Can IBM Get Great Again?

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Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened?

Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened? 04/01/2005 11:00 AM
The Underground History of American Education
You aren’t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process children for a livelihood.... If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP)

Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP) 04/15/2005 04:32 PM
AP - A man accused of bursting into a convenience store demanding money was in the hospital Friday — shot, authorities said, by the great-great-grandmother working behind the counter.

Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That
Taste Great Together!

Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That
Taste Great Together! 06/19/2004 03:13 PM
"Don't equate happiness with money"... "Exercise Regularly"... "Have Sex"...
Advice from a German investment bank on how to enjoy life. Taking CitiBank's cynical "Live Richly" ad campaign a step farther?
obilgatory joke "I remember when the bank only gave away free toasters..."
In other news, A bank in India is targeting "sex workers" as new customers,
Insert Sperm Bank Joke Here. heh heh heh... he said "Insert Sperm"...

"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before.""

"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before."" 01/26/2004 03:28 AM

frederick-the-great.com �
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store.

frederick-the-great.com �
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store. 09/10/2004 02:11 AM
frederick-the-great.com � http://frederick-the-great.com/ announced Grand Opening the Computing and Home Office store. Frederick The Great has thousands of electronics and home office supplies which fit your need and budget. [PRWEB Sep 10, 2004]

Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters)

Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters) 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
Reuters - The Great Wall of China is shrinking as tourism and development take their toll on one of the world's most famous monuments, state media said Monday.

"Great Hacker != Great Hire"

"Great Hacker != Great Hire" 08/06/2004 09:45 AM

Great Hacker != Great Hire

Great Hacker != Great Hire 08/05/2004 03:49 AM
Great Hacker != Great Hire .. Eric Sink

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Great Power, Great Restraint...

Great Power, Great Restraint... 08/05/2004 02:26 PM
Anakin learns that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one in Star Wars: Republic #67, released this week. Randy Stradley, Brandon Badeaux, and Brad Anderson tell a tale that balances power and restraint as Anakin and Obi-Wan face off against the Separatist forces on the planet Zaadja, while Master Tohno infiltrates the Geonosian droid factory on a demolition mission she is not expected to survive. Ever wonder why the Mandalorians are nowhere to be seen in the Clone Wars? The answer may lie in this issue! All under a cover by Brian Ching. You can check out an online preview here< /a>.

Hostetler Great Lakes Capitol, Inc.,
located in the Great Lakes region of
lower Michigan, just announced plans to
build an enormous organization with
Freelife International, using the
Himalayan Goji Juice as the leading
product.

Hostetler Great Lakes Capitol, Inc.,
located in the Great Lakes region of
lower Michigan, just announced plans to
build an enormous organization with
Freelife International, using the
Himalayan Goji Juice as the leading
product. 07/26/2004 02:14 AM
David Hostetler, with a Master�s degree in Marketing, has been a successful marketer on and off the Internet since 1977. Having built several other successful businesses in the past, he is now well on the way to building a million-dollar business and has chosen Himalayan Goji Juice and Freelife International as the leading product. Do you want to come along? He is looking for entrepreneurs who want to team up with millionaire marketers under a specialized and unique Internet marketing system. If you are a marketer/MLM distributor and think you deserve more, now is the time and this is the place. Don't wait for your destiny... make it happen! [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]

What is the A Great Portal website
about, what is so Great and what is a
Portal?

What is the A Great Portal website
about, what is so Great and what is a
Portal? 05/31/2004 01:51 PM
A Great Portal, Great Links to Great websites has moved to a new website address, of http://www.agreatportal.com This is part of on-going improvements. The website has lots of links to various and interesting subjects as well as a Multi-search, a news headlines search and free website promotion. Is it a Portal and is it Great? See what you think. [PRWEB May 30, 2004]

- 3G: Great. Great. Great

- 3G: Great. Great. Great 01/02/2005 09:33 PM
IT AsiaOne Jan 3 2005 12:51AM GMT

Well, that's just great.

