Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage - Telegraph

Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage - Telegraph

Writing in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, the researchers conclude: “Facial hair, or beardedness, is a powerful sociosexual signal, and an obvious biological marker of sexual maturity.

“Facial hair may have been sexually selected by females on the basis of associated male success, despite its threatening appearance. Clean-shaven faces therefore may suggest appeasement, as well as being an obvious sign of sexual immaturity.

The downfall of Geosign: a sign of the times

CanadaIT.com - Company News

A record $160-million VC investment. A rich Web strategy. A quirky founder. For a few weeks last spring, Guelph, Ont.’s Geosign had it all. Then mighty Google stirred. And it was over

Potential Future Hyperinflation

Potential Future Hyperinflation

Walter “John” Williams thinks out of the box. He makes disquieting reading, but you won’t find him in the mainstream. At least not often. He runs a “Shadow Government Statistics” site with an electronic by-subscription newsletter. Anyone can access some of his data and occasional special reports. They can also assess his reasoning. In his judgment, government data are manipulated, corrupted and unreliable. He’s not alone thinking that.

“And so it begins”

RBS: Stock and credit crash alert

Tell me something I don’t know…

RBS issues global stock and credit crash alert - Telegraph

when there is blood on the streets BUY!

About Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs (pg 2) - Mar. 4, 2008

Asked how she dealt with her boss, former Apple PR chief Laurence Clavere once told a colleague that before heading into a meeting with Jobs, she embraced the mindset of a bullfighter entering the ring: “I pretend I’m already dead.”

Spiegel: How speculators are causing the cost of living to skyrocket

The Attack on Prosperity: How Speculators Are Causing the Cost of Living to Skyrocket - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

In late 2003, they invested only $13 billion (€8.4 billion) in the food commodities business. By March 2008, that number had jumped to $260 billion (€168 billion), an increase of 1,900 percent.

Peak oil may well be a myth

“Oh, is THAT why it’s rising in price
exponentially.

Yeah right, it’s really all about crooked banks,
derivatives, and banks destroying the Note

Food, Grains, Dairy, Platinum,
Gold, Silver, all Base Metals, Education, Insurance are all rising exponentially
too. Are they all “peaking” too?

When is do-nothing except lie Congress
gonna drill the dairy farmers, agricultural companies, miners, etc in a sharade
in the House like they did the oil execs?”

Gametracker, Tickerforum.org

Google getting into the music business (more categories to come)

Today I made a search for artist “Isaac Hayes”. The first result in Google took me to a list of albums, which in turn took me to a page where I could buy the album through three different resellers. All was done through Google corporate looking webpages, within the Google loop. I assume thus that Google is already getting a cut out of music albums…I knew it wouldn’t take long.

This is the real power of search engines, and the real power of affiliate marketing. Imagine what this can do for Google’s coffers in the long term, when they get a commission for every single item we buy online, from wine to jelewery to insurance.

In a way, Google is already becoming the “Walmart” of the web. And as Walmart and others do, it won’t take long before they squeeze the margins of their providers to get maximum profit themselves, because they are the main gateway to consumers. Such is their power.

“Being the main gateway for users towards information: interesting. Becoming the main gateway for consumers towards the products they want to buy online: priceless!”

(Hint for future posts: imagine a future in which not only sposored ads are advertising…but every single search result is also a paid listing. Who could stop Google doing this?)

Men prefer being solo over a bad marriage: study

Men prefer being solo over a bad marriage: study - Yahoo! News

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Bachelor Carl Weisman got fed up of being classified as a playboy, a loser or a commitment-phobe so he set out to find out exactly why he and a growing number of eligible men were steering clear of marriage.
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Weisman, 49, conducted a survey of 1,533 heterosexual men to research a book aiming to give women an insight into why some smart, successful men opted to stay single — and help lifelong bachelors understand why they are still the solo man at parties.

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