Groucho Marx to Warner Bros

I have a hunch that [t]his attempt to prevent us from using the title is the brainchild of some ferret-faced shyster, serving a brief apprenticeship in your legal department. I know the type well—hot out of law school, hungry for success, and too ambitious to follow the natural laws of promotion. This bar sinister probably needled your attorneys, most of whom are fine fellows with curly black hair, double-breasted suits, etc., into attempting to enjoin us. Well, he won’t get away with it! We’ll fight him to the highest court! No pasty-faced legal adventurer is going to cause bad blood between the Warners and the Marxes. We are all brothers under the skin, and we’ll remain friends till the last reel of “A Night in Casablanca” goes tumbling over the spool.

Good Quotations by Famous people

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt

All happy work environments are alike (private offices, quiet working conditions, excellent tools, few interruptions and even fewer large meetings). All unhappy work environments are unhappy in their own way.

Technically, this is not an "adult" photo, but...

Cristie Kerr kisses the trophy she received for winning the LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge at the Twelve Bridges Golf Club in Lincoln, Calif., Sunday, April 21, 2002.

TrainWeb on the scene of deadly train collision.

Metrolink and BNSF trains collided at about 8:08 A.M. on Tuesday morning, April 23, 2002. I was about 200 feet from the point of impact when the trains hit and was the first person at the scene with a camera.

Why Do New iMacs Surf So Slowly?

Tests conducted by Wired News confirmed reader complaints that a new 800 MHz iMac takes an average of twice as long to render Web pages as a comparable or cheaper PC running Windows XP.

Tiny text threatens air safety.

The safety of Britain's skies is under threat after air traffic controllers complained that the text on their computer screens is too small.

A library of world perspectives concerning September 11th, 2001

Letter from a Palestinian to an Israeli

Dear neighbour: I am in pain. I see people on the streets dying, I see people in their homes bombed, I see people in restaurants killed. I decided to write to you today despite all the barriers between us. This is just an explanation of how we Palestinians think and what we Palestinians believe. Maybe, just maybe, it will bring us closer.

Tiger and his girlfriend.

United States Patent: 6,368,227

A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternately on one chain and then the other.

Seeking Profits, Internet Companies Alter Privacy Policy

"What Yahoo has done is unconscionable," said Seth Godin, Yahoo's former vice president for direct marketing. "It's a bad thing, and it's bad for business. They would be better off sending offers to a million people who said they want to receive a coupon each day than to send them to 10 million people and worry about whether you have offended them by finally going too far." While at Yahoo, Mr. Godin published "Permission Marketing" (Simon & Schuster, 1999), which argued that marketing messages should be sent only to people who ask to see them.

Now hear this!

Corporate image management is back in da house! These companies' products rocked so good they had to tell the world -- with an IT Anthem!

Israeli military sources said troops today seized 40 explosive belts in a factory in the West Bank town of Salfit.

Israeli intelligence officials said the PA and its Islamic allies have prepared about 100 suicide bombers for attacks against the Jewish state. They said that at least 30 of them are being directed toward Jerusalem.

Fine-tune ClearType settings in Windows XP

Windows XP owners can use this nifty web interface to tune ClearType settings. ClearType is a Microsoft technology which makes onscreen type much easier to read, particularly on LCD screens.

Kazaa User Alert.

"Executives from Brilliant Digital and Kazaa's parent company say people can uninstall the Brilliant Digital or Altnet software from their computers without interfering with the Kazaa program itself. This is true, but it's not an easy process."

The Only "Solution" Is Victory

"The implication is clear: if Israel is to protect itself, it must achieve a comprehensive military victory over the Palestinians, so that the latter give up their goal of obliterating it. Ending the Palestinian assault will be achieved not through some negotiated breakthrough but by Palestinians (and Arabic-speakers more generally) concluding that their effort to destroy the Jewish state will fail, and so give up this ambition."

Too Many Outlook E-mail Messages?

"My next approach was to sort my mail by conversation. On the View menu, I pointed to Current View, and then clicked By Conversation Topic. This put all the replies to a message thread under the original message. I could then delete all but the final message in the thread - which is the most recent one - and just read that one, or even delete all of the messages in the thread if I wanted."

Organize Your Information in Outlook 2002

"Making sense of the volumes of e-mail and other information you collect might seem like a full-time job. But it doesn't have to be if you put the organizing features in Microsoft Outlook® 2002 to work."

Moviemaking on iMac shows PCs need to catch up

"Before departing I asked if he'd consider a Mac next time. He replied: "Absolutely. In fact, if we hadn't wasted so much money trying to transform that Dell into a multimedia computer, I'd get one today.'"

Waterlogged Camera Turns Magic

"Farrell Eaves' camera was a perfectly ordinary Nikon CoolPix 990 until he accidentally knocked it into a pond last summer. Now it's a magic camera."