Dolph Lungren wins long, courageous battle with fame

extra... extra.... dolph is back at the bottom.

listen here for his exclusive story about how he managed to fight fame and rise to the ranks of most aweful rocky opponent.

Slate Article-- Bogus Trend Story of the Day

The Sunday New York Times discovers online sales losing "steam."
By Jack Shafer
Posted Monday, June 18, 2007, at 6:05 PM ET

Illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty. Click image to expand.Nothing lives up to our expectations. My parents. Your children. Television season finales. Yesterday (June 17), the New York Times located its disappointment in Web-based retailing in a 1,200-word, Page One piece titled "Some Buyers Grow Web-Weary, and Online Sales Lose Steam."

The lede of the article asks, "Has online retailing entered the Dot Calm era?" The story answers resoundingly, "Yes."

The Times finds consternation in the fact that since the Web commerce got started, annual online retail sales have grown at about 25 percent. But those overall rates are slowing, the paper reports, and market-research firms project further slowing. The Times quotes a Jupiter Research finding that online retailing's growth rate has peaked and will slow to 9 percent a year by the end of the decade.

The Times presents a few bogus anecdotes to explain the slippage, including "Internet fatigue" on the part of consumers who are "changing their buying habits." A shopper tells the Times that he now prefers real stores to online ones because of better lighting and better service. His example: Book Passage in downtown San Francisco. The shopper's wife—who just happens to be an executive at the brick-and-mortar department store Macy's—says shopping online is "much more of a task." What else would she say?

The piece provides additional evidence to account for online's decline. Dell now sells computers at Wal-Mart, it reports. Gone unmentioned is the fact that Dell sold PCs at Best Buy, Costco, and Sam's Club as recently as 1994, according to this Times article from one year ago. Another anecdote: Expedia.com has "almost tripled" its number of ticketing kiosks in hotels and other touristy spots. It could be a terrific supporting statistic if the story included the base number of kiosks that have been almost tripled, which it doesn't. The most bogus anecdote claims that "Borders … recently revamped its Web site to allow users to reserve books online and pick them up in the store." There's nothing "recent" about that service. Borders spokeswoman Anne Roman says via e-mail that the book chain has given customers the option to reserve books online and retrieve them in stores since November 2002.

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my kid

hi,

here is a picture of my kid brother. Like the rest of my family, he's kind of hairy. which is weird. cool but weird.

i got a haircut

with you in mind..... happy valentines day honey

He was killed....

in fact, the ending was genius if you've paid attention to the show
or are just a fan of well developed well thought out plots that all
tie together and have the memory of a champ to remember it all

the ending was simple, he got killed, but let me tell yall why and
explain in detail... There was 3 people in the room total who had a
reason to kill tony.....

the two black guys, they were paid before to kill tony but he was
only shot in the ear, this was in one of the earlier seasons,

also in the earlier seasons, the trucker who was sitting at the bar
stool, who the camera kept focusing in on, is Nikki leotardo, Phil
Leotardos nephew, he was in one of the early season episodes where
Phil and Tony have a sit down....

heres where the genius comes in....

When tonys walking in the diner,you see the camera focus on him, then
it switches to his perspective, and you see him looking @ the booth
hes gonna sit at...

then the camera switches back to tonys face, then it once again
switches to his perspective, and it shows him looking @ the door and
looking @ the people come in..... Everytime the door opens the Chimes
sound....... Carmela walks in, Chimes, AJ walks in Chimes, this when
Meadows parallel parking, still trying to get inside the
restaurant....

at this point the camera switches back to the trucker who goes in the
bathroom......

Then it goes to a scene where meadow finally parks and starts running
in the diner....

the doors about to open, Tony looks up....

and No Chimes......................

No Music............

Everything just goes black...............

In one of the early episodes of the sopranos, tonys talking with
bobby about what it must feel like to die..

Bobby says "at the end, you probably dont hear anything, everything
just goes black"


part of that was revisited in the second to last episode during the
last seconds of it, when tonys about to go to sleep and he flashes
back to the memory of him and bobby on the boat... "You probably dont
hear anything everything just goes black"


so in the end, the Journey song was playing, the chimes on the door
sounded but when meadow came in, the guy in the trucker hat came out
and killed tony...

its the reason you dont hear, or see anything when he died.... it was
from his perspective.... and everything went black, then the credits
rolled.

what is going on today

first off, i find the jiggy video, then i find this one.

gross.

to all my ladies in this

with styles and grace
who need a little help
but can still get jiggy with it

imagine if this was your mom

this story stinks- thank god its not true

Red Sox Fan vs. Yankee Fan
One foggy night, a Yankees Fan was heading north from
New York and a Red Sox fan was driving south from
Boston. While crossing a narrow bridge they hit each
other head-on, mangling both cars.

