Amazon tax gaffe: from hero to zero

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Google's Gaffe

Google's Gaffe 05/28/2002 08:58 AM

Google's Trademark Gaffe

Google's Trademark Gaffe 08/16/2004 12:07 PM
Will the company be able to keep the name of its new email service?

N.Y. Post Mocks Its Gephardt Gaffe (AP)

N.Y. Post Mocks Its Gephardt Gaffe (AP) 07/07/2004 07:47 AM
AP - At last, the New York Post is reporting it right: John Edwards is the running mate of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. On Wednesday, the tabloid corrected its erroneous cover story that former Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt would be Kerry's pick. Kerry named Edwards shortly after the edition hit newsstands Tuesday.

One person’s gaffe is another’s
peccadillo

One person’s gaffe is another’s
peccadillo 06/20/2004 10:19 PM
Common Errors In English :: an internet guide

Bush's telling Abu Ghraib gaffe

Bush's telling Abu Ghraib gaffe 05/24/2004 11:33 PM

N.Y. Post Corrects Gaffe on Kerry Ticket
(AP)

N.Y. Post Corrects Gaffe on Kerry Ticket
(AP) 07/07/2004 12:40 PM
AP - The New York Post is reporting it right this time: John Edwards is the running mate of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

Finns urged to retaliate over Berlusconi
gaffe (Reuters)

Finns urged to retaliate over Berlusconi
gaffe (Reuters) 06/24/2005 09:57 PM
Reuters - Finns should boycott Italian produce after Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insulted both their cuisine and their president this week, farming officials said Friday.

Castro ridicules gaffe-prone Bush
(Reuters)

Castro ridicules gaffe-prone Bush
(Reuters) 02/14/2004 07:29 AM
Reuters - Cuban leader Fidel Castro is using humour to defend himself from U.S. hostility, ridiculing President George W. Bush for his gaffes.

Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 |
Bush's campaign trail gaffe

Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 |
Bush's campaign trail gaffe 08/09/2004 09:42 AM

Amazon accidentally revealed the real
names of many anonymous reviewers this
week, through a bug in the amazon.ca
back-end

Amazon accidentally revealed the real
names of many anonymous reviewers this
week, through a bug in the amazon.ca
back-end 02/14/2004 03:55 PM
unmasked .. glitch

nytimes.com/2004/02/14/technology/14AMAZ.html
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In peculiar gaffe, Rumsfeld vows to hunt
those who "shot down the plane over
Pennsylvania" (transcript) 12/26

In peculiar gaffe, Rumsfeld vows to hunt
those who "shot down the plane over
Pennsylvania" (transcript) 12/26 12/28/2004 04:54 PM
CNN December 24, 2004 .. Rest of Article .. Freudian slip? .. mistatement

edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0412/24/nfcnn.01.html
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Everybody Wants to be a Hero

Everybody Wants to be a Hero 01/23/2004 02:21 PM
Both Microsoft and open-source backers are claiming to be leading the charge to break down the digital divide in Third-World countries.

My new hero

My new hero 12/31/2004 12:54 PM
DOJ coup d'etat. Ashcroft is gone. Now, six days before the confirmation hearings of Alberto Gonzales, the acting Attorney General, Daniel Levin, issues a new official memo (pdf)on torture, reversing and specifically repudiating the definitions of torture from the August 2002 memo addressed to Gonzales. The new memo states, among other things,

'we disagree with statements in the August 2002 Memorandum limiting "severe" pain under the statute to "excruciating and agonizing" pain [...] or to pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death'

"Hero"

"Hero" 08/27/2004 01:29 PM
It took the slow boat from China, but Zhang Yimou's dazzling martial-arts epic has finally come to American movie theaters. It was well worth the wait.

My Hero

My Hero 04/26/2004 07:05 PM
Davi d Bowie invites fans to remix his songs.

David Bowie has today asked fans to bootleg songs of his latest album “Reality” to create a new song (mash-up).

The British music star has given fans the right to create a new song by using computer music software to blend or “mash up” two existing tracks.

The winning song will be released as an MP3 and its creator will win a car.

”I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself,” Bowie told The Times newspaper.

[The Digital Music Weblog]

From zero to hero

From zero to hero 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

This is like a commercial for the atkins diet and golds gym. (quicktime mov)

Hero Builders.com

Hero Builders.com 12/17/2003 07:15 AM
Amusing and somewhat disturbing all at the same time .. Okay, I find this really hilarous .. Action heroes for modern times .. truly tasteless dot com .. bearded Saddam dolls .. these action figures .. als Puppen erwerben .. make an honest buck .. rest

herobuilders.com
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An XML Hero Reconsiders?

An XML Hero Reconsiders? 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
Kendall Grant Clark assesses reaction to an essay by Tim Bray that claimed XML was too difficult to work with. Was Bray right, or is he out of touch?

