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Libby Miller & Martin Poulter : Easy Image Annotation for the Semantic Web

see also : Managing Digital Photographs with RDF/N3 . This is not just a draft version, but an incomplete draft version. I started it in the airport in August and don't expect to continue working on it again until November, at the earliest. But you may enjoy it even though most of the content is about why RDF/XML sucks and N3 doesn't.

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I used to think that there was no fashion faux-pas worse than the pant-skirt.

But then, on my way about town yesterday, my senses were assaulted by some guy,
doing his best I'm walking in slow motion so you can better appreciate the fluttering of my unbuttoned pirate-shirt imitation, decked out in a matching pin-striped kilt-pant outfit. I had to look away. Meanwhile, can someone please explain where this Pat Benetar meme started and tell me when it will end? I wish it weren't true but I recently had the pleasure of watching as people I respect, and care for, reminisced fondly about and then practiced their whoa-oh-oh-whoa-oh shoulder swags. So wrong. Just so oh-oh-whoa-oh-oh-whoa wrong.
 

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Jeroen Bekaert has restarted a thread about "URIrefs and granularity"

on the www-rdf-interest list. This is of value to me because it's the first time I've been able to find any kind of discussion about whether, and how, RDF plays nicely with things like XInclude. The participants are focussing on on XPointer, specifically, but I'll take what I can get at this point.

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Seventeen Short Triples About Baking Powder:




<?xml version="1.0"?>



<rdf:RDF 



  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"



  xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"



  xmlns:e="http://eatdrinkfeelgood.org#">







  <e:ingredient rdf:about =
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   <rdfs:label>ingredient</rdfs:label>







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    <e:range rdf:about =
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     <rdfs:label>between</rdfs:label>



     <e:lower>



      <e:num rdf:about = "http://example.com/number/int#4">



       <rdfs:label>5</rdfs:label>



      </e:num>



     </e:lower>



     <e:upper>



      <e:num rdf:about = "http://example.com/number/decimal#6.5">



       <rdfs:label>6.5</rdfs:label>



      </e:num>



     </e:upper>



    </e:range>



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    <e:unit rdf:about = "http://example.com/measure/unit#teaspoon">



     <rdfs:label>teaspoon</rdfs:label>



    </e:unit>



    </e:measure>







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    <e:foodstuff rdf:about =
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    <rdfs:label>baking powder</rdfs:label>



   </e:foodstuff>



  </e:item>







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That would be 5 - 6 1/2 tsp baking powder for the few remaining humans who haven't already poked their eyes out.

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Philip Gourevitch : "What if the ultimate horror of the Congo nightmare is that there is no price for ignoring it?"

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Radio Free Vestibule : I Don't Want To Go Toronto




Everywhere there are little girls in suits



Running around with black balloons



Munching on donuts made of edible oil



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With truths like these, who needs lies?

In war, it's appropriate for the media to serve as watchdogs, but you should not walk into a situation being a skeptic, he says in an interview. Reporters shouldn't be digging for dirt or even independently probing for facts, in his view. If something bad happens, it's the military's job to investigate, Long says, not the media's.

Our job is to provide the truth and provide context. He fires up his stogie. He puffs. The truth will set you free.

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From the "Talking to Canadians" department :

Sometimes these jokes, they write themselves.

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Anne Troake : Pretty Big Dig

(quicktime)

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Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood Markup Language 1.1b2

I think this is finalized for 1.1 but I'll wait until I finish the 1.1-to-xhtml stylesheet before blessing it; I will also bless the 1.0-to-1.1 stylesheet at the same time. After that I'll write a 1.1-to-indexcard-fo stylesheet and consider making version 1.2 RDF-friendly , mostly because I think directed graphs of recipes might be pretty to look at. see also : docs and changes

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Petits Propos Culinaires

This is a journal of food studies and food history that has appeared three times a year for the past twenty-one years. It was founded by Alan Davidson, author of the Oxford Companion to Food, and has recently been passed from his hands into those of Prospect Books in Devon. Issues from number 64 will be published and edited from here. The journal is A5 format and normally contains 64 or 80 pages. There are articles, notes and queries from readers, and reviews of books published in the field.

