Friday, April 29, 2005

What do Yale, Techno and Fred Ramen...

...Have in Common? Raamen!

Fred Ramen
Go to Rosen Publishing to find a list of books written by Fred Ramen. He writes a lot of biographies of various nefarious humans (lightly termed 'humans') such as Albert Speer ("Hitler's Architect") and that Hermann Goering guy ("Hitler's Second-in-Command") and less volatile humans such as Hernando Cortes, Jerry West, and Joe Montana.
Fred also writes about the Constitution of the US and has a historical map of Iran. He writes for the Young Adult market and several of his non-fiction books are recommended for schools. (The link above takes you to his "A Historical Atlas of North America Before Columbus.")

You might wonder why Rosen Publishing has so many typos on their site (Goering is spelled Goring; Hernando is spelled Hernan), but that doesn't detract from the fact they have a Ramen (even if it does have only one 'A') on their list of authors.

Shirts Plus
At Techno Ramen you can get a thong. Or a bunch of shirts with テクノラーメン imprinted on them. (That's katakana for Techno Ramen.) The thong and a hoodie are the only items advertised as "Made in the USA." All the other items don't share their country of origin information which can only make one suspect China (country of origin for raamen or 'lau mein').

Yale
The east coast school, not the locksmith. Check out this "Ramen to Riches" story by a Yalie with a background a bit different from most Yalies.

Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Yagoohoogle search for ramen.
A comparison of the three search engines looking for "ramen" reveals
Google ...............
2,690,000
Yahoo ................
2,470,000
Yagoohoogle.......5,160,000

MSN ................225,999,068

Wow. How does MSN do it? I think they do it by including every website on the 'Net because some of the sites had absolutely nothing to do with raamen. (Check out the "Job and Volunteer Opportunities" site, for example.)

Thanks for dropping by; drop a drop of rum in your raamen and let me know how it turned out.

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