Links to follow
SNN is up for the week and as you might expect its all about Katrina. The Britblogger round-up is available as well.
The late great Rodney Dangerfield condusts this week’s BestofMe Symphony. The big one is up over at World War Bush. The burning on is up at Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
The Dulwich Herald is up for this month. A good place for all your mythos needs.
If you want to get annoyed at leftie Germans Ray D has just the thing to rile you up. It seems some Kraut pols don’t know whether to be happy or sad about Katrina. Schroeder is getting into the act as well.
Think Israel has a new collection of posts for your reading pleasure.
Wolfie has some interesting news on the dancing for Che incident.
Pollard on Clarke in The First Post.
One of Marty’s writing places is giving away a Yes box-set as well as one from Chicago.
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Attention eBay Shippers Shoppers
When Holly Marshall wanted to sell a pair of dangling earrings, a popular style these days, she listed them on eBay once, and got no takers. She tried a second time, and still no interest.Was it the price? The fuzzy picture? Maybe the description: a beautiful pair of chandaleer earrings.
Such is the eBay underworld of misspellers, where the clueless and sometimes just careless sell labtop computers, throwing knifes, Art Deko vases, camras, comferters and saphires.
The quote is from a New York Times article (free registration required) that I wrote about last year. The point of it being that if people are getting little or no interest on what they’re offering, then they might be willing to take a low bid. You can get some real bargains that way.
You could search for misspellings on eBay’s site manually, but it’d be tough to think of every possible way words or phrases could be mangled. Automation to the rescue: Fat Fingers will calculate most of the permutations (doubled and transposed letters; also common typing errors) and search for them. I just did a search for “Xbox” and got over 230,000 returns. Most of those have clearly nothing to do with an Xbox or games or accessories for it, but you can edit them out and narrow the list down to manageable numbers.
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