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The Tao of shameless book marketing
Basics
www.wafreepress.org//20/Humor.html
Laozi
Doug Collins (Washington Free Press, Seattle) laments the hijacking of Daoism to sell books on business, sex, management and such.
Zhuangzi
Metaphysics
"...in a rough translation of the book's opening poem, Lao Tzu states, 'The Tao that can be spoken is not the real Tao.'  Perhaps he should have added another line: 'The Tao that can be hucksterized by book publishers is not the real Tao.'"
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Later
Yijing
Fengshui
The Tao of Pooh
Alchemy
http://goofy.narod.ru/pooh/online/lib/tao.html
Practical
But surely he's not referring to the quintessential "Tao of" book, by Benjamin Hoff.  A long page of quotes, from a Russian Pooh site.
Therapeutic
Political
"'What's the Tao of Pooh?'
'You know - the Uncarved Block, the Cottleston Pie Principle, the Pooh Way, That Sort of Bear, and all that.'
'Oh,' said Pooh."
Art
Poetry
Literature
The Pooh of Tao
Music
www.plumpub.com/info/Articles/spirit_warrior.htm
Sermons
From Ted Mancuso (Academy of Martial Arts, Santa Cruz, CA).  What would Dorothy Parker say?
Tao of...
Resources
"It seems that the word 'Tao' has replaced '...For Dummies' as a sure-fire selling book title... Actually I think it's a good trend.  I can see it leading to such enlightening works as 'The Bible of House Plants,' the 'Torah of Dental Hygiene,' 'The Pentateuch of Stock Options,' 'The Veda of Pet Care.'"
The Tao of Programming
www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html
The classic work by journalist Geoffrey James, based on Laozi and Zhuangzi, has been widely reprinted on the internet and is now available as a book.  Courtesy of Carl Alexander (computer whiz, MIT).
"In the east there is a shark which is larger than all other fish.  It changes into a bird whose wings are like clouds filling the sky.  When this bird moves across the land, it brings a message from Corporate Headquarters..."
The Tao of Gates
http://labyrinth_3.tripod.com/page24.html
These haiku alternative error messages ("Computer Humor We All Can Relate To") have made the rounds, but bear repeating.  From Loretta Rogers's (Reiki teacher, Seagrove Beach, FL) Innerspace site.  [Popup alert.]
"The Tao that is seen / Is not the true Tao, until / You bring fresh toner."
Tao te Chip
http://internet.ls-la.net/comppoems/tao-te-chip.html
A "computer-assisted translation" of some Laozi verses from Jeffrey Sorenson (software engineer), on Oliver Schade's Best of Internet site.
"When you overesteem hackers, / more users become cretins. / When you develop encryption, / more users become crackers... Practice not-looping, / and everything will fall into place."
Tao Of The Software Architect
www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/4032.html
Philippe Kruchten (software architect, Vancouver, BC) based this "on various French and English translations."
"The great way is easy, / yet programmers prefer the side paths."
The Tao of Internet Relay Chat
www.irc.org/history_docs/tao.html
Clever spoof by Ove Ruben R. Olsen ("gnarfer," University of Bergen, Norway). 
"The wise sage luser is told about the Chat and uses it.  The luser is told about the IRC and is looking for it.  The flock are told about the Tao and make a fool of the IRC. / If there was no laughter, there would be no Tao."
The Tao of QA Testing At Any I.T. Org.
http://creativebrother.freehosting.net/qatao.html
Laozi for Quality Assurance testers, from Cecil Washington (sci fi/fantasy writer), on his Creative Brother site.  [Popup alert.]
"The bugs that developers can name are not the real bugs.  The real bugs will reveal themselves to the tester during testing.  First, the developer says there are no defects.  Then, the tester finds one.  One bug begets Two.  Two, beget Three.  Three become The Ten Thousand Things Crawling In The Defect Database."
The Dao of Driving
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a3fpfe0t4t%40drn.newsguy.com&output=gplain
Laozi for the freeway (but remember, "the freeway that can be driven is not the eternal freeway").  Posted on alt.philosophy.taoism by Teresita Redinger.
"In the highest antiquity, people did not know there were speed limits.  In the next age they loved them and praised them.  In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them."
The Tao of Goth
www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=493
Laughs from the dark side.  "Count Von Sexbat's" twisted version of Laozi and Zhuangzi, originally from the "Take a Bite" goth handbook.
"The Tao begot Romanticism.  Romanticism begot Modernism.  And so on and so forth - this is all in the Principia Diabolicus.  Suffice it to say that here we are and somewhere along the line Kohl begot black eyeliner."
The Tao of the Dude
www.dudeism.com/totd1.html
Three cool essays by Oliver Benjamin (traveling journalist dude) for the Dudeism.com site of The Church of the Latter-Day Dude.
"The original dude, the O.D. if you will, was surely Lao Tzu... Lao Tzu was so incredibly dudeish that no one is even sure if he existed or not."
The Tao Te Tech
www.dods.org.uk/humour_tech_tao.htm
By Earnest Mazique.  Theatrical humor, a take-off of Laozi for theater technicians.
"The great Tao flows everywhere / Both to stage left / And to stage right..."
TAO of the DOW
http://med.stanford.edu/personal/boydhouse/visualist/taodow/index.htm
Kevin Boyd (journalist, web designer) offers 10 tidbits to make you "a Taoist financial wizard." 
"The Market is ruthless.  It cares not for your capital gains or losses."
The Tao of Charcoal
www.nakedwhiz.com/taoofcharcoal/tcintro.htm
From the Naked Whiz's Ceramic Charcoal Cooker site.  Twelve pages of clever verse by "Lao Whiz Tzu...loosely based upon 'The Tao of Programming.'"
"If it were not for laughter, there would be no Tao. / If it were not for laughter, there would be no Kingsford."
The Tao of Forecasting
www.weathergraphics.com/tao.htm
...the weather, that is.  By Tim Vasquez, from the Weather Graphics site.
"Said the Master: 'When Student depends on numerical models, it is like chasing his own shadow.  It makes Student healthy, fit, and enthusiastic, yet all the time he is running away from the sun.'"
The Tao Te Chiff
www.chiffandfipple.com/taotechiff.htm
Laozi for tinwhistle fanatics, by Dale Wisely (University of Alabama, Psychology).  Note: WhOA = Whistle Obsessive Acquisition disorder. 
"When a foolish person hears of Chiff & Fipple, / he laughs out loud at the very idea. / If he didn't laugh, / It wouldn't be Chiff & Fipple."
The Tao of Housekeeping
www.i-cynic.com/november_97.asp
One of Rick Bayan's (writer, Allentown, PA) columns ("tirades") from his site, The Cynic's Sanctuary.
"Of course Lao-tze had no junk mail or magazines to clutter up his living room, and he never spilled tomato sauce on the kitchen counter.  But the essential wisdom remains: it is useless to fight entropy."
The Tao of Anime
http://users.ntplx.net/~bbarrett/core.html
Daniel Barrett's site introduces Daoist concepts through Japanese animation.
"If they could do it with Winnie-The-Pooh, I could do it with the volatile relationship of Ranme and Akane."
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