Most successful pirate was beautiful and tough - CNN.com

Most successful pirate was beautiful and tough - CNN.com: "You can keep your Bluebeards and your Blackbeards. The most successful pirate of all time controlled a fleet of more than 1,500 ships and upwards of 80,000 sailors -- and she did it all without the help of facial hair."

The Pirate's Dilemma

The Pirate's Dilemma: "Piracy is usually seen as a problem, but in many cases, it is also offering us some solutions. From western movies to, erm, woolly mammoths, both illegal piracy and legal free substitutes are creating Pirate’s Dilemmas, challenging the conventional ways we share information and improving how we do things as a result…"

Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch - New York Times

Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch - New York Times: "Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else’s hobby. I hadn’t imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a guy who spends his weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like the Sims."

The software awards scam « Successful Software

The software awards scam « Successful Software: "I put out a new product a couple of weeks ago. This new product has so far won 16 different awards and recommendations from software download sites. Some of them even emailed me messages of encouragement such as “Great job, we’re really impressed!”. I should be delighted at this recognition of the quality of my software, except that the ’software’ doesn’t even run."