Early Bird Receipts Are Important
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Early Bird Kit Online!
Early Bird Kit Online!
04/02/2005 11:52 AMConfused about the tent sale? Don't have a participating Wal*mart
near you? Well then get on over to
Walmart.com right now and order your very own
exclusive early bird kit today! Only $29.88 each plus tax and
shipping.
Early Bird Had the Brains to Fly
Early Bird Had the Brains to Fly
08/05/2004 12:00 AMWhat's In The Wal-Mart "Early Bird"
Pallet?
What's In The Wal-Mart "Early Bird"
Pallet?
03/26/2005 04:54 AMOne Rebelscum reader takes a peek inside the pallet and has a possible
answer, and he also confirms another store exclusive that's been
rumored for months.
The Early Bird Gets the Shopping Bargain
The Early Bird Gets the Shopping Bargain
11/06/2003 02:48 PMThanksgiving is still weeks away, but it's not too early to get a jump
on holiday shopping. Even if visions of sugarplum fairies aren't
dancing in shoppers' heads just yet, MSN® Shopping
(http://www.msnshopping.com/) is making it worthwhile to get a head
start on gift-buying with its 12 Days of Deals promotion in the United
States.
Early Bird Figures Revealed!!!
Early Bird Figures Revealed!!!
04/06/2005 03:54 PMThe most talked-about set of all the exclusives from the past month
has finally been revealed!!! There has been a lot of discussion on
these and a lot of confusion. Well, wonder no more! The complete
details are now revealed and the figures are pretty cool! Head on over
to Hasbro's site and see for yourself!
LA hacker-con early-bird is open
LA hacker-con early-bird is open
04/30/2004 02:11 AMEarly Bird is open for LayerOne ($40), a hacker con in LA this June:
* Life Hacks and Hacked Lives - Danny O'Brien Keynote!
* Killer Bill: The DMCA and The Future of Interoperability - Jason
Schultz
* The Politics of Code - Douglas Thomas
* Network White Ops - Dan Kaminsky
* Why Infrastructures Fail - David Hulton, Lance James
* Voice over IP: What's The Attraction? - Joe Melfi
* Digital Emergency Broadcasting - Kon Wilms
* A Plethoric Dance With Cryptographic Miscellany - Justin
Troutman
* A User-Centric Distributed Social Software Architecture - Eric
Gradman
* Cryptomail - Josh Teitelbaum, Peter Leung
* Legal Wizardry - Jason Whitney
Link
(
Thanks, Boogah!)
Key to early bird sleep disorder
Key to early bird sleep disorder
04/03/2005 03:39 AMResearchers have identified the cause of a sleep disorder which causes
people to nod off early and wake fully alert before dawn.
More On The Wal-Mart Early Bird
Exclusive
More On The Wal-Mart Early Bird
Exclusive
03/27/2005 03:15 AMWe have the answer to what's inside this pallet sitting in the back
rooms at Wal-Mart stores. This is a good one.
Wal*Mart Exclusive Early Bird Kit
Wal*Mart Exclusive Early Bird Kit
03/28/2005 04:11 PMWell Hasbro updated a bit today and now we have the very fist images
of the Wal*Mart exclsuive early bird kit. There's also an auction
online for one and from the images I could see that these four figures
will be updated versions of the original series, plus it is limited to
50,000 pieces!
Wal-Mart Early Bird Exclusive?
Wal-Mart Early Bird Exclusive?
03/24/2005 04:59 AMYesterday we got word of a Wal-Mart exclusive planned for the April
2nd release of
Revenge of the Sith. What's lurking in the
Wal-Mart stockrooms? We've got another piece of the puzzle!
php|architect: Deadline on Early Bird on
php|works
php|architect: Deadline on Early Bird on
php|works
07/20/2004 08:06 AMJust a quick note from
php|architect concerning the
php|works conference being
held in Toronto, Canada.
Koto Fett Early Bird Special
Koto Fett Early Bird Special
04/28/2004 02:24 PMHobby Link
Japan has begun taking pre-orders for the Kotobukiya Boba Fett
painted statue kit. Order your's now and save 5% off the standard
price, offer good until May 10th. The Koto Boba Fett statue is slated
to ship this July.
