If you’re wondering whether to watch the 9/11 documentary on CBS tonight, read this review from the Philadelphia Enquirer.

An idle question: how are we supposed to catch this guy, when we’ve never been able to catch this guy?

The NYRB has a review of a book on American Jesuits which looks interesting. I’ve long been fascinated by the Jesuit order in the Catholic church — they’re quite different than the other orders. The review, by a former Jesuit priest, touches on some of the ways that the order differs from mainstream Catholocism, and discusses some of the problems that the Jesuits face going forward.

There’s finally a picture of The Sphere available at Yahoo, I’ve been looking for one since I heard that the sculpture — in its damaged state — will be installed at Battery Park as a 9/11 memorial.

Here’s yet another reason to use Mozilla instead of Netscape 6. It’s got all the good Mozilla stuff without all the bad AOL stuff.

What’s the other side of the national missile defense coin? Preparations for using nuclear weapons against China, Russia, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya, and Syria. It sure looks like we’re planning on expanding the possible uses of nuclear weapons beyond simply as serving as a deterrent to other countries attacking us with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. Of course our past and current nuclear postures are classified, so it’s difficult to say how much of a change this is. The question is: why the leak?

Sun sued Microsoft again. Does anybody care?

Just to prove that I don’t always post bad news, here’s a positive item. Real Spanish chorizo is finally available in the United States. There are few things better than real Spanish or Portuguese cured sausage.

For future reference: Struts Catalog.

George Will really gave it to President Bush yesterday for his new steel tariffs. Will says the tariffs may cost 10 jobs in other industries for every steel worker’s job that they save. I heard a figure of 8 jobs lost for every steel job saved somewhere else as well. Of course voters are probably not going to pin these second order effects on Bush, so he buys the steel worker votes and doesn’t lose any others. Hardcore free trade supporters probably aren’t going to vote for a Democrat because Bush betrayed them. What sickens me is that we preach to the developing world constantly about the need for free trade, but given enough whining at home, we’re willing to ditch that for the sake of political expediency.