Shaquille O'Neal bolted landlocked and Denny's-endowed Orlando; Kobe Bryant sent word that he would not play for the Nets and leveraged his way to L.A.; and Phil Jackson, given his pick of construction sites after six titles in Chicago, chose to build from the neck up.
Just like the self-serve widget that individual sites install, the marketplace offers a single ad-unit (125×125) but instead of targeting only one publisher, advertisers can pick a mix of sites in bundles of five, ten, or twenty, whichever their advertising budget allows.
Go Away Online guides to the best of Paris and other now-cheap-to-reach destinations; Forbes Best of The Web's picks of travel sites; online bookings through Expedia.com.
The national and clearinghouse sites such as Century 21 don't have much focus, but the pick of the local sites, like this one from Austin, Tex., lets you choose from a sensible sense of criteria and see if there's anything you can afford that you might want to live in.
Educators may have their pick of smaller Web sites to use in class, said Gerry Wheeler, executive director of the National Association of Science Teachers, but "they don't have the quality control or sustainability that HowStuffWorks does".
If I were in the market for a new boyfriend, I'd have my pick of apps and sites that could help me browse and narrow the field of potential suitors.
Bus Glasgow-Balloch – £5.50 Bus Callander-Glasgow – £12 Food and drink per day – £5 (Porridge, bread, cheese, etc) Total cost for the week: £148.48 All in it together: Six family-friendly sites * Our pick of the best family camp sites that still have some availability during the school holidays (excluding August Bank Holiday).
At the same time, I began using Twitter to break into media by strategically picking out the editors of sites that I wanted to write for, other writers for sites that I read, writers I just liked.
In our first control set, we randomly picked the same number of sites as the predicted binding sites in each positive gold standard sequence.