Trillian3 Early Bird Beta Signups
Trillian3 Early Bird Beta Signups
08/13/2004 04:29 PMeBay Today: Vintage Early Bird Kit
eBay Today: Vintage Early Bird Kit
04/08/2005 10:36 AMWith all the "new" Early Bird kits in collectors hands, here's a look
at the original.
PHP-Con Update: Early Bird Discount
Extended
PHP-Con Update: Early Bird Discount
Extended
10/17/2002 08:03 AMCommunity News: php|tropics Early Bird
Deadline
Community News: php|tropics Early Bird
Deadline
02/01/2005 09:14 PMAs a reminder, the
php|tropics
conference is coming up soon, and the Early Bird Discount runs out
on the end of this month (th 28th, it's not a leap year!).
Early bird syndrome linked to genetic
mutation
Early bird syndrome linked to genetic
mutation
03/31/2005 11:46 PMDavid Pescovitz:
In this week's issue of Nature, neuroscientists
report that they've implicated
a single gene mutation in Familiar Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome
(FASPS), or "early bird syndrome." Often, people who have this
condition have no choice but to crash in the early evening and wake up
long before dawn. From National Geographic News:
"The net result is you can feel very isolated," (FASPS
sufferer Susan) Middlebrook said. "Who wants to party at three in the
morning? Nobody I know, and I'm not headed to the local bar to see
who's still there." Instead, she quietly cleans the house, makes
breakfast, or cuddles up with a book.
About three-tenths of a percent of the world's population lives like
this, including two of Middlebrook's sisters, her daughter, and her
mother. "Their whole clock is shifted," said Ying-Hui Fu, a
neuroscientist at the University of California, San
Francisco...
The researchers are not yet certain how the gene mutation works to
shift people's sleep time. But laboratory experiments suggest mutation
slows the activity of a protein called casein kinase I delta
(CKIdelta). "The next step is to figure out why," Fu said.
Link
Macworld Expo early bird reg deadline
approaches
Macworld Expo early bird reg deadline
approaches
12/02/2003 02:41 PMMacworld Conference &
Expo returns to the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif. from
January 5 to 9, 2004, and attendees only have until December 8 to get
early bird price discounts on their registration packages. 2004 marks
the 20th anniversary of Macworld Conference & Expo, and next
month's event in San Francisco promises to be memorable. Special
features include the Macintosh Gaming Area, iDay 2004, an Internet
Cafe, Apple Consultants Network, User Group Lough, MacBeginnings and
much more.
Photo Archives: Early Bird Certificate
Package
Photo Archives: Early Bird Certificate
Package
04/16/2005 02:43 PMToday's
Photo
Archives update is the third of several exclusives that were
available at the debut of
Revenge of the
Sith toys. The Wal-Mart exclusive
Early
Bird Certificate Package was only available at select stores, and
is a reproduction of the Vintage offer. The Certificate can be
redeemed for 4 action figures and a set of holders to display your
collection, just like the original version.
SVG Open 2003: Call for Papers and Early
Bird Registration
SVG Open 2003: Call for Papers and Early
Bird Registration
02/03/2003 06:21 PM3 February 2003: Early bird registration has started for SVG Open
2003, to be held in Vancouver, Canada on 15-18 July 2003, with
additional half-day workshops and tutorials on 13-14 July.
Co-sponsored by W3C, the SVG Open conference series is the premier
forum for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) developers to share ideas,
examples and implementations. The call for papers is open through 28
February 2003. (News archive)
PHPCon 2002: Update (Early Bird Discount
Deadline)
PHPCon 2002: Update (Early Bird Discount
Deadline)
10/01/2002 08:16 AMFileMaker Developer Conf. early bird
pricing ends soon
FileMaker Developer Conf. early bird
pricing ends soon
06/16/2004 06:52 AMFileMaker has announced that early bird pricing will soon close for
its upcoming
FileMaker
Developer Conference 2004, to be held Aug. 29 to Sept. 1 at the JW
Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix, Ariz. Until June 30, you can
save US$200 off the regular $1,199 conference fee. FileMaker Developer
Conference 2004 will offer 50 in-depth technical sessions that cover a
wide range of FileMaker 7 issues, including "FileMaker 7 Security:
Nuts & Bolts," "Creating Your First XSLT Stylesheet" and
"Interaction Design in FileMaker Pro 7." In addition, there will be a
networking dinner, third party vendor presentations, opportunities to
meet with the FileMaker Product Team and more. The company expects
attendance to exceed 1,000 database developers.
