Imagine that we had a way of sending actors from Broadway to Hollywood that involved putting them in cars and driving them across the country. Some of these cars crashed, killing the poor actors. Sometimes the actors got drunk on the way and shaved their heads or got nasal tattoos, thus becoming too ugly to work in Hollywood, and frequently the actors arrived in a different order than they had set out, because they all took different routes. Now imagine a new service called Hollywood Express, which delivered actors to Hollywood, guaranteeing that they would (a) arrive (b) in order (c) in perfect condition.

Not only is contributing to a free-software project a good way to keep your skills sharp and build a résumé, but, Eric Sink observes, "People keep doing it because they like doing it. It compares very, very favorably to working for stupid corporations who ask developers to build projects that they then throw away, or to writing really good code and than have bad marketing put in front of it. Those kinds of things are very unsatisfactory for developers."

What is satisfactory is to receive the plaudits of your peers and to create code that people actually use. It's not about beating down Bill Gates (although Microsoft, by every indication, is increasingly obsessed with beating down free software), it's not about making oodles of bucks, it's not even about being the best.

• Jennifer Love Hewitt has a Charles Chaplin number of 3.
• Sean Connery has an Adam Sandler number of 2.
• Rob Lowe has a Claude Rains number of 3.
• Daniel Radcliffe has a James Stewart number of 2.

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"John and his partner, Kim Howard Johnson, have come up with a Superman Elseworlds called True Brit," said Carlin. "It's 'What if Superman's rocketship lands in England and the tabloids chase him away.'"

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[...] Consider your favorite scenario: A clock means that the protagonist finds the man of her dreams in a whirlwind romance that proceeds from introduction to love scene to marriage proposal within a weekend. A stork means that the woman finds the man of her dreams, love scene, marriage, and gives birth to a perfect baby before the book ends. A carriage, on the other hand, indicates the "unwed mother" scenario. A badge means that the protagonist wants and needs a protector, a strong man who can defend her against something, and usually he's a perfect lover and companion and ultimately husband as well.

It's as targeted, as direct, and as cynically manipulative of the reproductive instincts of the human female as "Three hot bi babes do it all for you!" is of the human male's. And many women buy it as readily as guys do porn.

"Is there any practical settlement amount that is worth more to Eolas than a victory at trial? Considering the facts in the case and the magnitude of the stakes here, a highly likely outcome is that it will actually go to trial, and, once it does, that a jury will award us both damages and an injunction. Injunction is the key word here. That is what patent rights provide: the power to exclude. What if we were to just say no? Or, what if some other big player were to acquire or merge with us? What if only one best-of-breed browser could run embedded plug-ins, applets, ActiveX controls, or anything like them, and it wasn't IE? How competitive would the other browsers be without those capabilities? How would that change the current dynamics in the Industry?" (Emphasis added.)

10 State the principal of mathematical induction.

Use induction on the question numbers on this paper to show that the fact that you can't do the first question means that you probably won't be able to do any of the others either.

Giving the internet to people like me, who had been so used to scouring the Earth for the smallest scrap of information about a movie, was sort of like giving a nail gun to a caveman. You can be sure everything in the joint is going to end up nailed to everything else in the joint, including the caveman. That was how it was back in the dark days of the late 90s - one of the first things I did when I got to work (the only place I had internet access) was to check to find out if anyone knew what color Bail Organa's underwear was going to be.

How do you respond to those age-old charges that you're a misogynist?

It comes out of making my thrillers in the '70s and early '80s; I had women as protagonists and we had a strong feminist movement emerging. If you put a woman in a situation where she's gonna get killed or chopped up or stabbed, you were a misogynist. I make thrillers; I think women in peril are more interesting than men; and I like to have a woman in a negligee wandering around in a dark house rather than Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry. It works for me better.

As a songwriter and rock architect, I was interested to look behind the creative process of Kurt Cobain. Nirvana's second album, Nevermind was a breath of 'punk' fresh air in the musically stale early Nineties. So I picked up this book searching for connections. Where might a particular lyric idea have begun? What, for example, is behind the smart, striking and ironic wit of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'? If this sounds rather professorial, that's me, the first proprietor of the rock academy of lyric analysis.

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Read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and apply it to a cyber setting. People like to be liked. Except for the sick puppies who like to be hated. Any way that you can express that in a blog, do it.

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Chase the white rabbit all the way back to its hole. Be sure to credit sources, and credit their sources when it's appropriate.

... and he'll buy some tartar sauce to go with it.

Teach Bill Gates to fish, and he'll build a tartar sauce factory and eventually corner the market. The tartar sauce won't be as good as some other tartar sauce, but people won't mind, they'll just think that that faint hint of mercury is how tartar sauce is supposed to taste.

At yet another party he had befriended Sanchez [Fernando Sanchez, a fashionable designer famous for women's underclothes]. Ayer was now standing near the entrance to the great white living-room of Sanchez's West 57th Street apartment, chatting to a group of young models and designers, when a woman rushed in saying that a friend was being assaulted in a bedroom. Ayer went to investigate and found Mike Tyson forcing himself on a young south London model called Naomi Campbell, then just beginning her career. Ayer warned Tyson to desist. Tyson: "Do you know who the fuck I am? I'm the heavyweight champion of the world." Ayer stood his ground. "And I am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field; I suggest that we talk about this like rational men." Ayer and Tyson began to talk. Naomi Campbell slipped out.