These illustrations of Hitler's art are taken from a coffee table book on Hitler published during the Third Reich, several million copies of which were printed. These are the eamples of Hitler's paintings one was likeliest to see durng the Third reich. One assumes these were thought the best of his work. It's interesting that they are all from 1914-1917. By 1938, Hitler decided to prohibit reproductions of his paintings.

Just watched Max and decided to look at Hitler's Art.

Adolf Hitler's Paintings

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The Gallup World Poll asks an amazing battery of questions about the subjectively-experienced lives of people across the globe, and hence offers an unparalleled opportunity to contrast the subjectively-experienced lives of those in rich and poor countries.

This chart is my personal favorite, showing the proportion of people in each country who report having smiled or laughed a lot the previous day. Higher levels of economic development are clearly associated with more smiles and laughter. But equally, there are a lot of exceptions to this rule, and plenty of puzzles.

Laotians are more likely to smile than anyone else, and the Irish appear to have earned their national reputation as jolly japesters. My own country, Australia, comes in as the 29th of the 131 countries in the Smile Stakes, while the U.S. is a disappointing 45th.
Smiling and Laughing

This survey also asks about a range of feelings that might have been experienced the previous day. It is clear that G.D.P. is correlated with more people reporting enjoyment, while those in richer countries are less likely to report experiencing physical pain, depression, boredom, and anger.

Interestingly, G.D.P. appears uncorrelated with feelings of worry.

The Economics of Happiness, Part 6: Delving Into Subjective Well-Being - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

A couple months ago I was somewhat amused by the Barbie killing ladies from Barbie Massacre so I decided to try and get in touch with them.
Meanwhile I got to know a little bit about them (thanks ladies, I appreciate it very much) and I’m ready for a detailed follow-up, with the pictures of the gory modern art and everything. Try and keep your eyes on the text and send the kids to bed, you don’t want that kind of art in your living room. (click on the pictures for full size)

Happy people killing Barbies | Ted's Game

Rufus O'Terril for Lieutenant Governor.

Rufus O'Terrill and the Bum Bot - Difference Makers - The Colbert Report | Comedy Central

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The Tibetan Technology Center is a charitable organization dedicated to harness modern technology for helping the Tibetan community in India.

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Tibetan Technology Center | Tibetan Technology Center

Funny. It has been exactly the opposite for us.
We're running a bunch of xfires (14 boxes total, 4100, 4200, 4150) here
and initially started out with solaris because the wise guys said it's faster,
more stable, oh and no least you get that shiny "platinum support" badge...

Yea it was all that and the zfs hype, what could possibly go wrong?

Nothing much to be honest. We fell in love with the hardware immediately
and the machines hummed along without too much trouble. Postgres performs
well, java performs well, and ZFS snapshots are a blessing.

Despite all that superficial happyness we switched most of the hosts to linux
(and aim for 100% linux) after a few months. We still love ZFS (and can't wait
for a linux equivalent) but that alone couldn't justify sticking to solaris for us.

What broke it for us is the userland with all its subtle differences
to linux, or in other words: the learning curve. This may sound strange when
talking about a UNIX OS but as a linux shop we're spoiled by the GNU toolchain,
by dead-simple package management and all the little everyday things that just
work a tiny little bit different under solaris.

I'm not saying the linux-UI is better (actually, it is in many
places, but that's not the point here), it's just that we all grew
up with linux, so the solaris CLI "felt like a really old version of linux"
(to paraphrase a coworker) from the start.

Solaris V Linux

Why OpenSolaris Failed To Build a Community

Mr. Alden seems to know about internet access in East Africe.

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This is a commonly reinvented wheel, and the version Stefan (metze) Metzmacher suggested in samba-technical is the round one (;-))

A maximally useful log message contains a number of fixed items, usually in a fixed-format header of some sort, and text for the human reader to use to understand the implications of the problem.

From memory, the fixed information includes enough to allow for mechanical sorting by nastiness and occasionally mechanical processing:

- date/time
- origin, meaning machine- or domain-name
- source, in some detail,, including the executable name and process id as a minimum, if applicable, and optionally the file, function and line, it is good to make this one token, for ease of parsing and resilience when one line has "sendmail:parse.c:parse_it:332:1948" and another has only "mconnect:1293"
- pre-classification, meaning the application type, error type and severity. DFAs can switch on this, and should.

The old ARPA format was error type source and severity as three decimal digits, which you still see when smtp says "250 ok". The 2 was permanent success, the 5 meant "the app", in this case smtp, and 0 was the severity. I prefer ascii, not numbers (;-))
- then the text for the human, saying the meaning of the error, the same way you're supposed to write the **meaning** of code in comments, not just say what the code does.

Syslog does about half of this, metze's did most of it.

Information for good log messages - Journal of davecb (6526)

The “liberal” young men had these principal traits as babies: resourcefulness in initiating activities, independence and autonomy, and pride in accomplishments. Liberal young women had similarly happy characteristics. In contrast, as babies the conservatives had been easily offended, immobilized under stress, brooding and worried, and suspicious of others. Conservative young women had cried the most easily.

Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals. Discuss. - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog