Thursday, February 01 2001

Me : "RSSBlog.pm is largely a repackaging of code originally written by Jonathon Eisenzopf for his Weblog tool. I wrote RSSBlog because I wanted to be able to use ...
Paul Kulchenko : Quick Start with SOAP::Lite
Beta Chapter : Programming Python 2.0
In the I Must Be Missing Something department : "Beware browsers with broken HTTP/1.1 - they drive ZServerSSL to 100% CPU utilisation: An exam...

Friday, February 02 2001

Paul Bausch : I would speak softly to Blogger when no one was around. "Ev and I spent a week drawing on the whiteboard and furiously coding this new thing. We used ...
OpenInteract sounds like a Perl-ified Zope "[The abstraction layer called SPOPS, for Simple Perl Object Persistence with Security,] allow...
Wired on something call venture philanthropy "We're in both worlds already. We can talk the business BS. Plus, today culture is part of the...
What is carrot-sprinkled glue and when did it "start holding families together"?

"Writers and Company" interviews Art Spiegelman, parts one and two (real audio)
So, apparently, while I've been busy geeking out, eBay invoices have become certificate[s] of artistic authenticity and the Internet, itself, is...

Andrew Odlyzko : Content is Not King "Content can be profitable. Numerous media companies are doing very well. Content can also be ...
Salon : "Gibson acknowledges that the pace of change -- and the fundamental absurdity of the change -- makes it increasingly challenging to do what...
Northern Magic : PHPWidgets I can't for the life of me find any docs, but it looks pretty cool. Assuming that the framework ...
Passively resist this, motherfucker. I don't know about this one. I can tell you two things, though. The first is that I count none of th...
The Semantic Web weirdos have posted the WordNET lexical reference as a series of RDF files. Go figure.

Honour, my arse. It's called data-mining and just-in-time niche marketing. This is The Man speaking and he is telling you that you are a numb...
Pat Schroeder : "We have a very serious issue with librarians. ... Politically, it's the toughest issue. Libraries have a wonderful image. That is why we are...
On buggy-rolling : "When your nose is less than 10 cm from the ground, at 60 or 70 km/h, the speed sensation is boosted. pedestrian are giant! 17 time higher. Dogs are monster. Paveme...

Eiten Cornfield : Themes & Variations, The Radio Documentaries of Glenn Gould (real audio)
Feed : "Joe Wenderoth's Letters to Wendy's is made up of a series of comments written over the course of a year on Wendy's customer-feedb...
EyeMail.prc Someone finally wrote the code to slurp eyemodule pictures as email attachments! Most excellent....
W3C : Common User Agent Problems "explains some common mistakes in user agents due to incorrect or incomplete implementation of...

NY Times : Workspaces - Products of a Modern Dreamscape "Like the old Good Design shows, Workspheres presents a mythology. It couples the idea of the ...
Business Week : "[S]cientists hope to create plants containing tiny biochip control devices in their cells capable of receiving and transmitting signals to a station millions of miles aw...

William Kowalski : "What kind of barbaric nation is this? Don't Canadians understand that religion and the funnies are inextricably intertwined, that yo...
Sightings : Unicorn love

I wonder how hard it would be to write an Apache::ZODB module using Inline::Python.pm and ZODB.py ...
Kalvis Apsitis : Specification of an RDF Crawler "[An RDF Crawler] is a tool which downloads interconnected fragments of RDF from the Internet ...

Toby Lester : The Reinvention of Privacy
Simson Garfinkel : The Internet on a Chip "Pervasive telemetry will create unprecedented opportunities to collect personal information. ...

Evan Williams : "Talk about collaborative journalism. It's easy to see why this is going to play a bigger and bigger role in the future of news. Rea...
Clay Shirky : Lessons from Napster Oh my god. I'm barely five minutes in to this and it's like he's redefining the entire lexicon of bu...

Andy Wardley : Apache::Template.pm "provides a simple interface to the Template Toolkit from Apache/mod_perl."

Amy Benfer : "Talking to Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez about their work is like asking them to describe the women they love most. The brothers grew up in Oxnard, Cali...

Marie-Joelle Gros : Le «Gitoyen» contre le Web commercial "Pour eux, la constitution d'un GIE «associatif» est une étape supplémentaire dans l'édificati...
Helena Echlin : Letter from Yale "Where there is noparaphrasable meaning, dissent is impossible, because there is no threshold ...
pseudodictionary.com "is the place where all of your made up words, slang, webspeak and colloquialisms become part ...
Elizabeth Hayt : Modern Art as Spectacle - That's Entertainment! "Ambitious art wants to have the same impact as Tom Ford's Gucci ads and Steven Meisel's Versa...
Object by Design : XSLT by Example "These pages ... shift the focus toward the nitty-gritty details of writing XSLT stylesheets."...

Damian Conway : "And, yes, eventually there will be a complete Perl-in-Klingon module: Lingua::tlhIngan::yIghun. The really scary part is that, based on my previous experience with Lingua::Romana::Perligata,...
Zero Devil Development : phpDOM "is a class library for creating, extending and manipulating XML documents. It is based on the...
Quer dizer que a nossa vaca ta Ben Johnson?

Jon Udell : SSL Proxing "It decrypts that traffic, so you can see it in the log window, and then re-encrypts it to the...

Laura Bush : "I hung up five times yesterday when he called to ask what was for dinner. I thought it was a wrong number when the guy kept a...
How much do you want to bet that the clever propeller-heads at Apple are beavering away on some kind of funky plasma casin...

Ron Savage : CGI::Explorer.pm "is a support module for CGI scripts. It manages a tree of data, so that the script can displa...
Paul Tchistopolskii : "Let's map the Windows 3.0 entities into Zope entities and see what is missing. Perl CGIs are like simple DOS apps, Apache mod_perl things are like t...
Secret Labs : xmlrpclib 0.9.9 "is now available. This is a development release (hopefully the last one before 1.0 final), wh...

David Ross : "Technology is not an alien landscape where we drop artists in with life support and hope that they'll find some friendly natives who will take them in. Thi...
Gone & Forgotten "is a monthly webzine dedicated to the worst, the lowest, the most ludicrous, the least memorabl...
Margot Magowan : "Pussy has so much potential, it's a shame to limit it to the immature and derisive mocking of weak boys. Let's give it a shot...
Scott Andrews : The Cross-browser DHTML API Reading Room "The idea here is to gather the toolkits together so you can pick one that best suits your task,...