarious.

Missouri, for example, is the "Meat and Shoe State". I mean, Missouri, land of the Ozarks and home of the 'throwed[sic] roll', evokes the image of meat and shoes? Lambert's does have really great rolls if you remember to duck and their iced tea is served in giant mason jars with free refills, too. I kept trying to imagine of a reason why anyone on the planet would think of shoes and meat when describing Missouri. And then it dawned on me....Missouri! The Sho[e]-Me[at] State! Someone in Finland heard Shoe-Meat instead of Show-Me! Of course! :) The slogan has been in use for a long, long time and has a somewhat interesting origin.

The most widely known legend attributes the phrase to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1897 to 1903. While a member of the U.S. House Committee on Naval Affairs, Vandiver attended an 1899 naval banquet in Philadelphia. In a speech there, he declared, "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me." Regardless of whether Vandiver coined the phrase, it is certain that his speech helped to popularize the saying.

Other versions of the "Show-Me" legend place the slogan's origin in the mining town of Leadville, Colorado. There, the phrase was first employed as a term of ridicule and reproach. A miner's strike had been in progress for some time in the mid-1890s, and a number of miners from the lead districts of southwest Missouri had been imported to take the places of the strikers. The Joplin miners were unfamiliar with Colorado mining methods and required frequent instructions. Pit bosses began saying, "That man is from Missouri. You'll have to show him."

However the slogan originated, it has since passed into a different meaning entirely, and is now used to indicate the stalwart, conservative, noncredulous character of Missourians.

Well, in all honesty, Missouri did have the Brown Shoe Company in St. Louis and the enormous stockyards in Kansas City [in Missouri in spite of the name] back before it became better known for Budweiser Beer and John Ashcroft. I think the new state slogan should read, "Missouri! We're real sorry about Ashcroft!" Or, maybe, "Missouri! Getting dumb sports fans drunk since 1906!" Missouri does have a few redeeming qualities like Mark Twain, Chuck Berry and Vincent Price. It's home, but as Mark Twain so wisely quipped, "Familiarity breeds contempt..." I will henceforth refer to it as the "Shoe-Meat State". :)

Because it's July [read everything is closed for summer holiday and I'm bored] and I'm, of course, far more entertained by state slogans than anyone probably should be, I'll offer a more honest selection of state slogans for the easily amused. They're notoriously bad and ridiculed all over the US [65k pdf] for being the product of horrible PR wonks.