"Hero in Fallujah"

"Hero in Fallujah" 12/19/2004 03:21 PM

Hero Helper X 1.5

Hero Helper X 1.5 12/03/2003 05:00 PM
An aid to the popular HeroGames role playing system. It helps GM’s and players during gaming sessions.

A True Hero

A True Hero 03/19/2005 02:56 AM
Private Johnson Beharry awarded the Victoria Cross. The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award for bravery in combat. It's awared is incredibly rare. The last awards were made posthumously after the Falklands War in 1982. The last living recipients were two Australians in the Vietnam War in 1969. It is said that in order to qualify for a VC, conditions must be so dangerous that only 10% of recipients survive. The actions of Private Johnson Beharry are therefore worthy of a mention.

Auntie Hero

Auntie Hero 09/16/2004 09:33 AM
20th-century American artist, Alice Neele , "The Auntie Hero": "While Uptowners were making their way downtown to have their portraits painted by Warhol, Downtowners were going up to 107th Street to sit for this bohemian, auntie-like artist." Check out seven decades of raw, sometimes amazing, but always deeply humane portraits of the often larger-than-life figures who peopled the New York art/lit scene and Neel's personal landscape, including such iconic irrepressibles as Joe Gould, Andy Warhol, Annie Sprinkle, and Bella Abzug. (NSFW)

SBC is Hotspot Hero?

SBC is Hotspot Hero? 07/26/2004 12:37 PM
They're late to the game, but they're ready to party: It's a funny thing. When SBC Communications first announced their FreedomLink plans last year with plans build 6,000 hotspots over a couple of years, it seemed like yet another announcement of large numbers with no track record. Cometa was still on its 20,000 hotspots prediction and had only a handful. McDonald's hadn't decided its partner and was in limited trials. Wayport seemed stuck on hotels. And T-Mobile stayed focused--as it still does--on a few ubiquitous chains. In the space of a few months, SBC has moved from last man in, to practically first mover. Let's review: The UPS Store. They will install Wi-Fi in thousands of UPS Store outlets, which are places that business people already congregate. This will probably also necessitate a change of thinking for that mailing and business operation so that they can make it easier for people to work for periods of time in their stores. Wayport managed services. They hired Wayport to build out their FreedomLink locations instead of creating a new division with no experience in house. Wayport's Wi-Fi World and McDonald's. They're the first telco to sign up to resell Wayport's McDonald's network, which will ultimately be several thousand stores over the next couple of years. Wayport/McDonald's supplier. They're also providing DSL and other connectivity to many of the McDonald's that Wayport is disconnected, which is part revenue, part branding for them as part of the Wi-Fi World co-marketing model Wayport is pursuing. Airports, airports, airports. They have roaming agreements now for their FreedomLink users onto Concourse, Wise, Wayport, and (reportedly) Sprint PCS's airport locations. There are only a handful of major airports not represented by those networks: SFO and Boston Logan are the two that come to mind. Pushing Wi-Fi into homes. SBC is selling 3,000 Wi-Fi routers a day to their home DSL users. This will drive adoption by their users of Wi-Fi. People without Wi-Fi will buy adapters or new systems because of the ease of sharing. Pushing hotspots subscriptions to their DSL subscribers. It's a coming, and it's going to be good--SBC keeps saying in its press releases that they will offer FreedomLink at a substantial discount to their DSL subscribers. $10 per month for unlimited use? $8? $15? Who knows. But it's an audience they've already got and they can offer them nationwide service with several thousand locations...

Hero Helper X 2.0

Hero Helper X 2.0 09/11/2004 12:04 AM
Aid for the popular Hero Games role playing system.

The Hero of WWDC

The Hero of WWDC 06/17/2005 04:30 PM
(Update 12 June 2005: this post has been edited so that no one person at Apple is singled out—teams are teams, and the entire Intel team deserves a huge round of applause.)

At WWDC a member of the Intel team helped me get NetNewsWire and MarsEdit building as universal binaries. It took a little under two hours. It took as long as that only because these two apps are made up of over a dozen projects, and we had to change the settings (the famous checkbox, plus some other things) and rebuild each project individually.

Code changes? Nope, just time spent mainly in various inspector windows in Xcode getting things set up correctly.

And that’s why I think this transition will be a success—because it was so easy to create universal binaries, thanks to the great work of these folks and the hands-on help they gave developers at WWDC.



I’m aware that for some developers the transition won’t be so smooth. But it will be smooth for a huge number of developers, and that’s an incredible achievement.

SARS Hero Jailed?

