New George Bush 2001
Memorial Bill 9-11-01
Dedidcated To Those Who Lost Their Lives

LIMITED EDITION!
These Collectors Items Will Stop Being Made Very Soon !!!

Real Color, Size & Feel of American Paper Currency

The front shows our proud President, George W Bush. The back is dedicated to the memory of those lost on the day of infamy:

FDNY, Flight 11, Flight 93, NYPD, Flight 77, Flight 175, The Pentagon & World Trade Center

Everyone in America should own one of these. They make great gifts for all occasions and are a great conversation starter.

NOTE: This is not to be used as real currency this is meant only to be a collectible.

We’ve shead our tears, but Commander Bush has spoken! “You’re either with us or with the terrorists!” Show your support for our country and the people of New York by carrying one of these commerorative bills!

1 George Bush Bill $1.50 Plus $3.00 Shipping and Handling
10 George Bush Bills $12.50 ($1.25 each) Plus $3.00 Shipping and Handling
20 George Bush Bills $20.00 ($1.00 each) Plus $3.00 Shipping and Handling

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When you go to the Geocities page this links to, you will find five items for sale:

Twin Tower Bills
George Bush Bills
Twin Tower Bills Matted
George Bush Bills Matted
Back Scratcher

No, it’s not a “commerorative” back scratcher honoring our heroic president or the memory of those who died. It’s not an item that declares every American patriot’s love of his country. It’s just a back scratcher.

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Masha Geller in a MediaPost mailer notes that a study by iProspect a couple of months ago

indicates that 48% of search engine users expect to find the answer to their query on the first page of search matches and that a vast majority, 78% of Web users, will abandon their query if the first three pages of results do not yield an answer to their question. Another 28% reported they do not scroll past even the second page of search results.

iProspect’s conclusion? “Clearly, companies need to consider search engine positioning as part of their online marketing mix to make the grade.”

My conclusion: Search engines have gotten pretty durn good.

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Avi Rappaport points out that a “new” weblog has begun: Samuel Pepys diary. Every day, one entry will be published. It’s rich in annotations. And if you want to add your own insights, you can in the form of a comment. It seems likely to me that this will become the preferred place to read Pepys.

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If you live in Massachusetts, you can register with the state government for a “don’t call” list that supposedly will cut down on the unsolicited phone calls you receive. It goes into effect on April 1. (Hmm, I don’t think I like the sound of that.) The privacy policy says:

Only the last name and telephone number that you provide as a consumer registering for the Do Not Call Registry will be provided to telemarketers registered with the MA Do Not Call Program. Telemarketers may not reuse that information for any purpose other than removing your telephone number from their calling lists.

Oh, I’m sure we can trust telemarketers not to abuse a list of known-to-be-working phone numbers…
Nevertheless, I signed up. You can, too, here or, if that doesn’t work, try here.

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From a mailing list comes a pointer to a change in the Yahoo Privacy policy. They are using “Web beacons” — single-pixel GIFs — to track “usage information.” They are sticking these into the “Yahoo! network of web sites,” into all the HTML email that Yahoo! sends, and apparently into some “partners'” web sites.

The privacy statement is badly written. For example, it says “web beacons within the Yahoo! network of web sites” are used to “count users and to recognize users by accessing Yahoo! cookies.” But I don’t know what constitutes their network of sites. Nor do I understand why they need to do this, although apparently it enables them to read cookies on pages that are not within the yahoo.com domain. And matters get more ambiguous when they talk about using beacons outside of their network “to conduct research on behalf of certain partners on their web sites.” Why is Yahoo conducting research for partners? What is a partner, anyway? Privacy statements need to be a whole lot clearer than this one.

Yahoo assures us that the information is only aggregated and not identified with particular users. To opt out, click here…and then repeat for every browser and every computer you use.

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Vergil Iliescu reminds us of the silly but enjoyable VillainSupply site.

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From Buzz Bruggeman comes an email pointing to Big Marv’s site where there are instructions on how to enable the much-desired 30-second skip feature on TiVo:

Grab your TiVo remote.

Bring up any recorded program. (You have to be watching a recorded program rather than “Live TV” in order to enable the feature.)

On your TiVo remote, key in the following sequence: SELECT PLAY SELECT 30 SELECT [Note: “30” means you press the 3 and 0 buttons.]

If you’ve successfully entered the code, you should hear three “bings” in succession to inform you that you’ve successfully enabled the 30 second skip.

It works! Now the little button above the number 3 button — the one that looks like this: ->| — will skip ahead 30 seconds. Unfortunately, it no longer skips to the tick mark on the progress bar. But repeating the above procedure will restore it to its previous operation.

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Halley wants to re-brand 2003.

2002: The Sequel?

The Summer of Love: 35 Years Young?

What an odd concept. Thanks, Halley.

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So far so good.

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