Blaming the arrangement of the Titanic's deck chairs for its sinking

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Scraping 'Cloth Cap' Deck Chairs
(Reuters)

Scraping 'Cloth Cap' Deck Chairs
(Reuters) 05/17/2004 11:49 AM
Reuters - The quintessentially British seaside town of Blackpool wants to get rid of its candy-striped deck chairs because they are too old-fashioned.

Blackpool to scrap "cloth cap" deck
chairs (Reuters)

Blackpool to scrap "cloth cap" deck
chairs (Reuters) 05/16/2004 10:37 PM
Reuters - The quintessentially seaside town of Blackpool wants to get rid of its candy-striped deck chairs because they are too old-fashioned.

Wedding Floral arrangement

Wedding Floral arrangement 02/05/2005 09:12 PM

One nice thing about going to a wedding - is that you can take the centerpieces back to your hotel room and let your daughter play with it.

Depth vs Breadth in the Arrangement of
Web Links

Depth vs Breadth in the Arrangement of
Web Links 07/23/2002 05:54 AM

Motorola MPx Will Have an Unusual Memory
Arrangement

Motorola MPx Will Have an Unusual Memory
Arrangement 05/05/2004 03:31 PM
BrightHand May 5 2004 7:16PM GMT

DisplayWatcher: Run Scripts Based On Mac
Display Arrangement

DisplayWatcher: Run Scripts Based On Mac
Display Arrangement 07/12/2004 12:07 AM
By James Elliott, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

How does a typical drop-shipping
arrangement work?

How does a typical drop-shipping
arrangement work? 02/24/2003 09:11 AM
"Can dealing with multiple drop-shippers for a single site become an organisational nightmare?"

ESC-key chairs

ESC-key chairs 04/19/2004 04:23 PM
This German company is offering $90 stools shaped like giant ESC keys: "the perfect pouf for all victims of the new media collapse!" Link (via Engadget)

"blaming Bill Gates for making his
computer suck"

"blaming Bill Gates for making his
computer suck" 11/18/2003 03:32 AM

Bogus Diet Patch Company Gets Away By
Blaming Affiliates

Bogus Diet Patch Company Gets Away By
Blaming Affiliates 04/01/2005 10:40 PM
The FTC has apparently decided to settle with a company that was pitching bogus diet patches online. They gave them a small fine, but it's for much less than the total amount they made off the stuff. There appear to be two claims here: one was that they violated CAN SPAM, and the second was that they violated the FTC Act since the patches didn't actually do anything. However, from the sound of the settlement, it appears that the company tap danced its way out of the spamming charge by pointing out that the FTC couldn't prove they did the spamming, since they had "affiliates" do the spamming for them. It appears the FTC has realized that the company was right. Despite the fact that the company was probably pushing others to do the spamming for it, if they didn't do the actual spamming, should they be held liable for spamming? Of course, there's also the followup. If they know it was the affiliates, then why not go after those affiliates as well? That should scare off some of these spammers from signing up for affiliate programs.

Blaming The Mobile Phone For Economic
Troubles, Stupidity

Blaming The Mobile Phone For Economic
Troubles, Stupidity 09/10/2004 10:43 AM
Someone who prefers to be anonymous sent in this opinion piece, supposedly written by an economics professor at Kyoto University looking at the troubles in the Japanese economy over the last thirteen years and then, at the very end, blaming it all on mobile phones. The article looks at consumer electronics, the entertainment industry and the automobile industry, but then shifts gears to look at mobile phones, noting that even while mobile phone sales are "booming," it's done nothing to help the economy. Then, the professor points out that so much mobile phone use is leading to high bills which "dampen household spending" (assuming, of course, that "household spending" doesn't include mobile phone bills). Then, even though he has already complained that entertainment revenues are down because there aren't "sufficient" services to provide them, he complains that Japanese young people are "wasting hours each day" text messaging and playing online games. Finally, he concludes: "The cell phone is the cause of the business slowdown as well as the erosion in young people's intelligence and scholastic abilities." So, basically, it sounds like the thesis is that spending on mobile phone service is somehow "bad" because it takes away from other spending, which is somehow "good." Seems a bit hard to back up.

Musical chairs

Musical chairs 04/15/2004 04:58 PM
As online audio hits a commercial crescendo, key companies are jockeying for position. But both RealNetworks and Apple may be left to go it alone as the sound of Microsoft's footsteps grows louder.

A table and some chairs

A table and some chairs 05/25/2004 11:49 AM
Jason Kottke points to an interview with Jane Jacobs, and mentions he's just reading her latest Dark Age Ahead. After ordering it as it came out, I've just finished it: it's tremendously good, if entirely North American-centric. I'd very much...

