My application works with a proxy server! I installed Proxy Workbench on my ThinkPad and turned on the proxy settings in the network system preference. Without changing anything in my code, it automatically used the proxy server, thanks to URL Access.

Written by two American guys

From Pravda: The Emergence of the Fascist American Theocratic State[via Doc Searls Weblog]

Historians will record that between November 2000 and February 2002, democracy-as envisioned by the creators of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution-effectively came to an end. As democracy died, the Fascist American Theocratic State [“The State”] was born. This new fascist era was designed and implemented primarily by Republican organizations and individuals who funded, supported and ultimately inserted George Bush II in office. Equally complicit in this atrocity was the Democratic Party, itself having become corrupt and beholden to its own interests. But the greatest tragedy in this horrific turn of events was that the public and media embraced fascism’s coming.

P.S. Doc, it would be nice if you separate items in your weblog instead of having the entire day’s entries appear in each update.

I spent the day at my new place buying paint & other stuff needed to fix it up. I also cleaned it up (it’s in pretty good shape, so I really didn’t have much to do). Thankfully, I won’t be painting it myself.

I’m exhausted now.

15023 ª February 22 7:37 PM. What’s down, Doc? Animation genius Chuck Jones has died of conjestive heart failure. Has any other creative-type-person brought more joy and laughter to the last three-or-four generations? At least his website had already started paying tribute to him while he could still see it (click on “Letters from the Heart”, optional Flash). [MetaFilter]

🙁 He’s going to be missed. If it wasn’t for Chuck Jones we wouldn’t have The Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Pinky & the Brain, or any cartoons other than the sanitized Disney variety. He brought edginess & subversive attitude to cartoons.

Wired News: Judge: If You Own Music, Prove It. On Friday, the tide dramatically shifted. Patel, who called both sides “dirty,” said that Napster’s misguided attempts to build a business using illegally obtained music paled in comparison to what could be massive misuse and heavy-handed tactics by the recording industry. [Tomalak’s Realm]

I just checked out the streams available in iTunes & found one I really like: w-une Ethno, under International. So far, they’ve played Super Rail Band, Alan Stivell, and Peter Gabriel.

Integrating AppleScript and Cocoa is an O’Reilly Networks piece by Brad Dominy digging into the ways that the two technologies intertwine. [Mac Net Journal]

Signs of Intelligence: Massachusetts Supreme Court Eases Up On Sodomy. It’s hoped that this will give less power to law enforcement to be prejudiced against homosexuals… [Morons Dot Org]

15021 ª February 22 5:55 PM. It’s official, streaming music is now 14 cents per song and retroactive to 1998. An update to an earlier thread, this new ruling would add $150,000 in monthly royalty fees to live365, and probably kill whatever streaming radio sites are currently out there. Of course broadcasting via AM/FM is half price, so maybe pirate radio stations will grow more popular. [MetaFilter]

It gets even more interesting. Right now the top user agent with 19.45% of the hits is Mazingo Windows CE.