Wednesday, March 15, 2000

Quick, tell me the name of one brand of casket? Angie just read in her marketting book, that caskets are in the "no interest" category of consumer goods. Yahoo, though. has quite a selection of casket websites. From CHIP (Chile Information Project): U.S. federal prosecutors called for the formal questioning of more than 40 Chileans linked to the 17-year military regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, including many retired, high-ranking Army officials as well as several prominent civilians who collaborated with the Pinochet government in regards to the 1976 car-bomb assassination of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his U.S. citizen secretary Ronnie Moffitt in the streets of Washington, D.C. Today is the Ides of March (and my Mother's birthday). Dictionary.com says that "ides was in the ancient Roman calendar the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months." Et tu, Brute? New online photography magazine, SoulEyes In film, smoking has never died out. The Art of Smoking in Cinema is a comprehensive look at the on-screen glamour of the cigarette. Lesser known facts of World War Two, like "The first shot of World War II was fired from the German battleship 'Schleswig Holstein' berthed in Danzig harbour," and more. Google offers a web directory? No, its just Google's search technology and the Open Directory. From the Gallery of Obscure Patents: Directing a laser onto the ground and moving it in an irregular pattern in an attempt to get a cat to chase it, is patented in the United States! Billionaire donates money to start online university that he says will offer an "Ivy League-quality" education to anyone in the world -- free.