Apparently mine was “With a Little Luck” by Paul McCartney & Wings. What was yours? Thanks Dave for the link.
Category: Interesting
Calling All Local Photographers
If you’d like to make some money off your photos (and I’m considering throwing a few up there as well), a new local stock photo agency might be able to help you sell them (yes, that is Simone‘s new project).
Monopoly Is Already Hard Enough
But if you want to make it more complicated, here you go.
The Man Who Said No To Wal-Mart
While, for the most part, every business wants their products to be sold at the 3,000+ Wal-Mart stores around the country, but I can very easily see why you wouldn’t want to if you sold high-end quality equipment, and this is the story of one CEO who basically told Wal-Mart to pull his product line of Snapper lawn mowers (why you’d go to Wal-Mart to buy a lawn mower, I have no idea). Good commentary from both sides, calling him an idiot and some praising him (personally, while I don’t mind Wal-Mart at all, and he’s probably not going to win too many fans among his shareholders, I think he’s got guts, that’s for sure).
Thanks Josh for the link.
Portland’s XXX Files
This is an eerily fascinating story about Portland’s sexual addiction:
We contacted a cross-section of people in Portland’s version of “the industry”: everyone from a “regular” guy who owns his own sex machine (and claims to have “serviced” at least 75 women with it) and a male stripper wannabe who doesn’t have quite the right stuff to make it on the stage of one of Stark Street’s busiest queer bars to a trio of Portland’s most down-to-earth “ladies of the night.” And, oh yeah, one “john.”
Be sure to read the comments on the story as well. Thanks Barney for the link.
They Obviously Need Some More Parks In Urban San Francisco
Otherwise, this temporary mini-park (complete with tree and bench) that was created in a two-hour parking spot wouldn’t have been so popular.
Real Estate Valuation Search
Zillow is a very neat looking service to easily compare home valuations, but it’s data for Deschutes County is absolutely useless and dated (and they admit that when you search for information in the area). However, if they somehow get all the information from the County, it’ll be far easier to use and figure out how much your boss’s house is worth with Zillow than with the county’s current solution for property records, the DIAL database.
Blogs Versus NYT In Google
Looks like in some searches, blogs are listed above the New York Times when it comes to major news. Looks like Winer might win his bet. Thanks Waxy for the link.