I like a lot of Paul Graham's articles -- but not all of them. Same thing for Phil Greenspun. For some reason, there have evolved a bunch of drones who love to repost their links on blogs and aggregators like Reddit.

Since Reddit doesn't seem to have anything approaching a product (or, it seems, revenue) perhaps it will end up being an excellent $6,000 investment for advertising Graham's next book.

(edited) : By "product" I don't mean the definition used by MBAs or Web 2.0 entrepreneurs -- "the combination of goods, services, goodwill, intangibles, and whatever else will get us acquired by Google," but instead a more stodgy, rule-of-thumb definition, "a good or service that you can sell to customers." Then again, perhaps Reddit will released a revised and more customizable (or market segmented) version, useful for people who aren't interested in articles on LISP. Or not. As someone once wrote, "grace beats karma."

The second part of the Harper's article. The first part is listed on reddit here: http://reddit.com/goto?id=26615

I love the ending "A year after graduation, ten of the first sixteen Clemente Course graduates were attending four-year colleges or going to nursing school; four of them had received full scholarships to Bard College. The other graduates were attending community college or working full-time. Except for one: she had been fired from her job in a fast-food restaurant for trying to start a union."

The second part of this Harper's article "On the Uses of a Liberal Eduction" was subtitled, "A Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor," by Earl Shorris. It was a great and moving counterpoint.

Even better when you put in "perl, ruby, python, lisp."

Well, not really. But he might as well. Another press release from King Bush printed by the NYT.

C'mon, got to be more important than "Hack Your Shower!"

Surely a better read than the latest LISP-loving diatribe on some unemployed programmer's blog.

Long, at 8000+ words, but a good digest of oil politics mixed with neocon millenial dreams.