09 Oct 2006, 23:19 p.m.

Wanted

An eruv for free speech zones.

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09 Oct 2006, 7:51 a.m.

MC Masala on Practice and Skill

Judo, writing, and Carnegie Hall. There is this thing called kindness, and it includes not eating a Snickers bar in front of a hungry person, and it includes not bragging about your skills in front …

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08 Oct 2006, 22:16 p.m.

Non-Mohammed-Related Cartoons

Thanksgiving with the family, rulebreaking reduction, aspects of your personality.

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08 Oct 2006, 13:08 p.m.

Tip

If you're remotely logged in to another computer, use colors or wallpapers to remind you of that.

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08 Oct 2006, 2:20 a.m.

A Public Service Announcement

From Henry Chesbrough's Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (Harvard Business School Press, 2006): The term business model is often used, but not often clearly defined. My colleague Richard Rosenbloom …

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08 Oct 2006, 2:08 a.m.

"How do you remember a truth that will cause clinical depression?"

Are these the lessons of Auschwitz? What else must I be sure to recognize? Our moral hearts, like our physical ones, are weak and prone to disease. If we acknowledge this and determine to exercise …

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07 Oct 2006, 16:47 p.m.

Milquetoast Mainframe Japery

How IBM Trains Its Mainframe Sales Force. Found when I finally realized, "Hey, instead of trying to guess from context what this particular author means by 'mainframe,' I can look up the generally accepted definition …

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06 Oct 2006, 11:57 a.m.

Whistleblowers Of Our Time

Katharine Gun. Coleen Rowley. Sherron Watkins? Bunny Greenhouse. Karen Kwiatkowski.

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05 Oct 2006, 17:09 p.m.

Julia Sweeney Coming Back

Julia Sweeney's amazing show "Letting Go of God" is returning to Ars Nova starting Oct. 19th. It closes on Oct. 29th. I'd love to see it again.

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05 Oct 2006, 15:40 p.m.

Productivity Subverted

By The Daily WTF archives and the Memory Alpha Star Trek wiki. Jeffrey Combs + anything = crazy delicious.

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