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Hat tip to Pharyngula

About McGee’s Musings

Welcome to those of you visiting courtesy of Liz Strauss. This place started as an experiment while I was teaching courses in IT and Knowledge Management at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. This was in the Fall of 2001 and blogs were still relatively new. I saw them then and now as an important part [...]

Congratulations to Jack Vinson

One of the unexpected rewards of blogging is watching those that you’ve influenced in some way going off and succeeding in their own unique way. If for some odd reason you are not already following Jack’s work, you should correct that mistake immediately.
Blogging for five years
I have been blogging for five years now.  Amazing.  My [...]

George Carlin as strategy consultant?

Espen, my concern with Dr. Carlin as a potential consultant is that he has a reputation for calling it as he sees it, despite what the following might suggest. Would any large consulting firm be willing to take that risk with its clients?

Dr. GC floors’em
One of my academic colleagues suggested we hire Dr. G. [...]

Rockwells Retro Encabulator

Geek/nerd humor. I’ve seen this before somewhere and I’m glad to see it again. I’ve certainly sat through my share of presentations like this. You wonder how many takes it took to get it right.

Funny: Rockwells Retro Encabulator
The yin to Common Craft’s yang:

I wish I knew more about this, the YouTube pages offer little [...]

Yes We Can

Yes We Can

Beautiful.

This is showing up in all of my news feeds. I thought I would pass it along as well. Thanks to Rick Klau and David Weinberger among others.
Tags: Obama

The Data So Far

Food for thought on a chilly January morning North of Chicago.

The Data So FarMon, 21 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Happy Holidays and a Prosperous 2008

We just wanted to wish all of you a good holiday season and a healthy and prosperous 2008. I’ll be spending some family time over the next week. With luck that will include still finding some snow in Vermont. How much connectivity we’ll have (or want) remains to be seen.

Sad News about Marc Orchant

Marc and I had been traveling in the same blogging circles for the last several years and trading emails from time to time. We finally had the chance to meet face-to-face in San Francisco earlier this year and that built readily on the friendship we had already established. I count myself lucky to have known [...]

One Laptop Per Child: donation period from now through Nov 26th

I got an email on this from my old friend and colleague Chunka Mui. I was going to write it up and post it, but the lazy web comes to my aid once again and Ed Yourdon has done the heavy lifting for me.
One Laptop Per Child: donation period from now through Nov 26th
My calendar [...]