The Yankees Fan manages to climb out of his car and
surveys the damage. He looks at his twisted car and
says, "Man, I am lucky to be alive." Likewise, the Red
Sox Fan gets out of his car uninjured, feeling equally
fortunate to have survived.


The Yankees Fan walks over to the Red Sox Fan and says
"Hey man, I think this is a sign that we should put
away our petty differences and live as friends instead
of being rivals." The Red Sox Fan thinks for a moment
and says, "You know, you're right. We should be
friends. In fact, I'm going to see if something else
survived the wreck." The Red Sox Fan then pops his
trunk open and removes a full undamaged bottle of Jack
Daniels. He says to the Yankees fan, "I think this is
another sign - we should toast to our new found
friendship".

The Yankees Fan agrees and grabs the bottle. After
sucking down half of the bottle, he hands it back to
the Red Sox Fan and says "your turn."

The Red Sox Fan calmly twists the cap back on the
bottle, throws it over the bridge into the river and
says, "Nah, I think I'll just wait for the cops to
show up. Go Sox!!!!!!!!!!!

iphonics

cincinnati is nice in the summer

hi everyone,

i really really really like cinci in the summer. its like san francisco only clean. san francisco is actually a shit hole place filled with pimps and hookers and super aggressive homeless people. WTF.

why dont we do ourselves a favor and go to cincinnati?

college

found a picture of my brother from college. can you see him too?

its a jungle out there

its been a really busy week and i got food poisoning. weak..

you wanna see something cool?

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index.html

good morning-- rise and shine.

hahaha-- high school graduation picture

Razor Madness

so, yeah, um, this guy likes to ride the razor scooters at work just as much as anyone else.

Jerry Springer-- Former Cincinnati Mayor

a picture is worth a thousand words

what do you think this picture says... i think it says i'm not having kids for a while..

If you had a million dollars, what would you do?

NY Post: lemens won/loss record will dictate how much criticism he gets for coming and going.

By GEORGE KING

If Roger Clemens pitches well nobody will criticize him for coming and going in the Yankees' universe. If he gets rocked regularly expect to hear about his schedule as the reason.

By GEORGE KING


More here

what is the world coming to?

last night the yankees had their @ss handed to them and then i see this picture this morning. it makes me shake my head.

early christmas

as a man about town, i was walking to work this morning when i found a santa showing the goods to the faithful.

live the dream

i was young

hi readers,
i blog but i was once a kid like you. i had my picture taken in grade school, like you. i even had a mullet with razor stripes on the side, like you.

I have begun to circulate at work. please continue to spread the love.

did you see that

so i was talking to my friends about my blog. and they were like, cool bro, i blog too. everyday actually. i blog about really important stuff in my life.... not

and then

i went to burger king and it looks like they need people

the park

this weekend before going on a golf out i took this picture of my nephew at the park. he was feeding the birds when all of a sudden.



MySpace Graphics - MySPACE MONEY


needles to say, we left immediately

i go to church

so does she. unfortunately, this nun likes the "bad sites"


MySpace Graphics - MySPACE MONEY

dont stop till you get enough

MySpace Graphics - MySPACE MONEY


so tonight is game 2 of the yankees red sox- the third series so far this year.. 19 games overall throughout the year. a bit much i think but it really the only game worth watchin.

royal bullocks

MySpace Graphics - MySPACE MONEY

when math problems are too much

pictures from the wedding

fart knockers

you know you've had to much to drink

when you're a dude and your grinding with other dudes... i might have a blog but at least i dont cross swords....

you're a dancer

has anyone ever told you that your a dancer?

look at these beautiful people. they love this blog.

blogging about the band

the band hates the blog... but the blog loves the bang....

here are some of the better lines from this week.
I just ate greasy food for lunch and shat a huge blog. Captain's Blog 808: To blog-finity and beyond!! C. Bailey

5/21/2007 2:10 pm - My friends are making fun of you blog, they don't know how well you listen and record my great ideas. Too bad they don't have blogs...then they would know...and we could all link our blogs together. Robinson Caruso

I could blog about Moses all night and all day long. Fo' fey

I blog for Jesus. I was born to blog you....but you were born to blog me first. C. Bailey

WWBG... what would blog do.. fo' fey

life is too short to live without a blog

ask nick nolte

why do you hate me

people hate me because i blog... that's stupid

goth vs. emo

i just spent the last half hour on the website vampirefreaks.com and i am so scarred and scared beyond belief. the scariest ever. holy cow.

check it out for yourself. its like a bad accident and you cant keep from watching it over and over and over and over

http://vampirefreaks.com/gallery.php?u=psyclon_nine

was my last post inappropriate?

maybe. but its still funny. so i thought i would share a picture i took last night of my thrown. you can find my thrown conveniently located in "my office". where i do my business and thing of ways to get rich. hahah.

thrillist: compliment your pipes

what is wrong with politicians today?

