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Current News for August 14, 2008

Are Waves of Sellers Leaving eBay for eCrater?

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:45:22 PDT
AuctionBytes Blog, a news` sight that focuses on the online auction industry (specifically eBay) has an interesting article on sellers leaving eBay for sites like eCrater.com and others. A good Wall Street Journal article about sellers leaving eBay can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/6n78ag

UPI NewsTrack Quirks in the News (UPI)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:53:53 PDT
Phelps has 12,000 calories-a-day diet ... Matador to return to ring at age 65 ... Man back with first car after 50 years ... Restaurant slop returns as premium pork ... UPI Quirks in the News.

Albatross18: August 21st Sneak Peek

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:02:49 PDT
A18 is doing their sneak peek stuff earlier now so my updates will follow. Next Thursday we will be getting the watermelon phoenix (uhh about time? Summer’s over guys) plus the Libera school uniforms for Max, Kaz and Scout (sorry Uncle Bob, you’re too old.) The watermelon phoenix basically does the same thing as the water phoenix - 1 pang for every extra bounce in addition to the bonus 30 pang for hitting Pangya. Pics of the uniforms after the jump! In addition they will be giving a d

Westerners, crimes against humanity and the ICC in The Hague

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:48:10 PDT
A few days ago, the New York Times buried a news item about the release of an explosive Rwandan Government Commission report that charged the French government, including former (now late) president, Francois Mitterand and a former prime minister with complicity in the 1994 Genocide (800,000 people kill in 100 days).

The Olympics: beware the space swordsmonauts

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:57:08 PDT
I fear for the longevity of any incarnation of free time when I see a wide-eyed man eating a croissant at breakneck speed on bike in Soho. Today, when I am at the gym, grunting my way through Dave For Life, I will see this man. I watch far more television at work than at home. The Olympics are a welcome sight there, but I am subjected to the grotesque and terrifying scenes that make the news over and over: a Hungarian man turns his arm inside out lifting weights; normally sane journalists poke

Trends & Innovations - Thursday (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:32:39 PDT
U.S. minorities to become majority

Musing about the epistemology of prediction

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:41:25 PDT
Prediction: Foretelling of a future event. Predictions are probabilistic estimates of future occurrences based upon many different estimation methods, including past patterns of occurrence and statistical projections of current data.Predictions can be made simply as a projection of past trends, under the assumption that the causes of those trends are stable, and the trends will continue. On the one hand, that process saves having to understand the basic causality of the trends, but on the oth


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