http://eisax.com Eisax weblog Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:32:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en American consumers, uneasy about the economy and unimpressed by the merchandise in stores, delivered the bleak holiday shopping season retailers had expected, if not feared, according to one early but influential projection. Spending from Thanksgiving to Christmas rose just 3.6 percent over last year, the weakest performance in at least four ... http://eisax.com/americans-stop-buying/ The fastest eco boat on the planet will attempt to break the round the world speed record using fuel made from human fat. Pete Bethune, the New Zealand skipper of Earthrace, said the attempt to circumnavigate the globe would begin from Valencia in Spain on March 1 next year. Bethune and his ... http://eisax.com/one-mean-boat/ In 1958, a New York man named Robert Lane decided to call his baby son Winner. The Lanes, who lived in a housing project in Harlem, already had several children, each with a fairly typical name. But this boy – well, Robert Lane apparently had a special feeling about this ... http://eisax.com/the-story-of-two-brothers-named-winner-and-loser/ We’re absolutely delighted to announce this morning that the traditional drunken spirit of Xmas is most certainly not dead down at 41-44 Great Windmill Street, London W1, as the following email proves: From: Mark XXXX Sent: 14 December 2007 11:43 To: . All RED All Users Subject: Extra Curricular Activities Good Morning Everyone, This morning the ... http://eisax.com/pr-firms-sex-on-the-desk-fiasco/ Students who rely on all-nighters to bring up their grades might want to sleep on that strategy: A new survey says those who never study all night have slightly higher GPAs than those who do. A survey of 120 students at St. Lawrence University, a small liberal arts college in northern ... http://eisax.com/students-who-don%e2%80%99t-stay-up-all-night-to-study-have-higher-average-gpas/ U R dumped — one in seven say they have suffered the same fate as Britney Spears’ ex-husband and been told it’s all over via text message or email, a survey said on Friday. While hiding behind technology might appear a cowardly way of splitting up, it contrasts with the four ... http://eisax.com/u-r-dumped-more-and-more-people-break-up-text-with-messages/ OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada’s post office and police are trying to track down a “rogue elf” who wrote obscene letters to children on behalf of Santa Claus, a newspaper reported on Friday. The Ottawa Citizen said at least 10 nasty letters had been delivered to little girls and boys in Ottawa ... http://eisax.com/anonymous-person-writes-obscene-letters-to-children-on-behalf-of-santa-claus/ SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - A Scottsdale man inadvertently shot himself in the buttocks Thursday morning. Scottsdale police Sgt. Mark Clark said Daniel Leatherman, 26, heard a disturbance outside his apartment and saw a man he knew fighting with a cab driver. Leatherman told police that the man, Cody Nunn, 25, had assaulted ... http://eisax.com/man-shoots-himself-in-the-ass/ MONTREAL (AFP) - After catching his 15-year-old smoking pot, a father sold the hard-to-get “Guitar Hero III” video game he bought his son for 90 dollars for Christmas at an online auction, fetching 9,000 dollars. The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for ... http://eisax.com/90-game-sells-for-over-9000-on-ebay/ In 1958, a New York man named Robert Lane decided to call his baby son Winner. The Lanes, who lived in a housing project in Harlem, already had several children, each with a fairly typical name. But this boy – well, Robert Lane apparently had a special feeling about this ... http://eisax.com/winner-loser-and-their-amazing-story/