Hello Whatever I Will Call It
Whilst in and about blosxom plugins, I wrote one from scratch. Back with BlogMax, every day’s entry had a title and when you compiled the data files into the blog files, it would put the daily title into the title tag of the HTML header section. I always liked this. There is a blosxom plugin [...]
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Hello Clicktrack
I got my response from Nelson Minar about his clicktrack blosxom plugin. He says that I should take what I have, become keeper of it and go to town. He’s not going to actively maintain it, so he’d just as soon that I fork it and maintain it. I’m cool with that, so away we [...]
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Episcopals divided about gay bishop
Here is a BBC article about the rift in the Episcopal church over homosexual bishops. Elsewhere in the article, it includes this quote from the president of the US:
Responding to a question from journalists, Mr Bush said it was important to “respect each individual” but that did not mean he needed to “compromise on an [...]
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The Politics of Happiness
From Dennis Keim on Sff.net comes this link to an opinion piece by Enrique Penalosa, mayor of Bogota. He talks about the necessity of pedestrian activity and public open spaces.
Today we see images of the beautiful Earth taken from a spaceship, and we think of it as our planet. But in fact, there are very [...]
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Shakopee, MN
Via Electrolite comes this story about one of the soldiers recently killed in Iraq. His aunt is angry, and quoted thus:
“We have some issues with the fact that President Bush declared combat over on May 1. Combat is not over. We don’t even know who’s firing at us right now, and all of our [...]
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Landover Baptist
From my fraternity brother Carl, a man who always had a keen eye for blasphemy, comes this link to Landover Baptist. Is it a sincerely disturbing, creepy site for a real church or a finely crafted put on? Only you can decide, by feeling the tingly touch of Jesus deep within. Or not, as the [...]
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Blosxom, Clicktrack and RSS
Today I patched my version of the clicktrack blosxom plugin to fix a minor irritation. After I put in the plugin, I got all the crap, including the lengthened URLs and the flyover JavaScript in my RSS feed. It really isn’t appropriate there, so I patched clicktrack as so (updated again 7/30, after moving the [...]
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Robot Poetry
Via Lockergnome Bytes comes this link to Darwinian poetry. From the site’s description:
Ok, here’s the idea: starting with a whole bunch (specifically 1,000) randomly generated groups of words (our “poems”), we are going to subject them to a form of natural selection, killing off the “bad” ones and breeding the “good” ones with each other. [...]
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Virtual New Orleans
Photographer Ray Broussard has some Quicktime VR shots of New Orleans at his site. I really like how the icon on the map shows which way you are facing. These are really cool, I can almost smell the muffaletta and crawfish and sewer gas and piss and puke smells that I associate with the city. [...]
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Sidewalks
Kathryn Cramer writes a piece about the lack of sidewalks. My present neighborhood and much of Atlanta suffers from this. Although I have restaurants, bars and shops within walking distance, there is no continuous sidewalk to any of them, and parts of the walk require walking out in a busy road. One of the things [...]
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Dean inspires Community Service
Here’s a Mark Shields article in the Omaha World Herald (my nearest big city paper as a child in Nebraska) about how Dean supporters are getting active in community service in Iowa. Imagine that, making people’s lives a little better as a campaign strategy. Shields says:
Imagine the profound contrast between the Dean campaign volunteers feeding [...]
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Continuous Performance Testing with JUnitPerf
Mike Clark writes an article on integrating performance tests into the development process. I haven’t downloaded JUnitPerf but I really need to.
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ITRU lingers on
I report this only for completeness sake, since folks are e-mailing me about it. Here is the CNET article about Intertrust prevailing over Microsoft in preliminary rulings. My take on this is that ITRU never did anything but bad by me, so I have no love for them. When Sony/Philips bought them, all my shares [...]
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RSS Standard
According to CNET, Dave Winer has
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Batman fanflick
Via BoingBoing comes a link to a Qucktime movie (43 Mb) of Batman produced by some pro filmmakers trying to gain exposure. I was a little quizzical when I saw the credits at the end. I’ve seen full length features with shorter credits. It was kind of enjoyable and does show the nascent talent of [...]
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Dean for America
Today we donated $50 to Howard Dean’s campaign. They have a challenge this weekend to match the same amount that Cheney is raising at some function tomorrow. That’s a pretty smart strategy, to tie these things to specific goals. Here’s what I like about Dean, he sounds as angry and outraged as I am. This [...]
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RIAA nonsense
Here is an article about the ever growing illegal CD market, which is currently estimated at 4.6 billion. Note that the RIAA is fucking around with subpeonas for individual consumers who are file sharing over 100 songs. What exactly are they doing about this, an actual measurable loss? As far as anyone can tell, [...]
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WiFi Detector
From Kensington comes this WiFi detector. What a freaking brilliant idea! Carry this little device in your pocket and check if there is a signal, before bother to unstow your laptop or PDA or whatever. If no signal, don’t bother. This smells like $25 well spent.
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Spectacular Attacks
Another dystopic video thing, this one an animation/poem with some chilling soundtrack music called Spectacular Attacks. This is actually a good piece to watch in a sitting with Retina. I liked them both, visions of decaying futures and decaying people.
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Retina
This is one of the better visuals I have seen for what reading cyberpunk makes me feel. It is the page for Retina by Violet Suk and Martin Koch. The short film is weird and beautiful in its own way. One of the more interesting hypotheses I have heard is that when body modifications become [...]
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