Word: tagging
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Give a mollusk a radio-frequency ID tag, and suddenly--well, slowly--snail mail isn't just wordplay. Artists at the U.K.'s Bournemouth University are upending the term for mail sent via old-school postal services. "We're all living in a speed-obsessed world," says Vicky Isley, which is why she co-created RealSnailMail.net Users submit e-mails that get relayed to a tank with some snails and two electronic readers. A gastropod with a chip on its shell wirelessly picks up a message from one reader and eventually moseys 50 cm to the other, at which point...
With a price tag of $1 million, the trip is outlandishly decadent. But it's partly for a good cause: for each trip booked, 10% of the cost is donated to the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Around the World in 80 Ways (www.lhw.com) takes in 12 cities over 28 days, cramming dozens of once-in-a-lifetime moments into one extraordinary holiday. As in Fogg's quest, the epic journey starts in London, with a suite at the Ritz and dinner in the hotel's restaurant. Ladies, don't worry if you can't decide what to wear: an original...
Moreno-Ocampo was desperate to get the warrants delivered. Finally, around May 2007, he solicited the help of an Arab ambassador who came up with a face-saving solution for the Sudanese government in this diplomatic game of tag. Khartoum officials received a DHL envelope with the warrants, signed the receipt and returned it unopened. Haroun has still not been taken into custody...
Frances Weeks, manager of a boutique in London's hip Notting Hill neighborhood, proudly holds up a dress by Italian designer Emilio Pucci. Such frocks usually come with a stratospheric price tag attached; she's selling this one for a mere $200. Oh, and how about those Prada evening shoes she's got priced at just $140? They'd usually set you back several hundred bucks. So what's the catch? Well, most of the chichi clothes, shoes and accessories on sale at this shop are ... well, preworn. Weeks' boutique is in fact an upscale version of the ubiquitous Oxfam...
...Fobis contends that's because Amazon, like most websites, lets customers "tag" products on the site using nicknames like Wiimote. Online retailers also use software like metatags containing words and data that might be buried in the site but, when fed to search engines, can increase the likelihood that Internet search results will prominently feature that site. Even when a vendor is trying to sell a Wii remote control on a retailer's site and advertises it as a Wiimote, or if a customer posts a review of the Wii remote control and gushes, "I love the Wiimote...