"Playboy magazine, which scored a hit with its "Women of Enron" pictorial in the current issue, wants women from troubled telecom WorldCom Inc. and embattled accounting firm Arthur Andersen to pose for future issues. "

Woohoo... More corporate scandal porn!

CNN.com - Playboy uncovers corporate scandal - July 15, 2002

Yay! Wait a second.....wrong meme. Ooops.

When Meme came to live at my house

OK, this is random. Meme is french for "same."

Memes in Combat

In other words, the industry might look a lot like it did in 1995--back when telecom was considered a safe, if boring, investment, and almost no one had heard of a little company called WorldCom."

Another set of predictions.

FORTUNE - Is There Any Way Out Of the Telecom Mess?

"Scented with peppermint oil and infused with caffeine anhydrous, each bar of Shower shock contains approximately 10 servings/showers per 4 ounce bar with 250 milligrams of caffeine per serving. No, we're not kidding and no you don't eat it. The caffeine is absorbed through the skin... "

This cannot be healthy...

ThinkGeek :: Shower Shock Caffeinated Soap

...is when the blood is flowing in the streets.

I recall failing to convince an employer early on in 2000 that he should not accept stock in exchange for network services from an online retail company. The reason? Things had been too good, too long. It was time for a crash. Since then all I've been hearing has been "the recovery will be 3 months away" and "that wasn't a real recession." Yeah right.

This, however, feels honest. Red text all over CNNFN.COM. More Enrons and Worldcoms are surely out there. More terrorists too. No one knows when the market will recover, or how. Everything is bleak. No one is predicting recovery.

You win in the market by being contrarian. This is the time to buy. I think there will be a few more months of this nastyness, but I think we're near the bottom. When everyone insists that the only way things can go is down, and there is absolutely no chance of recovery, thats when you've hit the bottom. Thats when you can bet things will go up.

Its too early on in the generational cycle for a sustained depression. That won't be likely until early in the next decade.
Look for things to slowly begin to improve. The present crisis, in terms of the economy, terrorism, and corporate dishonesty, is a window into the coming catastrophe, as WWI prepared you for WWII.

As things being to improve, take stock of what just occured. In ten years all of the problems will come back to haunt you a thousand-fold. There are lessons here that you will need then.

The difference will be that you won't get to simply watch the crisis occur on CNN. You'll actually experience it in your life. You'll have to make choices. Even if you don't live in New York.

And if I'm wrong, things will be much much worse. Baby Boomers are too idealistic to be allowed to hold the reigns when the shit hits the fan. The last time such a group was running the country during a crisis was the civil war...

The time to buy....

"I am glad to present you a very simple experiment that you can conduct yourself with common material that you already have in your house. This experiment will allow you to see and check by yourself that a stable Plasmoid ( an artificial Plasma Ball ) can be created in air ( at a pressure of one atmosphere ). "

Weird microwave tricks. This is an old link, but a good one.

How to build a Stable Plasmoid at one atmosphere.

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The cost of mailing a standard letter domestically increases 3 cents this Sunday to 37 cents. Sending a postcard will rise 2 cents to 23 cents. "

I just freakn' bought a book of stamps yesterday. I wish they would pre-announce this stuff earlier then the day beforehand.

CNN.com - U.S. postal rates rise Sunday - June 29, 2002

"Chad Struer has played golf with almost 20 Fortune 500 CEOs. One in three cheats, he says. Struer finds that rather peculiar, because those same CEOs hire him and his Salinas, Calif., company, USA Diligence, to investigate the honesty of start-up companies so the CEOs can decide whether to invest. "

The culture of dishonesty. USA Today's top story.

USATODAY.com - Many CEOs bend the rules (of golf)

"Find a node, and leave a chalk symbol for others to find the node with a minimum of all that tiresome netstumbler business."

Read the link about hobo signs. Its somewhat interesting...

Let's WARCHALK!