Here’s my contribution to the wonderful world of GraphJam…
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Here’s my contribution to the wonderful world of GraphJam…
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In business, the “first mover advantage” isn’t always an advantage.
The same goes for “thought leadership.”
“The early bird gets the worm” applies only if you are high enough in the food chain.
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“..that it can really work out, because, um, we can be rich in cotton, and mining metals, and silkworms, and we can make things, we can make things, cars… The Machine can make it for us.”
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Update to last year’s misguided concept of Canadian-American Dual Citizen’s Day, via Facebook:
Dan is celebrating Northern North American Dual Citizen’s Day
http://danspira.wordpress.com/2008/07/02
Aliza at 8:59pm July 2:
Wouldn’t 11:52:30 tonight until 00:07:30 July 3 be the North American Dual Citizen’s minutes of celebration? That’s equidistant from July 1 and July 4. And, everyone deserves their fifteen minutes
It’d [...]
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Here’s a follow-on to last year’s little video tribute to Canada Day:
Living in the U.S. can be a challenge for Canucks. As a literature professor once explained to me, in the American story, a hero’s rite of passage consists of a road trip across the United States and/or losing his/her virginity. The Canadian [...]
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The EU Agriculture Commission has announced that, in light of the dismal economy and high food prices, it proposes to slightly relax its onerous rules and regulations on fruits and vegetables in retail markets.
Pages and pages of standards and specifications on things like onions and carrots will be tossed out into the compost heap. Or, as some [...]
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1voa_international-conference-calls
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Once all the humans have been killed off by The Machine, this is all that there will be left:
Of course, once we’re on the subject of end-of-the-world scenarios, gotta give a hat tip to the Flying Conchords…
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How could one kill two metaphors with one pun?
It would be like… pushing the envelope out of the box… though that’s not really a pun is it? Maybe it’s just a dumb, mixed metaphor that sort of works. Kinda like “Reinventing the Third Wheel.”
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