One of the sicker developments of the internet age is the so-called
celebrity dead-pool, sites where those with nothing better to do
speculate online about the next world famous figure to suffer an
untimely end, winning points based on the accuracy of their
predictions adjusted for varying odds to reflect celebrities' ages
and life-styles.
It didn't take long after the Nasdaq market crash for a similar
website to appear devoted entirely to reporting on and speculating
about which dot com companies will be the next to crash and...
