in reply to perlmonks.org "/~username/" to "/?node=username" mod_rewrite magic
If someone went to the trouble of doing this, I'd make it
go ahead and change every /foo to /?node=foo, with perhaps
a special case that /~bar would become /?node=bar;type=user.
Oh, and I guess index.pl (and any other real files out there,
if any) would be left alone.