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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (81728)	5/26/2011 1:11:25 AM
From: Sexton O Blake	Respond to of 233845

Years ago I doubled my money with Sequel (spelling - not sure) Energy from a BNN pick. A place to hear new picks and opinions - then do your own checking. Sometimes the story alone is good enough - and if the guest likes it, owns none and has zero ties, then all the better. Guests saying "own it / don't own it" alone isn't of any value to me. Shame to hear that Mark Haines (CNBC) passed away yesterady. Always remember his chuckling over Zapata entering the internet business (Dot.Bombs) and said "what? are they going to sell fish oil over the internet?" B ... a throw back story ... Fish-Oil Maker Zapata Cans Online Business Marcella Bernhard, 01.09.01, 3:59 PM ET SILICON VALLEY - Hey, nobody said conquering the Internet was as easy as making sausage casings. That didn't stop animal by-product manufacturer Zapata from trying...and, to no one's surprise, failing. The company, which once attempted a takeover of Excite, announced plans to pull the plug on its attempted Web portal Zap.com and the Webzine Charged on Jan. 5. The news of Zap's demise marks the end of an era. The Internet business was so heady back in 1998, when the portal-wanna-be first came on the scene, that people scoffed only slightly at the news that an animal by-products company was taking on Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people) in the battle for those formerly coveted viewers. Zapata (nyse: ZAP - news - people) is the New York-based holding company that owns a majority share of Omega Protein, the largest marine protein company, and 40% of sausage casing producer Viskase. Amid the demise of so many seemingly viable dot-coms--companies like eToys (nasdaq: ETYS - news - people) and Priceline (nasdaq: PCLN - news - people) are teetering on the brink of extinction--it's only fitting that we bid adieu to the one site that best represented all the absurdity of the whole dot-com craze. ... read the full story: forbes.com