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     Goverment accuses man of having excaptional dam building skills Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Tuesday, February 22 2005 @ 01:17 PM GMT
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    Humor & StoriesThis is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, State of Michigan. This guy's response is BRILLIANT, but read the State's letter before you get to the response letter. Basicaly he was being accused of building an unauthorised dam when in fact it was beavers.

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     Adbusters suing networks for not airing its TV spots Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Friday, September 17 2004 @ 10:04 AM BST
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    Humor & StoriesAdbusters, the Vancouver-based alternative media organization, is suing Canada's major television networks for refusing to broadcast advertisements that criticize consumerism.

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     No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Tuesday, June 22 2004 @ 11:05 AM BST
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    Humor & StoriesFirst published in 1987 this article discusses object-orientation. Its a kind of sanity check against the OO will save the world argument.

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     Digital Rights Managment, bad for society, business, and artists Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Friday, June 18 2004 @ 01:52 PM BST
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    Humor & StoriesEFF's Cory Doctorow give this fantastic argument critiquing DRM (Digital Rights Managment). He makes a great case for why DRM is bad for society, business, and artists, why it simply don't work, and why Microsoft (the audience for this talk) should not invest in it.

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     Fisherman and Businessman Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Tuesday, April 27 2004 @ 05:15 PM BST
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    Humor & StoriesThe American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

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