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You might find this an interesting read though...

UPS has bought purpose-built freight aircraft, though these are freight variants of passenger airliners like the 757-200 Freighter. Many of the MD-11s are probably passenger conversions, since airlines like Delta seemed to get rid of their MD-11s pretty quickly.

• This (scroll down to "Other breaches revealed")
• This (keep your stick safe!)
• This (Yeah, I still hate the NYT... but even a bad example can be of some use...)
• This (which has possible tie-in's to the previous...)
• And, of course, this (just to close with a "catch-all"...)

Concerned? Apple could turn it into a marketing opportunity.

It's because we allocate the money we spend so poorly and inefficiently. The majority ends up in the pockets of the insurance companies and the drug companies and the hospital companies, especially those who have friends in government to mandate their use. Example I just read about today: after this
Medicare D fiasco http://www.sptimes.com/2005/webspecials05/medicare , the VA software fiasco (with a single software vendor), after so many numerous examples, the government has handed to 3-M on a gold-edged silver platter a NO BID CONTRACT for Medicare Payment Services which will reallocate payments based on new formulas (article at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/17/us/17medicare.ht ml). Do you think somebody has a friend up on high? Just like Halliburton getting no-bid contracts, just like all of the Katrina waste from no-bid contracts, just like Medicare D where the government GAVE UP its right to haggle and negotiate for lower prices from the drug manufacturers.

My god, we asked 3M to evaluate whether the government should use 3M software for medicare billing evaluation? What do they think the answer is going to be? And of course, 3M is out there selling its services to all hospitals saying hey we're know this software in and out, buy our own billing software to deal with medicare.

However, this is more about the troubles with doing international work
...and I like Elephants Dream a lot. I can understand what had happened, and I can't get angry with Matt Ebb because has been a mistake.
The problem isn't about international work, but about internal politics. It isn't the firs time that happens some thing like this, and it is going to happen again international or not.
The better option is to say the true, people is not so foolish not to understand. And it's fixed now.

The Cava Boycott is an example about internal Spanish problems.

The History of Catalonia is an interesting one (like any other history). And is a good example of how a XVIII century problem becomes an issue nowadays.

the deal would put the court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, in the unusual position of deciding whether the wiretapping program is a legitimate use of the president's power to fight terrorism.

Yes, it's far more important to only hire people who earn degrees from brick and mortar universities, where attention to academic quality is of the first order, such as Auburn.

They're doing everything they can not to pass real laws, and barely failing at that.

Like reauthorizing the which almost failed, or passed amended to death. While Georgia, one of the states specifically covered by the Act, almost forced many of its Black voters out of their voting rights again.

The people create a government to protect our rights. The government we've created that now sits in Washington protects only the appearance of protection. This November, you can fire your House Representative, and probably one of your Senators. Get to work!

we put the Shah back in power. The Brits and Russians put him in power in the 40s because they thought he would be easier to control than his father. Prime minister Mossadegh was a nutcase supported by Communists and was appointed into that position by the Shah. The only national election he ever won was a referendum to dissolve Iran's parliament. http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/04160 0iran-cia-mossadegh.html

A year after the invasion, none other than Colin Powell said the link was tenuous at best.

A few months later, the 9/11 commission, along with the FBI and the CIA found that there were no substantive links.

This, of course, is not surprising given that the administration's own point man on WMD found that Iraq had no WMD, which 33% of Fox News viewers incorrectly believe.

How you spend money for yourself, and how you spend money for your company are two completely different things. Bill may have spent many millions on his own home, but he was notorious for flying coach, and only in '97 did he buy a personal jet, with his own money. I don't know who is footing the bill for google's new toy, but google has definitely always been about excess.

Beneath the violence and the ethnic stereotypes, another trend appears: to keep up with entertainment like ''24,'' you have to pay attention, make inferences, track shifting social relationships. This is what I call the Sleeper Curve: the most debased forms of mass diversion -- video games and violent television dramas and juvenile sitcoms -- turn out to be nutritional after all.

