Le site officiel de Jacques Tati
Many years ago, Dartmouth College's film society showed five of Tati's six movies (I only discovered via this site there was ever a sixth). I loved all of them. They are wonderfully silly and just plani fun. This site, however, is annoying in that it has a completely opaque interface. One commenter on MetaFilter said it made him feel like Hulot. I agree.  12:58:14 PM    

Interview with John Dean on Deep Throat
"John Dean, on a decades-long quest to identify history's most elusive news source, brings new evidence to the fore in his new book. "  12:53:44 PM    

Microsoft desktop licensing driving customers away?

IN AN INFORMAL poll conducted by InfoWorld this week, 42 percent of respondents said that even though they currently use Microsoft servers they are planning to switch to non-Windows software on the server side because of discontent with the company's controversial licensing plan for desktop products.

The prospect of IT shops gravitating away from Microsoft's servers, at a time when the company is expected to deliver its critical next generation of Windows .Net servers early next year, could open up opportunities for competitors such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, and the ever-changing collection of Linux vendors.

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The Art of Chaordic Leadership -- Dee Hock full-text article
True leaders are those who epitomize the general sense of the community -- who symbolize, legitimize and strengthen behavior in accordance with the sense of the community -- who enable its shared purpose, values and beliefs to emerge and be transmitted. A true leader's behavior is induced by the behavior of every individual choosing where to be led

I received an agenda for a conference coming up which I am considering attending and it referred to chaordic organizations. Never having heard the word chaordic before, I did a google search and found this article. It's an excellent tract on the meaning of leadership.  10:08:14 AM