2007 Oct 16, 12:22FTA: "Look at all those zero cents... there are data bits there, lying unused! It struck me that with every single restaurant transaction I could set the cents field to some number under my control,
thus allowing me to communicate with myself at a l
blog humor hack food article encoding restaurant via:ericlaw 2007 Oct 15, 11:30Raymond talks about false names used in math publications.
math humor raymond-chen blog article 2007 Oct 14, 3:12I've updated my homepage by moving stuff about me onto a separate
About page. Creating the About page was the perfect opportunity
to get
FoaF, a machine readable way of describing yourself and your friends, off my to do list. I have a
base FoaF file to which I add friends, projects, and accounts
from delicious
using an XSLT. This produces the
FoaF XML resource on which I use another
XSLT to convert into HTML and produce the About page.
I should also mention a few FoaF pages I found useful in doing this:
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FOAF Vocabulary Specification - The standard on which I based my XSLT to add in info from delicious.
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FoaF Explorer - Turns any RDF XML FOAF resource into a webpage with links to the other people, projects, etc mentioned in the FOAF file.
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FoaF-a-Matic - I used this to produce my base FoaF file.
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RDF Validator - This is the closest thing I could find for validation. It does RDF in general but unfortunately not FoaF specifically. I found two
links to sites that are down or dead that claimed to do what I actually wanted.
technical xml foaf personal xslt xsl homepage 2007 Oct 3, 1:30"Hatcher explores the legal ramifications of tattoo artists who assert copyright over their works after they've been inked, objecting to the tatts being displayed in advertising -- and even seeking
to prevent old tattoos from being erased! "
boingboing via:felix42 copyright ip law legal tattoo art culture blog article advertising 2007 Oct 3, 10:21Tim Berners-Lee writes about principles for new technology in the context of the evolution of HTML and the development of namespaces and XML.
architecture article tim-berners-lee w3c internet history evolution html namespace xml web mmm multimedia-mesh humor test-of-independent-invention 2007 Oct 1, 11:21Japanese site of cute animal photos.
photo photos animal cat gallery 2007 Sep 16, 1:24A blog of cute animal videos and photos.
cute humor photo cat bunny social blog 2007 Sep 11, 1:46The XML spec. Info on setting the default namespace including how to remove a default namespace once its been set.
specification reference w3c xml namespace 2007 Sep 4, 1:28I got a quechup invite this morning. Thankfully not from someone I know so I was already tempted to trash the letter. Turns out to be a bit of a spamming issue.
spam quechup network social privacy 2007 Aug 15, 3:24From the article: "... a scan of a brochure from the Kelsey-Hayes Company, Detroit, MI for their pre-fabricated fallout shelters, circa 1963." Very cool.
culture design flickr history images photo photography photos retro via:swannman 2007 Aug 15, 3:20Listened to RSnake talk about this in person at one point. Pretty interesting without his scenario video with niave female Internet user narration.
ajax rsnake via:swannman reference dns security javascript dns-rebinding 2007 Aug 13, 11:05A sleepy kitty yawns and rubs its face.
cat cute video youtube 2007 Aug 10, 9:25A POSIX subsystem to build UNIX applications on top of on Windows.
unix microsoft posix programming c windows via:swannman 2007 Aug 3, 3:11The JavaScript language. The whole thing.
javascript reference language specification 2007 Jul 26, 12:12The folks at the Internet Archive have created a user modifiable Open Library that intends to catalog all books. As in all of them. Includes links to the books online (Internet Archive for ex.),
where to buy (Amazon for ex.), reviews, etc.
archive library opensource wiki research book books literature catalog reference 2007 Jul 25, 7:15Documentation on the URI format that maps.live.com uses. Makes it easy to dynamically construct a URI that maps a specific location.
map live windows microsoft uri url help howto
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