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Today's scriptingNews Outline

Author:Dave Winer
Posted:11/20/1999; 2:47:32 AM
Topic:Today's scriptingNews Outline
Msg #:13233
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Check this out, there's a Perl-based RSS "portal" that works like My.Netscape, allowing you to choose from a set of channels that (they feel) would interest a Perl developer. Interestingly we're on the verge of being able to do this in Manila, replacing a couple hundred lines of Perl with one line of Frontier code and a bit of "wrapper" HTML.

Here's a simple example. Bob Bierman has Scripting News and Wired on his home page. (We just got this stuff working last night.)

Doc is working on logos for Cluetrain.Com this morning. He just did eight. If you refresh this page eight times in eight minutes you should see them all. It's a slightly more subtle technique than an animated GIF, more subliminal too, I think.

Yesterday's survey about Apple was a hit at MacWEEK. Jeff Cheney writes: "The one about Jakob Nielsen made me laugh the hardest." ";->"

Python.Org: The XML Bookmark Exchange Language (XBEL).

Wired: "Once more I breathe deeply - 'Orange peel,' I report. My hosts relax in their chairs, looking immensely relieved."

The Wu-Tang Namelizer is back on the air, but they changed the algorithm. Now I'm "Half-Cut Skeleton". I prefer Likeable Warlock.

On Thursday we started 30+ new weblogs for Dan Gillmor's students at Hong Kong University. This morning I received a pointer to Seabird's Nest, which is one of those sites. I guess the experiment is working! (Dan's new Wu-Tan name is "Obsequious Hen". Arrrrgh!)

Marc Canter and Bill Gates still map to the same Wu-Tan name. "Embryonic Informer." Oy. They should go back to the old system. It was mystical and fun! This one is just stupid.

Red Herring: "Citing a security problem exposed in AOL's instant messaging software, [Microsoft] says it's calling off efforts to make its MSN Messenger client interoperable with AOL Instant Messenger." Red Herring is "Crafty Wife-Beatah".

12/24/97: "There were the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties. What will we call the decade between 2000 and 2009?"

NameTheDecade.Com.



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