The U.S. House Judiciary Committee yesterday approved something called the Patent Reform Act of 2007, which closely tracks a similar bill passed by the Senate committee last week. Big Pharma, manufacturing, and biotech had come together under the umbrella of something called the Coalition for 21st Century Profit Protection Patent Reform to oppose [...]

Ever think, “If only I could just bring myself to do it, I know I could make money with this ultra-cheesy idea”?
Well, it just got a lot easier to make that leap to real profitability. However cheesy your idea is, you can still hold your head high at cocktail parties. [...]

If you’ve ever hired someone to help you with a technical project, you’re probably familiar with the dictum that you have to double the time and budget estimates if you want to get a realistic estimate of when you can launch and how much it will cost you.
That’s because when you enter Tech Land, you’ve [...]

Herman Melville isn’t much known as a business expert. The popular impression of him is of a frustrated weirdo artist living on thin gruel - the sort of odd man described in his short story Bartleby the Scrivener. Bartleby is known to college students for his steadfast shirking of any work whatever, [...]

Like exercise, you need to blog every day for it to be effective. I’m really out of shape.
If you’re like me and sometimes have trouble getting the posts out the door, here are 10 sure-fire ways to overcome the dread. It’s all about motivation…
10. Put an ad on CraigsList promising to pay [...]

Word of the day: gobsmacked.
One of our new clients, a successful entrepreneur in the gourmet food business, was very concerned about working with people so far from his office in New York. Although he is well-traveled and has done business all over the world, his core team was always local.

“How can [...]

In a bit of police-state jujitsu, the tables are turned on the police.
The New York Times’ blog Screens calls police brutality videos a “microgenre”:

[The video] shows two LAPD officers beating up a suspect as he chokes out the words, “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.” His face is smeared with blood.
On the strength of the [...]

Silicium is a whimsical French society with a serious goal: collecting ancient computers.
Comprising a dozen active members, along with “hundreds of sympathizers”, they organize meetings where thousands come to commune with beautiful (and hideous) old machines.
Silicium’s tenth annual exposition, Vieumikro, will be held this December 2 and 3 at the convention [...]

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I’m sorry to report that two of my friends have unexpectedly departed this world.

Second Life Sex Club, by James Deavin
They’re off to Second Life, leaving only traces behind.
Bret Fausett, the gadfly lawyer who annoys ICANN so beautifully by holding them to their pontifical pronoucements, has set up shop in the trendy otherworld by buying [...]