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I would be so incredibly humiliated if this is how my daughter wanted to celebrate her birthday.

Redhat was made for the desktop
Then it went enterprise-y
It evolved
It runs like Windows
Some are even made to think they are Windows
There are many variants
And they have a plan

Looks like this sprint’s almost done.

This is a very good list of things to understand about startups. I don’t have anything particular to disagree with. Plus, I have less success than Paul does, so he wins there too

http://www.xkcdb.com/?5088

A Milliglenn is 1/1000th of a “Heh”

I know a lot of people who feel you should focus every neuron on doing one thing well.

I am not one of those people.

This is an article that suits my personal biases quite well

This is China’s Mind Control Ray Coordination and Control building. The elegance of the design suits the wickedness of the purpose

Mr Ballmer must need a wheelbarrow to carry those huge testicles around. I can’t find any other way to comprehend how he could dare say this.

Here’s something I didn’t know yesterday that will change my professional life in significant ways:

In team exercises, “bad apples” make the team significantly less productive.

(with one exception – a highly gifted leader able to manage conflict very well)

From my personal life, I have noticed that certain agile development techniques (timeboxed iterations and daily standups) typically expose bad apples early, and they generally flee. I wonder how much of the benefit of agile is realized just by purging the poison from the system.

Since I don’t do these every day, I feel ok in adding this quote:

Americans fall into two distinct categories today: those who remember how devastating the policies of Jimmy Carter were, and those who are about to find out.

Pffft. Obama is a one-term senator from Illinois. He’s got way too much experience and intellectual ooomph to fall into the Carter trap.

Clive Crook on “Animal Spirits”

Clive Crook:

Likening the role of government to a parent’s duty to create a happy home, the authors write: “The proper role of the parent is to set the limits so that the child does not overindulge her animal spirits.” This is an unappealing analogy. I would sooner take up arms against a government that saw me as a child than vote for it.

(my emphasis)

Hat Tip: Arnold Kling @ Econlog

To the tune of “Lady Madonna”

Save me, Obama
Stimulate my life
Please improve my credit, my job, my wife
Bail out my bar tab
Subsidize my rent
Isn’t that the point of the government?

Bills and banks and Baghdad are a bummer
Please appoint a breast-enhancement czar
Tell GM I really need a Hummer
And a new car!

Save me, Obama
Fix my abs and hair
Buy my Frappucinos with Medicare
Spank all the bankers
Bring a lasting peace
To the Yanks and Red Sox and Middle East

Stop Shiites from settling fights the mob way
Find me jobs in Fiji and St Croix
Purge the graft from hell-holes like Zimbabwe
And Illinois!

Save me, Obama
Find a cure for gas
Leave your carbon footprint on OPEC’s ass
Hug North Korea
Shoot hoops with Iran
Can we ask for everything? Yes we can!

Make each Christian, Muslim, Jew, and Mormon
All join hands and sing Give Peace a Chance
Ending death and spam and global warmin’
And menstrual cramps!

Save me, Obama
Left and Right agree
This is now the United States of Me!

…and I want a pony…and an iPhone…and a two-state solution in Gaza…and a reintroduction of the Dodo bird to its native habitat…and an end to hunger in sub-Saharan Africa…and a weekly six-figure allowance…

Compare and contrast with “Leper Madonna” by Beatallica

Let’s say I announced that I was going to painlessly kill a kitten or a puppy every time a woman was stoned to death, or beheaded or crushed beneath a wall, or in any way honor-killed. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that it was legal to do this animal-execution, as long as it was humane.

Would this action on my part cause people to pour their efforts into trying to prevent those honor killings, or would they pour their efforts into trying to stop me?

It’s an appalling thing to think about, but then, the honor-killings are appalling and no-one really seems to give a damn.

Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) has an identical twin brother