Well, that's just great. 08/21/2004 10:46 PM
Child Pimp and Ho Costumes. That's... what it says.

Cul de Sac is great

Cul de Sac is great 11/17/2003 07:48 PM
Sac-re-licious

suburbanblight.net/archives/001259.html
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Its great

Its great 08/20/2004 08:22 AM
TechTree Aug 20 2004 12:35PM GMT

Two New, Great RSS Directories in One
Day!

Two New, Great RSS Directories in One
Day! 06/08/2004 01:10 AM

• Really Simple Syndication: Directory of Aggregators
  "One of my goals in starting the Really Simple Syndication site was to develop a list of aggregators, and a process for keeping the list current. I'd like the vendors to participate, in several ways -- by keeping pricing and technical information about the products up to date, and to help us understand features supported by their product, and how they compare to competitive offerings. Of course, I'd like to have all the claims verified by users of the products." [Really Simple Syndication]

• Rich Site Services
  "RSS(sm): Rich Site Services is a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML feeds. RSS is an initialism for RDF Site Summary / Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication. For each entry, a hotlink is provided, when available, to a RSS (and/or XML) link for the item, or to an information page that provides a subsequent link.

  RSS(sm) is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Department, Iowa State University Library. Ames, IA 50011."

Both of these are immediate additions to my RSS class and presentations! Aggregator users, please contribute to Dave's directory of aggregators! Librarians, please be sure to register your RSS services with Gerry so that we can keep track of all of the activity in one place. [Although, an...um... RSS feed for new additions would be of great help, too!]

Great Domain Name

Great Domain Name 05/19/2004 02:45 PM

DHTML Code Samples, www.getElementById.com: Great domain name for a site about DHTML. Guess what site came up first when I searched for that method name.

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Great ideas 101

Great ideas 101 12/03/2003 02:57 AM
Boston Globe Dec 3 2003 1:55AM ET

The great 64-bit shootout.

The great 64-bit shootout. 09/20/2004 09:22 PM
InfoWorld: The great 64-bit shootout. I don't agree that percent of peak is a useful metric for customers, but otherwise it's a decent article.

[f2c] The Great Debate

[f2c] The Great Debate 03/31/2005 12:47 PM
[NOTE: This is live blogging. It is not close to a transcript, nor is it comprehensive. Finally, I'm hindered by having only a sketchy sense of what they're talking about.] Charlie Firestone of the Aspen Institute moderates a debate. Resolved that the Communication Act's stovepipe, vertical regime ought to be replaced by a horizontal regime. Rick Whitt (MCI and author of "Taking a Horizontal Leap Forward") Tim Wu (U of Va law prof) Randolph May (Progress and Freedom Foundation) James Gattuso (Heritage Foundation) Rick Whitt: The basics of the Net are at odds with the Communications Act: Layers, agnosticism of...

Great Gas Phase-Out

Great Gas Phase-Out 05/19/2004 04:23 PM
Record-high gas prices are putting a renewed focus on alternative fuel vehicles.

Great shot

Great shot 12/22/2004 01:49 AM

(originally uploaded by jperkinson)

I know there are millions of photos of kids online, but jperkinson's are amazing.

The Great Wave 0.1

The Great Wave 0.1 05/29/2004 05:02 AM
A theme based on a remastering of the Hokusai print.

Hey thats great. I want to know who this
eerthcet from Hyd

Hey thats great. I want to know who this
eerthcet from Hyd 09/19/2004 08:14 AM
TechTree Sep 19 2004 11:40AM GMT

No Great Thrill

No Great Thrill 05/07/2004 04:35 PM
Six Flags keeps on producing hair-raising financial results.

A Great Value in the Oil Patch?

A Great Value in the Oil Patch? 12/29/2004 06:03 PM
PetroKazakhstan may have some risks, but it can yield benefits, too.

