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...dawn, Shawn Fanning lay on the brown carpet in the shadow of a converted bar counter, consumed by the idea. He had been awake 60 straight hours writing code on his notebook computer. In his daze, the idea appeared to him as something tangible--a hard, shiny piece of black metal--that he had to forge and form so that it became usable, so that the hard black metal was transformed into a friendly tool, so that the 0s and 1s, the Windows API protocols and Unix server commands, were all somehow buffed and polished and worked to a fine...
...path. After two steps, he stopped. Brian, who was about to pull away, waited as Fanning turned around, strolled back to the car, opened the door and climbed back in. "I'm not going back to school," he told his cousin. Brian shrugged and drove off. It was Shawn's problem...
...Always diplomatic Kofi Annan MTV Always offensive Marlon and Shawn Wayans...
HARWICH, Mass.--This here is Napster country. Harwich, on the elbow of Cape Cod, is home to cranberry bogs, pristine New England shore and Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster Music Community. Last winter, at the beginning of what has become a Napster media blitz, I squealed with pride when I first saw my high school classmate pictured in U.S. News and World Report. I knew Napster--and the sweet kid I suffered through high school calculus with--had made it to the big time early last spring when he was featured in Rolling Stone. They don't just put anybody...
...Shawn, you know that blue sign that sits on the west side of town--next to Friendly's Ice Cream Parlor--that reads "Welcome to Harwich, home of the Rough Riders, 1997 State Baseball Champions?" Maybe one day, it will read, "Welcome to Harwich, home to Shawn Fanning, Internet visionary and the man who changed how we listen to music, watch movies and buy needlepoint patterns...