Thursday, February 5, 2004

From Tobias C. Van Veen gaze / out my window - - montreal winter . gaze - - montreal in winter - - other windows to be viewed . 10 minute updates. [webcam project inspired by Gennaro De Pasquale]. [hallucinations & antics . tobias c. van Veen] 10:42:44 PM

Re: The Fab Four and Expressionist Fab Culture There's a TV show pushing a "Fab 5" catch-phrase. I'm not buying it. The Beatles came to the U.S. 40 years ago. That was a genuinely fabulous combo. Can't we get it right in 2004? The Fab 5? Spare me. I realize it's a light hearted catch-phrase, but I'm a serious kind of guy. Who's running the big media? I'm sick of this. Give me something good. The "Fab 5" are not EFC according to Mediaburn. The Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night (1964) does qualify. Totally. 9:34:49 PM

Newsletter From Stephen Wolfram Science Group February 2004 - NKSwire - News about A New Kind of Science The complete NKS book is now available online, with full text, images, 30,000+ links and more... http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline Register to ensure your participation in the NKS 2004 conference, Boston, April 23-25... http://www.wolframscience.com/nks2004 Submit an abstract or summary now for NKS 2004; the deadline is February 15... http://www.wolframscience.com/nks2004/materials.html Reserve your space for Stephen Wolfram's one-day NKS minicourse, Boston, April 22, 2004... http://www.wolframscience.com/nks2004 The 2004 NKS Summer School is June 20-July 9 at Brown University; applications due March 15... http://www.wolframscience.com/summerschool More and more publications involving NKS are appearing; see the latest bibliography... http://www.wolframscience.com/reference/bibliography.html Transcripts of recent talks by Stephen Wolfram have been posted... http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/talks/ Post your NKS questions and results to the developing NKS Forum... http://forum.wolframscience.com/ 6:49:38 PM

Notes on Radio Userland Publishing a second weblog as a Radio category. I've been experimenting with the use of RSS to publish Web content: Writing entries in Radio UserLand that are stored in an RSS-only category, using a cronjob to retrieve that RSS data every five minutes, making a few search-and-replace changes to the RSS with Perl, turning the data into an HTML file using wget and PHP, then including the file on a Web page. Radio makes it easy to route entries to several categories that are published on another site. The entries also can be collected in an additional category for an RSS feed. The process works, but I ran into three familiar obstacles with Radio's category support: Radio assumes that a category's RSS feed isn't being published elsewhere. The feed's link element has a category URL, which would send aggregator users to Workbench instead of the desired destination. Category feeds preface the feed's title element with a Radio user name ("Rogers Cadenhead: Drudge Retort" instead of "Drudge Retort"). This used to happen for the main RSS feed of Radio weblogs -- the change never was extended to categories. Category feeds use the same user name and e-mail address as the main weblog in several RSS elements, which is a less significant issue but still needed to be addressed. Though I could handle these changes with Perl, it's a Rube Goldbergian solution that would be out of reach for Radio users without shell accounts on their Web server. My father-in-law Clint Moewe is using Radio's categories feature to publish a second weblog, St. Augustine Vacationer, and he'd like to tweak the RSS feed to reflect the correct URL and webmaster e-mail address. [Workbench] 10:39:03 AM

Views of Kyoto Kyoto. The view from Kyomizuderai Kinkakuji (the Golden Pavilion) Ryoanji Zuisenin [DrDave's Blog] 7:05:06 AM