Gabe Wachob: RIP Rob “lilo” Levin:
Rob Levin (aka “lilo” or “somegeek”), the head of PDPC and the leader of the Freenode IRC network, passed away today after being hit by a car while riding his bike. The news came to me through a global notice on freenode at 14:18 pacific time today.

We’ll miss you, lilo…

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I’ll add my sentiment to Gabe’s. I only knew Rob online, but we had some nice conversations and I tried to help him when i could. Lilo always tried to do the right thing, though sometimes that was difficult. He was a good guy and this is really a sad day. I wish his family the best in these tough times.

Crumbs! Web site gives archivists food for thought – Yahoo! News:
The British Library may have raised academic eyebrows when
it decided that a Web site with this mission statement should
be archived among those that may be of social significance,
stamping it a modern classic of British popular culture.

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archiving cultural website, whodathought.

links for 2006-09-16:
GNU LilyPond – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Free music transcribing software (tags: music software wikipedia gnu) LilyPond, music notation for everyone (tags: application design audio free freeware gnu language mac macintosh macosx mediawiki mt music open_source opensource osx script software…
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This is pretty cool

Is God an Accident?:
As predicted, when asked about biological properties, the children appreciated the effects of death: no need for bathroom breaks; the ears don’t work, and neither does the brain. The mouse’s body is gone. But when asked about the psychological properties, more than half the children said that these would continue: the dead mouse can feel hunger, think thoughts, and have desires. The soul survives. And children believe this more than adults do, suggesting that although we have to learn which specific afterlife people in our culture believe in (heaven, reincarnation, a spirit world, and so on), the notion that life after death is possible is not learned at all. It is a by-product of how we naturally think about the world.

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so you believe in religion… that’s ok said the apologist… it’s natural.