Links for August 29

Sometime soon I’m going to write about how being a programmer makes me think differently about toothpaste. In the meantime:

• Delightful video of a magician performing tricks for a chimpanzee. (Via Marginal Revolution.)
• The Washington Post ran only Dick Cheney could love on the torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed today. There’s pushback everywhere. Here’s Andrew Sullivan. Here’s former CIA agent Melvin Goodman. Here’s Glenn Greenwald. Oh, and here’s KSM on the lies he told under torture. Everybody who feels torture was justified is going to be talking about this article next week, may as well be ready.
• Here’s a list of the preinstalled versions of the Web stack on Snow Leopard. I was a bit surprised at some of the changes in PHP 5.3.