[Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 5:17 p.m. EDT -- Edited to correct grammar and to boldface a very important point.]
There’s a reason that I like to call Doc Searls “the adult supervision of the blogosphere”. He’s taken a reasoned and very measured approach to the Kathy Sierra affair in his posting titled Getting Past the Bottom [...]

“We don’t take kindly to ‘your kind’ ’round here is a stock bit of dialogue from a zillion movies set in a small town in the southern U.S., but it’s also the opener for this warning that a guy in Franklin, Tennessee (home of Veggie Tales!) hands out to those who dare to break their [...]

Before I Begin…

…Make sure you’ve read this article first.
The Ridiculous Star Trek “Nazi Planet” Episode

Please bear with me: I’m going to start with a Star Trek reference.
Let me recap the original Star Trek series episode Patterns of Force (a.k.a. “The Nazi Planet Episode”) . In this episode, the Enterprise is dispatched to search [...]

Wigu comic from February 20, 2002.
Barely minutes after I dashed off a quick post about how having a web presence can greatly improve your job prospects in the high-tech world, I found out about Kathy “Creating Passionate Users” Sierra’s article that reminds us of the downside of a web presence, especially if you’re a woman.
She [...]

Here’s an interesting ad for Snickers chocolate bars that shows how the world has shrunk. It was shot in Jeddah, the post-production was done in Amsterdam and the soundtrack is a tune by a hip-hop group from Kuwait (and apparently is in English):

Great visuals, but damned if I can remember what the product being advertised [...]