Great Computers

Great Computers 05/04/2004 11:51 PM
Ad - http://triumphelectronics.netfirms.com May 5 2004 4:51AM GMT

No Great Acclaim

No Great Acclaim 02/18/2004 09:29 AM
Acclaim may be fading away, but its friends still come out and play.

The Great Downloads War

The Great Downloads War 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
Apple has been here before -- it dominated the computer market decades ago but later blew it. By Victor Keegan (The Guardian via MyAppleMenu)

Great IIS Site

Great IIS Site 03/14/2005 06:07 PM

This place saved our necks yesterday (at work, not Gadgetopia). If you ever find yourself working with an IIS box and run into this little monkey:

The server failed to load application '/blah'. The error was 'The server process could not be started because the configured identity is incorrect. Check the user name and password'.

The "Synciwam.vbs" script will actually work as advertised. We installed some software that hosed all the user accounts on our IIS box yesterday, and were left scratching our heads as to what the bloody hell happened.

Apparently, this script can cause problems of its own -- so be careful out there.

My apologies if this is a well-known thing, but I hadn't seen it prior to yesterday.

(Credit goes to Ryan for finding this one.)

The Great CD Migration

The Great CD Migration 03/14/2005 05:56 PM
I’m beginning to think about migrating my CD collection to hard disk, and it’s starting to be feasible (even for a hard-core audiophile), but there are some interesting music-technology issues. [Update: Wow, did I ever get feedback; this area is action-packed.]...

Great to meet Ted

Great to meet Ted 04/11/2004 04:13 AM

OK - multi-post sequence - all based upon this post......

See my comments at the end........

Here's Ted Leung.......

Back. Well, I"m finally back in the saddle after a week at OSAF. It was five months since my last visit, which was probably a little too long. Some of the things that I talked about this week included several meetings on Item Clouds, a long clarifying discussion on our Data Model, and several discussions on Item Sharing. Anthony Baxter dropped by to tell us about shtoom, encourage us to think about voice in Chandler and suggest some ways to get more involved with the python community, so I suppose I'll forgive him for greeting me by telling me that I looked like ****. It was also a good time to be around to accelerate the coordination needed for planning the 0.4 release, and since we've hired a number of new folks, it was good to meet all of them, and spend some time developing existing relationships.

This trip I also managed to have an active evening social calendar. I spent one evening with our old family friends David and Katherine Fedor. It's been entirely too long since I saw them -- hopefully we'll be able to get the families together sometime soon. I spent another evening with fellow Brownies David Temkin and Sarah Allen who are both at Laszlo. David and I worked on Newton together, and it was interesting to hear his reflections on the project now that a number of years have passed.

I also ended up spending an evening with Marc Canter, his wife Lisa, and Phil Wolff. Marc is doing a bunch of open source style projects in addition to his consulting with various companies in the social software space. A lot of what he's doing right now centers around FOAF, and I'm looking forward to seeing the results soon. I think that there could be a nice tie in between the PeopleAggregator and Chandler's "sharing circles". One thing that Marc's interested in is being able to build another user interface on top of Chandler functionality. If we do a good job at MVC in CPIA, then this shouldn't be that much labor. Something that struck me as I talked with Marc was the long term view that he's taking of the stuff that he's working on. He's thinking multiple years worth of effort, a point of view that's been in short supply / disfavor since the dot com boom and "internet time".

Phil Wolff has gotten a fair amount of reading in our house -- he's hit both my and Julie's aggregator. In fact, when I told Julie I was meeting Phil too, she exclaimed "the thousand beers guy". You never know what will stick... Phil's been doing a lot of work with the Kerry campaign, and thinking about the issues related to taking the software artifacts created by campaigns and making sure that they have a life so that succeeding elections/campaigns could make use of them. He also asked me some interesting questions about Chandler. How will Chandler compete with a "Google in a box" appliance that includes search, e-mail, etc? How will Chandler do calendar support for events like Muslim prayers which occur a sunrise and sunset in your current location? This requires knowing where you are in the world so that you can compute when sunrise and sunset are. Food for thought, indeed. Phil had two thought provoking posts earlier that day, one on the 'Perfect' Corporate Weblogging 'Elevator Pitch' Competition (which he is judging) and another on social network software.

