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Japan may lift ban on data communications via power lines (AFP). AFP - Japan plans to launch a debate on lifting a ban on using power lines for data communications, enabling people get access to the Internet at high speed, an official said. [Yahoo! News: Technology] 11:25:24 AM

Metadata emerging in China [Edu_RSS] 11:06:13 AM

opml dreamin'. opml dreamin' I had a weird dream last night, since I'm not smoking I seem to remember more of them. It was something about outliners and I was traversing an opml file of subscriptions, looking for new podcasts and storing information in databases. Stuff I have no idea how to do, and I was actually walking up and down the nodes like a twisted fellini movie, But I awoke pretty inspired. Then in email I received this from Jerome Chan: "There should be a way I can move from one podcast application (Ipodder Lemon) to another (IpodderX) without re-entering all my feeds urls and re-downloading previously downloaded podcasts. Maybe there should be a global xml format for such purpose." Well, that's exactly what opml is great at! In fact I believe most iPodders already support import and export of opml files. If not, they should. Somehow there's more to all this opml business, I'm still not sure what or how, but I'm about to start some programming again. This time in the open source version of Frontier. It really knows opml. postscript: This is a very helpful page if you dream like I do. [Adam Curry's Weblog] 9:21:13 AM

iPodder Directory Scanner. I just finished phase one of my programming project. It picks up where my dream from last night left off. The iPodder Directory Scanner crawls through all the opml and opml files linked into the iPodder directory, reports if there are any new Pocasts and sets up everythig for the found item to be added to the What's New page as well as posted to the iPodder homepage. Still trying to figure out how to get xml.compile to follow the links to other opml files.. [Adam Curry's Weblog] 9:19:52 AM

All Aboard the Polar Express. I saw Polar Express this afternoon, and like Roger Ebert was completely floored by how good it was: The Polar Express is a movie for more than one season; it will become a perennial, shared by the generations. It has a haunting, magical quality because it has imagined its world freshly and played true to it, sidestepping all the tiresome Christmas cliches that children have inflicted on them this time of year. I haven't been as certain a film would become a Christmas classic since Ralphie shot his eye out with the Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model in A Christmas Story. Kids always talk during children's movies, but I can't recall one in which every single child in the theater talked out loud to the screen, urging the characters in suspensful moments. At one point near the end, I glanced back at the projector. Four or five children were standing up in the row behind me, inches from my face, and their hands were clasped to the seats as they watched in absolute awe. [Workbench] 9:10:25 AM

Gingerbread Computer And if you bridge the icing between the sugarplum traces, you can overcook this baby up to 500 degrees. (Thanks, John!) - lev (joeljohnson@gmail.com) [Gizmodo] 9:05:36 AM