Archive: March 13, 2006

Monday, March 13, 2006

1. Isaac Hayes quits "South Park":

   NEW YORK (AP)-- Isaac Hayes is quitting "South Park."
   
   The musician who voices Chef says he takes issue with the way show deals with religion.
   
   Hayes acknowledges there's a place for satire, but says there's a time "when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs of others begins."
   
   Hayes is a Scientologist. Last fall, the show poked fun at Scientology and its celebrity followers, including Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
   
   South Park co-creator Matt Stone believes Hayes' quitting "is 100 percent" due to his being a member of Scientology. Stone tells The Associated Press in the past, Hayes has "cashed plenty of checks with our show making fun of Christians."

   It's a sad day.

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2. IBM developerWorks: Exploring Active Record.

   Active Record [is] the persistence engine behind Ruby on Rails. Active Record bucks many Java conventions, from the typical configuration mechanisms to fundamental architectural choices. The result is a framework that embraces radical compromises and fosters radical productivity.

   To read.

     ¶ (1) Tags: [Object-Relational mapping, Ruby on Rails, To Read]

3. I forgot to link to this example of elegant Java code from Sun.

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