YES!

Someone has a whole bunch of Tom Lehrer *VIDEOS* up on You Tube! Please, spend a few minutes of your time and you will thoroughly enjoy yourself if you don't already know this genius's music. In many ways, this is proto-nerdcore music.

http://www.youtube.com/user/6funswede

And, as spring is almost sprung in Ottawa, and has in other places, here is a wonderful musical celebration of the season...

Ninja fu!

Choose a Ninja Burger Career at the
Ninja Burger website.

News from Across the Pond

I guess this is mainly for the Friar...here's an interview with Judith Lewis...

http://blog.linkworth.com/judith-decabbit-lewis-chocoholic-cybersex-pioneer/

In other news, via facebook, I noticed that Judith has a direct connection to filkerdave...small world syndrome!

ttyl

Version of an article I wrote

Guidelines for facilitation of Electronic Discussion Groups

For the better part of two decades, I have been involved with email based discussion forums, from Fidonet "echos", to usenet "newsgropus" and today's "mailing lists" I have participated in literally Gigabytes of email of discussions. I have done this both as a hobby, part of Fidonet and various spin-off networks, and professionally for the Government of Canada, and Fortune 500 companies. These rules I have come up with are based upon that experience, and the wisdom of many who have shared their thoughts with me over the years. For the most part, I come up with two sets of rules that work in concert with each other. The first is more of the attitude that is needed in participating and facilitating on-line conversations through email. The second set is more of the nitty gritty.

Here are the two overlapping rule sets:

First Set

1. Be Nice.
2. Be Nice!
3. Try to be nice!

I hope that this first set is self explanatory, if not, just give up now!

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