Lisa, Marc, and Phil got me the last night I was in town, and by then I was slightly draggy (I didn't say that Anthony was wrong), so I hope that I was suitably interesting company. [Ted Leung on the air]

It was great to meet Ted Leung - someone who I have been reading and who's working at one of my favorite entities - OSAF.  When Mitch and Andy were on their original road show - showing off version .1 of Chandler - they promised me that we'd be able to build on the APIs and data structures - utilizing what's known as an 'object store'.

Dave Winer had built an object store - it was called the XML storage system - so I knew that the world needed an open source of of those.  When I heard Chandler had one - I got excited!

So we all have vested interests in seeing the OSAF succeed.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people all come up with the same conclusions on FOAF, sharing and multiple accounts being aggregated together.  This meme is taking off.

The Great Mirror

The Great Mirror 04/11/2004 01:09 PM
The Great Mirror. &quot;A collection of about five thousand photographs taken over the last 30 years by Bret Wallach,&#0160;a geography professor at the University of Oklahoma.&#0160; With few exceptions, the photos&#0160;show cultural rather than physical landscapes and are intended to illuminate the people who have shaped these landscapes and are reflected in it.&quot; [Via wood s lot.]

Where Do Your Great Ideas Come from?

Where Do Your Great Ideas Come from? 02/05/2005 09:32 PM

Some more 'fun with numbers' today. A while ago I mentioned IdeaChampions' When & Where Do You Get Your Best Ideas? survey. If you haven't taken the survey already, you can still do so. But before you click to post your answers, write them down. Then you can use this article to create your Personal Creativity Profile, as I've done above. The Profile will tell you: When and where you get your best ideas How your sources of great ideas differ from others, and why How you can make more time and space for creative activities The chart above compares my scores on the 36 questions with the normalized* answers of other respondents. If you want to create your own chart like this, using Excel or a similar spreadsheet software, here's how to do it: From the IdeaChampions' survey page, copy the 36 questions, and paste them to the first column of your spreadsheet using Paste SpecialText. Copy your scores into the next column. Then copy the normalized average scores from the bottom of this post into the third column, using Paste SpecialText. Highlight the entire table you've created and sort it in ascending order by your scores. Then add a row at the top of the chart and type in column headings. Then highlight the entire table you've created and Insert a bar chart, which should look something like the chart above. Interpreting your Profile: In my case, brainstorming, creative thinking techniques, talking with customers, taking time just upon waking, taking breaks, and listening to music are my six 'sure-fire' ways to generate creativity, so I should learn to draw on one or more of them whenever creative thinking is needed. I should keep a pencil and paper beside the bed for waking-hour inspirations. And since I take a lot of breaks and walk around, I should get wireless headphones so my music goes with me. I should study creative thinking techniques so that they become second nature. And I should spend more time talking with, and listening to, current and potential customers. What's more, the last three of these six creativity sources are unusual to me, and not effective for most others, so if I'm in a group creativity setting I should be cautious about suggesting others take breaks or listen to music. I should be sensitive to the fact that happiness is an essential precondition to creativity for most people, though it isn't for me, and also that most others will be more creative if they take a walk, read books, talk with friends, or spend time thinking just before bed, even though those techniques don't work particularly well for me. There are some other interesting differences between my creative places and times, and those of most others. I find flying and commuting very stimulating -- perhaps it's the movement, and the fact that my commutes are off-rush-hour and hence fast-paced and relaxing. I find television stimulates my thinking more than it does for most others, but that's probably because of what I watch -- documentaries, mysteries, in-depth investigative reports and foreign programming. And the least effective three sources for me -- internet surfing, vacationing and exercising, are all fairly intense, focused activities for me, that don't leave many 'cycles of brainpower' for creative