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Antoine Quint : Simple Text Wrapping [in SVG]

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : malfeasance

Malfeasance \Mal*fea"sance\, n. [F. malfaisance, fr. malfaisant injurious, doing ill; mal ill, evil + faisant doing, p. pr. of faire to do. See {Malice}, {Feasible}, and cf. {Maleficence}.] (Law) The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed. [Written also {malefeasance}.] web1913
malfeasance n : a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; "he charged them with electoral malpractices" [syn: {malpractice}] wn

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Mark Fowler : Taking an AxKit to Template::Toolkit

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : wastrel

Wastrel \Wast"rel\, n. 1. Any waste thing or substance; as: (a) Waste land or common land. [Obs.] --Carew. (b) A profligate. [Prov. Eng.] (c) A neglected child; a street Arab. [Eng.] 2. Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] web1913
wastrel n : someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn: {waster}] wn

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : turpitude

Turpitude \Tur"pi*tude\, n. [L. turpitudo, from turpis foul, base.] Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. --Shak. web1913
turpitude n : a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice: "the various turpitudes of modern society" [syn: {depravity}] wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : flooped

Stumbled.
ex. The girl with all the dishes just flooped by me because she couldn't see and tripped over the chair.

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : smackdown

Said when someone is attempting to pick up someone else.
ex. Look at Sean laying the smackdown on Sally.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : bonhomie

Bonhomie \Bon`ho*mie"\, Bonhommie \Bon`hom*mie"\, n. [F.] good nature; pleasant and easy manner. web1913
bonhomie n : a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) [syn: {affability}, {affableness}, {amiability}, {amiableness}, {geniality}] wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : cheerleading

One word: Athletes. Girls (and guys!) who lead cheers for popular American sports such as football and basketball. Tumbling, jumping, stunting, yelling--all are all involved.
ex. It's gonna suck if I don't make cheerleading this football season.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : perfunctory

Perfunctory \Per*func"to*ry\, a. [L. perfunctorius, fr. perfunctus dispatched, p. p. of perfungi to discharge, dispatch; per (see {Per}) + fungi to perform. See {Function}.] 1. Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions. --Macaulay. 2. Hence: Mechanical; indifferent; listless; careless. ``Perfunctory in his devotions.'' --Sharp. web1913
perfunctory adj 1: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: {casual}, {cursory}, {passing(a)}] 2: as a formality only; "a one-candidate pro forma election" [syn: {pro forma}] wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : rotted

Rotted is something that is plain awful. It can also be used to describe a person, place or thing.
ex. "Geez, that guy is really rotted".
see also : rotted dict-ified

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : pornobyte

a figure representing the sum total of all the world's bandwidth and computer memory devoted to depictions of hot teens, college girls, dripping wet cheerleaders, young hung farm boys, certain japanese terms for which no god-fearing human would want the translation, and exploited midgets. An exponentially expanding, vast number.
ex. "Whoa, we've got a pornobyte of data to wade through this weekend to get that report ready"

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RFC 3253 : Versioning Extensions to WebDAV

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : contravene

Contravene \Con`tra*vene"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Contravened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Contravening}.] [LL. contravenire; L. contra + venire to come: cf. F. contrevenir. See {Come}.] 1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. --Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law. Laws that place the subjects in such a state contravene the first principles of the compact of authority. --Johnson. Syn: To contradict; set aside; nullify; defeat; cross; obstruct; baffle; thwart. web1913
contravene v 1: go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afould of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules" [syn: {conflict}, {run afoul}, {infringe}] 2: deny the truth of [syn: {contradict}, {negate}] wn

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Margaret Visser : "Every burger is as self-contained, as streamlined

and as replete as a flying saucer, and just as unmistakably a child of the modern imagination." I'm pretty sure the author is talking gibberish but what a great sentence! We should all endeavour to be "as replete as flying saucers".