Police Officer Steals Marijuana

Jesus

is this your homework?

Cop: And was there anything of value in the car?
Dude: Huh? Oh. Yeah. Tape deck. Couple of Creedence tapes. And there was a, uh... my briefcase.
Cop: In the briefcase?
Dude: Papers. Just papers. You know, my papers. Business papers.
Cop: And what do you do, sir?
Dude: I'm unemployed.

I heart Primedia

I am a happy camper

Primedia's Enthusiast Fetches $1.2 Billion
By KEVIN KINGSBURY
May 15, 2007; Page B3

Source Interlink Cos. has agreed to pay about $1.2 billion for the enthusiast media business of Primedia Inc. that the company said in February it might sell.

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Nice marmot

Brandt: Mr. Lebowski is prepared to make a generous offer to you to act as courier once we get instructions for the money.
Dude: Why me, man?
Brandt: He suspects that the culprits might be the very people who, uh, soiled your rug, and you're in a unique position to confirm or, uh, disconfirm that suspicion.
Dude: So he thinks it's the carpet-pissers, huh?
Brandt: Well Dude, we just don't know.

Mark it 8 dude

The big lebowski nixon bowling poster. needless to say, it is a classy wall tapestry.

NASCAR Season

its in full swing. are you loving it today?

outstanding

revver

animals,

some people love them a little too much. practice healthy relationships.

your author, your friend

on a personal note of appreciation, i would like to thank you for visiting my blog. i hope you enjoy it.

look what i found

its hard enough in this world without people holding their dogs hostage.

haha haahah

HI,

so the weekend as a blast. foley's wedding was off the hissy and i slept thru sunday as i was completely expensed. this week has the makings of a being a good week, the kind i need to get myself back on track.

freaked me out

found this one. weirdo.

an informal happy hour this evening

i want you all to know that i plan on having a quick drink after work today before i head down to red bank for ryan foley's wedding. hopefully i should look like this guy tonight.

montage part duex

what up what up,

happry friday fokkers... heres me as a kid. i'm the one in the middle.

the new 24 season

oday is a sad day as tony blair has tendered his resignation. He will step down after a decade as Prime Minister; a decade that usherd in peace in Northern Ireland between Catholics and Protestants and economic prosperity.

Mr. Blair told supporters: "Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right."

Tony has decided to take some time off to persue his passion for acting. There have been rumors of him already on the set of the hit show on Fox, 24. Rumors may turn into fact when Kiefter Sutherland's character, Jack Bauer is permanently offed from the show only to be replaced by a 007 name Tony Blair. Here is a preview of an ad campaign.

Picture of the day

Hey you guys,

i found this amazing picture of the girliest throw in the world. notice his friends in the background doing the "air dry that shit" move from Van Wilder and the "raise the roof" move from 1997.

Montage series

check it out.... its a montage series

Can you go into a coma from eating too much Watermelon?

this guy did

another day, another dollar

thought this was funny

entitled: meat inspired performer

Forbes Article: Micro -Hoo part two

Seattle -

Microsoft will pull out all the stops this week when it gathers its biggest advertisers in its backyard for its annual Strategic Account Summit. They'll be addressed by company founder Bill Gates, and they'll be wined and dined at some of Seattle's best restaurants. And to cap it all off Microsoft will put them all in front of one of its biggest online competitors--Yahoo! Chief Executive Terry Semel.

This could be interesting.

Semel was booked long before word got out last week that Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) on-again, off-again acquisition talks with Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) were off-again. Semel probably won't touch on that topic. Nor will he make a naked pitch for the assembled throng to ditch Microsoft and send all their business his way.

Instead, Semel will most likely talk about his favorite topic these days: partnership. There are three smart ways Microsoft and Yahoo! can work together to try to catch up to Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) in the online ad race that both are losing badly right now. Sadly Semel will probably only touch upon two of them, at most.

One easy option: Get Microsoft to help Yahoo! spread its content around. While Yahoo! has struck deals with hundreds of content providers to grab their stuff and distribute it on the Web, Yahoo! needs to find more distribution outlets. Microsoft could help by agreeing to bake some of Yahoo!'s content and services into Microsoft software powering PCs, game consoles and mobile phones.

