Linked List: February 21, 2005

Monday, 21 February 2005

Woz on Tiger Leak Defendants 

Drunkenblog has assembled comments from a bunch of Mac nerds, including Steve Wozniak, regarding Apple’s lawsuit against the guys who bootlegged a beta of Mac OS X 10.4. There’s a comment from me in there too.

URI::Fetch 

Perl module by Ben Trott, designed for fetching XML feeds with support for GZip compression and ETag/Last-Modified support.

Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide 

Associated Press:

Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, fatally shot himself Sunday night at his home, his son said. He was 67.

Fuck. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas made me realize I wanted to write.