Some of my personal favorites:
As of when I left the states three years ago, Toyota still proudly wrote on
some of their pickups the acronym for Toyota Racing Development (TRD, just
pronounce it :-)
Maybe urban legend, but General Motors had to quickly change the name of one of
their early
See http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2010/12/dna-phosphorus-and-arsenic.html.
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-- Russ Abbott
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* Professor, Computer Science
California State University, Los Angeles
Google voice: 424-235-5752 (424-cell-rja)
blog: http://russabbott.blogspot.com/
For those of you who are TEDdish, here is an article that is TEDdy but not
from TED.
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2010-12-23/interview-pattern-language-
author-christopher-alexander
I didn't make it all the way through, but what I did read was pretty
interesting.
Nick
