Salon.com Technology | The art of office e-mail war: " Strategies for manipulating e-mail in the workplace run the gamut, from the carefully targeted attack -- blind copying someone's boss with incriminating information on a co-worker -- to what you might call "the Suicide Bomber," a disgruntled employee's company-wide flame designed to stir up trouble for his employer with little regard for his future reputation or financial status. "

One of the truest articles I've ever found at Salon. Anyone who works for a Fortune 500 company can tell you that what is described therein is just the beginning. Hell, I'm guilty of it myself.  9:41:35 PM     Add a comment   

My dance with the Devil (Rays). [ via Michael Rawdon ] My friend Andy Hooper does an occasional fanzine called "9 Innings", where he narrates one of his trips to a Major League Baseball game. Those fanzines helped turn me onto baseball because Andy knows the game and can bring the history, and insider knowledge to the fore. [More Like This WebLog]  9:30:29 PM     Add a comment   

Happy 25th Birthday toChris In Michigan!  9:25:13 PM     Add a comment   

Salon.com Books | "Mutiny on the Globe" by Thomas Farel Heffernan: "People complain about violence in the movies, but it's nothing compared to brutality in history. In 1824 an unhinged young whaleman named Samuel Comstock organized a small group of mutineers and took over the Globe, the whaleship he had set sail on two years earlier. He murdered the captain, First Mate Beetle and several other officers. Comstock and his similarly crazed men struck the captain with an axe, which killed him instantly. Not yet content with the results, they picked up a special double-edged knife used for cutting whale blubber and proceeded apace: "They ran the boarding knife through his body and drove it home with a blow from an axe; it entered below the stomach and came out the neck. They struck his head again with the axe. Mate Beetle, in spite of stab wounds and a fractured skull, was still alive. Both, however, were thrown overboard through the cabin windows. Mate Beetle died in the ocean in the dark of night." "

This book is a well written history of a interesting nautical event. Click through to the Salon.com review for more information.  9:22:51 PM     Add a comment   

Bert is still evil. [bOing bOing]  6:23:25 PM     Add a comment