I’m thinking of selling my car, stealing a couple hundred grand, and buying a Unimog.

Joe Camel would be proud: Big Tobacco’s marketing campaigns overseas are so effective that encouraging 5-year-olds to smoke is a matter of civic pride.

Driving to the customer‘s site this morning, I spotted a sign claiming credit for some work that this company had done. Am I the only one who thinks they could have chosen a name with a better boding for their business?

Wow! Thanks to Top Secret Recipes, I now know how to make Girlscout Cookies! Granted, I’d have to get over my aversion to eating food that came out of my pantry, and I’m not sure where I’d find the Girlscouts (or a woodchipper, for that matter), but it’s a start!

“People who trade stocks, trade based on what they feel will move and they can trade for profit. Nobody makes investment decisions based on reading financial filings. Whether a company is making millions or losing millions, it has no impact on the price of the stock. Whether it is analysts, brokers, advisors, Internet traders, or the companies, everybody is manipulating the market. If it wasn’t for everybody manipulating the market, there wouldn’t be a stock market at all. . . .” — Jonathan Lebed, at age 15.

For Robyn: the most precise definition of 1337, or ‘leet’.

The ISO OSI and IEEE 802 models define a modular approach to networking, with each layer responsible for some discrete aspect of the networking process. Since understanding this model is critical to understanding how networking works, allow James Bond to assist you.

Yeah. Um. It’s … uh.. Peter Pan’s home page.

Pardon me, while I find my birdshot.

Working on making intelligent agents that are really smart, researchers at NEC developed software agents that have evolved their own language, in order to better coordinate their hunt.

That’s fine. I’ll just take my ball, my bat, my glove, and my planet and leave!