New Wallace and Gromit episodes, as well as a feature length film!? Check out the post on Slashdot, the article at CNN, and here's the news from Aardman Animations themselves:

"Nick Park has set into production 12 exciting new Wallace and Gromit films all to be released later this year, free of charge with the help of the internet. Each film features one of Wallace's unique new inventions and runs for approximately 1 minute."

"Since the release of A Close Shave (1995) and throughout the production of Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit have never been far away from Nick's thoughts. For the last year he has been working on the script for a new Wallace and Gromit film, The Great Vegetable Plot, which is due to be released in a couple of years."

Ooh, via diveintomark, Creature Comforts, like the original film from the animators of Wallace and Gromit.

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I'm in Virginia!

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Check it out... question for anyone who's really familiar with how HTTP and Apache work. If I want to move a page on my site, say, from somefile.php3 to somefile.php, I can rename the file, but I want to leave some indication that the file moved, for a while at least, so that search engines can update their records (except Inktomi which continues searching to this day for pages I haven't had on my site for years).

I can do one of two things. I can leave a dummy page in the old place (since the page is PHP I can write code there...) which I can have send a 301 return code to indicate that the page has been "moved permanently", and give the page's new location. Alternately, I can just let the person get a 404, and then have my 404 page (it's PHP again try to find the current version of the page. For instance, if someone looks for somefile.htm, somefile.html, somefile.php3, somefile.phtml, etc. I can have it look to see if there's a somefile.php and automatically redirect them to that from the 404 page.

My questions are: is it wrong to send a Location: header from a 404, and does that really "mean the same thing" as a 301? Will spiders treat it similarly? Finally, is there any way to suppress the 404 code if I can figure out through code that the page actually exists, sending a 301 code and a Location: header instead? What would I have to do with Apache to make this happen?

I just realized I forgot to explain a little of my reasoning. I'd much rather have the logic put in my 404 page because there I can have it all in one place rather than having dummy files cluttering up my web space for every page I've ever had on my site that might exist with another name. The thing is, I don't want to be returning 404 codes if the page does exist but has just moved, because that's what 301 is for.

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Man, some of the RFCs at Ohio State's RFC index have broken. I linked to their copy of the HTTP RFC and now it's broken! I'm going to leave the link on my programming page for now, but if it's not back by the time I get back from Richmond I'll fix the link.

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My web host is awesome, neener neener neener. (Yet again, look at the response times, as well as the time of day).

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Also from Xkot, "Posts like this one remind me why weblogs are worth reading." I don't think I could ever write something that personal on my website, but some people can. It really is amazing whenever you come across something like that. I agree... things like that is one of the reasons weblogs are special.

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Great post on Xkot.net. "A note to Americans who point to the UK's gun laws as a way to end violent crime: gun laws create defenseless victims while criminals remain armed." He's absolutely right. I say, the more guns the better. If everyone was armed, I think there'd be a lot less crime.

Everyone should read The Seven Myths of Gun Control, by Richard Poe. I haven't read it yet, but More Guns, Less Crime is also supposed to be a superb book, and contains tons of data supporting the claim of its title. Here is an excellent interview with John Lott, the book's author. Finally, here are both books at Amazon.

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Via lgf, Special Dispatch No. 331: Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project - Saudi and other Arab Intellectuals:The Fault Lies in Our Education - Not in American Society: "We all focus on bin Laden and his ilk… but we have yet to focus on the more dangerous people, and I mean those who fill our heads with this rhetoric in the schools, the mosques, and the media, who disseminate words without hesitation and without considering the consequences or even understanding that in this era, the entire world hears what is said."

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Check out The complete guide to weblogs.

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