This is your basic Steven Segal vehicle. He plays the same character he does in all his other movies: ex-CIA agent now a cop fighting the bad guys with some special abilities that no one knows he has.

[Yahoo! Sports: MLB – Baseball owner’s meetings break up without realignment pact](http://baseball.yahoo.com/mlb/news/970916/owners.html)

[It Isn’t David and Goliath anymore](http://www.golfweb.com/ga/ryder/1997/features/sheffer970911.html.)
Europe has put together a series of Ryder Cup teams that
are able to challenge the US.

Sometimes Dave Winer hits the nail on the head:
[I Do](http://www.scripting.com/davenet/97/09/IDo.html)

[AppleCORE: Is The Sky Falling Yet?](http://www.webintosh.com/applecore/articles/091597.shtml)

[Apple Names Steve Jobs Interim CEO](http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/97/09/16/aapl*x000*1.html)

[I come to bury Usenet, not to praise it (9/13/1997)](http://www.sjmercury.com:80/living/daveplot/docs/dp091497.htm)

Steve Young comes back from a concussion to help the
[49ers Dominate the Saints](http://www.sjmercury.com/sports/niners/)

Football season is underway. Check here for all things
[49er’s](http://www.49er.com/)

Hopefully this is a
[Prelude to the Ryder Cup](http://www.golfweb.com/ga/epga/1997/0902/f.html)

Just say NO to SPAM and
[Pass HR 1748!](http://com.primenet.com/spamking/legislation.html)

Poll:
[What do you love about golf?](http://services.golfweb.com/cgi-bin/gwpoll/index.html)

Finally a balanced point of view. Mark F. Murphy enlightens us with his article on the
[False Prophets](http://www.MacKiDo.com/News/false_prophets.html)
of the Macintosh way.

The Sharks
[sign Niklas Andersson](http://www.sj-sharks.com/sharks/news/970910.html)

Mark O’Meara believes that as a professional he should be
[paid](http://www.golfweb.com/news/money970910.html)

for playing. I don’t think I agree. This is essentially the Olympics for golf,

and Olympic atheletes don’t get paid.

See if you can figure this out:
[Trendy Interactive Magic](http://pw2.netcom.com/~sleight/interactivemagic.html)

[A Request for Respect](http://www.scripting.com/davenet/97/09/ARequestforRespect.html.)

Great article Dave. We could all use a couple of deep breaths while we

wait for more info from Apple.

The San Jose Mercury News reports that
[Curbing the clones IBM, Motorola split with Apple](http://www.sjmercury.com/business/apple/motorola091197.htm)

Poll:

If you could play any course in the world, what would your

[dream course](http://www.golfonline.com/polls/1997/dream0909/index.html)

be?

Greg Norman is again
[number one in the world rankings](http://www.golfweb.com/library/both/norman970909.html)

[Tiger Woods falls to number two](http://www.golfonline.com/tours/pga/tigerwoods/watch.html)

in the world by missing the cut at the Canadian Open.

[Jim Achenbach](http://www.golfweb.com/library/achenbach/vegas970905.html)

has some thoughts about the PGA show in Las Vegas this week.

Golfers have always been perceived as a lazy lot. Now,
[lazy](http://www.golfweb.com/library/yen/show970909.html)

is easier than ever.

Is the death penalty right or wrong? This movie doesn’t give an answer to that question, but it’ll make anyone rethink their position on the issue. To put it simply, this movie is stunning and I recommend it to anyone.

##Time Robbins Delivers

[[dead*man*walking]]

I love movies that make me think. I love movies that make me
feel. I love movies that make me question. Rarely do I get all three types
of movies all in one.

##So what about the penaltly anyway?

I’m a firm believer in the death penalty. Not just for the mundane reason
of justice (although I think it is just for peoples lives to be forfeit if
they commit particularly heinous crimes), but also for pragmatic reasons.
People say that the death penalty isn’t a deterant to crime, but it surely
deters the receiver of further crimes.

I believed that this movie was going to be just an attempt by a liberal
Hollywood star to make a statement about the injustice of the death
penalty. I thought that the movie would portray a clearly innocent man being sent to his death by a government bent on proving that it supported
the will of the people to enforce such a penalty. But that would have been
too easy.

##Sarandon and Penn are wonderful

The antagonist (played wonderfully by Sean Penn, one of Hollywood’s best
actors in my opinion) was guilty. He was also someone that I believe
deserved to die for his crimes. But he was not a monster (that
would have made it too easy to cheer his execution). He was a person afraid
to die, with feelings and a family who cared for him.

