[note: I "internalized" the title from Carl's blog entry]

A friend of mine recently discovered that Raytheon's CEO has been publishing and promoting a book entitled "The Unwritten Rules of Management" that is, in fact, largely (17 of 33 "rules") cribbed from an earlier (1944) publication by W.J. King, "The Unwritten Laws of Engineering" (good ( Read more... )

Famous quotes from famous people:

Wm. Shakespeare: To be or not to be.
Friedrich Nietsche: To do is to be.
J.P. Sartre: To be is to do.
Frank Sinatra: do be do be do.

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...that the left owns the media. According to Ann Coulter, it's the right's dog:

http://www.oliverwillis.com/wp-content/coulterwehavethemedia.mp3

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You don't need it anymore. The Open Source community has given you something far, far better:
Mindguard

Your very welcome, it's because I care!

Jeez ( Read more... )

Not for the light of heart

I made one:


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For a long time it has been joked about in communities discussing the problems with the patent system. The classic joke is now reality: Someone has submitted a patent application for the story-line of a book. If approved, the plot will become "Intellectual Property" subject to monopoly control by the patent owner. It is not a mystery novel (the ( Read more... )