Ice, Ice Baby

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Free baby photo trojan gets new moms to
sell baby-privacy

Free baby photo trojan gets new moms to
sell baby-privacy 04/04/2005 06:24 AM
Cory Doctorow: A friend of mine worked at Procter and Gamble when they hit on the idea of giving away baskets of baby-related freebies to new moms. The idea was that a couple days after the family went home and they needed more diapers, mom would send dad out with the package from the freebies and say, "More like these, please." It's pretty clever, and I'm cool with it -- especially now that the whole thing is handled through brokers who take products from a variety of vendors, with input from maternity wards.

That, I think, is a pretty good way of marketing to new families. It doesn't compromise privacy, it gives them something they need, and it doesn't force them or lock them in. It's informative, useful, and respectful (provided that the marketing makes it clear that there's no medical endorsement of these products).

Compare that to this: a service that sneakily gets moms to agree to a "free baby photo" while they're signing all their necessary medical forms on the morning of their delivery. The company that takes the picture then sells your contact info to anyone who'll buy it.

On the morning of the delivery, the nurse hands a sheaf of forms to the mother-to-be. Buried within is a release form offering a free portrait of the new baby. Mom is wired to three different machines, having her pulse and blood pressure measured automatically while two others sensors detect uterine contractions and the baby’s heart rate and another chattering electromechanical behemoth plots a seismograph of both...

...[T]he photo enterprise is run by a third party, Growing Family. They’ll shoot a picture of your munchkin, in exchange for his or her name and birthdate and your full name and address...

Growing Family will use your information from time to time to promote additional products, services, rewards and special offers from Growing Family Network and its select Network Partners.

Another friend of mine had his baby daughter die from crib-death a few weeks after she was born. For years afterward, he and his wife got a steady stream of marketing materials, including ghastly "birthday cards" from marketers who'd bought the information that they'd had a baby, but never received the message that the baby had died. Needless to say, when their next baby was born, they never, ever bought products from the companies that ghoulishly continued to market to their dead daughter. Link (via A Whole Lotta Nothing)

It's Everywhere and Nowhere, Baby!

It's Everywhere and Nowhere, Baby! 10/25/2002 07:23 AM

Ice, ice, baby!

Ice, ice, baby! 08/27/2004 10:53 PM
The President plans yet another silly boondoggle and introduces faith -based driver education. What President are we talking about? Why, Saparmyrat Niyazov, the president-for-life of Turkmenistan. Or, as he likes to be called, "Turkmenbashi"--the " ;leader of all Turkmen".

He's got a lot of spiritual ideas and 24/7 TV coverage. Hey--he's against gold teeth and circuses. If it weren't for his dismal human rights record, I might vote for him myself.

Sometimes I have to remind myself that there are, in fact, much worse choices than the ones I have for November.

That's All Right, Baby Boy

That's All Right, Baby Boy 05/03/2004 11:36 PM
50 moments that shaped popular musical history in the last 50 years --from Elvis walking into Sun Studios 50 years ago to last fall's entirely non-white Billboard Top Ten for the first time ever. Anything missing?

``Baby,`` Maybe

``Baby,`` Maybe 06/04/2004 05:40 AM
Here's a question: Are "baby" carrots, the tasty, two-inch orange snacks in little bags, really baby carrots? The answer is a lesson in getting new growth from old products.

My way baby

My way baby 03/13/2003 10:26 AM
Apparently they are calling for 25- 30 centimetres of snow. Now, that isn't a good thing at all. Believe me,...

You Got to See the Baby

You Got to See the Baby 12/17/2004 06:26 PM
"We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there." -- Dana Gould

"Just win, baby"

"Just win, baby" 05/20/2004 11:30 AM

Baby, I love you -

Baby, I love you - 04/25/2004 12:34 PM
Baby, I love you - but I need you to understand that I'm not operating on Eastern Standard Time....

Hey baby, let's go to Vegas

Hey baby, let's go to Vegas 01/05/2004 04:58 AM
taken a leap of faith .. Accidental Jedi .. Deb Yoder .. Deb

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split the baby

split the baby 01/03/2004 05:55 AM
Valerie Plume .. Link: .. agree

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Baby vaporizers

Baby vaporizers 01/02/2004 06:01 AM
I'm guessing that the Vicks product-naming people aren't science fiction readers: when I read "baby vaporizer," I immediately wondered if it would work on certain adults and yappy dogs as well. Link (via Making Light)

Blogging Baby

Blogging Baby 06/09/2004 04:00 PM
Toilet training, thumb sucking -- while those might sound like entries on any of dozens of garden-variety navelgazing weblogs, they're part of the latest micropublishing venture from Weblogs Inc.. Link to bloggingbaby.com.

