Month: January 2006
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Smashing time
Amazing story of a visitor to The Fitzwilliam museum who tripped on his shoelace and smashed three priceless Qing vases. from the Cambridge Evening News.
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Smashing time
Amazing story of a visitor to The Fitzwilliam museum who tripped on his shoelace and smashed three priceless Qing vases. from the Cambridge Evening News.
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A Supermarket War in Store
So Tesco didnt buy Albertsons (see my previous entry here) which is good news for Tesco shareholders here in the UK. A US based retailer Supervalu did instead as part of a consortium which seems to make a lot of sense to me. Good story here including a glance at the problems Walmart seem to…
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A Supermarket War in Store
So Tesco didnt buy Albertsons (see my previous entry here) which is good news for Tesco shareholders here in the UK. A US based retailer Supervalu did instead as part of a consortium which seems to make a lot of sense to me. Good story here including a glance at the problems Walmart seem to…
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Fall of the traditional wedding album?
Neat idea this:-Entrepreneurial-minded wedding photographers John Andrews and Eric Hegwer have added “iPod Proofs” to their services, featuring custom-engraved his-and-hers video iPods with music, photos and slideshows of your wedding, including all photos they make. (Hence, proofs. A better name, I think, would be iPod Keepsakes.) Fits in with my idea of establishing a franchise…
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Fall of the traditional wedding album?
Neat idea this:-Entrepreneurial-minded wedding photographers John Andrews and Eric Hegwer have added “iPod Proofs” to their services, featuring custom-engraved his-and-hers video iPods with music, photos and slideshows of your wedding, including all photos they make. (Hence, proofs. A better name, I think, would be iPod Keepsakes.) Fits in with my idea of establishing a franchise…
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Pees on Earth – Gridskipper
Awesome picture (who took it, I wonder?)Yep, this is pretty much what you expect — a book about pee. Not just peeing anywhere, but peeing all over the place. New York, Miami, Shanghai, and other worldwide locales get the business in photographer Ellen Jong’s Pees on Earth: A Pissin’ Mission.
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Another of my heroes dies
The veteran US soul singer Wilson Pickett has died, aged 64, after suffering a heart attack in Virginia. His management company said that he had been in poor health for the past year. Born in Alabama, Pickett shot to fame in the 1960s, with hits including In The Midnight Hour and Mustang Sally. I remember…
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Pees on Earth – Gridskipper
Awesome picture (who took it, I wonder?)Yep, this is pretty much what you expect — a book about pee. Not just peeing anywhere, but peeing all over the place. New York, Miami, Shanghai, and other worldwide locales get the business in photographer Ellen Jong’s Pees on Earth: A Pissin’ Mission.
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Another of my heroes dies
The veteran US soul singer Wilson Pickett has died, aged 64, after suffering a heart attack in Virginia. His management company said that he had been in poor health for the past year. Born in Alabama, Pickett shot to fame in the 1960s, with hits including In The Midnight Hour and Mustang Sally. I remember…