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Web sites prey on rivals’ stores

CNET: Web sites prey on rivals' stores

"One e-tailer that's been bitten is 1-800-Flowers.com. When certain Web surfers visit the site to browse for bouquets, a pop-up ad appears for $10 off at chief rival FTD.com. The same sort of thing happens at AmericanAirlines.com, where a Delta Air Lines promotion is waiting in the wings."

For 1-800-Flowers.com to get rid of the FTD ad they'd supposedly have to pay more for the spot than FTD is. Uhh, isn't this extortion?

You shouldn't have to pay to keep other people from putting ads on your site or your building or anything. Thankfully it appears you have to be using IE/craptive-x and some music-stealing software like AudioGalaxy to be affected by this. So music-buying, Mozilla-using, selectively cookie-refusing people like myself won't have to put up with this crap.

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London children not ‘monsters’

BBC: London children not 'monsters'

"A parents' leader rejects claims from overseas teachers that children in London schools are badly-behaved 'monsters'."

One of my cousins is teaching in England (maybe London, but I can't remember). The last I heard, he certainly thinks the kids are absolutely horrible to deal with.

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CHA to follow USA Hockey

Toronto Sun: CHA to follow USA Hockey

A CHA source confirmed yesterday that if the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team skates on all four days of its mini-camp next month, Canada will do the same.

The CHA is following the principle that if everyone is speeding on the freeway, any given car is less likely to get a speeding ticket because there are too many offenders to be able to pull over.

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Transmogrify – A Java Refactoring Tool

via rc3.org: Transmogrify - A Java Refactoring Tool

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