(1) yes it is racist (2) The reasons people are not as "up in arms" about it is that there is no history of black on white slavery/discrimination on the level that white on black discrimination exists even today. If white people were enslaved by black people and we had jim crow laws discriminating against white people in the 60's then people would be more up in arms about that. But the fact of the matter is there was not and the idea that "black" person are overpowering a "white" person, is absurd on the face of it. On the other hand a white woman saying "white is coming" in that pose brings back all sorts of bad connotations like white supremacy and lynchings and discrimination.

You know like these people

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/washington/07rec ruit.html

who are practicing for the upcoming race war

-bloo

Here's the NY Times take on this. Of particular interest is that this move will probably anger the hardware companies that were convinced to use Microsoft's software. Now Microsoft is turning around and competing with them.

Judging from this NYT article, there may not be much left for the government to take.

Both sites I linked to are not Right Wing, they're actually liberal sites -- classical liberal.

The second article has a link to the normally left wing NY Times: What the World needs now is DDT. Good article.

Here's another link refuting Carson's garbage, not from a right wing site, either.

You have got to be kidding. Microsoft is the only one _you_ see on the news probably. The EU is very strict on this sort of things. Have a look at the EU vs Alitalia or the EU vs Olympic Airlines, or the EU vs BMW and GM. The EU even goes against its own country members if they fail to comply with EU law. No matter how people want to see it, microsoft is not the innocent victim here...

[Offtopic]Congrats to Italy for Barrying Germany 'Squadra Azzurra' Style! I hope you guys lift the cup in the end![/offtopic]

Chris DeWolfe is bound to fail due to his lack of decency. The article lists the following as part of his CV:

1997 vice president of marketing, FBBH
1999 vice president of marketing, Xdrive Technologies
2001 chief executive, ResponseBase
2002 president, ResponseBase Marketing

His experiences involved email (read: spam) and pop-up marketing, as cited in the NY Times (archived behind stone wall at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/business/yourmon ey/23myspace.html). Can you trust a spammer? Can you trust someone who made a living making popups?

No way. There is no way this guy can succeed. He is doomed to fail, not because he lacks any professional skills, luck, or foresight. But, rather, because he lacks common decency and will never be socially responsible in our society.

This guy was recently featured in an often-repeated Discovery Health special about coma & brain damage. "The Man Who Slept for 19 Years"
DHC website doesn't have a lot on it, but this guy's http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:fl6GNF-iDgsJ:n athanjones.blogspot.com/2005/03/man-who-slept-for- 19-years.html+%22discovery+health+channel%22+%22Th e+Man+Who+Slept+for+19+Years%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=cln k&cd=3 blog [google cache copy] describes it pretty well. I don't recall if they specifically said for this guy, but the other patients in that show were in JFK Medical Center, NJ.
This show was done shortly after he woke up about 2 years ago. At that point, he had come out of his 19 year coma, and refused to beleive any time had passed. He thought Reagan was still President, and he was still 19 and able-bodied. Every day was the same, and he had no learned memory. Like the blog says, every day was "groundhog day".

Apparently, his family refused to give up on him, and dragged his limp body around to family events - even hunting and fishing trips. - I think this is odd, but amazing. I doubt I could have this much faith.

Really creepy was how his 19 year old daughter was dealing. Since he thought he was still 19, his 40-ish ex-wife (she gave up and moved on) wasn't anything he was interested in. He was flirting with the daughter, though. She was uncomfortable, but knows that Dad doesn't realize what he is doing.

NYTimes also picked the current story up. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/health/psycholog y/04coma.html?hp&ex=1152072000&en=31378eedf4a85e5c &ei=5094&partner=homepage Pictures and other links there.

It's a non-immigrant visa. It allows these folks to get a taste of the American experience for 3 years, send the money home, and get some experience they take home when they leave.

H1B visa is a dual-intent visa where-by the person can get sponsorship for permanent residency from the employer. So if they like the taste then they can stay too.

When your Unemployment Insurance is running out because it's taken more than 6 months to find a job in your profession, one in which you're told there is some pressing shortage of labor, thanking the loyal citizens of other countries who are competing for the same jobs on an unlevel field may not be topmost in your mind.