myITforum Membership Early Bird Sign-up
for Microsoft Security Summit
myITforum Membership Early Bird Sign-up
for Microsoft Security Summit
02/19/2004 08:43 AMWal-Mart Exclusive Early Bird Kit Hints
At New Star Wars Line
Wal-Mart Exclusive Early Bird Kit Hints
At New Star Wars Line
03/30/2005 01:01 AMWe've got some new information on the Wal-Mart exclusive, and what it
means for future
Star Wars toys.
Update:
Wal-Mart Early Bird Clarification
Update:
Wal-Mart Early Bird Clarification
04/08/2005 10:37 AMHasbro updates with a clarification on just what exactly you need to
do to redeem your Early Bird Certificate. No mention of what is
required if you purchased your set from walmart.com, but what is known
has been posted
here.
*: Jeremy Kline writes in to let us know the
walmart.com details:
I just got off the phone with Hasbro...and they said that if we
ordered the Early Bird Certificate off Walmart.com that we need to
send in the original packing slip that came in the box along with the
UP Code.
Good news...thanks Jeremy.
End to lost receipts
End to lost receipts
04/18/2004 08:19 AMChicago Tribune Apr 18 2004 12:09PM GMT
Box Office Receipts Soar to Record in
'04 (AP)
Box Office Receipts Soar to Record in
'04 (AP)
01/03/2005 07:55 PMAP - Box office receipts soared to a new record in 2004, although the
actual number of moviegoers declined for a second year in a row.
Making E-Voting Systems With Paper
Receipts Even Better
Making E-Voting Systems With Paper
Receipts Even Better
06/08/2004 10:50 AMWith all the talk lately about e-voting, one thing that continually
gets mixed up is exactly what the fight is over. Those who are
fighting to keep the existing machines like to claim that those who
want a verifiable paper trail are fighting against progress - trying
to go backwards away from electronic voting to a paper world. Of
course, nothing can be further from the truth. Those who want the
verifiable paper receipt aren't against electronic voting at all.
They just understand the technology enough to realize that the current
system isn't particularly secure or reliable and they want to make it
better. Once you start going down that trail, however, you need to
come up with a system that really is more secure and reliable, and
that's where some researchers are
putting a
lot of attention these days. They're trying to go beyond just
adding a verifiable paper ballot, to using systems to make sure that
you can check after-the-fact, to guarantee that your vote really was
properly counted. Most of the article focuses on David Chaum's
system, which tends to bring out very strong opinions in people (too
often focused on Chaum, himself, rather than the system). The
argument against such systems is that they're either too complex or
too expensive (or both), but no one ever said democracy was supposed
to be cheap.
Notes and Tips: Software Update vs.
Receipts
Notes and Tips: Software Update vs.
Receipts
05/04/2004 09:32 AMAn Apple KB article talks about "receipts" and Software Update
operation.
States' Tax Receipts Rise, Leading to
Some Surpluses
States' Tax Receipts Rise, Leading to
Some Surpluses
05/04/2004 01:03 AMStates are reporting stronger tax collections for the first time in
three years, fueling hopes that the budget-cutting days of the
economic downturn are over.
Diebold pledges to fuck over Maryland if
they try to require paper receipts
Diebold pledges to fuck over Maryland if
they try to require paper receipts
12/12/2003 06:52 AME-mail stolen from Diebold is a call to gouge Maryland .. "out
the yin-yang" .. recommends gouging Maryland ..
Schweet:
gazette.net/200350/montgomerycty/state/191617-1.html
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Election Officials Hoping E-Voting
Machines With Paper Receipts Fail
Election Officials Hoping E-Voting
Machines With Paper Receipts Fail
05/27/2004 11:04 AMYou would think that the goal of an election official would be to help
guarantee the most accurate election possible, promoting the benefits
of democracy. However, it seems that that's not true at all. We've
already talked about election officials who have decided to
ignore
rules requiring their electronic voting machines be more secure
and others who are
suing
because they don't want to make their machines more secure.