• Alabama: Wonder Full ∴ Wonderful? Alabama? "Yes, we have indoor plumbing."
• Alaska: Beyond Your Dreams, Within Your Reach ∴ "Screwing the environment for your SUV"
• Arizona: The Grand Canyon State ∴ "Land of Cheap Smokes and Indian Reservations" Monument Valley is really a lot more stunning than the Grand Canyon.
• Arkansas: The Natural State ∴ Natural? Natural what? "If you can read this, you don't live here."
• California: Find Yourself Here ∴ ...because everyone here is as lost as you are. "California, the fruit and nut state!" or "Our women have more plastic than your car!".
• Colorado: (none) ∴ Colorado, home of the Coalition for the American Family and anti-gay everything. "If you don't ski, don't bother."
• Connecticut: Full of Surprises ∴ Boy, howdy, who wrote that nonsense? "Connecticut, Stepford wives and suburban stupor!" or "Massachussets is thattaway!"
• Delaware: It's Good Being First ∴ The state best known for it's very 'generous' tax structure, S-Corporations and cheap booze/outlet malls that people from adjoining states flock to. I guess they couldn't just say, "Hey! We're small, cheap and available!".
• Florida: (none) ∴ "Ask us about our grandchildren!" or "Watch out for that sinkhole!"
• Georgia: Georgia on My Mind ∴ We banned rum and slaves but not lawyers!
• Hawaii: Aloha ∴ BORING. "Islands of flaming hot magma!"
• Idaho: Potatoes. Tasty Destinations. ∴ Why not just get sponsored by Ore-Ida Corp and go with "When it says Ore-Ida, it's alll-righta."? or, even better, "Land of Tater Tots!".
• Illinois: Right Here. Right Now. ∴ Yeah, it's there alright. What happened to "Land of Lincoln"? "Illinois! Please remember the S is silent!"
• Iowa: Come Be Our Guest ∴ "Iowa! Be our guest as you surely won't stay!"
• Indiana: Enjoy Indiana ∴ It used to be "Wander Indiana" which had TV spots with an empty car toodling around the state which gave you the [realistic] impression that the state put you to sleep. "Indiana! Enjoy our dullness!"
• Kansas: Simply Wonderful ∴ "Kansas! Drive faster, daddy! Faster!" The only thing more boring than driving across Kansas is driving across Wyoming.
• Kentucky: It's That Friendly ∴ "Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names"
• Louisiana: Come as You Are. Leave Different. ∴ "It's not new and it doesn't lean!"
• Maine: It Must Be Maine ∴ "Every visitor gets a free L.L. Bean Boat Tote!"
• Maryland: (none) ∴ "Crab cakes and crabs."
• Massachusetts: Make It Yours ∴ "Taxachusetts! Our Taxes Are Lower Than Finland's (For Most Tax Brackets)"
• Michigan: Great Lakes. Great Times. ∴ "First Line Of Defense From The Canadians" or "All your crap cars are belong to us!"
• Minnesota: Explore Minnesota ∴ "And don't forget the bug spray!" or "10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000,000,000 mosquitoes"
• Mississippi: Feels Like Coming Home ∴ "Come Visit And Feel Better About Where You Live"
• Missouri: Where the Rivers Run ∴ "Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work" or "We're sorry about Ashcroft!"
• Montana: Travel Montana ∴ "Home of the Unabomber and christian militias"
• Nebraska: Possibilities...Endless ∴ "Ask About Our State Motto Contest..."
• Nevada: Wide Open ∴ Gotta wonder what the guy who made that one up was looking at. "Home of the mushroom cloud!"
• New Hampshire: Make Up for Lost Time ∴ "Go Away"
• New Jersey: The Perfect Getaway ∴ What a perfect motto for a state filled with gangsters! "Hey, Guy! Whatchoolookinat?"
• New Mexico: Land of Enchantment ∴ "Atomic bombs and Aliens! Coincidence? We think not!"
• New York: I ♥ NY (I Love New York) ∴ "Give us your wallet!"
• North Carolina: A Better Place to Be ∴ "Come smokem peace pipe!"
• North Dakota: Legendary ∴ "We still have at least 50 residents!"
• Ohio: So Much to Discover ∴ "Ohio! The state next to Indiana!"
• Oklahoma: Native America ∴ "Just like the musical only without the singing!"
• Oregon: We Love Dreamers ∴ "We hate Californians!"
• Pennsylvania: The State of Independence ∴ "Cook With Coal!"
• Rhode Island: (various) ∴ "We aren't really an island!"
• South Carolina: Smiling Faces. Beautiful Places. ∴ "We didn't surrender to those Damn Yankees!"
• South Dakota: Great Faces. Great Places. ∴ "250 miles to the nearest rest stop!"
• Tennessee: (none) ∴ "The edumacation state!"
• Texas: It's Like a Whole Other Country ∴ It sure is y'all. We all wish it were another country, too. "Si! Hablo Ingles!"
• Utah: (none) ∴ "We're on a mission from god" or "Dry in every way imaginable"
• Vermont: (none) ∴ "Come peep and leave"
• Virginia: Virginia is for Lovers ∴ "We have ponies"
• Washington: (none) ∴ "Home of Apples and Microsoft"
• West Virginia: Wild and Wonderful ∴ "Kissin' Cousins!"
• Wisconsin: Stay Just a Little Bit Longer ∴ "Come cut some cheese!"
• Wyoming: (none) ∴ "Why are you here?"

Putting ourselves in their shoes

Putting ourselves in their shoes 09/22/2004 10:33 AM
Juan Cole helps us imagine what life would be like in the United States under Iraq-like conditions. In terms of civilians killed -- it would be as if 9/11 happened every week.

Nice shoes

Nice shoes 01/03/2004 02:06 PM

Medium Footwear's collection of new shoe designs look pretty cool. They seem right about midway between skate shoe and hipster shoe to me (tending towards hip for the sake of being hip), which is what I'm currently liking in my shoes.

I'd point to my favorite shoe designs, but their assy flash interface doesn't let me link directly to them.