If we compare job levels during irrationally exuberant boom times of 1999 to job levels during the recession of 2002, we'll find "unemployment insurance" running out not only among programmers but among every other field. This year it took us 1 month of interviews to hire a IT help desk and our top candidate got another job, we got the second best. It took us 2 months and 2 rounds of hirings to get a System Admin and he destroyed our Exchange server within a month. Talk about getting quality candidates. In both cases we didn't call any foreign candidates and salary was not a constraint.

Given that one must be PE, CPA, member of the bar, etc. to work in those fields, there is little to wonder about.

So certifications/memberships are preventing foreign workers in all of these other professions and IT is the only one that doesn't require certifications/memberships so that's why we have so many foreign workers? So let's have such requirements in IT too and let's see how many of the 100,000 unemployed actually can make it through. Most IT jobs are highly skilled and anyone with half a brain who wishes to be in IT shouldn't be able to just because he wants to.

H1-B is not about brilliancy! It's about run-of-the-mill programmers paid "prevailing" rates which are considerably less than the market rate for good programmers.

It IS about brilliancy, when thousands of candidates from the rest of the world compete for 65,000 visas only the brilliant few can get them. There may be some who do run-of-the-mill programming jobs but that doesn't discount them as run-of-the-mill, its the visa program that ties them to an employer and doesn't give them an opportunity to go for cutting-edge jobs. They can't change employers as projects change. Disconnect the visa from the employer and you won't see many of them doing run-of-the-mill jobs at "prewailing" rates. There may still be some who come through contacts but the market will take care of such low quality workers.

Why wouldn't they want to come?

More than 30,000 people left US as more opportunities open up for them in their home countries. Here's one NY Times story

> If Russian Courts can't close a russian website how does the BPI expect a British court to manage any better?

It is easier for a camel to pass through the hole of a needle than Russia join the WTO without shutting down its non-DRM websites and sending the operators on a 25 year state-sponsored holiday to Siberia. Russia cannot make sensible use of its huge oil revenue without WTO membership, dictator Putin knows that well. AllofMP3 is a walking dead. Russia either becomes prosperous through WTO or sticks to its vodka heaven stagnation alone.

Here is the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/world/europe/01c nd-mp3.html?ex=1306814400&en=4c9bcba30952e86b&ei=5 090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Speaking of video business models, Bob Young is in the NYTimes this morning covering www.lulu.tv and the business model of a creator co-op. Bob Young was actually talking specifically about the possibilities of sharing advertising back in his presentation at Linuxworld.

It is good that open source folks are focusing on the business models for Internet Video as this is another place that if we are not careful will get yanked away from joe public and put into the hands of execs and studios that push their cookie cutter dreams all over my viewing experience... and far more importantly take the cash that should be going to creators.

It looks like several are doing this. The NYT has a story about Lulu.tv today. And it mentions revver.com is doing something similar.

"At some point you have to ask yourself what is your core business," said Kevin Timmons, Yahoo's vice president for operations. "Are you going to design your own router, or are you going to build the world's most popular Web site? It is very difficult to do both."

"At some point you have to ask yourself what is your core business," said Kevin Timmons, Yahoo's vice president for operations. "Are you going to design your own router, or are you going to build the world's most popular Web site? It is very difficult to do both."

There were multiple eyewitness accounts of the strike on the Pentagon --- those spotting an inbound commercial airliner headed directly towards the Pentagon --- and those spotting an inbound C-130 at a higher elevation (C-130 Spectre gunships are routinely armed with missiles and, occasionally, cruise missiles). Oddly enough, hotel personnel viewed the commercial airliner in a clean video tape their hotel camera had picked up - yet DOD will not release this video - but instead released the same exact, hard to view, stop-action video clip which has been on the Internet for the past several years.

Now what if it wasn't the same specific commercial airliner that was reported to have struck the Pentagon (directly head on - not at an angle - pretty obvious from the satellite photo in this week's NY Times Book Review) and that commercial airliner was further blown up to remove such contradictory evidence by that missile-carrying C-130???? Sounds farfetched - but it would tie up all the anomolous pieces and explain why the Pentagon/DOD refuses to release any of its numerous videos of that day.

Weren't they having fire drills the week prior to 9/11/01 in the North Tower, which necessitated that building being partially - if not fully - evacuated for some time??

