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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (92226)	8/18/2005 12:03:02 PM
From: scion	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122087

Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness".

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (92226)	8/18/2005 12:23:36 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

What a long and vacuous post. <gggg> What's really amusing is that the hedgie defenders see conspiracies (Byrne and his minions, etc.) and then glad hand each other, all the time pissing and moaning about conspiracy theorists that hurt their hedgies. they assume everyone who writes negatively about their company is part of some grand conspiracy

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (92226)	8/18/2005 12:24:58 PM
From: StockDung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

Rocker Fires Back at Overstock By TSC Staff 8/18/2005 12:12 PM EDT The sparring continued Thursday between Overstock.com (OSTK:Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer's Take) and the New York hedge fund it accused of illegally conspiring to drive down the price of its shares. In a statement, Rocker Partners said it plans to countersue Overstock, alleging that recent media appearances by Chief Executive Patrick Byrne amount to a "smear campaign" that potentially injured Rocker's business reputation. "We believe that by failing to rein in the erratic behavior of Overstock's CEO and tacitly endorsing both his frivolous lawsuit and his increasingly outlandish public attacks on the Rocker parties, the board should be held accountable for the consequences of Dr. Byrne's actions, and we plan to make the board answer for its conduct in court," the hedge fund said in a release. Rocker Partners owns about 8% of TheStreet.com (TSCM:Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer's Take), the publisher of this Web site. Last week, Overstock filed a lawsuit in California accusing Rocker Partners of spearheading a campaign to drive down the company's share price by helping to promulgate tainted stock research and manipulating various press organs (including, at times, this one) and other entities. The suit named David Rocker, his fund and various employees, as well as Gradient Analytics, a research outfit Overstock implied was in league with the short-sellers. The suit alleges unfair business practices and negligence and alleges that Gradient's research reports were "simply platforms for the Rocker defendants to pursue its investment agenda of having Overstock's share price being kept as low as possible." In a subsequent conference call and two CNBC interviews, Byrne claimed a short-selling conspiracy had been carried out against his company at the behest of "one of the master criminals of the 1980s" who was "supposed to end up with our company." He declined to name the figure but likened him to the "Sith Lord" of Star Wars renown. In its release Thursday, Rocker Partners called the suit frivolous. A representative from Overstock couldn't immediately be reached.