Massage Chairs

Massage Chairs 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
New award winning PHP2022 Premier Shiatsu Massage Chair delivers the most realistic massage from a robot. The PHP2022 massage chair feels like the hands of a trained masseuse. [PRWEB Dec 9, 2004]

Blaming Anti-Virus Companies For Adding
To Spam Mess

Blaming Anti-Virus Companies For Adding
To Spam Mess 01/29/2004 02:49 AM
I'm sure I'm not the only person who noticed that plenty of the annoying myDoom related messages that found their way into my inbox in the last few days came from anti-virus companies telling me (incorrectly) that I had sent someone a virus. I didn't send anyone the virus. As everyone knows, myDoom works by spoofing the "from" address - just like almost every other virus/worm these days. So, why exactly, do anti-virus companies continue to send out these messages? Found over at Politech is a nice little rant about just how stupid it is that these anti-virus companies are continuing this practice. In fact, the author claims that they're just as bad as spammers. First of all, they know that these viruses and worms are spoofing return addresses - yet they continue to send out such "you've sent a virus" emails, even when they can be pretty sure it's not true. At the very least, they should be smart enough to not send out such a message on viruses that are known to spoof emails. Second, many of these messages include annoying advertising for the anti-virus product itself. Thus, it's unsolicited commercial email advertising - and it even violates the CAN SPAM law by not offering an opt-out. So, from now on, when you get such bogus anti-virus reports, you should report them as spam to the proper authorities.

CNN's Jordan accused of blaming US
military of murder in Iraq

CNN's Jordan accused of blaming US
military of murder in Iraq 02/05/2005 09:29 PM

Rony Abovitz blogged that Eason Jordan of CNN accused the U.S. military of murdering journalists in Iraq during a panel at Davos. The official summary does not reflect these comments. Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN journalist who worked for Jordon corroborates the assertion by Abovitz. Little Green Football is tracking this in detail.

UPDATE: A MUST READ update from Rony Abovitz.

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Mel Gibson, the Jews, Haiti, and blaming
it all on people who died 175 years ago

Mel Gibson, the Jews, Haiti, and blaming
it all on people who died 175 years ago 03/08/2004 11:03 PM

People are blaming all of the Jew-hatred in Mel Gibson's new movie on the visions of a German nun, Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824).  According to this article from Newsday:

The bedridden visionary, who is said to have borne the stigmata and the wounds of the crown of thorns, is a particular source of contention for Gibson because of her depictions of Jews as bloodthirsty and venal. In The Dolorous Passion, for instance, she "sees" Jewish priests passing out bribes to get people to offer false testimony against Jesus and even tipping the Roman executioners. She also describes seeing Jesus' cross being built in the courtyard of the Temple in Jerusalem.

And Emmerich's 19th-century biographer, the Rev. C.E. Schmoe'ger, wrote about how she had one vision of an "old Jewess Meyr," who confessed to her "that Jews in our country and elsewhere strangled Christian children and used their blood for all sorts of suspicious and diabolical practices."

Gibson, who carries a relic of Emmerich in the form of a faded piece of cloth from her habit, vehemently rejects characterizations of the nun as anti-Semitic.

In other news... I was listening to NPR news a couple of days ago.  All of Haiti's current troubles were being blamed on things that the French did in 1825 and this proposition was discussed seriously for 15 minutes.  Haiti does seem to be in rather tough shape, at least going by the CIA Factbook page:

"About 80% of the population lives in abject poverty.  ... The economy shrank an estimated 1.2% in 2001 and an estimated 0.9% in 2002.  Literacy rate is 53%."

Despite an HIV infection rate of 6.1% and a lot of deaths from AIDS the population is still growing at an annual rate of 1.67%, i.e., there are an ever-increasing number of Haitians to share an ever-smaller pie.  (cf. Malthus)

Perhaps there are more problems in our world of 2004 that can be blamed on those French and Germans who died circa 1825...  Anyone care to suggest some dead Europeans to blame in the comments section?

9 designers, 9 cities, 9 chairs

9 designers, 9 cities, 9 chairs 06/18/2004 06:33 AM
Un-Fold. (quicktime clip) City Magazine asked 9 designers, from 9 cities across the world to design a chair in 90 days. Oh, and it had to fit in a FedEx box. Pics and more about the designers and the project.

The Buck Stops €¦ Where? - Stop blaming
your henchmen, Mr. President. By Fred
Kaplan

The Buck Stops €¦ Where? - Stop blaming
your henchmen, Mr. President. By Fred
Kaplan 05/16/2004 04:58 AM
Bush Didn't Take Out Zarqawi When He Could, Because to Do So Would Have Eliminated One of His Trumped Up Justification for Attacking Iraq. So Then, Is the Blood of Nick Berg on Bush's Hands?

