Gasps analyst Bill Dreher, reeling, “Costco continues to be a company that is better at serving the club member and employee than the shareholder.” Oh, the humanity! What dread tactics. (via Alas, a Blog [March 29, 2004])

Sometime in the Past: Mr. X makes $1 million sending spam—hundreds of millions of e-mails for porno and college degrees and what-have-you; all your favorites, doubtless. Sometime more recently: Mr. X buys a Porsche celebrating his newfound vocation (above). Even more recently: Mr. X loses Porsche through his newfound vocation (still above). The Future (?): […]

“The United Nations opened a global environment summit Monday, warning about the growing number of ‘dead zones’ in the world’s oceans but painting a picture of a greener planet with an increase of vegetation in many regions. … “But so-called ‘dead zones’ – oxygen-starved stretches of ocean that are devoid of life – topped UNEP’s […]

World Press Review is always a good place to see what kinds of things are getting printed in newspapers around the world (often including pieces translated into English from other languages, which is helpful in revealing a wider range of perspectives than might otherwise come across). The newest feature on their web site is a […]

So it turns out, maybe, that smoking and stupidity are not only linked by correlation, but also by causation, i.e., smoking makes you stupider. Dig? Dieses Artikel ist auf deutsch; wenn Sie es auf englisch brauchen, Google hilft (ein bisschen).

Blood! A new report (*.pdf – requires Acrobat Reader) produced by the Fritz Institute and Reuters Foundation’s AlertNet paints an interesting picture of the relationship between media coverage and humanitarian crisis. Most of the findings are hardly surprising (more press coverage = more private donations? incredible!!!), but the report is significant in that it’s (apparently) […]

Easy come, easy go. At least we’ll know what the dragonfish look like before we wipe them off the face of the planet. Good luck little guy.

Incredible! No, scratch that; it’s more than incredible, it’s brilliant! What geniuses. A new study finds that Teen-rated video games contain significant amounts of violence and death.