Israel rejects 'biased' resolution. Israel dismisses a UN Security Council vote calling for an end to the Ramallah siege¸ hours after nine Palestinians died in raids on Gaza. [BBC News | WORLD]

» Well golly, who'd have seen that coming?

0xDECAFBAD: I'd also like something that scans a blog entry I post for links, then investigate those links for Pingback/TrackBack availability - all to make the system even more automatic.  I'm game.  I've implemented it in Python.  And written a Perl extracter or excerpts and pinger which uses takes advantage of this.  I'll be testing it on this blog entry.  Once debugged, I'll connect this to my publishing process (though a simple cron job would do) and forget about it.  As Ben says, There is nothing inherent in TrackBack that makes it any less transparent to either of the users involved.

The previous sentence is in there just so I can get two trackback entries out of this.

[Sam Ruby]

» This is exactly how the TrackBackish server I wrote worked.  The Radio piece automatically scanned the post for links and sent pings for each of them to the server.

Why to a server?  Because that way everyone knows where to find them (and you can federate to spread the load).

The idea was that you could obtain information about pings simply by specifying patterns to match, such as

http://radio.weblogs.com/0107808/*

to see who had pinged any page on your weblog.  You could also query for just about anything.

I also had in mind a Wiki'ish syntax to add to the URL which the Radio code would strip out before publishing but would pass through to the backend server.  Something along the lines of

• *url - approve
• !url - disapprove

The server could track then track these "votes" but I hadn't got as far as thinking about what you might do with them.

 

New comment on post 413. New comments on post 413 (1 comments, previously 0) found [Comments for usernum 0107808 on server http://radiocomments.userland.com/comments]

» I'm very happy to be getting an RSS feed of comments to my weblog via CommentMonitor.

Okay a friend of mine is writing a company memo about a senior staff member leaving.  As I joke I want to suggest to her to include a Dilbert cartoon, the one where "Herb Klepford" (or some other such name) is leaving and "The Boss" thanks him for all the office supplies he's stolen over the years.

Now, assuming it was out there somewhere, how on earth would you go about searching for it?

Readers scorn 'Lawsuits in Motion' keyboard claim [The Register]

» Some good debunking information here on the history of letters patent and why they were introduced. 

Forget Mars Bars, Twinkies Now the Deep-fried Treat

His fish-and-chips restaurant was already serving up deep-fried Mars, Snickers and other chocolate bars -- treats that originated in Scotland and have since become a staple at U.S. fairgrounds -- when his general manager suggested he toss a Twinkie into the vat of oil. Just to see.

How bad are they for your health? After deep-frying, a Twinkie packs an estimated 400 calories and 28 grams of fat." [The Globe and Mail, via Boing Boing Blog]

Gloria first told us about them sometime this summer. Apparently they were a big hit at the Illinois State Fair. I've always hated Twinkies because there's no chocolate outer coating, but this I would try!

[The Shifted Librarian]

» So let's see 400 kcal and 28g fat.  Doesn't say how much of that is saturated but a good estimate is 50%.  That's comes to about 9 Weight Watchers points or about 1/3 my daily allowance, i.e. the ammount I would expect to get from a substantial daily meal.

I wouldn't eat too many of those...