Not only was he an ardent supporter of the stupidest war ever, he was also an apologist for the Bush Administration's use of torture. I won't miss him at all.

Disclosure: I suspect my position on the theistic questions is similar to yours. I reject the questions themselves as ill-defined and don't waste time trying to answer them. I certainly don't have the (donning asbestos underwear) faith an individual has to have to declare that the answer to those questions is "no."

"Windows Vista was really bad, but Windows 7 is great!"

A woman I knew who worked at Microsoft in Brazil was told that her husband couldn't be covered on her health insurance, even though male employees' wives were all covered by their husbands' Microsoft-provided policies. When she started to say that was unfair, she was told to back off. I guess sexism at Microsoft is a worldwide thing.

I have two technical questions:

1. Can you identify his cell phone, maybe from usage patterns, and know when it's his Blackberry that's trying to access a page?

2. Does nimp.org work on cell phones?

The Skype app, which mangles performance, and the Facebook app, which voraciously wolfs down battery charge, haven't been downvoted into oblivion and ignored yet. How long should we expect to wait for this to happen?

Yes.

What about the Pandora?

What can you do with it?

Pandora's app site

Emulators

Loads more apps, including emulators and games

FWIW, I'm going to give Sony a chance to sell me a PSP2/NGP/whatever, but I'm already looking at alternatives. I don't really need all the gyros and accelerometers and multitouch surfaces and GPS and whatnot, and I think those things will jack up the price a lot. What I really want is a portable system on which I can watch videos (the PSP was good enough at that for me) and play sports games (especially soccer) and shooters. And I want two thumbsticks for the shooters so the controls can be consistent. I hate switching between PSP shooters, because each one has its own control scheme with its own ways of getting around the lack of a second thumbstick, and I get confused.

How 'bout Richard Feynman? He talks about some of his experiences smoking pot in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, and he was pretty well off and considered quite intelligent right up until his death.

At some point LinkedIn started charging to use what they claimed were useful features. Or something. I really don't remember or care. I didn't see much use for the whole thing anyway, even if everything were (or is) free. I still have a profile there, but I really don't use it. I've got a backlog of a bunch of contact requests, most of them from people I actually know, but I don't want to accept them and in that way encourage people to keep using this thing, especially to reach me.