January 2008
RFC 4287 - The Atom Syndication Format →
This document specifies Atom, an XML-based Web content and metadata syndication format.
Fail. Fail. Fail... →
The Fail Blog: This is a site for sharing all things that FAIL with the world. Warning: Some pictures are more cruel than others. (Via Reddit.)
HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 →
“The HTML 5 draft reflects an effort, started in 2004, to study contemporary HTML implementations and deployed content.”
Hedge Adjustment →
Hedge Adjustment Originally uploaded by Damian Cugley.
Jeremy has already been hacking bits off the leylandii that loom over the end of our garden for the last week or so.. On Sunday we also turned the compost and marvelled at how many of the compostable bags were still recognisable.
The RPM Challenge →
“The RPM challenge is simple: record an album in 29 days, just because you can. That’s 10 songs or 35 minutes of original material recorded during the month of February. Go ahead … put it to tape.”
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emergency-CAPv1.1-Corrected_DOM.pdf... →
Specification of the Common Alerting Protocol, whoch hilariously abbreviates to CAP. Apparently it did not occur to the designers that the word “cap” might already have a meaning.
Canadian prof offers eight-point copyright reform... →
In a less heated environment, all of the proposals would seem to be quite temperate. But to content owners demanding higher damages, lengthier copyrights, and more anti-circumvention requirements, Geist’s proposals may seem a radical redirection.
Apostrophe Poster (Bob the Angry Flower) →
A cartoon flower instructs us on how to use apostrophes correctly.
Rat-eating plant discovered in Cape York - ABC... →
Pitcher plants, otherwise known as flesh-eating plants, grow throughout Cape York but now a new, larger species that grows like a vine has been discovered.
Teen takes on donor's immune system - ABC News... →
‘Demi-Lee Brennan had a liver transplant after she suffered liver failure. Nine months later, doctors at Sydney’s Westmead Children’s Hospital were amazed to find the teenager’s blood group had changed to the donor’s blood type.’
VectorDesigner →
VectorDesigner is a new vector drawing application designed to be simple, intuitive and powerful to use.
Sony : DSC-H3 (DSCH3) "superzoom" camera →
A camera with a wider zoom range than a compact, but more compact than an D-SLR
Post-Macworld round-up: MacBook Air... →
The concepts it sets out to prove are the clearest ones implied by its name: that data is weightless, that storage is wireless (a concept augmented by the parallel release of Appleâs new hard drive-equipped wireless router dubbed Time Capsule), and that
Government told to ditch biofuel targets (The... →
The Environmental Audit Committee, made up of UK MPs, said today the EU and UK governments were wrong to impose targets to encourage more use of biofuels, and that the use of such fuel could lead to environmental damage in the UK and elsewhere.
First Snowdrop of 2008 →
First Snowdrop of 2008 Originally uploaded by Damian Cugley.
Jeremy can bouncing in this morning to report that our front garden is sporting its first snowdrop of the new year. This has reminded me to get working on my backlog of photos, so click through to see snapshots from last night’s last Giant Jenga game at Richard’s birthday party, and a few flood pictures.
Tentacle Arm →
‘While we’ve been using our primitive, apelike arms like a bunch of jerks, the squids of the world have been clutching their prey with their superior tentacles and laughing at us. Until now!’ (Via jwz)
RFC 5023 The Atom Publishing Protocol →
(HTMLized version.) An application-level protocol for publishing and editing Web resources. The protocol is based on HTTP transfer of Atom-formatted representations.
xkcd makes accidentally makes Died in a Blogging... →
(comic) XKCD observes that, accoridng to Google, you are more likely to have “died in a kinitting accident” than “died in a blogging accident” (and noone has died in a haberdashery accident). But the act of making this observation changes the results!
RFC 4180 Common Format and MIME Type for... →
Registers the associated MIME type “text/csv” with optional parameters “charset” and “header” (which is “present” or “absent”).
atompubbase - An AtomPub Python Client Library... →
A framework for creating Aptompub servers in the Python language.
PEP 333 -- Python Web Server Gateway Interface... →
This document specifies a proposed standard interface between web servers and Python web applications or frameworks, to promote web application portability across a variety of web servers.
Desktop Web Server in .Net →
“Sometimes it is useful to run a mini-server on the same computer as your desktop application; in this note I’ll discuss this idea in the context of an application written to Microsoft’s .Net platform, since that’s what we use at work.”
RFC 3023 XML Media Types →
Major differences from RFC 2376 are (1) the addition of text/xml-external-parsed-entity, application/xml-external-parsed-entity, and application/xml-dtd, (2) the ‘+xml’ suffix convention, and (3) the discussion of “utf-16le” and “utf-16be”.
RFC 5023 The Atom Publishing Protocol →
Application-level protocol for publishing and editing Web resources. The protocol is based on HTTP transfer of Atom-formatted representations.
Xerox has a New Logo →
(via Daring Fireball) The new ball symbol looks an awful lot like the symbol used for error messages in Microsoft Windows:
Soviet icon surprises polar scientists →
Scientists trekking across a little visited part of Antarctica have discovered a bizarre relic of the Soviet Union is dominating the South Pole of Inaccessibility.
Bad COPP No Netflix (Davis Freeberg’s Digital... →
This sounds precisely like the warnings I was hearing about Vista before it launched: upgrading his monitor causes the Microsoft Vista DRM agent COPP to refuse to play movies unless he “resets” the DRM on all his files, in effect junking all his purchased
GrabFS: The Screenshot File System →
Folders represent running applications and image files represent instant screenshots (“grabs”) of the applications’ windows. You simply copy a file or just open it in place, and you have a screenshot. Open it again, and you have a new screenshot!