Michelle Kwan Has A Posse
from the slow-news-day dept
With the Winter Olympics drawing near -- wait, are we allowed to say that? -- apparently it's newsworthy to report that several Olympians have online fan sites. Of course, the article glosses over the most interesting part, that there's an 800-strong group called the Michelle Kwan Guardian Angels "who vow to love and protect the American figure skater from bashing in chat rooms or message boards". Didn't Tanya Harding have something sort of like that?
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関穎珊
Or should there be a new olympic sport for long-distance snipers to shoot these pompous birds on ice, hmmm....
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Interesting, never heard of something like that, a group of people organized to go out and defend and idea/person on the internet. There's always been suspicion that some advertisers/companies have done this to "generate buzz" but never heard of it for an individual.
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Michelle Kwan
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No Sarah... is sad
It's a dang shame Sarah Hughes wont be n the 2006 Winter Olympics team. Is it legal to say that yet?
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Wireless World: Real-time Head & Shoulders
CHICAGO, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A customer at a retail store picks a bottle of shampoo off the shelf, heads to the cashier, and pays for the product. The radio frequency identification (RFID) tag on the item sends a notice to the store's network -- alerting it that inventory has been reduced. The network automatically communicates with computers at the shipping center of the shampoo maker, which triggers a shipping notice that more shampoo is on the way to replenish the dwindling stocks of Head and Shoulders.
This vision of the retail store of the future may start to come into existence in the coming year, experts tell United Press International's Wireless World. By Gene Koprowski
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by the UPC what they just bought. By Phil McRack
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No Subject Given
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Obey Michelle Kwan
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