<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : business : All Links : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/business/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>67790</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/67790/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Overqualified]]></title><description><![CDATA[Looking for work is an exercise in selling yourself. You write cover letter after cover letter, and then maybe one day you just snap a little. You sit down to write a cover letter, and something entirely new comes out. <br/><br/>And you send it anyway.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>256</score><crdate>7/5/2008 7:30:06 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-05T07:30:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67479</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/67479/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Polygamous sect launches clothing line]]></title><description><![CDATA[The raid by Texas authorities on a reclusive polygamous sect in April has had an unexpected consequence - the launch of a new clothing line.]]></description><comments>17</comments><score>589</score><crdate>7/2/2008 8:00:31 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-02T08:00:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67375</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/67375/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Alternatives to Oil - Some one Just Bring it!]]></title><description><![CDATA[The following provides an overview of some of the possible direct and indirect substitutes for crude oil in its use for transport fuel.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>18</score><crdate>7/1/2008 3:42:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-01T15:42:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67241</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/67241/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Walmart Gets New Logo]]></title><description><![CDATA[And it sucks.]]></description><comments>22</comments><score>408</score><crdate>6/30/2008 4:54:04 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-30T16:54:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67129</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/67129/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Express Rant? Free Express Car Wash!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bakhtiari: We've installed a dunk tank about 10 days ago and every Saturday, there's live music and dunking going on.<br/><br/>Who is in the dunk tank? Who do the customers have an opportunity to dunk?<br/><br/>A Shell employee -- someone dressed up either as a corporate Shell employee or a typical cashier.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>275</score><crdate>6/29/2008 11:47:11 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-29T23:47:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67123</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/67123/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mommy Megaphone Will Out You As an Ineffective Parent]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;sure-fire way to get everyone to listen.&#8221;]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>107</score><crdate>6/29/2008 11:17:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-29T23:17:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67107</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/67107/1/</url><title><![CDATA[World's Oldest Profession offers &quot;stimulus&quot; of its own]]></title><description><![CDATA[In response to a 5 percent drop in business, the Shady Lady Ranch along U.S. 95 about 150 miles north of Las Vegas plans to offer $50 gas cards to clients who spend $300 and $100 gas cards to those who spend $500.<br/><br/>The brothel also offers special monthly discounts, including an offer of 45 minutes of services for $175 instead of the usual rate of $200.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>411</score><crdate>6/29/2008 8:10:18 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-29T20:10:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67046</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/67046/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates to Step Down from Microsoft]]></title><description><![CDATA[The chairman of Microsoft and one of the world's richest men, Bill Gates, is stepping down from his job running the world's largest software company.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>61</score><crdate>6/28/2008 3:30:36 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-28T15:30:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>66907</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/66907/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sony Making Up For PS3 Profit Losses]]></title><description><![CDATA[In response to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/games/l/66881/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this</a> post, Sony is making up for the PS3 profit losses with their other products. $3.5 billion profit for fiscal year 2007 will more than make up for the $1.3 billion loss on PS3 hardware.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>76</score><crdate>6/27/2008 3:31:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-27T03:31:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>66514</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/66514/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Nobody saw this coming: Psychics Demand to be Taxed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pleaded one psychic to the City Council: &quot;Other people come to see me that tell me they got ripped off by other psychics.&quot; The licenses, she said, help the industry &quot;get the riff-raff out.&quot;]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>13</score><crdate>6/24/2008 7:49:09 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-24T19:49:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65955</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/65955/1/</url><title><![CDATA[When 100 Cents is Worth More than $1 Dollar]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dollar has been devalued to such an extent that a penny &#8212; as in one hundredth of a dollar &#8212; can only buy a fraction of the metal needed to make a physical penny. Each coin takes significantly more than one cent to produce.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>166</score><crdate>6/19/2008 12:30:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-19T12:30:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65828</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/65828/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New Generations' American Dream Differs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Occassionally this finance writer for Yahoo puts out a good article.  It is not very common for her, most of the time she just babbles about common sense finance issues.  But this time I think she hit the nail on the head with the American Dream and how it has evolved.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>86</score><crdate>6/18/2008 5:53:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-18T17:53:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65443</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/65443/1/</url><title><![CDATA[How would you like to pay $20 to try on each bridal gown?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some retailers are starting to charge brides-to-be for the privilege.]