Big Belly, Big Shoes

Big Belly, Big Shoes 05/31/2004 05:31 PM
This week's question: Why did my wife's feet grow a shoe size when she was pregnant?

Travelling Shoes

Travelling Shoes 03/21/2003 09:13 AM
it was Uday in the bunker .. Uday Out of the Picture? .. travellingshoes

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Wearing Shoes Bad For your Health?

Wearing Shoes Bad For your Health? 04/01/2005 05:25 PM

Walk A Mile in Your Shoes

Walk A Mile in Your Shoes 12/10/2003 11:29 AM
Walk A Mile project brings policymakers and people on assistance together. One of their programs is Living on Food Stamps, where policymakers try to eat for a month on the same amount of food stamps regular people receive. Here's how it went in Oregon, and some lessons learned by legislators.

Can these running shoes outsmart you?

Can these running shoes outsmart you? 03/19/2005 02:55 AM
Adidas delivers its athletic footwear of the future, a shoe designed around a microprocessor.
Photos: Watch them run

Karma? Top Floor, Next to Shoes

Karma? Top Floor, Next to Shoes 07/25/2004 04:04 AM
In Chelsea, a museum dedicated to the art of the spiritual path opens in a former temple of commerce.

Report: $250 shoes to have computer

Report: $250 shoes to have computer 05/06/2004 08:40 AM
CNN May 6 2004 12:21PM GMT

How Much Computing Will You Wear In Your
Shoes?

How Much Computing Will You Wear In Your
Shoes? 05/06/2004 01:32 AM
Forget gimmicky tricks like the "air pump" in the tongue or blinking lights on the back of sneakers, now companies like Adidas are working on "smart" shoes that include sophisticated sensors, a microprocessor and an electric motor to monitor how the shoe is responding to whatever the wearer is doing and adjust the shoe on the fly. That is, if the compression of the base of the shoe is too soft or too hard, it will adjust to make it better, lessening the wear and tear on a runner's knees. Like those blinking lights on shoes that are popular with kids, it appears this sneaker will come with some blinking lights too - but they'll serve a purpose: displaying the "settings" of your sneakers. This may be the first shoe that needs its own CD-ROM instruction manual. Don't think shoe technology ends here, either. This is just the start of where some people see these smart shoes going. Some are even predicting that, for all the hype about wearable computing, the best place to put such processing power is in the shoe.

Adidas 1 Self-Adapting Shoes

Adidas 1 Self-Adapting Shoes 05/06/2004 07:13 AM
The Times' Circuits section accidentally reports about something interesting this morning when they talk about the development of the new 'Adidas 1' self-adapting running shoe. Although the article is too busy getting quotes from Rob Enderle to actually break down what exactly the shoes do to adapt, I was able...

"shoes for the kids in Afghanistan. "

"shoes for the kids in Afghanistan. " 06/17/2004 11:33 AM

NCR boss fills Fiorina's shoes

NCR boss fills Fiorina's shoes 03/30/2005 07:21 AM
Computer Weekly Mar 30 2005 11:16AM GMT

Kicksology - Timeline of Basketball
Shoes

Kicksology - Timeline of Basketball
Shoes 08/06/2004 08:11 AM
Kicksology, Timeline of Basketball Shoes

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Social Climbers put on your hiking
shoes......

Social Climbers put on your hiking
shoes...... 08/02/2004 09:53 AM

Ju dith (as usual) is totally tied in.....

Are you a social climber? Do you live in the San Francisco Bay area? If so, you might want to join Urban Diversion or the San Francisco Outdoor Adventure Club.

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Ah, that kind of social climbing, you say! Indeed, online social clubs are becoming an increasingly popular platform to
form ‘face-to-face facilitation for fun’ fora.

They even have ‘clubhouses’!

This morning I
found—Urban
activity clubs provide a place to grow, explore and maybe meet—by Reyhan Harmanci, on sfgate.com. In a
year-and-a-half, Urban Diversion’s membership “has risen from 75 to 260, with 25 to 35 events each month. In August,
they plan to launch an East Bay calendar with a new Web portal” according to this article.

Looks like I will have to start a new category in my
S NS Meta List for ‘Online Social
Clubs’.

Happy Sunday!

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