Interesting sidebar: within a 48-hour period prior to that day the following occurred: payoff to Taliban of money, Jerome Hauer leaves post at DHSS in Bush Administration and EurekaGNN - out of the blue - is notified by owners of mortgage to WTC Twin Towers that they wish to contract for their fiber cabling services - contract to be signed months later......

To Bob the issues surrounding Net Neutrality come down to billability and infrastructure. While saying they are doing us favors, ISPs are really offering us services they can bill for. Nothing is aimed at helping us, while everything is aimed at creating a billable event.

Take WiFi hotspots, for example. Why should the telephone or cable company care about who connects to my WiFi access point? They are my bits, not the ISP's. I paid for them. If I can download gigabytes of pornography why can't I share my hotspot with someone walking down the street wanting to check his e-mail? Frankston's analogy for this is accusing someone of stealing your porch light by using it to read a street sign.

Well we did [build public infrastructure], didn't we, with the National Information Infrastructure program of the 1990s, which was intended to bring fiber straight to most American homes? About $200 billion in tax credits and incentives went primarily to telephone companies participating in the NII program. What happened with that? They took the money, that's what, and gave us little or nothing in return.

Using the higher $1,500 figure, the cost to finance the system over 10 years at today's prime rate would be $17.42 per month.

One billion dollars each in seed capital from Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, and Google would be enough to set neighborhood network dominos falling in communities throughout America with no tax money ever required. And they'd get their money back, both directly and indirectly, many times over.

Wow, So being a cop for 18 years means you can violate civil rights because you THINK you are right.
Hmm. Lets go over the run down of bullshit things cops have done to just me (35 year old male)
Got pulled over once when a cop was behind me and he said after I ask why he pulled me over, "you where driving to carefully." NO KIDDING a cop car behind me and I was driving carefully. Then there was the time my girlfriend and I where driving in a car and I was pulled over and when I ask why he said he want to count the occupants of the car. So I counted for him, 2. Then there was the time I witnessed a cop car run a red light with none of its lights on and smash into a another car. The cops kept insisting that I did not see what I said I saw. Even to the extent that they tried to put words in my mouth through intimidation. That time was so bad I called a family friend of mine who is an FBI agent (lawyer would have charged me) to come to help me.

Then there was this Guy on his porch in the Bronx that got shot for reaching for his wallet. 41 times I believe. (Diallo's case)

There was a case in Devner of raiding the wrong house and killing the dude inside and then LIEING and puting a gun in the dudes hands. HOLLY SHIT.

http://v6.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~4330~11 29795,00.html

Now how about the cop in San Bernardino California that shot the air force security officer IN COLD BLOOD. http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,86767, 00.html?ESRC=topstories.RSS

Let me put it simple. You are a cop, (probably don't even know where the term cop comes from I bet, quick Google it) Have you ever heard of the Blackstone ratio? LOOK IT UP.

Here is a great post to a editorial comment on NYC police brutality.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0 6E1DD1239F935A35755C0A96F958260

Or maybe police cover there own asses.
http://www.aclu.org/police/gen/14542prs20040128.ht ml

I mean Google searching for police abuse returns 70 million hits. Teen sex only returns 72 million. Seems that maybe Police abuse could be nearly as pervasive as teen sex. WTF?

If there is any doubt as to whether to shoot or not shoot. You DON'T SHOOT. I would rather the police offer was shot then he shoots an innocent person. Sorry but that is the job YOU CHOSE. The civilian has more of a right to survive a misunderstanding then you. If you are unsure of the outcome of the situation you withdrawl rather then risk an innocent life.

"Banking industry executives say that credit card processors typically pay MasterCard and Visa a fee of 30 cents and 1.95 percent for every purchase"

NYT times also has a interesting article on this with quotes about Google's plans on what they want to do with this product.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/us/24aclu.html?e x=1306123200&en=cd9a5fd9f6948a5d&ei=5088&partner=r ssnyt&emc=rss
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/johnleo/20 06/05/30/199207.html
And especially this one...
http://thewideawakes.org/archives/2006/06/18/pulli ng-the-plug-on-free-speech/

They ARE being misused!
From the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/us/24aclu.html?e x=1306123200&en=cd8a5fd1f6941a5d&ei=5090&partner=r ssuserland&emc=rss

By STEPHANIE STROM
Published: May 24, 2006

The American Civil Liberties Union is weighing new standards that would discourage its board members from publicly criticizing the organization's policies and internal administration.

