Month: July 2006

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More

The Week Magazine

The total volume of low popularity items exceeds the volume of high popularity items.

For the past century, business owners have followed a simple rule of thumb: Focus all resources on the best customers, the best workers, and the best-selling products because the top 20 percent in each category will be responsible for 80 percent of revenue. But the so-called 80/20 rule is going the way of wooden shoes and rotary telephones, says Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson.

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Unintended URLs

We had to re-register a company URL from merchantsexport.com, because it got so many search hits, from people seraching for “sex”, that id crashed the server. Here is a popular list, currently circulating around the web, of others, who have not chosen to change their registered URL.

1. A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is
www.whorepresents.com

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Hezbollah warning from April

We posted this ominous premonition about the dangerous situation developing in Lebanon back in April’s Terryorisms Scroll down to read the 2 postings about the Islamo-Facist “Sacrifice-based Society”, contrasted with our “Success” driven one.

“When the Syrians were in Lebanon it was easy for us to control Hezbollah,” said an officer with Israel’s northern command. “If things got too tense we could put pressure on Damascus and the Syrians would act quickly to calm things down.”

Although the Lebanese government technically controls the border area, its military is not considered strong enough to control Hizbollah, which takes its orders directly from Teheran.

Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas, preaches now from a Damascus pulpit. Sample: “Tomorrow our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today, before remorse will do you no good.”

Moms Prefer Smell of Their Own Baby’s Poop

LiveScience.com – Moms Prefer Smell of Their Own Baby’s Poop
n a new study, 13 mothers were asked to sniff soiled diapers belonging to both their own child and others from an unrelated baby. The women consistently ranked the smell of their own child’s feces as less revolting than that of other babies.

This effect persisted even when the diapers were purposely mislabeled.

The New American Cold War

The New American Cold War

Maybe the Bush Administration, with their pre G-8 meeting moves to give Russia Nuclear fuel recycling business and WTO membership, is in reaction to this article’s sobering analysis of Moscow’s new alliance with Iran & China -“OPEC with nuclear weapons,”

As a Eurasian state with 20-25 million Muslim citizens of its own and with Iran one of its few neighbors not being recruited by NATO, for example, Russia can ill afford to be drawn into Washington’s expanding conflict with the Islamic world, whether in Iran or Iraq. Similarly, by demanding that Moscow vacate its traditional political and military positions in former Soviet republics so the United States and NATO can occupy them–and even subsidize Ukraine’s defection with cheap gas–Washington is saying that Russia not only has no Monroe Doctrine-like rights in its own neighborhood but no legitimate security rights at all. Continue reading “The New American Cold War”