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• Thursday, March 8, 2007 2:38:44 PM GodTube: Baby got Bible. I’m stunned. More stunned than I was all the way through Borat. Um, ‘thanks’ Rex.
• Shrug The Movie Thanks to Tyler Cowen for passing along word of Atlas Shrugged the Movie. Fun Facts from the previous link: First draft of Part 1’s (of 3 ??!!) script completed and rated 8/10 in ‘philosophical fidelity to the novel’. Angelina Jolie is interested in playing, “the greatest female character in all of literature”, Dagny Taggert. “…everybody has been waiting breathlessly
• How to Construct an RSS 2.0 Feed for Faster Parsing I’m parsing more and more RSS feeds and I’m seeing some very basic problems. While the feeds are valid, they’re obfuscated. Harder to parse - not by poor tag usage - but by misusing the content within the tags. Here’s a quick run down of the tags as documented in the RSS 2.0 Spec and my
• RSS: Rude Screen Scrapers? “I hate it when RSS scrapers steal my content” - Thord Daniel Hedengren Yes - crediting the source is polite. I make a point of linking back and crediting, and expect the same those of you that find what I write interesting. That said, spammers are inherently rude. They don’t change their ways when asked politely. If
• Forced Outage My 6+ year-old DSL modem is not longer serving faithfully. Yesterday, round dinner time, it stopped. Everything. The kind folks at Speakeasy.net are sending over a replacement, but until then…..I’m bouncing around local coffee shops for access. Ok - DSL is back, looks like it was something wrong with the line itself…but it’s hard to test