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Clarke, a lanky, earnest 23-year-old, became fascinated with computers after seeing the 1983 hacker-fantasy flick War-Games as a child in Navan, Ireland. A computer-science major at the University of Edinburgh, Clarke developed Freenet as a student project over the summer of 1998. His key innovation was the element of anonymity. PCs hooked up to Freenet (the software can be downloaded from freenet.sourceforge.net become "nodes," meaning they are host to data files deposited on them for varying amounts of time. There's no central server, as with Napster. And there's no need for users...
...expect her to favor shadowy, wrong-side-of-town pubs. Bewley's on Westmoreland Street at first glace seems like the kind of coffeehouse where one might spy Chandler, Monica and the rest of the Friends gang sipping cappuccinos. But in truth, Bewley's is a historic chain in Ireland (James Joyce is claimed as a past patron), so this is where O'Connor, who lives nearby in a three-bedroom apartment, chooses to meet and talk about Faith and Courage, her brilliant new album that's due out next week...
...hasn't quite joined mainstream Catholicism. Cox has come under fire in the past for reportedly offering confession over the telephone. And according to Des Cryan, assistant director of the Catholic Press and Information Office in Dublin, Cox's "holy orders are not recognized by the Catholic Church in Ireland." Besides which, Cryan adds, "the Catholic Church does not ordain women to the priesthood...
...perspective of God, rejecting the self-segregation in the world: "I'm Irish, I'm English, I'm Muslim, I'm Jewish/I'm a girl, I'm a boy/and the goddess meant for me only joy." On another track, The Lamb's Book of Life, O'Connor becomes Ireland itself, running from history and searching for redemption in America: "I know that I have done many things/To give you reason not to listen to me/...Words can't express how sorry...
Even when taking on the guises of God and Ireland, of course, O'Connor seems to be singing about herself. When she writes, the music flows from some deep, hidden spring. "I don't ever sit down and try to write songs," she says. "I believe they write themselves and that they're in the air and in your soul. I start hearing them inside myself, and I don't make any effort; I just walk around for a month or so and let the song sing itself inside of me and then usually it's complete before...