My phone rang "This is Mark in Engineering, how can I help you?" A really sexy sounding voice with a French accent responded. "Hallo? I need you badly. Ze, ah... ah.. thing is... Hallo? Hallo?" "Hello, I'm here." "Yes, ah... zat THING has...

So I read Cory Doctorow's book, "The Makers".  There were some points where I think it could have benefited with some editing, but overall I think it was a good book. Makers is a story about the effect of disruptive, game changing technology.  In...

I had a reminder of the Boy Scouts again today. It made me wonder what the Oath, the Scout Law, and what their Vision Statement would look like if they stated the practices of their private club more explicitly... Something like this?

In the book, "James Dobson's War on America" Dobson associate Gil Alexander-Moegerle wrote about how Dobson discovered that direct mailings requesting donations to Focus on the Family worked better when they warned about some sort of ominous threat to...

Some guys get kooky stalkers on the Internet. I am a cut above the regular style stalker - mine is a PhD J.D. and a (community) college (part time) professor! He's also a Tampa Bay Florida public defender. My! Impressive huh? Anyway, Dr. Mr. Ellis...