"Where an individual director disagrees with a board position on matters of civil liberties policy, the director should refrain from publicly highlighting the fact of such disagreement," the committee that compiled the standards wrote in its proposals.

"Directors should remember that there is always a material prospect that public airing of the disagreement will affect the A.C.L.U. adversely in terms of public support and fund-raising," the proposals state. ...
The dissent of the people being repressed. At the ACLU. Oh, the irony.

The idea that Iraq had ties with al-Qaeda is, and always had been, a Bush lie.

          http://instapundit.com/archives/026895.php

          http://instapundit.com/archives/016030.php

The idea that Iraq had a WMD program is, and always has been, a Bush lie.

          http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/16/clinton.iraq.speech/

The only thing that Clinton lied about was having sex, which he didn't actually have.

          http://reason.com/9804/ed.vp.shtml

Big Bother is watching you.

          http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/regio nal/061700ny-col-tierney.html

Violating the privacy of bank customers is a Bush plot

          http://www.reason.com/hod/jb072604.shtml

Exploiting terrorism for political purposes is something that the previous president didn't do (since his only failings were sexual).

          http://reason.com/9507/VIPedit.jul.shtml

I say to you...there is nothing patriotic about hating your country, or pretending that you can love your country but despise your government.

            http://www.clintonfoundation.org/legacy/050595-spe ech-by-president-at-michigan-state.htm

We recognized, once again, that we can't love our country and hate our government.

          http://www.cnn.com/US/9512/budget/12-29/pm/transcr ipt.html

But do not condemn people who work for the government. That's the kind of mentality that produced Oklahoma City.

          http://www.clintonfoundation.org/legacy/060195-spe ech-by-president-at-billings-mt-town-hall-meeting. htm

I don't want to dwell on constitutional analysis, because our view has never been that civil liberties are necessarily coextensive with constitutional rights. Conversely, I guess the fact that something is mentioned in the Constitution doesn't necessarily mean that it is a fundamental civil liberty.

          http://reason.com/Strossen.shtml

As it stands, the only thing these leaks are doing is proving to your average American that, hey, Bush really is the bastard the ultra-liberals decried him as in the first place.

Except that the "average American" is not quite as "average" as the classist ultra-liberals envision him. What it really does is cause the "NASCAR Dads" and "Soccer Moms" to get even more disgusted with the mainstream news spigots and start seeking less-biased and more representative sources. That, of course, can only hurt the bottom lines of the Old Guard.

To successfully compete with an Internet across which one can aggregate news (and opinions) from all over the political spectrum, a traditional mainstream outlet will have to either clearly claim allegiance to one pole (e.g., Fox News) or genuinely have no political leanings or agenda (e.g., nobody right now). The days in which an outlet can pose as unbiased while actually trying to manipulate opinion with stories slanted either left or right are dwindling, or so say the accountants...

An executive of one Internet provider that was represented at the first meeting said Mr. Gonzales began the discussion by showing slides of child pornography from the Internet. But later, one participant asked Mr. Mueller why he was interested in the Internet records. The executive said Mr. Mueller's reply was, "We want this for terrorism."

I live in the city and spend a lot of time walking around. I have reached the point where if I see a driver on a cell phone I assume that they will not see me and I stay well out of their way. They are in a little world of their own with very little awareness of what's around them.

The NY Times had an interesting article on this recently (Times Select subscription required). Researchers put video cameras in cars and collected information about what was going on in the car in the seconds before an accident. The result was that "driver inattention was the overwhelming cause of the crashes in the study."

My own opinion is that conversations inside the car are less distracting than cell phone conversations because the second party to the converstation is aware of the situation outside the car and knows when to shut up or to wait for an answer. The person on the other end of the cell phone conversation doesn't have this extra input and so the conversation doesn't have the natural breaks for heavy traffic that an in-car converstation would have.

