Maybe Frith was on to something when he wrote back in 2005, “So anyway, I was surfing the internet when I came across this totally awesome website called “I Called It”, and it looked like it was about making predictions, and what do ya know…I like to make predictions!

For example, I predict that BUY HIGH AND SELL LOW Microsoft, McDonald’s, and Kran Bioengineering will be the companies to invest in. This is not spam. This is not a joke. This is the chance of a LIFETIME to make a LOT of MONEY during your LIFETIME. Don’t you want to LEAVE A LEGACY for your CHILDREN? Do you want them to think you were a LOSER?”

He may have been slightly joking, but McD is up 4 bucks since that prediction back on 3-20-05 and now get this, McDonald’s is changing their entire look of their stores.

Read the rest of Frith’s prediction over here.

I think this is a good move for McDonald’s. Their menu has been evolving over the last 2 years to include healthier more modern options, yet their stores today still have that brick like flooring and yellow and red fiberglass/plastic benches. I’ve been eating at Mickey D’s since I was a baby where I ate their famous Filet-O-Fish sandwiches. I still eat at McDonald’s today 29 years later, however, most of the time I opt for their salad’s when I’m out running around. BTW the new Asian salad is pretty good.

I don’t own any McDonald’s stock, but I sure could get behind the company with this new look and new successful menu.

Source: MSN, Business Week Online

“Using a standard statistical test, there is more than a 50 percent chance that a violent eruption will happen at Vesuvius next year. With each year that goes by, the statistical probability increases,” he said.

Source: Discovery

Pilot Steve Fossett, who on Friday was more than halfway through his quest to set a record for the longest distance, nonstop flight, had his parachute on and was ready to bail out in case his plane broke apart due to extreme turbulence over India.

Source: Discovery

I predict they will overshoot the Baja peninsula to see how far they can go.

pingpong_fiasco is making this prediction:
“I call that Google will surpass Websters and the OED as the de facto standard for correct spelling.”

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-I agree with this. I already use Google for all my spelling and thesaurus needs. Good solid call.

Check this out. Someone at the PR firm for TIME Magazine decided to use some inside info to make a little money. Yes they were betting/predicting who would be TIME magazine’s person of the year. The people who made these bets are obviously rookies to placing bets when the bookie is at a disadvantage. Lets see where they went wrong. Maximum allowable bet?! Are you kidding me. If you ever wanted to draw suspicion to yourselves, congratulations.

They could’ve bet half that and done it 3 or 4 times more. It would not have triggered the alerts that a max bet would. Hey next time you PR firms want to use inside information to make money off of offshore sportsbooks ask for some obvious advice. Geez. You guys could’ve been raking it in, laughing all the way to the copy machine. But no, you had to blow it. How about spreading your bet across multiple sportsbooks? Well maybe you did that. I hope so. Its called diversification.

Note: I do not bet on sports. Anymore. Haven’t in years. 8 years precisely. Long before sports wagering was common online.

Sportsbook.com, the world’s largest online sportsbook, has been forced to halt wagering on Time Magazine’s Person of the Year and Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year due to suspicious betting activity. Upon further investigation by Sportsbook.com, the first and only sportsbook to offer odds on the annual designations, it appears employees of a public relations agency linked to Time Warner have used inside information to place the maximum allowable bet on this year’s winners.

On the afternoon of Friday, December 2, a number of suspicious wagers, originating primarily from New York and New Jersey, were posted on Mother Nature to be named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2005. These wagers have been traced back to e-mail addresses of a New York-based PR agency that lists Time Warner as one of its clients.

This decision followed on the heels of similarly suspicious betting activity on the 2005 recipient of Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year. Since the odds were posted on the annual designation several weeks ago, numerous wagers from the same sources for the maximum allowable bet were placed on New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Later in the evening of December 2, a leak emerged that Tom Brady would, in fact, be this year’s
winner.

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–Brilliant.

I’m predicting most men aim for the back of the bowl of a toilet when taking a leak.

See the poll on the right hand side? There it is. Cast your “what you do and how you do it” vote.

I was watching Mad Money, Jim Cramer’s show not too long ago, Google’s stock price was around the $300 dollar level. Jim Cramer was calling for a price target of $350.

We came close to that price today at the highs.

I have every confidence that GOOG will hit those extra 4 bucks. Cramer is close to Calling It.

Well I Called It and I forgot that I Called It too.

If you took my advice on 4-30-2005 that the stock market was at a bottom then you made some nice money.

I think we are about to rally again.

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I Called It. On 6-4-2003, I said, “Is Martha’s Business doomed since it relies almost entirely on her image? I don’t think so. The stock price was actually up today on news of the indictment. Probably because this incident is behind them.” ICI frequenter, Meliz, also agreed.

Martha Stewart Post

MSO Martha Stewart’s Omnimedia stock price has doubled in price. The chart looks poised to go higher today.

The Apprentice part deux, Martha Stewart’s version, is following the same hyper promo format as The Original Apprentice with Donald Trump, where every week the groups were promoting some asset of Donald Trump (see Trump Ice).

This season they get to promote Martha Related stuff. Personally I think the Martha Stewart Loft is cooler. That view with the wall of windows is quite nice.
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So is the H5N1 Avian Bird Flu real or just a media hoax ala Y2K?

Mr. Pink thinks so.

Mr. Pink’s Prediction

Bloggers around the net think the blogosphere will have to take part in helping prevent the pandemic from happening by educating the public and keeping communication lines open and free. Bloggers can do this safely from the comfort of their homes thus keeping you (assuming you are reading said blogs in your chair in front of your computer) out of harms way. Just wait till you need to purchase toilet paper.

A slightly smaller crisis, but not less important, will be when the entire blogger community and the readers on the net finally unstick their butts from their computer chairs and get up at the same time to purchase toilet paper at the store. Can you imagine the long “bread lines,” except this will be for TP.

Some bloggers are predicting that a major economic crisis will happen if the bird flu materializes, setting us back to the stone age. If this is true, we will all be wiping our asses with leaves.

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