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The Buck Stops … Where? - Stop blaming
your henchmen, Mr. President. By Fred
Kaplan

The Buck Stops … Where? - Stop blaming
your henchmen, Mr. President. By Fred
Kaplan 05/17/2004 10:44 PM

Comfy Chairs, Flamethrowers for Rent

Comfy Chairs, Flamethrowers for Rent 04/18/2004 03:03 PM
Forget arcades and Web cafes: video-game lounges offer a new kind of digital thrill, by the hour.

nice chairs as management strategy

nice chairs as management strategy 04/16/2004 03:55 PM
having a nice chair next to my desk certainly encourages people around the office to bug me

Chairs Sit Well With Laborers (Los
Angeles Times)

Chairs Sit Well With Laborers (Los
Angeles Times) 05/26/2004 04:38 AM
Los Angeles Times - OAKLAND — For nearly a decade, Kwei Fong Lin tolerated numbness in her forearms. Like a great many Chinese immigrants who work in this city's cramped and poorly equipped garment factories, her neck and back ached from long days spent hunched over a sewing machine while perched on rickety folding chairs, stools or even crates.

SCO Keeps Sinking

SCO Keeps Sinking 06/10/2004 11:07 AM
Revenues are drying up, so it's all about the lawsuits.

The Sinking of Tuvalu

The Sinking of Tuvalu 04/28/2004 03:59 PM
The Sinking of Tuvalu, by Kevin Maney. The bizarre story of an island nations sinking fortunes.

Chicago is sinking

Chicago is sinking 05/20/2004 02:16 PM
USA Today May 20 2004 6:49PM GMT

"Sinking Globalization"

"Sinking Globalization" 03/26/2005 04:04 PM

Richard Ishida Co-Chairs
Internationalization & Unicode
Conference

Richard Ishida Co-Chairs
Internationalization & Unicode
Conference 12/13/2002 08:25 PM
13 December 2002: Richard Ishida of the W3C Team has become co-chair of the Internationalization & Unicode Conference. The event (renamed from "Unicode Conference" to more accurately reflect its content) is the premier technical conference worldwide for both software and Web internationalization. The W3C Internationalization Activity is pleased to be able to reaffirm in this way its longstanding and beneficial association with the event. The 23rd Internationalization & Unicode Conference (IUC23) is to be held on 24-26 March 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic. (News archive)

SEC Orders Independent Mutual Fund
Chairs (Reuters)

SEC Orders Independent Mutual Fund
Chairs (Reuters) 06/23/2004 08:20 PM
Reuters - Mutual fund boards must have chairmen who are "independent" of fund portfolio managers, a deeply divided U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ruled on Wednesday, shaking the $7.4-trillion fund business.

Musical chairs: RealNetworks makes
overture to Apple

Musical chairs: RealNetworks makes
overture to Apple 04/15/2004 09:09 PM
CNET Apr 16 2004 1:28AM GMT

Auto Code Commenting Software, Free
Chairs

Auto Code Commenting Software, Free
Chairs 04/01/2005 05:25 PM

Four rescued from sinking vessel

Four rescued from sinking vessel 08/03/2004 12:15 AM
Four people are winched from a sinking motorboat in the North Atlantic in an emergency operation.

Commerce One Sinking Fast

Commerce One Sinking Fast 09/24/2004 01:30 PM
Wired News Sep 24 2004 4:47PM GMT

Chicago's Got That Sinking Feeling

Chicago's Got That Sinking Feeling 05/21/2004 01:04 PM
CBS News May 21 2004 4:58PM GMT

Sinking support for Iraq War

Sinking support for Iraq War 05/19/2004 04:38 PM

Source: BBC News

via Jim Moore

SP2: What's on Deck?

SP2: What's on Deck? 06/16/2004 09:57 AM
Microsoft won't be 'done' with Service Pack (SP) 2 once it ships the final late this summer. The company has plans to back-port a number of the SP2 technologies (code-named "Springboard") to other Microsoft products. Microsoft isn't saying much on its plans on this front, but some of its testers are talking.

Is Your Development Project a Sinking
Ship?

Is Your Development Project a Sinking
Ship? 01/04/2005 05:56 PM

Telecom Sags Under Sinking Spending

Telecom Sags Under Sinking Spending 01/22/2004 05:08 PM
TheStreet.com Jan 22 2004 8:01PM GMT

21 Albanian Migrants Die in Boat Sinking
(AP)

21 Albanian Migrants Die in Boat Sinking
(AP) 01/10/2004 01:03 PM
AP - A speedboat carrying a group of Albanian migrants trying to sneak into Italy sunk as it tried to cross rough seas, killing 21 people, officials said Saturday. Police arrested two suspected Albanian migrant smugglers.
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