BBC NEWS | Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq

Hmmm. I guess there'll be a load of gloating round the warbloggers today. Obviously I'm not in favour of the death penalty : no humans have the right to kill others. So I'll line up with the British government on this.

Pragmatically it seems a pretty stupid move - it's the Shi'ite government playing to it's own people and further alienating the Sunnis. OTOH, it probably won't make things dramatically worse at this point. There's already a civil war going on in Iraq.

BBC NEWS | What happened at Haditha?

I got caught up arguing about women, porn and IT over at Ian Bicking's.

Scala looks interesting.

5 Things a Java developer needs to know about Scala - David Pollak's Blog

Beautiful kitsch animation on a (I guess) kid's web-site.

Discussion at Brad De Long's about Pinochet's legacy.

I'm in São Paulo. Gisel is launching her book here tonight.

Amazing food ...

Sometimes I feel it's necessary to thank God (or whatever provedence you prefer) for Tim Lambert.

Hmmm

Yeah, fantastic. (Thanks Guillaume)