In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander Langer writ
es:
>Thus spake James Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>> fairings? Why does it matter what color the bikeshed is? What does
>
>What is this thing with the bikesheds???
>
>It appears on every place I am, on IRC, now here.
>
>As a non-native English-speaker, I'd like to know what's up with the
>poor bikesheds. The poor ones :-(
It's a reference to a particular apt description of how committees
work and don't work from the excellent book:
Parkinson's Law
C. Northcote Parkinson
Buccaneer Books
ISBN 1-56849-015-1
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