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Online odering surpassed catalog sales at retailer J. Crew in February for the first time, according to a NYT report. J. Crew sold $26 million at stores, $13 .1million online and $10.7 million catalog. I'm guessing the cost of online sales was considerably less than the catalog sales... Comments 5:20:47 PM 
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83% of Dotcoms survived the 'punishing' market conditions that have been called 'the nuclear winter' of startups. That figure emerged from a survey conducted by VentureOne, and coroborated by a smaller study done by PricewaterouseCoopers, according to the New York Times. The bad news is that more than half those companies studied will need more investment to keep going. The good news is that VCs nationwide are sitting on an estimated $40 to $50 billion. Not all those companies will find funding, so look for some more shake outs... Comments 5:09:12 PM
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Entropy: 'the measure of a system's energy that is unavailable for work. Since work is obtained from order, the amount of entropy is also a measure of the disorder, or randomness, of a system. ' So work is obtained from order? From Britannica's subscription site... Comments 12:50:29 PM
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Do Black Holes really exist? Many astronomers and physicists are pretty sure they do, including Stephen Hawking, but others aren't according to an article in today's Chronicle by former colleague Keay Davidson. Keay, interestingly, defined 'entropy' as 'a technical term that expresses (among other things) how much "information" is encoded by a physical object or process' Britannica pegs entropy as 'a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system's disorder.' Comments 12:42:28 PM
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Mormons to help FBI update their computer systems. The FBI's system is woefully out of date - recent public failures included 'losing' 3000 pages of Timothy McVeigh documents and failures to track Sept. 11 suspects. The Mormon church runs an extensive geneology database, and has experience tracking names and families. The FBI search engine doesn't allow misspellings, unlike most garden-variety search engines available on the Net... Comments 12:31:35 PM
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