However, now that Nevada is going to use e-voting machines with a
paper trail, many election officials are
hoping
the machines will fail just to say "I told you so!" Once
again, they're missing the point. It
is very likely that some
of the machines will have bugs - and all of these election officials
will start screaming about them. However, the problem with the
current e-voting machines is that
no one knows if there are bugs or
not in how the votes are actually counted. Just because you've
set up the system to not inform you if something goes wrong, it
doesn't mean that everything has gone right. Shouldn't we trust a
system that will at least let us double check if something has gone
wrong more than one that doesn't let us check at all? Of course, the
article notes that the paper trail in these Nevada elections will be
useless, because it doesn't qualify as a legitimate ballot to be
recounted. In other words, the only point of using e-voting with the
paper trail in these elections is to see if the machines jam up, and
then let election officials complain loudly about the problems with
paper receipt e-voting machines.
BIRD BY
BIRD
BIRD BY
BIRD
08/02/2004 03:38 PM
 The best thing about
Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird:
Some Instructions on Writing &
Life is, even when the thought of sitting down and writing is
about as appealing to you as root canal work, she inspires you to
want
to write. That alone is worth the investment. The book is full of
mostly well-established wisdom about the art of writing, but it's
written intelligently and with great humour and passion. She really
practices what she preaches.
She takes you through the standard rules: Write every day at the same
time, always write something each day, no matter how brief, or how
hard
it is; break the job into manageable tasks ("take it bird by bird");
start with short assignments and "shitty first drafts" that just get
everything down, and edit later; avoid perfectionism; write about what
you know; use your own authentic voice and style; use index cards as
reminders, phone friends and experts to
get background material you need quickly and authentically, and use
writing groups and trusted readers to keep you going and honest. She
explains how to deal with writer's block, agents, publishers, and
jealousy of other (successful but clearly inferior) writers.
What I liked best about the book were some of the humbler, lesser
known rules of good writing:
- Stories tell themselves through you, so it's critical to
find means to silence the noise in your head and let them come
out
- Flawed, hopeful narrators are great voices, and points of
view, from which to tell your story
- Plot need be nothing more
than the discovery of what each of your characters cares about,
revealed vividly and continuously
- Characters must show
strength or courage to be sympathetic
- Dialogue must be
authentic and individual, yet concise and fast-moving
- Good
writers must be observant, reverent, and even startled by life and its lessons
- Great stories
are about great truths, things the writer
cares passionately about that come out in the writing: "To be a good
writer you not only have to write a great deal, but you have to
care."
- You must trust yourself and your intuition, especially
with first drafts, not self-criticize and second guess every
step
- You have to give the best you have always, not save it up
for the next story
- Writers have a duty to the reader to be
honest, to make
things clearer, to help heal readers' "gaping wounds and dazed
expressions", to soothe
The book includes an extraordinary 2-page story by the author
that
illustrates these and other points: It is charming, heartbreaking,
full
of surprises, imbued with the author's great love for two very special
characters, imbued as well with a bit of wonderful, spare, dialogue,
some stunning imagery and an improbable analogy. But mostly, the story
moves, and in so doing it
takes the reader along for the ride.
Until you can read Bird by
Bird for yourself, here are two quotes by other accomplished
writers about the art of writing:
"The greatest writing is done on the edge of what you know and what
you
don't know."
-- Beth Nielsen Chapman
"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can
think."
-- Edwin Schlossberg
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Fishing changes set bird on bird
Fishing changes set bird on bird
02/18/2004 01:31 PMDrops in the number of fish thrown back by fisherman forces a
scavenging seabird to prey on fellow birds, scientists say.
What's Really Important
What's Really Important
03/19/2003 10:25 PMThis VP wants a second laptop to use during the few hours a week she's
at the main office, because her regular laptop is too heavy to carry.
That'll bust our budget, says pilot fish -- can't we just install a
desktop PC to save money?
It's MUCH more important than that!
It's MUCH more important than that!
05/30/2004 05:00 AMUSA soda/coke/pop stats by county .. Mapped, colorized and scrutinized
.. displayed on this map .. now i understand why .. What do you call
it? .. (new window) ..
re-work
popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html
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"MP3.com - Important MP3.com
Announcement"
"MP3.com - Important MP3.com
Announcement"
11/15/2003 03:18 AMHow Important is PageRank, Really?
How Important is PageRank, Really?
