Let's see - do I hate junk calls more than IVR or voice mail systems? NPR has a great piece on the subject. Instead of reading it, give the audio version a try (and thanks for the tip Nancy!)
http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2001/010401.dantesvoicemail.html
Speaking of minions of the lord of darkness, we have a bit of news on Mr Grubman
http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2002/07/22/worldcom_analyst/index.html
Greg offers this great site on the history of furniture "A fantastic site, tracking furniture design through the 20th century. Four legs never looked so good."
http://www.tribu-design.com/cgi-madoc/dchrono.cgi?ac=r&lg=en
I'm not taken with American or English design, but prefer Bauhaus School as well much of what happened in Northern Europe over the past hundred years. Sukie and I both like Stokke and I enthusiastically recommend them as a designer of comfortable yet interesting furniture. Proof that there is more to Norway than the paperclip!
http://www.stokke.com/
The paperclip is one of those truly wonderful inventions that is both simple and useful - there is something about it that almost seems fundamental. Norway and Nazi resistance are invoked in the story.
http://www.writeonoffice.com/info/his_paperclip.htm
Of course the next link follows rather naturally...
http://dir.salon.com/tech/log/2000/06/22/paperclip/index.html
And finally
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/26273.html
while I agree that liquid cooling in computers can make sense (Cray2, etc), a water cooled laptop tells me that perhaps someone made the wrong processor choice. Note to Jim - I am jealous and we should immediately begin work on a computational lavalamp.
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