Secret Tape: McConnell and Aides Weighed Using Judd's Mental Health and Religion as Political Ammo | Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/mitch-mcconnell-ashley-judd-secret-tape-senate
A recording of a private meeting between the Senate GOP leader and campaign aides reveals how far they were willing to go to defeat the actor/activist.
On Arc, Paul Graham, and Unicode support as an exercise for the programmer // plasmasturm.org
http://plasmasturm.org/log/491
"Clearly, the way to make programs written in the language shorter is to force them to deal with Unicode on their own."