The Homes & Gardens piece on Hitler’s mountain retreat that has been floating around on the Internet made the New York Times today. I found the scanned article so wierd and fascinating that I mirrored it myself in case it went away. You have to give the New York Times props, in the article they come clean about their own friendly description (from 1938) of Hitler’s mountain hideaway.
Mark Hershberger has published a method of blocking virus-laden emails using procmail and ClamAV. If you’ve set up your own installation of SpamAssassin, this approach probably isn’t out of reach for you.
I really want to boycott RIAA, but judging from this list, doing so is pretty complicated. I bought four CDs this week, all used via half.com. Sucks for the artists but it’s one way to be sure you’re not paying anybody’s RIAA dues.
I’m always amazed when people who live and work on barrier islands are shocked at the damage that hurricanes do. Barrier islands are just big piles of sand that ordinarily migrate up and down the coast with changes in weather and currents, and yet we brilliant human being insist upon building things on them and doing our best to make them stay in one place. I know people love to live on the beach, but the price of that is periodic utter destruction. ...
This is why a widely used system for digitally signing email messages should be in place by now.
I have a whole new respect for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq now that I know that they’ve accompished all that they have without the benefit of useful phone service. Who decided that letting WorldCom give cellular service a whirl in Iraq was a good idea? (I’d love to see the $4,000 phones they’re using, too.)
Germany Will Share the Burden in Iraq is the headline from an op-ed by German chancellor Gerhard Schroder in today’s New York Times. I’ve been wondering who was going to be the greater leader and bridge the gap between the coalition that invaded Iraq and the countries that didn’t accept the premise for doing so, and it looks like Schroder wins. Phil Carter also comments on the development.
They’re called “gimme caps” not “trucker caps.” I’d also like to note that they’re best worn without irony. Update: here’s a description of the fad, for those of you who didn’t know this was a fad.
The hunt for a WMD describes efforts by a reporter from the Christian Science Monitor to follow up on a lead on what was allegedly a cylinder of nerve gas in Iraq.
Apache Maven Simplifies the Java Build Process: an introduction to Maven. I’ve tried Maven before but gave up for some reason. Maybe I should try it again.