Persi Diaconis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persi_Diaconis
"Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such as coin flipping and shuffling playing cards."
BlogicBlog: View from the trenches: The techie way of liberating the podcast URL from iTunes
http://blogicblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/techie-way-of-liberating-podcast-url.html
"Jon Udell is not happy about having to transcribe podcast URLs that iTunes displays, but does not allow to copy. While the general point about lock-in is good, here is a quick techie workaround in a meanwhile."