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>200</score><crdate>6/15/2008 5:50:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-15T17:50:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65425</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/65425/1/</url><title><![CDATA[AIG Chief Expected to Step Down]]></title><description><![CDATA[The board of American International Group Inc. is meeting today to accept the possible resignation of Chief Executive Martin Sullivan, according to a person familiar with the matter.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>39</score><crdate>6/15/2008 12:13:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-15T12:13:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65349</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/65349/1/</url><title><![CDATA[CT brings back different gas pricing for cash and credit cards]]></title><description><![CDATA[CT is now allowing gas station owners to offer discounted prices to consumer who pay with cash rather than a credit card. Considering the bite credit card companies take out of each transaction this is great news for station owners and customers.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>28</score><crdate>6/13/2008 7:57:35 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-13T19:57:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65322</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/65322/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Nigeria may cut output]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oil prices slipped Friday in volatile markets, with traders anticipating prices will rise on demand concerns.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>61</score><crdate>6/13/2008 11:33:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-13T11:33:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65314</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/65314/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Exxon to exit retail gas business]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exxon said it will sell the 2,220 service stations it still owns across the United States. There are 12,000 Exxon Mobil branded stations, the majority of which are already owned by families or companies outside of Exxon.<br/>/picture is obviously not recent]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>125</score><crdate>6/13/2008 10:24:04 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-13T10:24:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65094</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/65094/1/</url><title><![CDATA[To Save Fuel, Airlines Find No Speck Too Small]]></title><description><![CDATA[The nation&#8217;s airlines are scrutinizing every step of their operations, from the tarmac to the sky, and from the nose to the tail of their planes, searching for new ways to cut their soaring fuel bills.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>68</score><crdate>6/11/2008 1:54:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-11T13:54:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64861</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/64861/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Trump in Scotland to defend plans for golf resort]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump touted his Scottish roots on a visit to his late mother's childhood home Monday, as he prepared to defend a plan to build a $2 billion golf resort complex here. <br/><br/>--leave it to the Donald, the ultimate ugly Merkun, to go to Scotland and tell them how to build a gold course...]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>55</score><crdate>6/9/2008 6:12:49 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-09T18:12:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64844</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/64844/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bierstick Requires Busty Girl to Operate]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bierstick is a syringe for beer. It allows you to drink 24 ounces in less than two seconds and it's FDA-approved for use in swimming pool and lingerie parties. It only costs $20, plus the $500 you would probably need to pay for the busty girl in white undies required for it to work properly, according to the photos in the instruction manual. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://gizmodo.com/5014565/bierstick-requires-busty-girl-to-operate" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Via</a>]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>181</score><crdate>6/9/2008 3:13:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-09T15:13:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64735</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/64735/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Global teamwork required if we want to see oil prices down]]></title><description><![CDATA[Record surges in crude prices have propelled the world into an era in which oil may never be cheap again.  Instead of presenting its usual united but ineffectual demand for increased oil production to OPEC with the aim of reducing prices, G8 discussions focused on how best to curb demand.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>49</score><crdate>6/8/2008 5:45:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-08T17:45:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64638</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/64638/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Oil price surges, oil country rejoices]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cowtown's oil boys celebrated today as oil soared almost nine per cent, or $10.75, and settled at $138.54 US Friday - its largest single-day gain in dollar terms ever.]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>165</score><crdate>6/7/2008 1:19:08 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-07T01:19:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64599</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/64599/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A Gym Designed to Cater to Christians]]></title><description><![CDATA[The gym offers classes including &#8220;Yogod,&#8221; its take on yoga, and &#8220;Chariots of Fire,&#8221; a spinning class. Spaghetti-strap tank tops and short shorts are not allowed, and women&#8217;s tops must cover their bottoms.<br/><br/>Have no idea what category to put this under.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>84</score><crdate>6/6/2008 1:38:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-06T13:38:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64570</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/64570/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Google Jobs!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I know there are those of us who are unhappy with our jobs. Or those of us who wish we had jobs to be unhappy with...nonetheless, checkout Google's job openings. Great company, they are hiring o'plenty with no signs of slowing down...(i think)]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>73</score><crdate>6/6/2008 10:45:55 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-06T10:45:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64374</id><url>http://www.plime.com/business/l/64374/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Koreans hit Intel with $25 million antitrust fine]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea's antitrust regulator said Thursday it will order Intel Corp. to pay $25.4 million for violating fair trade rules.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>118</score><crdate>6/5/2008 4:08:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-05T04:08:44+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>