...These are usually rather droll affairs with an executive dishing out platitudes and calling them strategies, such as "Our goal is profitable growth" or "Our strategy is to satisfy our customers." Neither of these statements are strategies, of course, since strategy implies choice. So, next time you hear a CEO droning on like this, raise your hand and ask him or her: "That is a very good strategy, but what alternative strategies have you rejected by settling on this one?" A good time is guaranteed.)

... Joe Klein, anonymous writer of Primary Colors, undoubtedly increased sales of his book first by his anonymity and then by his (apparently unwilling) unmasking by Don Foster - who used techniques based on information theory to do it. Deliberate confusion can also work [maybe] | espen andersen: the cucumber season: reflections on the nature of information when there Isn't any, acm ubiquity, 2005

das finde ich mal wieder spannend: globale fernerkundung und sicherheitsdienstleistung. 09 - 10.10 en viena.

ano 1967: bericht des außenpolitischen ausschusses über die regierungsvorlage: vertrag über die grundsätze, welche die tätigkeiten der staaten bei der erforschung und nutzung des weltraums, einschließlich des mondes und anderer himmelskörper, regeln.

berichterstatter dr. fiedler: hohes haus! der vorliegende vertrag legt wesentliche grundsätze und normen für die erforschung und nutzung des weltraums fest. er enthält keine bestimmungen, die mit dem status der immerwährenden neutralität österreichs unvereinbar wären ... | nationalrat XI. Gp. - 69. Sitzung - 15.11.1967

web based email service as

the "starter drug" of cloud computing | arstechnica

¿? the fcc guy recalls the 1990s, while i am still convinced the cloud follows the old time sharing paradigme.

a lot of things today appear to be pure retro. take parallel computing, functional programming languages, these yellow girls who are running around in viena and are promoting usenet as vem rightly suggests. alt.sex schau ober.