Thank you! I was going for a well known case (and trying to document it) but I appreciate the criticism. Some other examples might be comparing JetBlue or SkyWest and United Airlines and other unionized airlines. Albeit there are other obstacles to running an airline business, unions are only one. But these non-unionized airlines are showing consistent profit while their unionized competitors aren't seeing profit even with massive government support (similar non audio link here.)

I might also mention various problems with teachers unions. But that's an entirely different story.

I think most competitive industries that have unions display these tendencies. A government enforced monopoly always seems to be a bad deal for everyone, not just unions. Besides, the main point of my post was not that unions are bad, merely that Carnegie was not an imbecile.

long after stupidities like the Iraq war have faded into history,

Yeah, I agree. Because stopping an asshole who killed people with no recourse is just nonsense. Thank God the UN was there to help out [rolling of the eyes]. Clinton didn't even bat an eyelash at this. I'd love to see the look on your face the day they throw your family into a mass grave.

While the banking program is a closely held secret, administration officials have conducted classified briefings to some members of Congress and the Sept. 11 Commission, the officials said. More lawmakers were briefed in recent weeks, after the administration learned The Times was making inquiries for this article. Swift's 25-member board of directors, made up of representatives from financial institutions around the world, was previously told of the program, but it is not clear if other participants know that American intelligence officials can examine their message traffic.

Cheney's predictable response: anyone who criticises mass surveillance is helping terrorists.

"You can't type in a random name of someone" and search his data, said one intelligence official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "The program only works for names already within the intelligence system that were collected elsewhere and are identified as being part of an open investigation."

And we know from their illegal phone tapping practices, bloated do-not-fly lists etc, etc, that by now they've collected the names of pretty much every other American (not to mention nearly all other humans; remember, this is an international system; very heavily used by European banks, for one), and that with six degrees of separation, they all have enough ties to be part of the open investigations.

Several people familiar with the Swift program said they believed that they were exploiting a "gray area" in the law

"There was always concern about this program," a former official said.

"At first, they got everything -- the entire Swift database," one person close to the operation said.

Swift executives became increasingly worried about their secret involvement with the American government, the officials said. By 2003, the cooperative's officials were discussing pulling out because of their concerns about legal and financial risks if the program were revealed, one government official said.
"How long can this go on?" a Swift executive asked, according to the official.
Even some American officials began to question the open-ended arrangement. "I thought there was a limited shelf life and that this was going to go away," the former senior official said.

Read the entire New York Times article for more. Chilling.

Given the impact this has on Europeans involved in international transfers as well, if you're European, have you already contacted your bank to urge them to use their influence with SWIFT to make this stop?! There's never much to be done when there's the need to call or write congress critters, but with European privacy laws actually being worth something (in theory), here's a chance to voice very strong displeasure and make this stop!

Never mind, I am an idiot... (memo to self: do research before submitting comment...)

The old Myspace.com closed it's doors back in 2001. The new MySpace beast is unrelated to that old site. (Google link doesn't require soul-sucking registration...)

Yes, some glaciers are growing. However, the combined net change is a loss of glacial mass.

A similar effect is true of global temperature. Despite global warming, there are areas of the earth that are coolear. However, the global average is up. Note that temperatures at the poles can be affected very dramatically, the average at the north pole by as much as 8 degrees. This obviously has a greater impact on the polar ice than a 1 degree rise would have had.

"When they invented radial tires, they should have shot the guy," he said. "The whole industry went through a crisis, because it took nine years to squeeze out the extra factory capacity, because the tires lasted longer."

If you read the article (or the one at The New York Times), you will notice that in both cases, both authors attribute the cell phone comparison to "the organizations." Neither author was responsible for that.

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/06/687.asp

http://pubsindex.trb.org/document/view/default.asp ?lbid=776666

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/technology/circu its/06came.html?en=8bc6df38e1042a40&ex=1262667600& amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;am p;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ei=5090&partner= rssuserland&pagewanted=print&position=

link to nyt article on the wiki-script:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/fashion/sundayst yles/18ze.html?ex=1308283200&en=4ea006130a1baabe&e i=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

booyah.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/fashion/sundayst yles/18ze.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

Nielson samples a very wide demographic, not just "boring old fogies".