Today would had been the 195th birthday of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
Some evolutionary biology links for your blogroll:
Read Carl Zimmer’s wonderful weblog, The Loom. Well, except when get starts talking about parasites, then I squirm.
Zimmer contributed to Berkeley’s website on evolution. A good resource, especially if you’re a teacher.
Pharyngula teaches biology at the University of [...]
I think you need at least two servers to run Moveable Type in a shared environment. Note: this is idle Sunday afternoon speculation.
Why: because the more posts you have, the more work there is to update all the static files in reaction to a change (new post, edit post, trackback, comment.) More weblogs on the [...]
Notes on the relationship between WebDAV and Atom from the Wiki.
I wanted to make a link between Tantek’s work on XFN and Jon’s experiments in adding semantic information to class attributes of markup.
XFN uses a natural attribute, rel for relationships between the the author and the link target.
Jon’s using the class attribute to add semantic information to the XHTML he stores in a database and [...]
[ via Martian Soil ] Oliver Morton, from The Economist, who wrote one of my favorite books from last year, Mapping Mars, has a weblog.
Update: title change.
Blogger does Atom, Trifecta Complete
Blogger announced support for Atom: both the format and the API.
It’s easy to turn on Atom feeds from the Blogger control panel.
So the big three of the Weblog space: Blogger, Live Journal, and Moveable Type are all supporting the format.
Feed Validator Moves to Source Forge
Same great project, now with [...]
Kip Manley’s Long story; short pier is coming back from a dead hard drive hiatus.
Hopefuly that means more of The City of Roses will be coming soon.
Mark Lentczner’s another friendly programmer denizen of Dana Street Roasting: where the coffee’s fresh and the WiFi is free. His new project is Wheat.
I was defending XSLT to Mark a couple of weeks ago at Dana street, saying that we’ve (we being the set of people who build websites) have too many templating languages (and [...]
Update: note that:
The custom style below no longer works for LJ’s other than mine.
Atom 0.3 has been deprecated.
I do not plan to fix the bug.
Thanks to Kim Slawson for letting me know about the custom style bug.
I’ve wasted a sunny afternoon working on a Atom 0.3 friends feed from Live Journal:
http://www.livejournal.com/customview.cgi?user=[username]&styleid=379504
This is not the same [...]
If you’re reading the RSS 1.0 feed of this weblog through Live Journal’s syndication service, you should switch to the Atom 0.3 feed by adding whumpxml to your friends list. This feed contains full posts instead of an excerpt.
Simon Cozens, a programmer, preacher, and translator, took Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book, documenting 10th Century CE life in the Japanese Court, and translated it as if it were written in the style of a young woman’s Live Journal:
[ From things that piss Shonagon off ] When someone gets ill and you call the exorcist - [...]
You can get you and your friends Live Journals as an Atom Feed, the next generation syndication format, using magic URLs of the form:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/[lj username]/data/atom
Yes, a site design update. Thanks to Floatutorial for the CSS help.
Update: Anita Rowland alerted me to some IE6 problems. I hope I’ve got those fixed now.
Net News Wire just updated (11:51 PST.) Sam Ruby’s comments feed was filled with spam advertising some sort of conspiracy theory site.
Watching other folk’s comments feeds for this sort of thing might be a useful way to detect attacks.
