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Some dude named Jérôme has blogged about the Ryno electric unicycle. Unicycle does not even begin to describe how truly awesome this thing is. At an estimated USD 3500 I'd think hard about getting one. Go look.

The Shark Tank blog at Computerworld has an excellent, albeit slightly apocrophyl, story about what to do if your business won't give you any requirements.

"Doing my best due diligence, I went from one department head to the next, pen and paper in hand, and asked each one for specific ideas of what they wanted," says fish.

"Each of them responded the same: 'I dunno, put something together and then we'll tweak it.'"

Undaunted, fish goes to potential users in each department, asking for input. But apparently they're all close studies of their bosses. Fish keeps hearing the same thing: "Put something together and we'll figure it out from there."

What would you do?

Seen on a company chat group. Names changed to protect the pathetic:

Person A: freedom is choise,,
06:37 PM - Jun 14 - reply

person b: nice.. " choise " -- got your glasses on person a? just kiddin..
06:39 PM - Jun 14 - reply

Person A: choice.. don't be mean!
06:46 PM - Jun 14 - reply

person b: huh?! whose mean?
10:01 PM - Jun 14 - reply

First rule of Pendant Club; You're an idiot.

I never knew this:

5.5 What is the Asimov-Clarke treaty?

The Asimov-Clarke Treaty of Park Avenue, put together as Asimov and Clarke
were travelling down Park Avenue in New York while sharing a cab ride,
stated that Asimov was required to insist that Arthur C. Clarke was the
best science fiction writer in the world (reserving second best for
himself), while Clarke was required to insist that Isaac Asimov was the
best science writer in the world (reserving second best for himself).
Thus the dedication in Clarke's book Report on Planet Three reads "In
accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best
science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction
writer".

-- Isaac Asimov FAQ, via PC Authority.