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Sweetest Poison

Published on 19 Sep 2005 at 5:00 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Manifest Masquerade, Winners and Losers, One Corporation Under God, Limited Lie-ability, In Corporations We Trust, Business and Corporation Related, Health and Safety, Legal, Law, and Courts, Government: Federal, State and Local, Branding and Values, Public Relations and Marketing.

Brief commentary and link inventory on the Aspartame/artificial sweetener controversy

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Innovator’s Dilemma

Published on 15 Sep 2005 at 12:23 am. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Manifest Masquerade, Brain Trust, Design, Interface, and Usability, Business and Corporation Related, Branding and Values.

…almost a litmus test for modern management.

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Getting It Right At Fog Creek Software

Published on 12 Sep 2005 at 1:33 pm. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Manifest Masquerade, Total Quality Madness, Principal Acronyms Only, Winners and Losers, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology, Branding and Values.

Accolades to Fog Creek Software for having their priorities and perspectives in order when it comes to hiring development engineers. They are well deserving of credit for putting function before form in assessing their candidates.

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The Cargo Cult of Disease Control

Published on 15 Aug 2005 at 12:00 pm. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Manifest Masquerade, Brain Trust, In Corporations We Trust, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Health and Safety, Government: Federal, State and Local.

The amazing refusal of the Mainstream Media, as well as millions of Americans, to wake up to the cargo cult science being promulgated by the Institute of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control in the matter of long-term neural damage from mercury-laced vaccinations

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IBM Speaks With Forked Tongue

Published on 3 Aug 2005 at 1:24 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Manifest Masquerade, Service With A Smirk, Brain Trust, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology, Open Source Software.

Brief commentary on IBM’s bait-and-switch with their CGIDEV2 tool

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