Fool on the Street: The Straight Scoop From Scotts
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Scotts is an interesting small-cap play on the domestic lawn and garden industry.
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20/12/2004 A letter in last weekâs issue of The Lancet details a survey of Scottish fish and chip shops to try and estimate the popularity of the deep-fried Mars bar.
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A peek at Fool co-founder David Gardner's CAPS page.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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Tycho:  We put Monday's strip up early, so you might have seen it already - but you might not be familiar with the EGM interview it is based on, an excerpt of which appears here.  I sometimes worry about appearing partisan in these communiques, but it is not my job to be fair.  I'm not a journalist, I'm a consumer.  I don't buy one product from each company in the interests of some karmic ideal, and I don't need to purge my posts of wrongthink because I haven't produced something suitable for use as a press release.  Sony is grinding down their goodwill with every smug, psychotic interview, and someone needs to tell them so in clear terms.
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The Motley Fool - I have vivd memories of a certain consulting engagement where I resided at a one-star motel (having put off making my reservations until the last minute). While the staff was excellent, the motel was a bit lacking in terms of ironing boards and conditioner -- nothing the nearby CVS couldn't solve.
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Deconstructing a pretty good joke, and the investment lesson held within.
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A Fool traces the evolution of the ETF market.
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One Fool unearths an overlooked Chinese stock.
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Is today's big retail news a surprise? Only for those who weren't paying attention.
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In New York City, street vendors sell goat-meat tacos, sour-plum slushes, mini egg rolls, chocolate egg creams and crepes -- and that just covers the food. In the District, the choice often comes down to hot dogs and handbags.
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Sharpen your knowledge of Foolish fundamentals.
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How the Fool makes it easy to find Lynch-like guidance.
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Earnings can deceive, and James Early explains how.
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Fool contributor Tim Beyers finds that when it comes to stocks, it might pay to be Scrooge.
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Spent the last week sick as a proverbial dog. A nasty cold snap, combined with too much schmoozing and boozing, has put my heinie in a sling. So Iâve been home, nursing my few remaining brain cells back to health and perusing my favorite news sites. Itâs been an interesting few days.
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By John Welbes, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 13--If you buy ice cream at Tim & Tom's Speedy Market on St. Paul's Como Avenue, a display screen near the cash register will flash a sign that you forgot the cones.