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Real Dan, Fake Steve
2008
07.22
07.22
Former Forbes staffer Dan Lyons has retired his Fake Steve Jobs persona but continues to observe happenings as the Real Dan Lyons from the Newsweek tech columnist’s vantage point.
Whether the Linux Hater’s Blog is also Dan’s handiwork is shrouded in mystery but the language used within seems extremely similar.
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Redefine Creative™ in an acquisition frenzy
2008
04.01
04.01
SINGAPORE (Press Pool for Dissociated Press, Agence Farce-Presse, Routers, and Douche Presse Agentur), April 1st — Redefine Creative™, a world-renowned Singaporean creative and design bureau, is set to acquire Google®, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Microsoft® Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), the European Union, and the Sub-Saharan Africa south of the northern 18th latitude for an undisclosed amount.
According to a well-informed senior executive inside Redefine Creative, the paradigm-shattering seminal business event will be consummated as soon as the Court of First Instance of the Commission of the European Communities and the United States Department of Justice have given their blessing to the acquisition.
Spokespersons at Google, Microsoft, the E.U., and all the nations comprising the Sub-Saharan Africa declined to comment at this point citing the delicacy of the negotiations.
The Press Pool has learned that the new global conglomerate will be named RedefGoogMicroEuroAfroCreative (S’pore) (2008), Pte. Ltd. (or RGMEACS2k8PL for short), and is to be listed in the Mongolian Stock Exchange (Монголын Хөрөнгийн Бирж/Mongolyn Khöröngiin Birj) during the 2nd Quarter of this year.
An internal business planning document obtained by the Press Pool identifies RedefGoogMicroEuroAfroCreative’s strategic mission as to deliver seamless thoughtware, ramp up scalable value chains, empower bleeding-edge paradigms, configure mission-critical synergies, leverage granular connectivities, strategize frictionless ecosystems, operationalize holistic convergences, reengineer value-added transformations, globalize cross-platform capability transfers, and optimize enterprise-wide market spaces.
The Chief Executive of Redefine Creative, Mr. Kai Vilmi, could not be reached for a comment due to his pressing schedule described by a well-placed executive as “combination of ping-pong diplomacy, détente, appeasement, perestroika, doi moi, surge, and shock-and-awe“.
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The Original Macintosh
2008
01.25
01.25
“Anecdotes about the development of Apple’s original Macintosh computer, and the people who created it. (118 stories)”
At Folklore.org.
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Cease and Desist
2007
07.23
07.23
I noticed today that a certain Radu Dragulescu of Timisoara, Romania, had copied some of my blog entries to his site, Yamzy Network.
Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, I fired off a cease and desist e-mail and registered postal letter to him requiring him under the laws of the European Union and/or Romania to, well, cease and desist his nefarious activities of copying my writings and research results to his site.
For example:
- Page titled “MM tzai SI” at http://yamzy.net/2007/3/30/mm-tzai-si.htm is a direct copy of the page titled “MM tzai SI” at http://blog.kaivilmi.com/2006/mm-tzai-si/
- Page titled “Jolly Roger” at http://yamzy.net/2007/3/30/jolly-roger.htm is a direct copy of the page titled “Jolly Roger” at http://blog.kaivilmi.com/2006/jolly-roger/
I gave that gentleman until 7 August 2007 to sort this thing out, and, if I have not received any “affirmative response” indicating he is fully complying with my requirements, “I shall take further action”.
O Tempora, O Mores!
UPDATE 2008-01-09: The Yamzy Network site seems to be out of service.
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