2008 Sep 9, 8:29Article on the data centers that backup the Internet Archive and handle CERN's LHC's data. "CERN embodies borderlessness. The Swiss-French border is a drainage ditch running to one side of the
cafeteria; it was shifted a few metres to allow that excellent establishment to trade the finicky French health codes for the more laissez-fair Swiss jurisdiction. And in the data sphere it is
utterly global."
lhc history internet cory-doctorow nature physics network hardware library science cern internet-archive 2008 Sep 8, 6:51Neil prints out brain cross sections from an MRI and pastes them onto a set of wooden cubes forming a model of his brain. "Last month I took a left-right MRI scan, reconstructed it, and rerendered
top-bottom and front-back scans... Another method to visualize a complex 3D object is to build a model. The dimensions of the MRI data cuboid are almost exactly 3x4x5. Accordingly, I obtained 60
one-inch cubes ... arranged them appropriately, varnished the 94 outside faces, printed nine carefully selected cross-sections and their mirror images, sliced the prints into 266 squares and glued
them to the correct internal faces."
art design brain toy model wood 2008 Sep 1, 4:45
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Cadbury jumps out of her toy box hitting the fireplace shovel, and does a few other cute things.
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video 2008 Sep 1, 4:17
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Cadbury sits in and eats her box of toys. She enjoys eating her toy box more often than playing with any of the toys.
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video 2008 Aug 25, 10:13
As noted previously, my page consists of the
aggregation of my various feeds and in working on that code recently it was again brought to my attention that everyone has different ways of representing tag metadata in feeds. I made up a
list of how my various feed sources represent tags and list that data here so that it might help others in the future.
Tag markup from various sources
Source
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Feed Type
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Tag Markup Scheme
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One Tag Per Element
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Tag Scheme URI
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Human / Machine Names
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Example Markup
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LiveJournal
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Atom
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atom:category
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yes
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no
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no
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, (source)
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LiveJournal
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RSS 2.0
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rss2:category
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yes
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no
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no
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technical
(soure)
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WordPress
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RSS 2.0
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rss2:category
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yes
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no
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no
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, (source)
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Delicious
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RSS 1.0
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dc:subject
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no
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no
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no
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photosynth photos 3d tool
(source)
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Delicious
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RSS 2.0
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rss2:category
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yes
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yes
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no
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domain="http://delicious.com/SequelGuy/">
hulu
(source)
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Flickr
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Atom
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atom:category
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yes
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yes
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no
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term="seattle"
scheme="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/" />
(source)
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Flickr
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RSS 2.0
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media:category
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no
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yes
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no
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scheme="urn:flickr:tags">
seattle washington baseball mariners
(source)
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YouTube
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RSS 2.0
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media:category
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no
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no
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no
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label="Tags">
bunny rabbit yawn cadbury
(source)
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LibraryThing
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RSS 2.0
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No explicit tag metadata.
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no
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no
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no
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n/a, (source)
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Tag markup scheme
Tag Markup Scheme
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Notes
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Example
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Atom Category
atom:category
xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
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category/@term
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Required category name.
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category/@scheme
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Optional IRI id'ing the categorization scheme.
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category/@label
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Optional human readable category name.
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term="catName"
scheme="tag:deletethis.net,2008:tagscheme"
label="category name in human readable format"/>
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RSS 2.0 category
rss2:category
empty namespace
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category/@domain
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Optional string id'ing the categorization scheme.
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category/text()
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Required category name. The value of the element is a forward-slash-separated string that identifies a hierarchic location in the indicated taxonomy. Processors may establish conventions
for the interpretation of categories.
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domain="tag:deletethis.net,2008:tagscheme">
MSFT
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Yahoo Media RSS Module category
media:category
xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
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category/text()
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Required category name.
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category/@domain
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Optional string id'ing the categorization scheme.
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scheme="http://dmoz.org"
label="Ace Ventura - Pet Detective">
Arts/Movies/Titles/A/Ace_Ventura_Series/Ace_Ventura_-_Pet_Detective
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Dublin Core subject
dc:subject
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
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subject/text()
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Required category name. Typically, the subject will be represented using keywords, key phrases, or classification codes. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.
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humor
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Update 2009-9-14: Added WordPress to the Tag Markup table and namespaces to the Tag Markup Scheme table.
feed media delicious technical atom youtube yahoo rss tag 2008 Aug 21, 11:24
I had an idea for a Facebook app the other day. I wondered who actually looked at my profile and thought I could create a Facebook app that would record this information and display it. When I
talked to Vishu though he said that this wasn't something that Facebook would be too happy with. Indeed the Platform
Policy explicitly disallows this in section 2.8. This explained why the app didn't already exist. Its probably for the best since everyone assumes they can anonymously view Facebook profiles
and would be irritated if that weren't the case.