thinking, though I can appreciate that others who find these activities more recreational could also find them more creatively stimulating. Next I asked myself how I could find more time and space for the creative activities that work best for me. To answer this I added another column to the spreadsheet, and entered for each of the 36 activities the amount of time each week I currently spent on each. I again used a scale of 1-5 for this: Activities that consume >20 hours of time a week -- 5 Activities that consume 15-20 hours a week -- 4 Activities that consume 10-15 hours a week -- 3 Activities that consume 5-10 hours a week -- 2 Activities that consume <5 hours a week -- 1 Now I added one more column that showed, for each of the 36 activities, my rating (1-5), divided by the amount of time I spend at it each week (1-5, using the scale above). If you do this and re-sort the 36 activities in ascending order of this last 'Personal Score/Time Spent' column, the resulting chart looks like this: What this second chart reveals is what, ideally speaking, you should try to spend more time doing (the activities at the top of the chart, which you've rated as a source of great ideas, but which you spend relatively little time doing) and what you should try to spend less time doing (the activities at the bottom of the chart). In my case, I should 'get out more' -- spend more time brainstorming with others and just moving around, and less time in front of the computer. I also need to use creative thinking techniques more often. My 'catch-all' #36 'other source' answer was spending time in the hot tub, which I suppose must somehow work for me the way showers work for others. What is it about being in the water that gets us thinking creatively? No wonder dolphins are such imaginative creatures! Though to my surprise, others' top 'write-in' answer for question #36 was 'on the toilet', so perhaps we should see whether porcelain has some mysterious power to spark ideation. While others spend their time in airport lounges, airplanes and traffic either bored or fuming, I find these activities 'transport' me and get me thinking very creatively. Because it's dangerous to write while driving, I've learned to use mnemonic devices to capture and remember ideas that occur to me until I can safely write them down (works in the shower, too). If I could find a dictating machine that worked with my voice-recognition software I'd probably use it instead -- maybe even write a whole paper or blog post simply thinking out loud while I drive. It's quite possible, though, that since much of my travel is early-morning, it's actually that time of day that's responsible for the flurry of ideas, rather than the movement. Though since I'm a night-owl, usually miserable in the morning, I'm not sure that my body clock, or the ones around me, could handle it if I tried early-to-bed, early-to-rise. It hurts just thinking about it. What works for you, and why? Are there times and places and techniques that aren't on this list at all that seem to surface great ideas for you? In what ways does your ideal environment for idea generation differ from mine, and from the other survey respondents'? And are there ways you could be spending your time a little differently to allow your right brain to get some more exercise? * How I normalized the 'average' answers to the survey: First of all, I double-counted the '5' scores, the proportion of people who found each time or place a 'sure-fire' source of great ideas, because I think that's just as important as 'average' score. Then, because when you average scores you get most of them clustered around the 3 average, I 'stretched' the results so that the top-scoring source (brainstorming) received a normalized score of 5 and the lowest-scoring source (being sad or depressed) received a normalized score of 2. Finally, I rounded the results to the nearest 0.5. The results then more closely map, in standard deviation and distribution of results, an individual's scoring. Here are the normalized scores in order for the 36 questions (for copying and pasting into your own spreadsheet): 4.0 4.0 3.0 3.5 3.5 4.0 3.0 4.5 3.0 3.5 4.5 4.0 5.0 3.0 3.0 3.5 4.0 3.0 2.5 2.5 3.5 3.0 3.0 4.5 4.0 4.0 2.0 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 3.5 4.0

"The Great Mirror"

"The Great Mirror" 04/13/2004 10:28 PM

Great ETCON pic

Great ETCON pic 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
I love this pic from ETCON. Link

More Great Flash

More Great Flash 01/06/2005 02:48 PM

Exxon Secrets: This is fantastic work with Flash. It reminds me of that tsunami Flash tool of a week ago. This one is just as good and shows how Flash can be used to really let the user explore a "space" of information.