SARS Hero Jailed? 07/01/2004 10:23 AM

Tim Bishop: Dr. Jiang Yanyong, hero of the SARS epidemic, imprisoned in China. According to several sources, the Chinese authorities have detained Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the retired surgeon, People's Liberation Army veteran, and long-time Communist Party member who was one of the heros of the SARS epidemic. As you may recall, at a time when the Chinese government was lying and denying that there were more than a handful of SARS cases in China, and was driving SARS patients around Beijing in ambulances to hide them from the World Health Organization, Dr. Jiang Yanyong wrote and signed a letter to the Beijing TV station and Time Magazine telling the truth about the magnitude of the SARS epidemic in Beijing. This simple act of truth telling did as much as any other act to stop the spread of SARS, and to begin the process of containing the epidemic. As I noted earlier, given that the party line became that the officials who concealed the SARS epidemic were the wrong doers, Dr. Jiang Yanyong was not punished for speaking out, and was even faintly praised in a People's Daily article.

An American Military Hero

An American Military Hero 08/17/2004 01:59 AM
The Conscience of Joe Darby
"Because the irony of all this is that the people in Somerset County who turned their backs on Joe, well, those people would probably feel very different if they knew the rest of the story. That it really wasn't about softening prisoners, gathering intelligence, or trying to win the war. That it wasn't even about losing control in the heat of the moment. It was about getting up in the middle of the night and going somewhere you weren't supposed to go, then beating and raping people there. It was premeditated violent crime."

DVD Hacker Hero Acquitted Again

DVD Hacker Hero Acquitted Again 12/22/2003 11:22 AM
CBS News Dec 22 2003 10:22AM ET

Antarctic hero 'reunited' with cat

Antarctic hero 'reunited' with cat 06/21/2004 07:51 AM
This month, the carpenter on Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance ship and his beloved tabby, Mrs Chippy, will be "reunited", when a statue of the cat is placed on his grave.

Canada's True Hero.

Canada's True Hero. 09/17/2004 05:45 PM
Canada's True Hero The author Douglas Coupland has a book coming out in 2005 about fellow Canadian Terry Fox. Until then, read this interesting, but heart-warming article.

Another HERO for STERNO, sighhhhhhhhhhhh

Another HERO for STERNO, sighhhhhhhhhhhh 08/15/2004 01:25 PM
Blog Interrupted (washingtonpost.com) .. Washingtonienne .. feature story

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54736-2004Aug10.html
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Greg Palast, You're My Hero

Greg Palast, You're My Hero 09/07/2004 01:26 AM
So, does posting unreported news on mefi decrease the likelihood the corporate media will pick it up? Let's find out. Greg Palast is at it again, but is anybody listening? Former Texas Lt. Governor admits pulling strings to get Dubya into National Guard and then keeping quiet for big-time money.

... now all we need is a "control group" story. Any ideas? Email me.

the difference between a winner and a
hero

the difference between a winner and a
hero 08/28/2004 01:24 PM
showing how Paul Hamm represents the worst of contemporary america

Dark Hero of the Information Age

Dark Hero of the Information Age 03/14/2005 06:03 PM
Norbert Wiener is known as the father of Cybernetics. His 1948 book on cybernetics is standard reading for AI and Robotics engineers even today. He was a child prodigy, wrote science fiction, and did some of the earliest computer research on chess playing algorithms (after being defeated at chess by a chess playing automaton built by 19th century Spanish scientist Leonardo Torres y Quevedo). His ideas on feedback provided part the basis for John Von Neumann's pioneering work. Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman have co-authored a new book, Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Father of Cybernetics. A New York Times book review (registration required or use bugmenot to bypass it) gives a good summary of the biography.

New Galactic Hero Images

New Galactic Hero Images 03/25/2005 12:46 PM
Rebelscum reader and local forumite Rick Schmidt found some older Galactic Heroes in the new Revenge of the Sith packaging. On the back there were three new Galactic Heroes two packs listed. The new two packs include Mace Windu with Kit Fisto, R2-D2 with Super Battle Droid, and Chewbacca with Clone Trooper! Click the thumbnails up top to check them all out!

Hero PC 'to get George Cross'

Hero PC 'to get George Cross' 04/16/2005 03:01 PM
Daily Mail Apr 16 2005 6:50PM GMT

The Real American Hero

The Real American Hero 03/20/2003 05:24 PM
H e's no Stormin' Norman, but his Battalion of Greeters will takedown Saddam and Rollback Prices! Check out the extensive G.I. Joe filecard gallery at Yo Joe.com to harken back when times were a little bit more simple, and our guns fired Laser Beams. Also if you have a chance see the commercial archive for the comic books (with songs for each one!). I hope you'll learn something from all of this, and knowing is half the battle.

Home Game Hero 1.0.2

Home Game Hero 1.0.2 04/13/2005 12:06 PM
Poker timer. Choose between 15, 10 and 20 minute poker blinds timer intervals.

"A Real American Hero "

"A Real American Hero " 04/24/2004 03:25 AM

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