My Email is Down

My email has been down for several days now and I have no idea when it will come up again. While I doubt anybody has sent me anything truly important (job offers), and those who would have sent me that kind of important thing aren't reading this site (job offers), I thought I should get this out there. It's beginning to seriously annoy me because I don't know what's going on or when it will clear up.

Ideological Axes

One of the fun, if futile, things to do is to try to arrange the political landscape along varying axes, with "Liberal/Conservative" and "Libertarian/Populist" being two popular ones. There are many others I've seen, too, each with a bit of truth. I'd like to propose for your own personal amusement this one: Tell a person to imagine themselves in the Medieval period of knights and kings. Do they automatically assume they are a knight or better, or do they at least admit the possibility (indeed the probability) that they are a serf?

It's all about the Benjamins...

In reply to this: I'm skeptical, because RSS really is no different than any other page fetched by Http - if sites like CNN, Drudge (etc) have solutions for their main page, then the truly popular RSS feeds will end up using these self same solutions. I neglected to add a third requirement to the listing, which is that a weblog should be able to scale up without hammering the owner with bandwidth fees.