The protagonist (played by Susan Sarandan, earning her an oscar) was a nun
who decided to be the spiritual leader of a killer on his way to death.
I’ve always believed that Susan Sarandan was a great actress, but now I
believe that she can be nothing short of brilliant.

Tim Robbins did a masterful job directing his first time out. Sure there
were some rough spots, and at times his directing was heavy handed. But
there were also some beautiful subtleties. For instance, during the
execution, seeing the reflections of the victims in the window of the
death chamber as the killer breaths his final breaths was brilliant. If you weren’t paying attention (how could you not be?) you’d miss it. But if you
saw it it could bring tears to your eyes (it did mine).

This movie did not change my opinion about the death penalty, but it did
make me question it and help me to realize that it is actually
people that area awaiting judgement in death row today.

This is just for fun:
[gifscii](http://www.io360.com/v2/yo/asciiworld/gs.html)

Here’s the final results of the
[Bell Canadian Open](http://www.golfweb.com/ga97/pga/0901/2.html)

Here’s a couple of differing viewpoints:

• [Power Played Us All for the Fool](http://www.maccentral.com/features/090897.shtml)
• [Open letter to Apple board of directors](http://www2.maccpu.com/maccpu/letter.html)

Now could somebody please tell me whose right! I love my Macintosh and I hope
it will survive forever, but now I’m not so sure.

Mark O’Meara will probably be the
[Spiritual leader of the US Ryder Cup team](http://www.golfweb.com/si/1997/0901/ryder.html)

Gordon Grieve did the impossible and scored
The [Two Holes in One in One Round!](http://www.golfweb.com/news/grieve970905.html)
Maybe someday I’ll be able to get just one 🙂

Survey:
[What kind of round of golf do you like the best?](http://www.golfonline.com/polls/1997/satisfy0902/index.html)

Wahoo!
[US slips past Costa Rica](http://boston.com/dailyglobe/globehtml/251/France*in”sight”as”US”slips*past_Co.htm)
yesterday in a World Cup qualifying match giving the US a much needed 3 points!

Steve Jones wins the
[Bell Canadian Open](http://www.golfweb.com/ga97/pga/0901/fs.html)
edging out Greg Norman by one stroke. Will Greg’s second place finish
be enough to propel him back to #1 in the World?

Unbelievable! Rocca wins the
[European Masters](http://www.golfweb.com/ga/epga/1997/0901/f.html)
with a career best 62!

Dave Winer gives us some more thoughts on the Apple situation with
[What’s Up Doc?](http://www.scripting.com/davenet/97/09/WhatsUpDoc.html)
on Davenet today.

I don’t know how they did it, but somehow the
[49ers manage a win over the Rams](http://www.nfl.com/49ers/index.html)
without Steve Young **or** Jerry Rice!

I think George Will hits the nail on the head again with
[A Precarious Princess . . .](http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-09/03/009l-090397-idx.html)

The [Apple faithful are losing faith](http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,13988,00.html.)
Being one of the faithful, I haven’t been able to grasp the reasons behind
Apple’s recent moves. Can someone explain it to me such that it makes some
sort of sense? Maybe “Steve Jobs” has some ideas that he hasn’t
shared with us yet?

Here’s a
[Conversation with Steve Jobs](http://www.scripting.com/davenet/stories/JobsInterview.html.)
I’m still not sure if I understand the Power deal!

Here’s the
[Bell Canadian Open](http://www.golfweb.com/lead/pga.html)
leaderboard

Sounds like a lot of people don’t really believe why Apple bought Power:
[Second Decade: Apple relies on half-truths and omissions to justify licensing line](http://www8.zdnet.com/macweek/mw*1134/op*decade.html)

There’s trouble in Ryder territory as
[Miguel Martin is cut](http://www.golfweb.com/news/ryder970902.html)
from the European Ryder Cup Team!

Poll:
[Did Seve do the right thing](http://services.golfweb.com/cgi-bin/apps/polls/poll970902/gwpoll)
by cutting Martin?

So,
[What does Tiger Woods have to say](http://www.golfweb.com/library/sirak/golfnotes970902.html)
about the media and Princess Di’s untimely and tragic death?

This just made me drool (a disgusting sight)!
[Webintosh: The Fastest Computer You’ll **Never** See](http://www.webintosh.com/pub/webintosh/webintosh/features/g3.shtml)

So why did Apply buy Power Computing?
[Apple brass explains Power purchase](http://www8.zdnet.com/macweek/mw*1134/nw*market.html)

And for a different point of view:
[Second Decade: Sacrificing cannibals is no way to fix what’s wrong with Apple](http://www8.zdnet.com/macweek/mw*1133/op*decade.html)