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I challanged the slashdoters to find Area 51 via Google Maps – someone (ShadowFlyP) found it! Check it out.

This is certainly not the best image of Area 51, but it’s cool that you can get a map to it from your house. You might want to try to input Mars as your starting location.

If you’ve never seen Area 51 before you should check out GlobalSecurity.org.

UPDATE: 04/13/05 Adam’s got a good collection of Goggle Maps finds over on the brain.

I bought this poster with all the Ferrari world champion drivers at the Toronto Auto Show, but just last weekend I got it framed. Ultimately this poster might end up decorating the walls of my garage, and I’ll be fine with that.

This post is only for people using Fedora Core 3 Linux and your computer is in the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network – ORION, or one that is connected to the National Research Council of Canada – NRC, over a high speed connection (most Universities in Canada).

Here’s a note in speeding up yum. http://www.brocku.ca/~mclare/nix/fedoraCoreIII.php

I think we’ll all miss John Paul II in some respect. He remained relevant right up to the end. He recently he opposed the invasion of Iraq and held an audience with the 2004 Ferrari Formula 1 team. All of this while being a very public sole dragging a body.

Still, I will never understand his opposition to women as priests, or even married priests: they’ve proven themselves to be sexual active regardless (both in recent American history and previous decades in Canada – and those are the easy examples). And then there is Africa: There a millions people who are now dead in Africa who would not be had a church 1 billion strong not opposed safe sex.

They have started to dub him the the Pope that was the great communicator. I believe that was the title they gave Ronald Regan, and it makes little sense to have two of the top three men involved in ending communism with the same nickname. (For the record: Regan, John Paul II and Gorbachev). The messages John Paul II communicated that I most appreciate was his apology to Copernicus and his acknowledgment of the Vatican’s inaction during the Holocaust. Similarly the messages I most appreciated where his messages to the people of Palestine (very hard to find on the Internet 🙁 ) and the one he placed in the Wailing Wall during his millennium visit to Israel:

“God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your Name to the Nations. We are deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer and, asking your forgiveness, we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the Covenant.” More here