Monthly Archives: June 2006

A nice writeup on patent reforms.

I found the text below on TechDirt. As some of you may know, I have been involved in some patent infringement cases myself so I have first hand knowledge of the issues involved here. IMHO, business process and software patents represent a huge threat to innovation in the software industry. Let’s just [...]
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An interesting parable about how taxes work.

The following parable was originally penned by a man named Don Dodson of Ft. Worth, Texas. It has been reprinted and shuffled around many times. He should get the credit This version was reprinted by the author listed below. Manly — CUT HERE — Understanding Tax Cuts by: David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D Sometimes politicians, journalists and the liberal left [...]
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The fastest VW Beetle ever?

Click HERE Thanks Richard. Manly
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Wow. This guy can climb insanely fast.

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Check out this old video of William Shatner. People actually clapped after this performance. Amazing.

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] document.getElementById("player2").style.display = ""; var s2 = new SWFObject("http://www.alteredreality.net/blog/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf","player2","320","260","7"); s2.addParam("wmode","transparent"); s2.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always"); s2.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s2.addVariable("height","260"); s2.addVariable("width","320"); s2.addVariable("file","http://www.alteredreality.net/blog/images/WilliamShatnerRocketMan.flv"); s2.addVariable("image","http://www.alteredreality.net/blog/images/WilliamShatnerRocketMan.jpg"); s2.addVariable("link","http://www.alteredreality.net/blog/images/WilliamShatnerRocketMan.flv"); s2.write("player2"); At first I thought this was a joke. However, after viewing the whole thing I think he was really serious. Thanks Richard. Manly
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