04/13/2005 03:04 PMHow Important is The Internet?
How Important is The Internet?
01/25/2003 11:42 AMGoogling' for information or googling other people is quite popular.".
"Google" - the name of just one of the Internet search engines, has
become a verb. ...
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Bighip a Leader in E-mail Marketing Adds
Receipt Service for Customers
Bighip a Leader in E-mail Marketing Adds
Receipt Service for Customers
04/11/2005 02:46 PMBighip.com announced today it has added the Bighip Receipt Service for
its customers.Mr. William Nicholson, President of Bighip.com, in
response to inquiries said:"The Bighip Receipt Service offers a
reliable delivery system for critical customer correspondence by
email. This can include receipts for online transactions, delivery of
login data, and other important, template driven customer notices.
[PRWEB Apr 11, 2005]
Receipt, please
Receipt, please
11/04/2003 12:47 AMNot to sound all Andy Rooney, but there's something that really
bugs me and it keeps coming up again and again and it's just so stupid
I can't take it anymore:
I am sick of having to save receipts and I'm sick of having to
present paper receipts as proof of anything anymore.
We live in a mechanized, computerized society. Every purchase from
my debit/credit card is a sophisticated, multi-step electronic
shuffling of digital cash from my bank to a store, and everything I
buy in a store is recorded in a database, backed up redundantly, and
analyzed, but in the end, I'm given a pointless piece of paper that
stands as my only proof of our transaction, despite the deep data
trail formed between me and a store.
The other day I borrowed some fabric swatches from a Lowes store,
and it required a $25 deposit that would be returned when I brought it
back. A couple days of color matching and I was done with the samples
and took them with me into Lowes for the return. I didn't have a
receipt (they didn't mention it was required), but they had my name,
address, and phone number both written down on a sheet of checked out
fabric books, and in their store's database. I had my driver's license
with me and presented it as well. There's virtually no chance I could
have been posing as someone else given all those bits of
identification, but no receipt, I could get no refund and I was given
store credit instead of real money. It was stupid, but I figured I was
there to spend a couple hundred dollars on tools and stuff so it
didn't really matter.
But recently while shopping at BestBuy, I purchased a washer and
dryer and actually sprang for their cheesy extra warranty (first time
in my life -- I only gave into the scam because it was a new brand
without a track record of reliability). I was told repeatedly that the
warranty was null and void unless I kept a copy of a special extra
receipt that printed out (and it was suggested I make copies if the
first one happens to be destroyed or lost). Now obviously, BestBuy has
my home address (they delivered the units days later), my purchase
history, and my financial details in their customer database that
allowed them to print out the receipt in the first place, but if I
happen to lose this piece of paper in the next five years, my five
year warranty doesn't exist. The record of our transaction will likely
be recorded in their databases for 7 to 10 years, but it's up to me to
prove that I bought something from them.
We've been moving to a paperless society for the past 20 years and
increasingly I rely on programs on my computer or Google to store
memories, details, and facts about my past. I take photographs that
only exist as digital bits. Almost every important life detail is
stored as a message somewhere in my 300Mb email archive. All these
things help me externalize information but keep it at my fingertips
until I need it. I suspect businesses and banks have much more robust
data technology but it's probably just as electronic as mine.
And yet, in 2003, I have to save a piece of paper for five years if
I ever want my washer fixed under the purchased warranty. It's as if
all parties have agreed that despite our level of data sophistication,
we'll instead act as if it's 75 years ago and everything that matters
ends up in a big paper ledger somewhere, and unless it's in the big
paper book, it never happened. Dumb, isn't it?
My Receipt is the Bill of Rights
My Receipt is the Bill of Rights
12/29/2003 01:17 AMA (former) customer of Best Buy reveals an annoying fact about
superstores: Door Nazis have no right to
demand to see your
receipt as you exit with a purchase (and blocking your car is a
no-go too). (12-29)
10.3: Create a standalone fax receipt
server
10.3: Create a standalone fax receipt
server
12/14/2003 02:18 AMRick LePage, head cool guy over at Macworld Magazine, emailed a
pointer to an interesting article over at hivelogic.com.
Turning A Mac Into A Fax Server describes (without a ton of detail;
this is not necessarily a beginner'...
Early Bird Receipts Are Important
