A great piece on Jamie Zawinski - someone I think very highly of - by a writer, Greg Knauss, who I'm starting to realize is a real good 'un. Hacking the City

"Zawinski, now 32, has done nothing so mundane. He's got bigger ideas. The man who once listed his employment objective as "improv[ing] people's lives through software" is still doing what he's always done, and what he always will do: he's hacking. Instead of computers, it's San Francisco. Instead of code, it's society. His goals may have changed but not his methods - he's fixing bugs and adding features. Zawinski, and thousands of other newly-rich hackers like him, have the potential to use their smarts and their tenacity and their wealth to re-make the American city, in the same way they have re-made American culture and the American economy."