2007-10-09 20:57 She's a brick and I'm diapering slowly
Huggies ads suggesting Pampers fit bricks better than babies can stay on the air; the court held there were real differences between the products and that the ad illustrated this truth in humorous fashion. See the ad here. The Ad Age article recounts that Pampers prevailed against earlier claims before the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau; the classic weakness of NAD proceedings is revealed by the account of the Huggies spokesperson: "[Huggies] did end the original ads …
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2007-09-04 13:55 Dumbing Down OpenXML Quandry
Unless you ve been under a rock you are aware of Microsoft s attempts to certify their Open XML implementation as an ISO standard. On the face of it, its hard to understand why this issue could raise so many conversations and threads over the web so allow me to dumb down the case for you and explain what all the acronyms stand for. Most people know what BBB in USA is and what it claims to be. BBB or Better Business Bureau claims to be an organization that rewards and punishes businesses based on …
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2007-09-02 16:25 Clinton's first hurdle: Gender
by David Lightman For more than 30 years, Ella Grasso has been regarded as a trailblazer. When she won the Connecticut governorship in a landslide in 1974, the rumpled, salty-tongued daughter of an Italian immigrant became the first of a line of strong women elected to top offices in the state. Several women have followed in her footsteps in Connecticut. So as the 2008 presidential election campaign unfolds, it would seem logical for Connecticut Democrats to line up enthusiastically behind Hilla …
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2007-09-02 09:06 SPAM Hoover: BBB Trojan
So here is what we re fighting with today, Better Business Bureau fraud/trojan SPAM: Complaint Case Number: C465B4 Complaint Made by Consumer Mrs. Marcia E. Worthington Complaint Registered Against: Elizabeth MeHaffey of TIMCO Aviation Services, Inc. Date: 05/14/2007/ Instructions on how to resolve this complaint as well as a copy of the original complaint can be obtained using the link below: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD AND VIEW DOCUMENTS FOR CASE #C465B4 <> Disputes involving consumer products and/ …
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2007-08-31 16:55 Group warns of 'con artists' preying on homeowners
With foreclosures on the rise and people's anxieties even higher, the Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland is warning panicky homeowners not to fall for alluring but deceiving promises to get them off the financial hook.
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2007-08-31 13:59 Scams: Blue Hippo Angers Florida's Attorney General
Blue Hippo, the notoriously scammy computer layaway service, has annoyed Florida's attorney general. The story is always the same: Consumers sign up and begin paying their monthly payments but the computer never arrives. Blue Hippo says they don't offer refunds. Earlier this year Blue Hippo was recently sued and settled with the Maryland Attorney General for "unfair and deceptive trade practices by selling computers, televisions, and other goods to consumers for two or more times their retail pr …
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2007-08-31 07:40 Phishing, hacking, leveraging, pulling, etc. ...
The other day I wrote about hackers using leveraging (or "pull based") malware-spreading tactics by luring unsuspecting email recipients to follow links to bogus YouTube sites. Using similar social engineering, the Storm Worm variant on Independence Day last month used an embedded link that users downloaded from an external site - not an executable file attached to the email message they received. It seems that lately, hackers are also utilizing random domain names to easily disguise it when the …
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2007-08-30 14:59 One More Handy Site on Publishers...
Ok, I REALLY need to get some work done, but instead I'm just strolling the web... Here's a site by author Piers Anthony (you may know him if you've read fantasy or sci-fi--Remember the Xanth series). He started a "survey" (more like an alphabetical database) of publishers with focus on internet publishing houses. He summarizes what he knows of each (having used some "stool pigeons";-) who let him know about their personal experiences with different publishers. Frankly, it's like a "Better Busin …
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2007-08-30 07:09 Beyond Google - The article that inspired migoa
Since I haven't posted in a bit (I was away in Nice for a few days of vacation), I'm feeling a bit apologetic and maybe also a bit nostalgic. So I've decided to "honour" the Wall Street Journal article that initially inspired us to start migoa. It was back in late 2005 when Oriol and I were looking to start a business together and were scanning the US newspapers for interesting ideas. We came across this article, and the rest is history. It seems a bit outdated now - we've learned so much since …
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2007-08-29 17:02 IN MEMORIAM: The 2nd Anniversary Of Governor Fletcher's (R) Desecration Of The Rule Of Law -- His Bl …
While I've not seen any media stories about this so far, today is a very tragic anniversary. Two years ago this evening, Governor Fletcher (R) broke his solemn promise to the voters of Kentucky and railroaded an investigation into criminality at the highest levels of his administration by pre-emptively issuing a blanket pardon to his entire administration, as well as anyone else who may have been involved in the Merit System conspiracy, for which he was subsequently indicted. Most agree this act …
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