Ever notice how many words that were once nouns are now verbs? I got both blogged and slashdotted this week, but you can help me get sweet revenge, er, I mean, return the excellent favor to my new friends!!!

Something I made up to explain to my kids about Heaven and Hell. It applies extremely well to computer technology.

INVESTOR ALERT: With the proliferation of the Internet, access to information appears to be decreasing in value. We recommend that our clients consider reinvesting their funds into quirky habits, interesting tastes, cowboy hats, green shoes, and other stuff like that, because The Fat Man says it would be smart for some reason, which is explained below.

This is a good story, and it does two things relevant to my previous posts: 1. It illustrates how one might improve one's work by keeping an eye out for auspicious signs, and 2. It backs up my claim that "sometimes it's more important what you don't do than what you do." It also puts Art before Profits, and as a bonus, it comes with a pretty song that you can listen to...DIGITALLY!

It's just a joke that came to me. It's in a digital medium. Will this cost me my blog space? If so, that would be controversial. Then we would have a topic: The role of the new digital tools in the distribution of humor. But we'll have to discuss it elsewhere, I guess.

Perhaps a person is not truly a great writer if he understands the meaning of everything he writes. Perhaps one is not a truly great artist if he carefully constructed each and every one of his artistic ideas in his own mind. When something comes from the Human Mind, it can only be as great as a single Human Mind. Great Art needs to be bigger than that.

The Manifatso: In 1995, Team Fat signed this Declaration of Principles. It seems like a good way to launch a blog.