Paging Dr. Eeeeeevil... Via Seth Godin: some handy tips for the aspiring evil overlord. Seth appreciates No. 32, as do I: "I will not fly into a rage and kill a messenger who brings me bad news just to illustrate how evil I really am. Good messengers are hard to come by." Maybe it's our shared background in PR and/or marketing that makes us appreciate good messengers.
A few of my other faves from the list:
35. I will not grow a goatee. In the old days they made you look diabolic. Now they just make you look like a disaffected member of Generation X. (Or a disaffected member of the Emerging Church. - AC)
50. My main computers will have their own special operating system that will be completely incompatible with standard IBM and Macintosh powerbooks.
58. If it becomes necessary to escape, I will never stop to pose dramatically and toss off a one-liner.
76. If the hero runs up to my roof, I will not run up after him and struggle with him in an attempt to push him over the edge. I will also not engage him at the edge of a cliff. (In the middle of a rope-bridge over a river of molten lava is not even worth considering.)