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Wednesday, March 13 2002

Sightings : Scary Easter Monsters #3

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As I write this, I am listening to Desmond Tutu being interviewed

and answering questions about the elections in Zimbabwe. A listener called in and asked what Americans, given their general tunnel-vision and a growing apathy with the state of affairs, could take away from other nations experience of democracy . You could hear Bishop Tutu giggling all the while the caller spoke. When he finally replied, he paused and said : Well, if I were to be truly facetious I would suggest that you learn how to count. He then continued with a serious and considered answer.

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Tony Collen : "[H]ere's the BlogML discussion group."

Which got me thinking about DocBook again; what it can already do and what it can't do in a weblog context... 



workflow -> /article/@status







categories -> /article/articleinfo/subjectset/subject



# subjects even have a weight attribute. bonus!







issn -> /article/articleinfo/issn







via -> /article/ackno







footnotes -> /article/note
...DocBook has more ways to specify dates and authors than you'll ever care about. DocBook can head, deck and lead. DocBook has hooks up the wazoo for denoting formatting (lists, code entries, etc.) DocBook also has hooks for indexing specific words or passages which has got to be a good thing for the people trying to make life easier for Google. Problems with DocBook include : the lack of an ID attribute which make permalinks pretty hard; the inability to create nested relationships (for example, comments or footnotes each with permalinks; the lack of any sort of root level href element for a blog/article; can be time and CPU intensive to munge. Interesting... see also : W3C, Requirements for a Web Ontology

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Danny O'Brien : haiku.py

discovers "Found Haiku" ... in plain text files.

Which strikes me as being several orders of magintude more interesting than "google-it-ing" a text. Didn't someone write a bookmarklet to feed a piece of selected text to a search engine like two years ago? I think I will have to write a daily op-ed haiku widget... Mr. O'Brien has also written a tool for synching a PalmOS device with a PaperPDA device. via boing boing

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PiCoMap

"is a comprehensive program ... to create, share, and explore concept maps on their Palm OS. This program allows its users to create a center node and relate multiple nodes to create elaborate concept maps." via vacuum

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bigity-bam

Used to describe something good that happens very quickly and out of the blue. From the movie "Mall Rats".
ex. "I put a dollar into the slot machine, and Bigity-Bam. I won $100."

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

Indomitable \In*dom"i*ta*ble\, a. [L. indomitabilis; pref. in- not + domitare, intens. fr. domare to tame. See {Tame}.] Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage, animal. web1913
indomitable adj : impossible to subdue [syn: {never-say-die}, {unsubduable}] wn

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