Note: I'm not endorsing or condeming the subject matter here. I'm just commenting on the skill of development and strength of presentation.

From Good To Great (Maybe)

From Good To Great (Maybe) 01/04/2005 01:59 AM
Information Week Jan 4 2005 6:23AM GMT

"Great mess, A+"

"Great mess, A+" 01/03/2005 03:18 AM
Messy desks were submitted for a contest at bash.org. Most of them are n't that messy, but a few are unforgettable. If you would like to cut to the chase: here is the winner and here is the Honorable Mention (NSFW). (Many of the comment threads are also NSFW)
Grok Description matches for Can IBM Get Great Again?
GrokA matches for Can IBM Get Great Again?

Cult TV show hopes to become cult film

Cult TV show hopes to become cult film 07/28/2004 09:11 AM

Tribute to Fortune Red, Disneyland's
fortune-telling pirate

Tribute to Fortune Red, Disneyland's
fortune-telling pirate 09/19/2004 06:17 AM
Cory Doctorow: Randall sez, "Showcasing the now-extinct shooter arcade that once graced the exit to Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, The Pirates Arcade page offers your chance to have Fortune Red, the fortne-telling pirate machine tell your fortune. Click on the "Fortune Red Has This To Say..." button, and one of the 20 possible fortunes will be delivered in a popup window. Most fortunes make reference to one Disneyland attraction or another, including the long-gone Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland." Link (Thanks, Randall!)

Fortune.com - Fortune 500 - The Money
Machines

Fortune.com - Fortune 500 - The Money
Machines 07/24/2004 04:53 AM
92% de los americanos prefieren acceso a un cajero automtico que a su email .. A history of the ATM Machine

fortune.com/fortune/fortune500/articles/0,15114,662142-1,00. html
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Is The Mac A Cult?

Is The Mac A Cult? 04/19/2005 04:08 AM

By Kelly Kitchens, MacLife

Inside Cult Of Mac

Inside Cult Of Mac 08/15/2004 11:28 AM
Welcome to a small but passionate community that includes doctors, corporate honchos, housewives, technicians and students. The Cult of Mac is spreading slowly, but rock steadily, in Calcutta. By Subhajit Banerjee, The Telegraph, India (via MyAppleMenu)

The Cult of Mac Blog

The Cult of Mac Blog 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
The next Wired blog, Cult of Mac, is off and running

blog.wired.com/cultofmac
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"The Cult of Mac Blog"

"The Cult of Mac Blog" 04/09/2004 04:12 PM

Join the cult of bad jokes.

Join the cult of bad jokes. 10/29/2003 01:15 AM

I tried and tried, but I just couldn't resist linking to this parody:

"Confirming their intent to battle Google's new Blogger service, MT then announced on its TypePad site that the it would be rendering all of its users' posts in image format- meaning that any blog hosted by the TypePad service would be immune to Google's awesome searching reach, because the blog entries would actually be images, rather than text ... Taking the incredible step to block your users' access to and from Google, the de-facto clearinghouse and meetinghouse of the Web, is a bold and almost paranoid move for MovableType to make in a war that hasn't even begun (neither the new Google-powered Blogger, nor MT's new TypePad sevice, have yet to launch). It's as if MT has forgotten how precarious their strong hold is over such a fickle group of fans."

For reference, the author was referring to this dollarshort.org post, which, I assume could have only benefitted from a "THIS IS A JOKE" disclaimer.

The confusion over my feeble attempts at humor has spurred us to create the <$MTJoke$> tag, which from this moment on, is a required Movable Type tag to be used when indicating sarcasm, gentle ribbing, playful jests and half-truths.

THIS IS A JOKE!

