Dr Wingnut

Day: January 11, 2007

  • Brilliant Ploy

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    Two days ago, Apple Inc. Chair, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at Macworld in San Francisco.  Today, the web is abuzz with news that Cisco Systems, Inc. is suing Apple because it owns the iPhone trademark.By ignoring that fact and calling the new OS X phone by that name, he has firmly implanted that name…

  • Intelligence

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    The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.  One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

  • Statistically Speaking

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    I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver, who cut right in front of a pickup truck, causing the driver to drive onto the shoulder to avoid hitting her.This evidently angered the driver enough that he hung his arm out is window and gave the woman the finger.“Man, that guy is…