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Art of Turboing - Rob Levandowski's article on escalating around obstructive customer-service organisations
J'Accuse - Perhaps the most famous and influential newspaper article of all time (here, in the original French), novelist Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola's Jan. 13, 1898 'J'Accuse' (I accuse), published in the daily newspaper 'L'Aurore'
J'Accuse - Emile Zola's famous letter, translated into English by Chameleon Translations of Beaucaire, France
Geek Social Fallacies - Essay 'Five Geek Social Fallacies', in which author Michael Suileabhain-Wilson cites characteristic groupthink dysfunctions of technical people's gatherings
A Guy Named Fred - Rick Moen salutes the late Fred Korematsu and his spirit of citizenship
Jury Duty - Author Rick Moen's 1997 anecdote about attempting to serve on a jury and getting thrown out for being honest and having a conscience
Marriage - Kudzu and the Marriage Amendment, by Rick Moen
New LUG - Practical advice for founders of new Linux user groups, by Rick Moen
Pascal's Wager and Me - Rick Moen details how he became unexpectedly famous for an offhand remark he made during the middle of a Usenet discussion
Pseudonymous Blogger Ethics - A kiddie calling itself Landor as an example of fairly typical blogger and widespread misbehaviour on the Internet under cover of fake identities
Security Snake Oil - Discussion of how software security experts and antivirus software companies mislead users by distracting from the key factor of execution mechanism, and instead focusing on trivia while ignoring real security concerns
Semmelweis - Kurt Vonnegut explains why Ignatz Semmelweis was his hero
Smart Questions FAQ - Essay 'How To Ask Questions the Smart Way' by Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen
Surviving Christmas - Christmas as (idiosyncratically) a time of dread, by Rick Moen
Sysadmin's Secret Weapons - Presentation by Rick Moen at LinuxWorld Expo 2001 about useful software tools for sysadmins
User Agent - Karsten Self's suggestion to set User-Agent to 'W3C standards are important. Stop f---ing obsessing over user-agent already.'
Verizon Sucks - Anecdote illustrating why you should prefer just about any alternative over Verizon
Web 2.0 Cults - Why Rick Moen eschews 'Web 2.0'-style hosting services
Worldcons - Essay by Grant Kruger, perfectly describing what a World Science Fiction Convention is like
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