Lance forced me at beer-point to read Malcolm Gladwell’s “Tipping Point” [1]. The book is largely based on a concept known as Memetics, which takes its roots in the work of sociologists and anthropologists, who attempted during the 1970s to adapt...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021208/wr_nm/ column_livewire_dc Livewire: Blogs May Pierce the Fogs of War Sun Dec 8, 3:06 PM ET Add Technology – Reuters Internet Report to My Yahoo! By Adam Pasick NEW YORK (Reuters) – CNN owned...
Is the widespread growth of anti-Americanism throughout the world a reaction to misuse of America’s cultural. economic, and political hegemony, or is it merely a natural consequence of being the world’s only true superpower? Whatever the reasons, it is...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,856306,00.html C&W faces a £1bn shares hit Telecoms group pays price for downgrade to ‘junk’ rating Terry Macalister Monday December 9, 2002 The Guardian Up to £1bn could be wiped off Cable &...
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56742,00.html Feds Label Wi-Fi a Terrorist Tool By Paul Boutin 02:00 AM Dec. 06, 2002 PT SANTA CLARA, California — Attention, Wi-Fi users: The Department of Homeland Security sees wireless networking technology as a...
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2002/1223/225_print.html Forbes.com Forbes 85th Anniversary How to Ruin American Enterprise Benjamin J. Stein, 12.23.02 We’re well on our way to squelching what gives this country an edge. What would it take to kill innovation...
This must be seen to be believed.. Hey kids, let’s re-enact the Battle of Mogadishu in the playroom! http://www3.jcpenney.com/jcp/Products.asp?GrpTyp=PRD&ItemIDb5baa&RefP Coming soon from G.I. Joe: dead baby figurines and mortally wounded Kosovar...
http://www.reuters.com/ newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID60511 AT&T, IBM, VCs Set Up Wireless Internet Company Thu December 5, 2002 05:51 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) – AT&T Corp. T.N , International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N and...
I first discovered Karyn, the internet panhandler, last August: https://ianbell.com:8888/pipermail/foib/2002-August/002795.html Apparently, it works (for cute, aloof girls, anyway). She paid off her $20K debt. http://www.savekaryn.com -Ian....
Important research material for shoe fetishists… -Ian. — http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993136 Mathematics unravels optimum way of shoe lacing 19:00 04 December 01 Rachel Nowak, Melbourne The knotty problem of choosing the optimum way of...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
