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So I'm sitting here at the computer listening to a stream of music consisting of two-decade old songs which, as determined by a proprietary algorithm based on aggregate data from zillions of users all over the world, are generally well-liked by fans of an artist whose latest work-in-progress has been made available online one mp3 at a time, and I'm feeling both old (for needing to hear 20-year-old music this morning) and young (having flashbacks to 12th-grade guitar class where a couple of guys are making fun of an Outfield song (and I hear "Voices in Babylon" now and can't believe I forgot there was an Outfield song I genuinely like) and talking about how classic rock was so much better than the crap in the top 40 in 1987 while I'm wondering if I'll understand anything in calculus next period) and, as I wonder how many of my friends all over the world are awake at this moment, I'm looking at a page with my syndicated feeds on it and see that the link to an article about church members getting kicked out because they didn't vote for Bush is followed on the page by the Bible verse "For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ" and the irony pleases me so much I want to share it with a bunch of people I've never met.

If someone two hundred years from now writes a historical novel set in the year 2005, this is the kind of moment I hope they think to include. They'll probably write about Britney Spears instead.

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Just found out that Martyn Bennett died in January at the age of 33. The worst part is that most of you have no idea who the little dreadlocked bagpiper/fiddler/electronica composer was.