Another no-brainer: Yahoo! can offer help getting Microsoft's users in front of display advertisers--i.e., online banners and the like. Microsoft’s money-losing online arm generates plenty of traffic, but when it comes to turning those clicks into cash, it fell further behind after Google bought display advertising specialist DoubleClick for $3.1 billion last month, and Yahoo! followed that up by snapping up the 80% of DoubleClick rival Right Media, that it didn't already own. A deal with Yahoo! could allow Microsoft to take advantage of Yahoo!'s skill at hooking content up with advertisers.

Urban Legend, maybe not.

So my friend told me this story during a training session. Apparently it happened to his buddy last year.

Here's how it goes. Some thursday night about a year ago in the city, a guy meets some girl at a bar downtown and they hit it off. Aparently they hit it off so well that she goes home with him to spend the night.

Early the next morning, our buddy wakes up and leaves by 6 am as he has a job in finance and needs to be at work on the early side. He tells his new ladyfriend to stay, make herself at home, do whatever she needs to do, just lock the door behind her when she leaves.

Great, she thinks to herself and rolls over and goes back to sleep.

An hour or so later, the girl wakes up and realizes she has to take a #2. Being alone in the apartment she goes for it. When she is through with her 2, she flushes it but the toilet doesn't flush.

Oh $hit, she thinks outloud, I can't leave a turd in this guys toilet. That's disgusting. To top it off, she actually likes the guy and doesnt want him to think she is a degenerate slob.

To remedy the situation she starts to think of options to get the turd out of the toilet and realizes the best idea is to doggy bag it. You know what I am talking about as we have all had to pick up a dog turd and put a plastic bag over our hand to do so.

Situation solved. She takes a shower, cleans up, gets dressed, writes him a nice note, leaves her phone number and is out the door by 8:30. As the door closes behind her she realizes that she left her bag of human excrement next to the note she left on the table.

Urban legend or real?

You wish you were weng weng

Secret and Hidden Places at Google Earth

If you haven't heard about this you are just not paying attention....

BILL'S HARD DRIVE
MICROSOFT EYES SEARCH GIANT IN PROPOSED TAKEOVER
By PETER LAURIA and ZACHERY KOUWE
PrintEmailDigg ItStory Bottom

May 4, 2007 -- Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit of a deal with Yahoo!, asking the company to re-enter formal negotiations, The Post has learned.

While Microsoft and Yahoo! have held informal deal talks over the years, sources say the latest approach signals an urgency on Microsoft's part that has up until now been lacking.

The new approach follows an offer Microsoft made to acquire Yahoo! a few months ago, sources said. But Yahoo! spurned the advances of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant. Wall Street sources put a roughly $50 billion price tag on Yahoo!.

"They're getting tired of being left at the altar," said one banking source who has recently had talks with Microsoft. "They now seem more willing to extend themselves via a transaction to get into the game."

Part of the reason for that is because Google keeps trumping Microsoft on the deal front, beating out the company on not just DoubleClick, but also for a renewed search advertising pact with AOL in 2005 that Microsoft lusted after.

Moreover, with Google developing Internet-based software that directly competes with Microsoft Office, sources said Microsoft has no choice but to go on the offensive.

"The minute you hear Microsoft start arguing against something on antitrust grounds, you know they are desperate and need to do something big," said one source.

Oh my God!

At Dow Jones, Focus Is On the Bancroft Family

At Dow Jones, Focus Is
On the Bancroft Family
By SARAH ELLISON and DENNIS K. BERMAN
May 3, 2007

Rupert Murdoch has preached peace and cooperation with the shareholder family that holds the keys to Dow Jones & Co. Now he faces a critical test: Might his only way of winning be to divide and conquer?

After an afternoon meeting yesterday at law offices in midtown Manhattan, Dow Jones directors said the board was taking no immediate action on a $5 billion "bear hug" offer from Mr. Murdoch's News Corp. The company's demurral only ratchets up the potential for tension and confusion among the Bancroft family, the Dow Jones board, and shareholders pressing the company to sell itself.

DJ

Joost signs content, advertising agreements

By Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 02 May 2007
Ahead of its commercial launch, Internet peer-to-peer TV venture Joost has announced additional content deals.

Sony is joining the party with old TV series such as Charlie's Angels and Starsky and Hutch, Hasbro will provide the old Transformers and GI Joe cartoons, and Turner Broadcasting System will provide CNN news and interview shows, along with episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Robot Chicken from Adult Swim.