On the topic of assumed anonymity, check out this article on the aggregation and selling off of your cell phone data including your physical
location.
technical facebook privacy cellphone extension 2008 Jul 22, 11:09Radiohead released the data points from their latest video as CSV free for us to use, so expect odd CG videos featuring Thom York.
radiohead cc remix video 2008 Jun 19, 4:25Its the 90s version of the information economy: "He has noticed a new behaivor among his native hosts. If they are young, they want to borrow his phone and mine if for goodies they can copy."
mobile phone data technology blog kevin-kelly 2008 Jun 19, 1:00"The new compression technique, called variable bitrate compression produces different size packets of data for different sounds...VoIP streams are encrypted to prevent eavesdropping. However, a team
... has shown that simply measuring the size of packets
security privacy phone compression encryption blog article 2008 May 30, 1:36Killbits: "This article describes how to stop an ActiveX control from running in Microsoft Internet Explorer and in Windows Internet Explorer. You can do this by modifying the data value of the
Compatibility Flags DWORD value for the Class identifier (CLS
security ie killbit msdn microsoft windows browser reference 2008 May 18, 6:45
While re-reading Cryptonomicon I thought
about what kind of information I'm leaking by posting links on Delicious. At work I don't post any Intranet websites for fear of revealing anything but I wondered if not posting would reveal
anything. For instance, if I'm particularly busy at work might I post less indicating something about the state of the things I work on? I got an archive of my Delicious posts via the Delicious API
and then ran it through a tool I made to create a couple of tables which I've graphed on Many Eyes
I've graphed my posts per week and with red lines I've marked IE7 and IE8 releases as stated by Wikipedia. As you can see, there doesn't seem to be much of a pattern so I suppose my concerns
we're unfounded. I use it for both work and non-work purposes and my use of Delicious isn't that consistent so I don't think it would be easy to find a pattern like I was thinking about. Perhaps if
many people from my project used Delicious and that data could be compared together it might be easier.
For fun I looked at my
posts per day of week which starts off strong on Mondays and decreases as the
week goes on, and my
posts per hour of day. It looks like I mostly post around lunch and on the extremes I've
only posted very late at night twice at 4am:
converting media for the Zune, and
Penn's archive of articles. In the morning at 7am I've posted only once:
document
introducing SGML.
manyeyes graph cryptonomicon delicious 2008 May 2, 1:55Avoid sniffing using the HTTP range header: "...if we have an application...which protects against FindMimeFromData XSS attacks by searching the first 256 bytes for certain strings, then we can
simply place our strings after the first 256 bytes and get Fl
via:swannman http http-header range xss security 2008 Apr 29, 7:56"this is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter. inspired by wefeelfine and drawing data from summize, hand-crafted by amy hoy and thomas fuchs."
via:ethan_t_hein api twitter social art visualization 2008 Apr 9, 8:26"I'm going to cover three basic techniques for incorporating some simple data visualization into standards-based navigation patterns."
css web visualization chart html via:swannman 2008 Mar 28, 10:35Scott A Crosby and Dan S Wallach "present a new class of low-bandwidth denial of service attacks that exploit algorithmic deficiencies in many common applications' data structures." DoS via worst
case behavior in hash tables and exponential time RegExp's
scott-crosby dan-wallach dos programming regex research security hash 2008 Mar 8, 11:43"I was not able to find universal settings to do this task, but it looks like Mozilla based browsers accepts utf-8 encoded headers and headers Encoded Word Extensions from RFC 2231. Internet explorer
accepts utf-8 filenames only when 1. the data are URL e
http http-header charset ascii utf8 mozilla ie browser content-disposition 2008 Mar 7, 3:26
Two weekends ago it was actually sunny and kind of warm so Sarah and I went down to Spud Fish and Chips and Juanita Beach Park. We ate fish and chips on the dock. I took a few pictures and this
time actually put some geographical information on Flickr so now I've got a map of my tiny fish and chips journey. On the map click on the floating marks to view the associated photos.
Flickr provides access to the geo data associated with your photos via GeoRSS feeds. And Google Maps displays
GeoRSS feed content on their maps allowing you even to edit the data but doesn't appear to let you easily export the GeoRSS. Live Maps does the inverse, allowing you to create and export GeoRSS data but not import it. I'd like both please. Oh well.
map photo personal fish-and-chips juanita-beach 2008 Mar 5, 1:33Bug tracking database for IE8 Beta1.
ie ie8 microsoft bug 2008 Feb 11, 7:39FTA: "This is an experiment for the White Glove Tracking project, made with Java and processing. Source: Engine.java, DataFrame.java all: giantglove.zip."
video java humor white-glove-tracking micheal-jackson via:kris.kowal 2008 Feb 11, 4:27Google's adminstrative red tape destroys a person's online identity. There is a happy ending to this story... but it could happen TO YOU!
gmail data backup identity google web online article