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Monday, December 23, 2002

Homemade Dot Mac: Home Web Radio. Wow, now if I only had some non copyrighted music, I would definitely try this! - If the idea of having your own radio webcast intrigues you, then this article shows you how to create private playlists you can stream 24/7 to almost any Web-enabled device, inside or outside the home. [MacDevCenter] [Roland Tanglao's Weblog] 8:20:22 PM  Permalink  comment []

U.S. to World's Poor: Drop Dead. Guardian (London): US wrecks cheap drugs deal. Talks at the WTO's Geneva headquarters collapsed last night after the White House... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 8:05:33 PM  Permalink  comment []

For my pal John... ... who was in his first ant-war demonstration recently, and who has had his share of healh problems lately: Protesting May Be Good for Your Health. Yahoo Headlines - LONDON (Reuters Health) - Taking part in protests and demonstrations can be good for your physical and mental health, a new British study suggests. [Google Health News] 7:55:29 PM  Permalink  comment []

The Thorns of Life  If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? 7:54:01 PM  Permalink  comment []

A performance, expressed in text, data, and code. The 115 columns I wrote for BYTE.com are now restored to the public Web. I took this step reluctantly, and would have preferred that the original namespace remain intact, but so be it. Those columns that have continuing value can now weave themselves back into the fabric of the Web. ... [Jon's Radio] I'm glad to see this. I actually tried to read a couple of the pieces on Byte the other day, and ran up against their subscription requirement. Alas, for Byte, I wasn't interested enough to subscribe. 7:45:56 PM  Permalink  comment []

Beethoven Sheet Music Here's an experiment: You can find Beethoven Sheet Music here. 7:29:04 PM  Permalink  comment []

Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002. "Every year brings new mistakes. In 2002, several of the worst mistakes in Web design related to poor email integration. The number one mistake, however, was lack of pricing information, followed by overly literal search engines." [Interactive Design Soapbox] 7:22:08 PM  Permalink  comment []

A couple of interesting religion pieces Today's Wall Street Journal has an editorial about that supposed ossurary of Joseph, brother of Jesus. They mention a site I hadnt' seen before, http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/, which looks to be very deep, and excellently comprehensive. There's hours' worth of reading here. Recommended. In a somewhat related story, there's another good piece in Times about the Dead Sea Scrolls and the community they came from. In a very different vein, there's an interview in today's New York Times with David Sloan Wilson, author of  Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society which looks very interesting.  How can a force that transforms convicted murderers into placid samaritans, and that has given the world Handel's "Messiah," the mosaics of Ravenna and Borobudur Temple also have spawned the Salem witch hunts, Osama bin Laden and columnists who snarl that America should invade Muslim countries, "kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity"? What sort of Jekyll-and-Hydra-headed beast is this thing called religious faith? ... Wilson argues that the religious impulse evolved early in hominid history because it helped make groups of humans comparatively more cohesive, more cooperative and more fraternal, and thus able to present a formidable front against bands of less organized or unified adversaries. By taking an evolutionary perspective on the subject, Dr. Wilson said, religion's twinned record of transcendent glories and shocking barbarities becomes comprehensible and even predictable, though not, perhaps, inevitable for the future. A provocative interview. Later: I just spotted this piece in Slate: Can you prove God doesn't exist? A nice, cogent summary of several positions and ends with a great joke. 7:03:13 PM  Permalink  comment []

The Gospel of Wealth. Andrew Carnegie: From The Gospel of Wealth. "This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: first, to set an example of modest unostentatious living, shunning display; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds which he is strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community. " [Wealth Bondage] Sounds to me like some kind of commie. 12:32:11 PM  Permalink  comment []

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