2009 Feb 23, 10:34Lots of neat web APIs. Added to Delicious network. "Over the past year, I've been tagging interesting data I find on the web in del.icio.us. I wrote a quick python script to pull the relevant links
from my del.icio.us export and list them at the bottom of this post. Most of these datasets are related to machine learning, but there are a lot of government, finance, and search datasets as well."
api data semanticweb information reference 2009 Jan 13, 6:20"So we've progressed now from having just a Registry key entry, to having an executable, to having a randomly-named executable, to having an executable which is shuffled around a little bit on each
machine, to one that's encrypted - really more just obfuscated - to an executable that doesn't even run as an executable. It runs merely as a series of threads."
security privacy adware malware advertising ie browser scheme interview bho via:li 2008 Dec 29, 2:37"When the Hype Machine finds new songs in the blogosphere, Taggedhype looks up each track's tags on Last.fm and stores the result in Delicious. It's an elegant and useful mashup, that somehow has
managed to remain relatively undiscovered."
delicious music tag geek taggedhype via:thefangmonster podcast 2008 Dec 29, 12:06Too bad I missed these before Christmas: "Why buy a stupid Elmo when you can permanently disturb that young mind with a cute knitted plush rabbit killed with a giant carrot? Or a beautiful tiger
eating some human remains? I love these."
humor death macabre stuffed-animals toy gizmodo via:jen-johnston gift 2008 Nov 5, 12:13Sure, we're laughing now but what if...
voting politics humor onion video president voting-machine 2008 Oct 23, 11:27Informative and humorous video on the topic of printer tracking dots. "Most color laser printers and color copiers are designed to print invisible tracking codes across every single printed page of
their output. These codes reveal which machine produced a document and, in some cases, when the document was printed or copied."
humor video security privacy eff printer 2008 Sep 30, 12:11"Before he was on The Daily Show, before he was the PC in the Mac commercials, John Hodgman wondered, just like you, about the very special world of famous people. Now he explains why being one of
America's best-known minor celebrities is even better than you imagined"
john-hodgman humor article apple tv fame 2008 Sep 16, 3:57Interview with Ben Adida on RDFa: "...RDFa is ready. It has just been approved by the W3C as a Candidate Recommendation, with the specific text of the specification and a brand new Primer published
on June 20th. Y!: What can I do with RDFa? BA: You can tell the world what various components on your web page mean by marking up things like: The title of a photo Your name and contact information
The license under which you're distributing your latest MP3 The ingredients of a cooking recipe The price of an item A gene on which you recently wrote a paper ... Anything that you want to make more
machine-readable"
rdf microformats yahoo semantic interview ben-adida semanticweb via:felix42 2008 Sep 4, 6:08The new Windows ad campaign begins. I thought it was funny. I thought it'd be more directly aimed at the Mac ads and have something about Vista. I'm no ad expert though so what do I know? "The ad to
air tonight is the first of a series and is meant to be humorous, said a company spokeswoman. She would provide no additional details about the campaign." Oh, jokes! I get jokes. Thanks for the tip
company spokeswoman!
humor video advertising microsoft 2008 Sep 3, 6:15"National University of Singapore's Mixed Reality Lab is fast becoming my favorite in cutting edge (and a little wacky - okay, a lot) research. Take, for instance, this project titled Poultry
Internet, where a chicken is outfitted with a special dress that lets its owner pet it over the Internet." Johnny Cat writes: "Kudos to Gonzo for inventing this." I can't get to the actual site with
the info on the project but it is available on the Wayback Machine.
chicken humor internet virtual-reality mixed-reality 2008 Aug 27, 11:36
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is now available! Some of the new features from this release that I really enjoy are Tab Grouping, the new address-bar, and InPrivate Subscriptions.
Tab Grouping groups tabs that are opened from the same page. For example, on a Google search results page if you open the first two links the two new tabs will be grouped with the Google search
results page. If you close one of the tabs in that group focus goes to another tab in that group. Its small, but I really enjoy this feature and without knowing exactly what I wanted while using
IE7 and FF2 I knew I wanted something like this. Plus the colors for the tab groups are pretty!
The new address bar and search box makes life much easier by searching through my browsing history for whatever I'm typing in. Other things are searched besides history but since I ignore favorites
and use Delicious I mostly care about history. At any rate its one of the things that makes it impossible for me to go machines running IE7.
InPrivate Subscriptions allows you to subscribe to a feed of URLs from which IE should not download content. This is intended for avoiding sites that track you across websites and could sell or
share your personal information, but this feature could be used for anything where the goal is to avoid a set of URLs. For example, phishing, malware sites, ad blocking, etc. etc. I think there's
some interesting uses for this feature that we have yet to see.
Anyway, we're another release closer to the final IE8 and I can relax a little more.
microsoft browser technical ie8 ie 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
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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
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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"
|
-
category/@term
-
Required category name.
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category/@scheme
-
Optional IRI id'ing the categorization scheme.
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category/@label
-
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
-
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/"
|
-
subject/text()
-
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 20, 10:29Baby outfitted with Katamari hat. Cute!
cute diy videogame game geek via via:boingboing katamari crochet hat 2008 Aug 18, 4:06Norm MacDonald performs at the roast of Bob Saget. Must be viewed with context of entire roast in mind in which roasters spout profane offensive insult humor. Norm does a sort of un-roast consisting
of jokes from the back of milk cartons or cracker jack boxes. Not at all offensive. Funny conceptually and of course since its Norm MacDonald its hilarious in practice. Later described by Jim Norton:
"Watching your set, was like watching Henry Fonda pick blueberries."
norm-macdonald bob-saget roast comedy-central humor video youtube 2008 Jul 22, 1:43Just for this quote: "Since then, the Singularity has come to be an object of almost religious faith in some quarters. In The Cassini Division, Ken MacLeod has a character call it "the Rapture for
nerds," and that's just how I see it."
singularity scifi blog tor quote 2008 Jul 14, 2:15"The entourage of the Philippine president, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, has an unusual secret weapon. Her security team defends the head of the government with umbrellas. Not ordinary umbrellas, but
unbreakable fighting umbrellas."
humor video weapon security umbrella
The weekend before last Sarah and I went down to Gas Works Park in Seattle. Gas Works Park is a former Seattle Gas Light Company gasification plant now turned into a
park with the machinery kept intact and found right on the shore of Lake Union. There's a large hill right next to the plant with an embedded art installation from which you get an excellent view
of the park and the lake. Anyway a very cool place. Afer, we ate at Julia's of Wallingford where I stereotypically had the Santa Cruz
omelet. Good food, nice place, nice neighborhood.
This past weekend was Halloween weekend. On Halloween at Microsoft parents bring their kids around the office buildings and collect candy from those who
have candy in their office. See Matt's photo of one such hallway at Microsoft. The next day Sarah and I went to two birthday parties the second of which required costume. I went as House (from the
television show House) by putting on a suit jacket and carrying a cane. Sarah wore scrubs to lend cred. to my lazy costume. Oh yeah and on Sunday Sarah bought a new car.
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