Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:16:35 GMT
Giant Online Mall in the Works for China Market
Asiajin had an interesting story a couple of weeks ago about the online mall that 100 Japanese companies are setting up for shoppers in China.According to the Nikkei, major electronics retailer Yodobashi Camera, drugstore operator Matsumotokiyoshi, children's clothing retailer Narumiya and mail order company Cecile are among the candidates.Chinese shoppers will be able to pay with a China UnionPay card (there are about 1.8 billion of those in circulation) and they'll get their goods in about two days via China Post.
The new mall highlights the potential of China online retail sector.
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Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:59:02 GMT
Sunday snow storm
Well, not really a snow storm, but we are forecasted to get some snow tonight and over the next few days. (We even got a little last night.) Last week had some gorgeous days: Thursday got into the 60s! Not bad for Kansas City in January. But this weekend — when I had both days free — it’s dropped back down into the 20s for the highs. If the good weather had held, it would have been an obligatory Roundrock trip weekend, but it didn’t happen.
The photo above is not from my forest but from my back yard in suburbia several weeks ago.
There are at least two places in Missouri called Monkey Mountain. One is near St. Joseph and is a Missouri Department of Conservation area. The place was so named by early settlers because the bluffs there were said to be too steep even for monkeys to climb. Maybe so, but apparently the area is favored by Bigfoot. The second is a park and preserve just east of Kansas City. When the kids were little we took them there one Saturday and got terribly lost (on a simple, three-mile loop trail). This area earned its name, supposedly, from a troop of circus monkeys that had escaped and lived a short while on the mountain. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that there’s at least one Monkey Mountain in your state too.
The deadline for the next Festival of the Trees is this coming Friday, January 30. Send your links to Ash at mail (at) treeblog (dot) co (dot) uk. Be sure to put Festival of the Trees or FOTT in the subject line. Or you can use the handy online submission form.
We’re always looking for hosts. It’s a great way to find new blogs and attract more traffic to your own blog. Just let me or Dave know when you think you might like to have a go. We’ll give you all the help you need.
Have you ever gone to a friend’s place for a party, expecting lively conversation and getting caught up on the details of everyone’s life and interests, only to find that the party is actually a sales pitch for some product? It’s like when you go to a website, but first you’re given an ad you have to watch before you can get to the content. Yeah, I hate that too.
Queequeg continues to turn our home life routines upside down, but he’s actually about as ideal as you could expect from a puppy. He’s catching on to paper training quickly, he now comes when he’s called (mostly), and he’s grown quite adept at untying my shoelaces. Little darling!
What’s Pablo reading now? I’ve picked up a slim volume of George Orwell’s essays called Why I Write. The title piece is, I believe, a discussion of Orwell’s own motivation to write. Later pieces discuss the ways political language is used to make lies sound truthful. I finally finished Modern Chivalry, and I have to say I didn’t enjoy it much, despite it being a lost classic of American literature.
Missouri calendar:
- Squirrels bear spring litters through March.
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Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:54:13 GMT
Tasted a Good Wine Recently?
Hat tip to TechCrunch this week for point Snooth out to me.
Snooth describes itself as "the world's largest and fastest growing community of wine lovers." TechCrunch's description is probably a little more objective. They call Snooth "a social wine review site that is gaining some traction and recently closed another angel round of financing of about $1 million." This is Snooth's second round of funding. So, hopefully the site will be around for a while.
Gary Vaynerchuck needs to start looking over his shoulder. Snooth may catch him soon....
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Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:21:18 GMT
Paris Hilton caught gate-crashing at Golden Globes
Hollywood socialite Paris Hilton was caught gate-crashing at the Golden Globe after party, and the more embarrassing fact was that she hid herself in a bathroom. After she made her way into the party, CAA"s Kevin Huvane loudly demanded that she be shown the way out, as she was not invited.
"Kevin was outraged at her sense of entitlement, and he was adamant that she be removed," the New York Daily News quoted a source, as saying. "He was storming around, yelling Who let her in? She is not invited, and somebody had better get her out of here immediately," the source added.
After hearing Huvane"s ranting, security lined up outside the bathroom where Hilton hid herself and 15 minutes later, the hotel heiress came out red-faced.
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Yelling, Yelling
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Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:36:22 GMT
Make-it-yourself Turbolauncher
Turbomilk has a longstanding connection with spacecraft engineering but it’s only now that we uncover the classified drawings.
Do you want to discover a space-tourism pioneer in yourself? Simply download the pattern, print it, fetch some glue, scissors and build your own Turbolauncher. See you in space!
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Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:42:20 GMT
All of this over dead Flowers!
Anne Hathaway has revealed that she broke off with her ex boyfriend Raffaello Follieri over a bunch of dead flowers.
The "Rachel Getting Married" beauty said that she realized that he wasn"t the one for her when he insisted to throw out an arrangement of wilting cherry blossom branches.
They lasted a month and were beautiful even as they died, The Sun quoted her as saying of the flowers.
She added: Raffaello always liked things fancier and perfect and told our maid to throw them out. That was when I knew we saw things differently.
And what looks like, Anne would have anyhow dumped the businessman after he was convicted on charges of fraud.
In October, Follieri was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty to 14 counts of fraud, money laundering and conspiracy at Manhattan federal court.
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Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:50:12 GMT
Drink Local Wine
Celebrate Wine is pleased to be a part of a new wine-writing project called
"Drink Local Wine." The site brings together wine journalists, sommeliers, bloggers, and other wine enthusiasts from 16 "non-west coast" states and Canada. The goal is to enforce the reality that North American wine is not just about California, Oregon, and Washington anymore.
At "Drink Local Wine," you'll find information about wines from Illinois, Maryland, Georgia, and Wisconsin....and, of course, my home state, Ohio. Be sure to take a look.
(image courtesy of Drink Local Wine)
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Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:57:22 GMT
Is Incremental Change an Oxymoron?
My friend Scott McLeod over at
Dangerously Irrelevant published a post today that makes an obvious (but potentially startling) point about the nature of change.
Scott is an educator, an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Educational Administration Program at Iowa State University. But change is an issue in the business world right now - perhaps more so than in education.
Scott's post is just a presentation slide from another sourcehe put together. It shows a man jumping between two buildings - suspended in midair at the halfway point. A caption reads: No one jumps a 20 foot chasm in two 10 foot jumps. Think about that the next time you consider substantial, qualitative change for your business.
You can see the slide
here....
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, David Marchal
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Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:46:31 GMT
Human Natural Selection
R.A. Fisher, Julian Huxley, and E.B Ford were members of a small clique British and American scholars who were the driving forces behind the "New Synthesis", the refinement and spread of Darwin"s theory of evolution during the 1930"s and 40"s.
They can together also be counted as publishing the first ever test of the effects of natural selection on humans.
This week"s citation classic is.
Photo: (Left to right) R. A. Fisher, E. B. Ford, and Julian Huxley. Portraits are from YATES and MATHER (1963), CLARKE (1995), and BAKER (1976).
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Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:24:46 GMT
Road food
What about you? Do you have special road trip foods? Do you pack a picnic lunch or deal with the horror that is roadside fast food?
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