A potential highlight is the plan to deliver full National Hockey League (NHL) games, but for now fans will have to make do with vintage games and highlights.

Joost's avowed strategy is to deliver premium content at no charge to viewers. The business model is to charge advertisers on a per-view basis, and to share the revenue with content providers.

More Here iTWire

WSJ: Cablevision Accepts Dolan Buyout

By PETER GRANT, DENNIS K. BERMAN and DIONNE SEARCEY
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 2, 2007 4:48 p.m.

Cablevision Systems Corp. agreed to be taken private by the founding Dolan family for about $10.6 billion, suggesting the Dolans like the cable industry's chances against increasing competition.

The $36.26-a-share offer for Cablevision, which owns Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and the New York Knicks and Rangers, is an 11% premium to the Tuesday closing price of $32.67 a share, and a 52% premium to Cablevision's closing price of $23.93 on Oct. 8, the day before the Dolans' first bid.

More here at WSJ

Minyanville TV

fore score and seven years ago....

A quote for all yous who actually view the blog. I didnt know this came from "Honest Abe".


You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln

paidContent on Paid Search

Despite Recent Controversy, Paid Search Continues To Gain Acceptance: Report

By David Kaplan - Mon 30 Apr 2007 12:07 PM PST

Search engine keywords represent the contemporary equivalent of a newsboy holding up a paper and yelling “Extra!” as Murray Gaylord, VP-marketing for NYTimes.com, puts it. The street corners have been replaced by Yahoo, Google, AOL, MSN and Ask.com, while, as the WSJ reminds us, buying keywords to attract new traffic has become routine among news sites. The method drew scrutiny after some news organizations (including nytimes.com) paid for terms associated with the Virginia Tech shootings, which reached a price of $5 per click. That’s on the high end of the spectrum and the cost-per-click eventually dipped down to a more average price of $.06 last week, according to search marketing firm Reprise Media. Beyond the usual suspects, the WSJ, which keeps most of its content behind a subscription wall....

More here

Alibaba IPO... watch out

Alibaba.com Plans IPO: Report

By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 30 Apr 2007 04:43 PM PST

Chinese B2B site Alibaba.com is planning to go public later this year in an IPO which could raise $1 billion, reports the New York Times. Three Wall Street investment banks, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank, are advising Alibaba on the IPO which is likely to be offered overseas, probably in Hong Kong or New York. Yahoo owns 40 percent of the Alibaba Group, for which it paid $1 billion in cash in 2005 and handed over its Chinese operations.

Make money money...

NY Magazine: The Confessor

The Confessor
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By CHIP BROWN
Published: April 29, 2007

At this late hour of his life, Charlie Hess said the question “Why?” didn’t matter anymore. After all the years he spent in the F.B.I. tilting at the criminal mind, all his years in private practice running lie-detector tests, his time extracting secrets as a C.I.A. agent in Vietnam, he was no longer interested in “Why?” What counted were simple, incontestable facts: who, when, where, what. Names, dates, locations; cause and manner of death — these were his goals as he tried to flesh out the transgressions of a man who, by his own account, killed 48 people. Robert, can you remember what year that was? Was the body north or south of the highway? Where did you get the ice pick? “Why?” was bottomless and slippery and often fraught with useless moral overtones. “Why?” didn’t close cases. “Why?” was for intellectuals, and Charlie Hess had seen enough of them to say there were two kinds of people: intellectuals and those who got things done.

And it gets better....

Castro 'In Charge' Again

Forbes.com Article
By LESLIE MAZOCH
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday his friend and political ally Fidel Castro is "in charge" again nearly nine months after undergoing intestinal surgery.

The Cuban leader has not been seen in public since before July 31, when he announced he had undergone surgery and provisionally ceded power to his younger brother Raul. With Cuban officials giving increasing positive reports about Fidel Castro's health, there has been speculation recently that he could soon be back in the public eye.

"Fidel is in charge. Fidel is in charge," Chavez said, revealing that he received a "philosophical letter" from Castro the day before and that it ran to nearly 10 pages.

See more here... Castro lives again.

From the WSJ: Baidu.com Profits -- Big Time

Baidu.com Profit
Soars on Ad Sales,
Solid Web Traffic
A WALL STREET JOURNAL NEWS ROUNDUP
April 30, 2007

Baidu.com Inc., China's Internet search leader, said first-quarter net profit more than doubled on strong traffic growth and higher advertising revenues.

The country's most popular search engine reported net profit of 85.5 million yuan ($11.1 million) in the quarter, up from 35.2 million yuan in the year-earlier period.

See more here.

White Chicks with Gang Signs?

A great video that should be shared with your loved ones.