I guess my 26 paragraph screed on Google's gourmet chef wouldn't go over well either.

Missile Defense Is A Cult

Missile Defense Is A Cult 12/19/2004 03:10 PM
Up here in Canada we’re coming under political pressure from President Bush to sign up for the U.S. Missile Defense program, we’ve got all this territory up North where they’d like to situate the launchers. Rather than just saying “Get lost!”, our Mr. Martin is (wisely I think) playing it cool and fuzzifying. It’s good not to irritate the U.S. when you don’t have to, but there’s absolutely no need for Canada to assist the dwindling but influential band of cultists who believe that Missile Defense is anything but a defense-contractor boondoggle. It was bogus back when Reagan launched it and it’s still bogus. But don’t take my word for it, check out what the American Institute of Physics has to say. Mind you, it’s less dangerous now than it was in Reagan’s day, when there was a nonzero probability that “Star Wars” might have provoked some paranoid Russians who were sufficiently stupid to believe that it might work to launch a first strike while they still had a chance. (Lauren has told me of how she, like every other underfunded Physics Ph.D. in the Eighties, noticed how dressing research up as missile-defense-related was a good way to tap into the gushing SDI money pipeline). Now, it’s just an extremely profitable waste of money. We all know that religious cults are distinguished by believing in things that are obviously not true, usually combined with substantial cash flows in the direction of those running the cult. Missile defense is an obvious example.

The Apple Cult Is Dead

The Apple Cult Is Dead 01/03/2004 12:11 AM
I have seen a change in public perception towards Apple computers and other Apple products (AppleMatters via MyAppleMenu)

Celebrating The Cult Of Macintosh

Celebrating The Cult Of Macintosh 02/10/2004 05:13 AM
The key to the Macintosh's success, or at least survival, has been its commitment to innovation and good design. By Christopher Hutsul (The Star via MyAppleMenu)

Joining the Cult of Linux

Joining the Cult of Linux 01/08/2004 08:27 PM

Other News: Calcutta's Mac Cult

Other News: Calcutta's Mac Cult 08/16/2004 10:09 AM
The Cult of Mac has reached Calcutta.

Why I'm an Acolyte of the Cult of Dean

Why I'm an Acolyte of the Cult of Dean 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
Normally I'll have nothing to do with any sort of organized religion, as almost every one has an aggressive branch of proselytism. It's interesting, though; I've never been averse to being spiritual, to having faith in things, etc. Howard Dean's found a way to proselytise without being rude: provide an open forum for people to congregate, and never waver from what's in his heart. I think this method works for anybody, but I've never seen anyone with the power to go for President realize this; it sounds like JFK might have been the last. Interestingly, those are some of the core principles that we're discovering at the roots of this whole "blogging" thing; you cannot waver from the guidance of your heart, you must be honest and direct. The technological implementation of blogging is where we find the community-building, though;...

The cult that's running the country

The cult that's running the country 05/03/2004 08:15 AM
Joseph Wilson blasts the secretive neoconservative cabal that plunged America into a disastrous war, in this excerpt from his new book.

Cult of Apple, exposed!!

Cult of Apple, exposed!! 12/30/2003 01:33 AM
"A Satanic, unevolvable chimera compells you to submit to Darwinism!" Someone PLEASE tell me this is a joke! (scroll down to the Apple Computer section.) I think this guy must have informants on the inside. Not only does hes...

The Cult of Bens [Flickr]

The Cult of Bens [Flickr] 03/19/2005 02:35 AM

The Cult of Ben Part Two [Flickr]

The Cult of Ben Part Two [Flickr] 03/19/2005 02:35 AM

Nigeria discovers 50 possible cult
victims

Nigeria discovers 50 possible cult
victims 08/05/2004 04:04 PM

Usability Cult Sacrifices Innovation

Usability Cult Sacrifices Innovation 06/11/2002 11:58 AM
"No users (...) were researched when Sony chief Akio Morita invented the Walkman."