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Radio Crankypants #13-15

13) This would effectively turn RU into a desktop Blogger (only) application , complete with archives. 14) This is untested but... should import an entire Movable Type weblog in to Radio. 15) I was asked if I thought the MT hack, just mentioned, would work equally well for slurping a Blogger blog in the absence of a getAllPosts () method. The answer is :

No, it wouldn't. This is only a MT hack and it was a fluke involving auto-vivification of hash keys in Perl. The code was written to follow the spec.

The only way to get an entire Blogger blog using the API is fraught with danger; basically you have to get 20 recent posts (that's the upper limit), store them somewhere safe, delete them all from Blogger and start over again.

The process for importing into MT involves formatting the blog in a manner that lends itself to scraping and then you set your posts per page to something outrageous like 1000+

That said, the easiest way to import a Blogger blog into RU would be to format the templates as XML , set the page limit to <insert outrageous number> and rebuild your static files. Then you could slurp the file and parse it in Radio, saving everything to a table, like this :




local (server="yerhost.com")



local (path="/path/to/bigfile.xml")



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xmlBody = string.httpResultSplit(xmlText)







xml.compile(xmlBody,@workspace.bloggerData)




This approach is not only untested but will also require some additional processing on your part to finish populating the Radio CMS. That's the bad news. The good news is that your entire Blogger blog should now be a table in the object database and Radio/Frontier is rigged to the eyeballs for doing ODB stuff.

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No one asked, but since I'm already having a bad day

I would just like to say that Radiohead have got to be one of the worst bands to ever grace the musical landscape. Frankly, they come pretty close to giving the whole concept of music a bad name. It's like listening to the soundtrack to 37°2, le matin played at 15RPM with squeaky chalk being dragged across a blackboard in the background. A worthy successor to the loathesome drivel that The Smiths wrought on the world...

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Russell Letson : Taxonomies Put Content in Context

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While thinking about YA-Project,

I found myself silently muttering that oft-repeated phrase : I'm too busy writing code, I don't have time to make a fancy website. I didn't think I would ever hear myself say those words...

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is soi-disant

| source : web1913 | Soi-disant \Soi`-di*sant"\, a. [F.; soi one's self + disant, p. pr. of dire to say.] Self-named; self-styled. | source : web1913 | Soi-disant \Soi`-di`sant"\, a. [F.] Calling himself; self-styled; pretended; would-be.

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Me : Apache::XBEL.pm example redux

So, it only took something silly like six months but I finally got a working example of Apache::XBEL.pm online. warning: you'll want a 5.0+ browser for this, kids. One of the things I'd like to do next, I write an as_XBEL widget for Simon Kittle's Text::Outline module so you can feed any old outline document and have exciting, foofy renderings complete with breadcrumbs and unique web "pages" for each node. The example linked to here was created with a very simple Perl script (included with the package) that slurps a variety of RSS feeds and generates an XBEL document. It would be trivial to turn the script into a mod_perl handler itself and have it filter the results to Apache::XBEL and, lo, YA-aggregator is born! Or you could just use your bookmarks ...

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is interregnum

| source : web1913 | Interregnum \In`ter*reg"num\, n.; pl. {Interregnums}. [L., fr. inter between + regnum dominion, reign. See {Reign}, and cf. {Interreign}.] 1. The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor. 2. Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted. | source : wn | interregnum n : the time between two reigns, governments, etc. | source : devils | INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a warm spot on the cushion of the throne. The experiment of letting the spot grow cold has commonly been attended by most unhappy results from the zeal of many worthy persons to make it warm again. The word of the day is not really interregnum, but dictionary.com is spewing compound words again, and I came across my word, today, in the book I am reading.

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