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Author: rjnagle
Senator Hatch’s Music
Amidst a ho-hum article about another Senator decrying mp3 piracy, I was tickled to discover that Sen. Hatch was “a composer who earned $18,000 last year in song-writing royalties.” Holy cripes! Look at his music website. As much as I disagree with his political philosophy, I’ve grown to admire the man’s life story. Unlike other national politicians, who claimed to be middle-class, here was a senator who truly grew up from humble origins and has a pretty good sense of what the common man thinks. Perhaps the music hobby is a vanity for him, but it heartens me that some Senators have hobbies at all.
US Tortures Prisoners
Accounts of mistreatment of Afgani prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are pretty shocking.
Freedom: For or Against?
Freedom: For or Against?, a commencement address, by Johns Hopkins president William R. Brody.
Then she laid down some Tarot cards at his fingertips, studied them intently for several minutes, and said: “You will be poor, and miserable, until you are 45 years old.”
“And then?” said my friend rather hopefully. “What happens when I’m 45?”
She said: “By then you’ll be used to it.”
Reference of Commercial File Types. Useful.
Parsiminious XML
Parsimonious XML is an interesting approach to making XML more readable.
Cobian backup is a cool Windows backup program by Luis Cobian.
Eric Hellweg wrote a fascinating profile of Waste p2p chat by Justin Frankel who resigned amidst scandal from Nullsoft. According to reports, Justin wrote Justin when he was about 18 and did gnutella a few years later. What Justin did was wrong from a legal standpoint, but it shows the conflict that exists between the anarchic share-the-code mentality that exists in open source and corporate attempts to share this impulse.