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Patriotic Profiteers..

I’m now getting spam from morons selling US DoD Death Cards on EBay… joy! -Ian. —– http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2955231.stm US firm cashes in on ‘Comical Ali’ In the latest attempt to cash in on the war, a US toy company has...

[SERPICOS} AOL: Say Hi To Mom From JAIL!

…yeah right. These guys will never go to jail. But AOL will go down in history as a Ponzi scheme that makes 80s Junk Bonds look like chicken feed. Actually, I found a good backgrounder on Ponzi schemes here: http://www.mark-knutson.com/thescheme.html -Ian....

Wireless Carriers Fighting LNP

A running theme on FOIB: Wireless Carriers are arrogant, stupid thieves who are squandering unprecedented opportunity to deliver services people want to use which are deeply influential to society, and to reap the financial rewards therein. Instead, they’re...

Anxiety Greatest Motivator Among Shoppers..

Begin forwarded message: > From: Salim Virani > Date: Tue Apr 15, 2003 3:54:33 PM US/Pacific > To: Ian Bell > Subject: > > You might find this interesting… > > http://www.jwt.com/ > > 18 Mar 2003 > > Proprietary Study Reveals Americans’ Purchasing Behaviors...

Information Bob Fan Site…

http:/www.WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com —— http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030411/wr_nm/ iraq_minister_website_dc Web Site for Iraqi Minister Rocks Cyberspace Thu Apr 10, 8:30 PM ET Add Technology – Reuters Internet...

Virgin Wants Concorde, For $2.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Finance/Companies/0,,2-8-24_1346143,00.html Virgin wants Concorde, for £1 10/04/2003 18:51 – (SA) London – Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson said on Thursday his airline was interested in buying British Airways’...

More On the Geeks Buying the Chic…

http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid/04/11/06111158 nairda3 writes us with a real good scoop if this deal turns out to be real: “Crikey.com.au recently reported that it ‘doesn’t break many global stories but here’s one we got from a...

Apple Wants to Buy Universal Music?

Sorry about the nasty translation from German to English… an interesting theory. ——— http://216.239.35.120/ translate_c?hl=en&ie=ASCII&oe=ASCII&langpairÞ%7Cen&u=http:// www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,244270,00.html Apple...

Goodbye, Concorde

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030410/bs_nm/ airlines_concorde_dc British Airways, Air France End Concorde Thu Apr 10, 9:48 AM ET Add Business – Reuters to My Yahoo! By Daniel Morrissey and Noah Barkin LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) – The...