05 March 2003

The NY Times mourns one of its heroes

A fawning obituary for Josef Stalin. [source]
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Bad customer relations

An infamous UK online business kept records of people who sent flowers on St. Valentine's day and sent them e-mail about sending them again. Not all of them had sent the flowers to their wives...[source]

UPDATE: It wasn't a flower shop. The description has been updated. Also the reference to Samizdata in the blog list has been corrected (it was just a typo, I swear!) What actually concerned me the most was the double trackback. I tested that with posts from other of my blogs and didn't see it happen.

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