I own and have read almost all the books listed. It's strange that given the huge community of programmers at slashdot, that the number of books isn't really that long (I even saw a least one Microsoft Press book in there, Steve McConnell's Code Complete).

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 28, 2002 09:02 PM

Moreover, the idea of the commons helps us identify and describe the common values that lie beyond the marketplace. By insisting that citizenship trumps ownership, we can begin to develop a more textured appreciation for the importance of civic commitment, democratic norms, social equity, cultural and aesthetic concerns, and ecological needs. A language of the commons helps restore humanistic, democratic concerns to their proper place in public policy-making.

Like those women in Nigeria taking over corporate-oil offices and protesting bare-assed nude to demand their rights to their own commons (bubbling crude, black gold, Texas tea)...and all they want is a chance to work their way out of poverty, schools, jobs and loans to start businesses (Unlike the Clampets who get a house with a concrete pond). I'm trying to avoid sarcasm, because I believe that people care and would not allow this sort of thing to go on if they felt there was some way for them to change it. Just remember this, nobody has forced us to be silent, we've just agreed to be silent.

You have a voice, you have a pen, you have a freaking internet connection, make some noise, and make it LOUD!

I gotta go catch that marathon rerun of the Beverly Hillbillies on cable.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 28, 2002 10:51 AM

okay, so it looks like i'm going with one long piece. a "novella" in 24 hours.

It won't be online long, so go read it now -- I mean now. Excerpts:

he is a writer. both the wrost and best kind of man to fall for. the longer you stay together the more you wonder whether it was his words or him that you were in love with. i have this theory that i you fall for a writer because of his words, over time you will grow to hate them. the opposite is also true. hate his writing, fall for him, and six months later you'll be calling his slasherfest horror novel the next dracula or him the next bram stoker when the fucker's really a dry dean r. koontz.

he said women didn't, in fact, like that side of him. i told him some might. starting to get a little angry, he said that he thought he knew more about it than i did, and that women definitely didn't like that quality in a man. in fact, what they want--what they're really looking for--is the illusion of that man. but any time that a guy was actually like that, she'd giive him his walking papers and put him to the curb.

Posted by GeeTee at July 28, 2002 07:09 AM

"It started two years ago with a little heap in the dug out. Then he went again in the centre of the field and in the goal."

Posted by GeeTee at July 28, 2002 06:27 AM

Giblin, who retired last year, is charged with procuring a person to have illicit sexual intercourse with another person, which would carry a jail term of up to 10 years if he is found guilty.Heyndricks is charged with soliciting sexual favours from a minor, and with stopping or attempting to stop a person for the purpose of engaging in prostitution. The maximum sentence for the solicitation charge would be five years.

Posted by GeeTee at July 28, 2002 05:45 AM

On March 18, Puffer demonstrated to a county official and a Chronicle reporter how easy it was to gain access to the court's system using only a laptop computer and a wireless LAN card.

Posted by GeeTee at July 28, 2002 05:30 AM