This is the most arresting press release header we've seen this week:
For Immediate Release: Immediately
No sense putting this one off, then. Let's go:
14-year-old Finnish Boy Sells the Most Expensive Internet Domain in the Planet
Stop right there. Let's google the subject to see what comes up. In 2006, Cameras.com was sold for $1.5 million. Monthly traffic: 1,747 unique visitors. Computer.com was sold in 2007 for $2.1 million, and draws in an eye-popping 1,049 people per month. Vodka.com brought 3 mil, and gets 1,346 - no stats on Vodak.com, though, which might be what people type when they're boozy and thick-fingered. Fund.com went for almost 10 mil in 2008, and doesn't get more than 400 visitors a month. That just can't be right, but thats what BusinessInsider.com says. We continue with the press release, IMMEDIATELY:
Around 7 minutes into this he's just running outtakes.
GORGEOUS A collection of Hotel Stationery. This isn't one of them:
That's from my own small collection, which draws on antique-store finds. The link goes to the Goldstein-Avery collection in the Burns Library at Boston College. Interesting how the date field is usually 191_ - apparently they expected to change styles in the Twenties, or just didn't want to hang on to lots of inventory.
