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Bhajis Loops
Bhajis Loops is music creation software for Palm OS devices. There seem to be people making music with this tool, curious to hear what it sounds like.
Netmite
Netmite was said to be the leader of wireless streaming media - in 2001. They've just announced that they will support the Kyocera Smartphone Series QCP 6035 - oh wait, that was in 2001. Since my Treo 600 plays mp3s, this isn't really an issue. Oddly, there are Netmite files on FreewarePalm.com, although most of the links are dead. It surprises me somewhat that the Netmite page is still up and hasn't been touched. Three years is a long time.
Robert Ludlum kidnaps the Pope
For a completely different, and highly irreverent, story featuring a pope, read The Road to Gandolfo by Robert Ludlum. It's not a typical Ludlum novel in that it's basically a very intelligent farce. It has the usual military aspects, and a world-spanning plot, but it's no Bourne Identity, which in my opinion is a good thing. I happened to be reading it for the first time recently and the Pope just passed away, so I suppose it's slightly more timely than it was a couple of months ago - the plot deals with a disgraced general's plan to kidnap the pope and get $1 from every Catholic in the world as ransom ($400 million, at least in the early 1980's when the book was written). It's a fun read, and if you like it you can pick up the sequel which has the same characters. Used copies are available for, literally, one cent, so give it a try.
There's been lots of Pope coverage (he died, have you heard?) but this piece in the New Yorker by David Remnick is the most interesting that I've read. All of the long pieces (at least in my local papers) talking about his faith and how many people came to the funeral (those people left several tons - TONS - of trash in the streets, according to some reports) are far less interesting than this essay which reminds us the effect that the Pope had on real events, specifically the fall of Communism in Poland. Maybe in the States we don't want to talk about that, since we credit Reagan with bringing down commies everywhere. If nothing else, it's a more intelligent perspective on the man.