President Bush and the Apocalyptic
Christian cult

President Bush and the Apocalyptic
Christian cult 06/16/2004 10:38 PM
Fun Neal Pollack article in The Stranger about President Bush's kooky religious beliefs.

This is also the kind of country where the president meets with the members of a radical, far-right millennialist Christian sect three weeks before he counteracts all known international law and opinion regarding the Israeli-Palestinian situation. That sect, known as the Apostolic Congress, opposes any deal with the Palestinians because it believes that Christ won't return to Earth until all of Israel belongs to the Jews and Solomon's temple is rebuilt.

Link (Thanks, Kirsten!)

Cult theory in Italy murder probe

Cult theory in Italy murder probe 01/23/2004 06:30 PM
Police investigate the theory that Satanists could have ordered the Monster of Florence murders.

BW Online | August 2, 2004 | Cult Brands

BW Online | August 2, 2004 | Cult Brands 07/24/2004 02:59 PM
The year's top brands and trends in branding circa 2004 .. Google adsense

businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_31/b3894094.htm
track this site | 3 links

China shuts down 1,287 porn, cult
websites

China shuts down 1,287 porn, cult
websites 12/24/2004 12:17 PM
The Star Online Dec 24 2004 3:40PM GMT

'Macheads' Are Devoted To The Cult Of
The Apple Computer

'Macheads' Are Devoted To The Cult Of
The Apple Computer 05/14/2004 12:21 PM
In the world of business, some companies have customers. Others have "clients." All of them try to create customer loyalty. Then there is Apple Computer. By Knight Ridder/Tribune (via MyAppleMenu)

Jury Picked in Ga. Cult Leader's Trial

Jury Picked in Ga. Cult Leader's Trial 01/06/2004 02:07 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 6 2004 0:40AM ET

The emergence of a fascist cult in the
Ayn Rand Institute

The emergence of a fascist cult in the
Ayn Rand Institute 12/31/2004 09:01 AM
I am currently mulling over the sheer generosity and heartfelt sentiment from the goose-stepping Ayn Rand Institute: U.S. Should Not...

Undergroundfilm.org - Documentary mainly
focusing on "the Cult Of The Dead Cow."

Undergroundfilm.org - Documentary mainly
focusing on "the Cult Of The Dead Cow." 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
http://www.undergroundfilm.org/films/detail.tcl?wid=1001601 Synopsis The subjects of this documentary are either dangerous terrorists, computer security activists, or simply out-of-control adolescents. Your opinion may vary, depending on your stock holdings, after you watch for yourself as the members of The Cult of the Dead Cow demonstrate the ease with which their software program, "Back Orifice 2000" can seize control of a Windows computer connected to the internet.

My Tokyo Death Cult: CC-licensed science
fiction

My Tokyo Death Cult: CC-licensed science
fiction 07/06/2004 03:41 AM
My Tokyo Death Cult is a science fiction novel released under a CC license by Marc Horne -- haven't read it, but it's got a hell of an opener:

Japanese policemen's guns are small and sort of puny. Except when they are shooting at you. Right now, they are shooting at me and my companion and we are running scared. The Policemen's shots are a little tentative, like someone picking chewing gum out of their hair. In fairness to the police, I should mention that we are in Shinjuku station, the world's busiest. Currently it is occupied by... oh, I don't know... 2.5 Lichtensteins. I am on average 4 inches taller than those around me, and a crucial 4 inches to boot, so as I barge through the crowd, hurting everyone, I must remember to crouch. To help me remember this, I visualize two things: the cloth that hangs in front of every drinking establishment in this country and those photos of JFK's autopsy that my father and I discussed over breakfast in 1977.

Link

""Office Space": The movie that wouldn't
die – A cult classic five years later"

""Office Space": The movie that wouldn't
die – A cult classic five years later" 08/16/2004 09:56 PM

Can IBM Get Great Again?

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