Photos, baby!

Photos, baby! 05/06/2004 01:04 PM

A mess of photos from my recent trip to NYC.

Bulletproof Baby

Bulletproof Baby 12/24/2003 11:05 AM
If you don't need to burn DVDs, don't need lots of screen real-estate for high-end applications and aren't a power-gamer, have a look at this iBook. It's a little beauty. By Dave Bullard (Herald Sun via MyAppleMenu)

You've Come A Long Way, Baby!

You've Come A Long Way, Baby! 04/25/2004 05:50 AM
By Gregory Han, Unofficial Apple Weblog (via MyAppleMenu)

B&N Gets Its Baby Back

B&N Gets Its Baby Back 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
The bookseller sweetens its bid for what's left of barnesandnoble.com.

Kinja is one big-a** baby

Kinja is one big-a** baby 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

During a meeting this afternoon, it occurred to me that I've been working on Kinja for so long that it would have taken me less time to have a baby!

Hey baby what's your sign?

Hey baby what's your sign? 12/19/2004 03:02 PM
Make your Hwy sign here Make your own church sign...

Stick it to me, baby!

Stick it to me, baby! 01/27/2004 07:33 PM
Stickernation - found sticker art from around the world.

...and baby makes 13

...and baby makes 13 04/14/2004 05:18 PM
USA Today Apr 14 2004 8:44PM GMT

San Francisco, baby...

San Francisco, baby... 08/13/2004 01:59 AM

Ping. Now in San Francisco after cool drive with fun people in which I mostly slept and pointed at wind farms and acres of densely packed cows. Had subsequent great fun at the SixApart Mixer thing where I met loads of people - some for the first time, others not. Looked slightly nervous around some people who do really good work. Touched a couple of them without them noticing (or at least without them calling the police). Got a free USB dongle thing and saw the 3.1 release of MT which doesn't seem overly dramatic at first but kind of sits in the back of your head and wiggles its tush in the direction of interesting things. Cab back to Leslie's place - talking about The O.C. and TV shows in general when I get to pull out my trump card - super-secret super-cool thing that made Leslie go oooooh. Don't think I'm going to make it to LobbyCon now though. Shame!

I'm quite enjoying not taking this weblog as seriously as normal for a few days. It feels pretty liberating, although possibly not very productive or good in the longer term. God knows what it's going to be like going back to London. I can already feel it on the horizon and must confess am vaguely dreading it.

Baby Safe II 2.0.6

Baby Safe II 2.0.6 01/16/2004 01:00 PM
Protect your Mac and let the baby have fun.

Baby Haughey

Baby Haughey 12/19/2004 03:45 PM
Congratulations to two of the finest people I know for the announcement that they're reproducing. We need more like the Haugheys, so it's good that they're increasing the planet's Haughey count. I only worry about a child who is likely to be the biggest geek ever in the history of...

More baby bl0gging - goo goo gah gah

More baby bl0gging - goo goo gah gah 01/12/2004 03:01 AM

You Haven't Lived Until... (a.k.a. 666).

You've dumped 6 full ounces of meticulously gathered breast milk onto the kitchen floor—and considered for more than a fleeting moment soaking it up with a clean sponge and squeezing it back into the bottle.

You've watched your 6 week old retrieve his wayward pacifier and reinsert it. (Cue theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey.)

Your baby gives you his first smile. And 5 more for good measure.

[Bag and Baggage]

Rosemary's Baby at the DNC

Rosemary's Baby at the DNC 07/28/2004 04:32 PM

You know, it's really difficult for me to tell if Ann Coulter is the 2nd coming of Senator McCarthy or a comic genius. I usually don't bother reading her writing as it has often left me with the same feeling I had after reading Mein Kampf or the Unabomber's manifesto. I was rather amazed to read that USA Today dumped her column reporting on the DNC this week which made me curious enough to read the offending text just to see what could have possibly made her persona non grata with a newspaper that has more colour graphics than actual news since reading is hard for the average American. It's impossible to discern if she's being funny or if she's really as insane as she appears.

Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston, conservatives are deploying a series of covert signals to identify one another, much like gay men do. My allies are the ones wearing crosses or American flags. The people sporting shirts emblazened with the "F-word" are my opponents.  Also, as always, the pretty girls and cops are on my side, most of them barely able to conceal their eye-rolling. 

[...]

As for the pretty girls, I can only guess that it's because liberal boys never try to make a move on you without the UN Security Council's approval.  Plus, it's no fun riding around in those dinky little hybrid cars. My pretty-girl allies stick out like a sore thumb amongst the corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons they call "women" at the Democratic National Convention.

I think I need to make a banner that reads "AA-Cup, corndog eatin', cotton wearin' pie wagons for KERRY!", go round up my fellow small boobed femmes and show up at the GOP convention. Coulter looks like a man and isn't exactly well endowed herself so maybe she's saying that she just hangs around the pretty girls since every pretty girl has an ugly sidekick to make her look good. Voting Republican obviously didn't give her big boobies or improve her looks. Perhaps someone forgot to tell her about plastic surgery to giveth what god hath not.

But, seriously, the thought of even one person reading her shit and thinking it's the gospel makes my skin crawl. The Dems are the "Spawn of Satan" now? That rates right up there with the 'evildoers', 'axis of evil' and 'crusade'. It reminds me that these folks who love this kind of dialogue are those who don't think for themselves much and use the word 'flock' in a context other than sheep. They're registered to vote and they vote in large numbers. Expats and excapees who have not registered for an absentee ballot should do so as soon as possible. Please register. Please vote. It's a slim chance that we'll succeed in removing Bush from office, but hope is all we have.

And, Ann Coulter, wherever you are, thanks for reminding me that I needed to register to vote and for giving me the resolve to vote in spite of my waning hope for change. I don't hate America, but I do hate Americans like you who have been placed in positions of power/influence instead of prison or a mental institution.

Unfiled Baby

Unfiled Baby 12/13/2003 09:51 PM
UnfiledBaby alpha releases

Baby lust

Baby lust 04/11/2005 10:37 AM
I have four children. Four is plenty. So why can't I stop thinking about having a fifth?

Yet Another Baby i-mode

Yet Another Baby i-mode 06/04/2004 11:27 PM
Wireless Watch Japan Jun 5 2004 3:44AM GMT

And Baby Makes Icy Eight

And Baby Makes Icy Eight 04/18/2005 10:54 AM
A Google search revealed no details about how this two-year-old is doing, but with a name like that, I'll bet that no bizitches get all up in his bidness.

Baby Safe 1.75

Baby Safe 1.75 11/11/2003 04:26 PM
Safeguard the computer, educate the baby.

Go tell my baby sister never do like I
have done...

Go tell my baby sister never do like I
have done... 04/04/2005 05:55 AM
There is a house in New Orleans... A recent archeological excavation in the French Quarter reveals that a hotel called the "Rising Sun" operating in the early 1800s may have been the ruin of many a poor girl. Clues include suggestive newspaper ads from the period and artifacts such as "a large number of liquor bottles... Alongside... an unusually dense collection of rouge pots". [more...]

Baby Bells, RIP

Baby Bells, RIP 06/22/2004 10:42 AM
It is clear that the Bells are the losers in the VoIP arms race.

WiFi Me, Baby!

WiFi Me, Baby! 11/04/2003 02:33 PM

Whoo-hoo! I'm on the third floor of the convention center with wi-fi! Here, aggregator, aggregator, aggregator. I'm also briefly on Trillian if you want to catch up. :-)

In other news, though, I'm thrilled to hear that library hotspots are now listed in JIwire. If you use the Power Search, you can view a list of library hotspots (up to 100 of them, anyway). Hey Austin Public Library - $19.95 per month to play????

"arrival of Baby Kos."

"arrival of Baby Kos." 11/03/2003 09:33 PM

The Baby Bootstrap?

The Baby Bootstrap? 04/04/2005 07:15 PM

shifting it up baby!

shifting it up baby! 11/17/2003 03:11 AM
Take a gander (wow, now there is a sweeet word!) at this thread: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=189036 I found it to be interesting...

Baby punk tee

Baby punk tee 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: This baby punk tee sports age-appropriate nihilistic slogans such as ANTI-CRIB and BEDTIME SUCKS. Link (via Preshrunk)

"come on baby run linspire..."

"come on baby run linspire..." 07/23/2004 03:08 PM

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