Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Wed, 28 Apr 2004

To balance today's heavier-handed posts...

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... here's a link roundup, where I go over some interesting Web sites I've run across. All muddled together for your inconvenience.

Got too much money? Buy the Gucci iPod case! · Software coming soon: Delicious Monster · The singer/songwriter who lives just around the corner : Paul Manousos · My house is pictured on their home page: Quality Shingle Work · Get your team jerseys here: Clothing of the American Mind · Some people are way too creative: How Mr. and Ms. Pacman reproduce · What to do with your MP3s: Send them back! · I agree with this rant: Acres, Miles, and Football Fields · Bare Bones Software, you could be next: NPR can't say 'suck' on the air · A new home for 'Bush in 30 Seconds' commercials — but they need more web space: The BI30 Archive Project · Never use a big word when you can use a diminutive one: The Longest Words in English

Thoughts on South Africa's Tenth Anniversary as a democracy

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South Africa has just celebrated 10 years of democracy. It seems like just yesterday that I first heard about this atrocity that was taking place on the other side of the world.

Coincidentally, I ran across a couple of interesting chilling numbers a few days ago:

Incarceration rates in George W. Bush's America and Stalin's U.S.S.R.
U.S.S.R. (1950)1,423 per 100,000
U.S.A. (2002)2,298 per 100,000

Incarceration rate of black men in South Africa before ANC rule and in contemporary America
South Africa (1993)851 per 100,000
U.S.A. (2002)7,150 per 100,000

How very, very sad. America is the new South Africa; the new U.S.S.R.

Sources: US Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prison Policy Initiative, "The International Use of Incarceration" by Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project, via This magazine, via Utne magazine.

How you can help stop genocide

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I've just been reading that there is genocide going on in Sudan. And under international agreement, a nation must intervene to stop a genocide when it is officially acknowledged,

Our government has been focusing a lot of "liberating" Iraq so maybe it's time to step up to the plate, officially acknowledge what is going on, and liberate Sudan.

The new website, PassionOfThePresent, tracks the effort to stop genocide. It has suggestions on what we ordinary people can do — like contact our Representatives and Senators and ask them to support H. Con. Res. 403 [House] and S. Con. Res 99 [Senate &mdash currently sponsored by Lieberman (D-CT), Durbin (D-IL), Brownback (R-Kansas), Kennedy (D-MA), and Feingold (D-WI)]. I'm going to contact my representatives shortly.

The site also has an RSS feed. Let's spread the word!