From the daily archives:

Monday, October 18, 2004

Connecting people by Rich…!

by Jim on 18-Oct-2004

Damn, people can be weird. But, at least they’re not out preemptively f*cking other countries (just [fake] bush, it seems).

So, giving away free shirts is a great branding opportunity, but every now and then it can bite you in the bum. I wonder if Nokia had this in mind when they came up with [...]

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GooOS, the Google Operating System (kottke.org…)
Great post about what Google is up to by Rich Skrenta. He argues that Google is building a huge computer with a custom operating system that everyone on earth can have an account on. His last few paragraphs are so much more perceptive than anything that’s been written about Google [...]

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This is great, of course, but when is Mars Co. going to start putting some decent chocolate in their products? By decent, I mean something with good flavor and not just alkalinity (that the processing is supposed to reduce but doesn’t much since it wasn’t good quality chocolate to start with).
The New York Times [...]

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THE GREAT JOHN CLEESE

by Jim on 18-Oct-2004

How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?
None. There’s nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change anything. We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change our minds. People who criticize this light bulb now, just because it doesn’t work anymore, supported us [...]

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Microsoft Researchers have an answer for this old, slightly twisted riddle. They’ve put together a nifty interface that will find all the data on your PC that you need, be it email, documents, tablet notes or spreadsheets. You can find all the data that people have sent to you, all the Web pages you’ve ever [...]

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Red text is from the other site; blue text is my type.

ISTJ Serious, quiet, earn success by concentration and thoroughness. Practical, orderly, matter of fact, logical, realistic, and dependable. Take responsibility.
ISFJ Quiet, friendly, responsible and conscientious. Work devotedly to meet their obligations. Thorough, painstaking, accurate. Loyal considerate.
INFJ Succeed by perseverance, originality, and desire [...]

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Six Thinking Hats

by Jim on 18-Oct-2004

I have just started to think through some of the processes, I take for granted.  One of these is ”researching and decision making”.  One of the first approaches I came across was the “Six Thinking Hats”; approach it stunned me that a process I am so familliar with could be so dramatically improved through applying more [...]

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Canada, Mexico, Spain, The United Kingdom, France, Russia, Israel, Australia, Japan, and South Korea: together with nine other newspapers, Le Monde has conducted an opinion poll [concieved of by the Canadian daily La Presse] on the perception of the United States and the stakes of the American presidential election. The rejection of President Bush, in [...]

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