Simple programmers logic to happiness:

Guilty….

Perhaps the storyboard didn’t help convey the impact.

From goats to lions, high five, Greenwood. Here are some of the links I mentioned:

North Korean Propaganda Posters

World’s Worst Jobs

Enterpreneur & Business Inspiration

www.inc.com
http://sethgodin.typepad.com
www.documentaryheaven.com
www.ted.com

(also see the links in the right sidebar of the blog)

Design Inspiration

http://www.notcot.org
http://www.designobserver.com

Web Inspiration

www.mashable.com
http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=13  (the best of the Web 2009)

Thanks for the caution,

Sincerely,

The Earth

Totally innocent skit from a British kid’s show, a long time ago…(if you think otherwise, surely its YOUR mind in the gutter).

Youtube’s comment section. Where the least intelligent internet trolls usually congregate to trade witticisms like “OMG! U R SO GAYYYY!!!!” and “LOLOL”.

Until Chris Finke’s genius Firefox add-on: YouTube Comment Snob.

The elitist filter works like this: comments aren’t displayed, if they show any of the following symptoms of illiteracy:

* More than # spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension uses Firefox’s built-in spell checker.
* All capital letters
* No capital letters
* Doesn’t start with a capital letter
* Excessive punctuation (!!!! ????)
* Excessive capitalization
* Profanity

From hasmanythrough, a vicious cycle I’m sure many programmers are familiar with…

(read the first comment for a poignant addendum).

“Managing Expectations” - cliched business consultancy buzzword with some inarguable philosophical merit.

The Wall Street Journal reviews the book “The Management Myth” which amongst other criticisms, eschews the culture of freshly graduated consultants thrust into the position of formulaic hyper-analysis of large corporations with only academic experience in their tool belt.
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Seth Godin touches upon the importance of what you convey online, by way of how you write.

Poor (/lazy) spelling and grammar is especially annoying when the writer is trying to speak authoritatively or in an impassioned form. Two of my personal faves:

rediculous

and

definately.

(Check out www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com)