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Sunday, November 05, 2006
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There was a time, probably fifteen years ago now, when I was writing for the late lamented MacWEEK, that I talked with Dave Winer pretty frequently. Frontier was a favorite app of mine, and we were both interested in the possibilities of user scripting. There's, still, a lot of lost opportunity there.
At any rate, in the past few years I've only seen Dave here and there, and have spent next to no time with him. However, he's moved in to my neighborhood, or more accurately he lives pretty close to me, and it's time to renew the friendship. We had a very enjoyable breakfast together this morning, and I hope it's the first of many get-togethers. Things just might get a bit testy when the Mets play the Giants...
5:29:22 PM 
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Keeping the Score: Eroica is the first of San Francisco Symphony's detailed looks at great compositions. Eroica is an amazing symphony, and Michael Tilson-Thomas guides you through the thing very well. It's a great, humanistic picture of the composer and his composition, with lots of anecdotes (some of which don't have immediate payoffs) and insights. Very enjoyable; I watched it twice, and highly recommended.
1:49:09 PM
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AP - An evangelist who founded Pensacola's defunct Dinosaur Adventure Land theme park is behind bars. Jurors convicted Kent Hovind on 58 counts of tax fraud last night. The founder of Creation Science Evangelism is accused of failing to pay $845,000 in employee taxes at the dinosaur theme park, an amusement park that exposed visitors to Hovind and his followers' view that human and dinosaurs coexisted and that evolution did not occur. Hovind, who faces a maximum of 288 years in prison, was taken into custody after the jury read its verdict.
Hovind's wife, Jo Hovind, was convicted on 44 of the counts involving evading bank-reporting requirements. She faces up to 225 years in prison but was allowed to remain free pending the couple's sentencing. That is January ninth.
(Via UNDERNEWS.)
1:33:05 PM
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Thanks to Al (btw, Al, email to you is bouncing) for asking me to post something about Hapless Ted Haggard and his fall from grace. It's been an amazing, if predictable story. I've seen two points made about it.
The first, and probably the most important, is that it really shows how much the whole conservative idea about homosexuality being a "lifestyle choice" is wrong. My guess is that if there's anyone who would want to be 'cured' of his sexuality, then Ted Haggard is it. If your sexuality is so strong that you're compelled by it to do things that drive you from your family, your politics, your philosophy, your heaven, then clearly it's powerful mojo. This is obvious to everyone but the religious conservatives who spend so much time condemning gays and making their lives so difficult. If Ted Haggard -- presumably a strong person -- can't change his sexuality, think of what happens to all the poor youth who are demonized by this bunch.
The other thing about this, that's really distressing, is how quickly his church is to condemn and abandon him. I thought religion was supposed to be a source of help and comfort. But religious hypocrites (that's apparently a redundancy) are demonizing him, his wife, his family. Maybe, given what I've read about him, this is a case of what goes around, comes around. But you really have to feel sorry for his wife and kids.
12:54:28 PM
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