When hobbits get athletes foot (which is common, since they always walk around barefoot), do they use LOTRimin?

Following up on my idea of using short-lived feeds to cover breaking news, as Sam Ruby points out, after a feed disappears, some aggregators don't stop trying to download them. This wouldn't cause a site that had only published a few short-lived feeds much trouble. But if a major news site started publishing short-lived feeds...
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The breaking news today about a man, possibly connected with terrorism, being shot by police in London, sparked a thought about a possible use for RSS and Atom feeds: very short-lived feeds for breaking news.

My wife heard the initial news of the London incident on the radio, and I went to CNN.com to see...
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Mac OS X users, if you have a recent copy of Toast, you have an iMovie plugin for making Video CDs. If not, MMT-EZ may be just the thing for you. It saved me a lot of trouble today.

I have an older copy of Toast that I purchased while still using MacOS 9. Until...
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Okay, so "all hail" is a little strong, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover what an enjoyable place Chuck E Cheese's can be when I attended a birthday party with my son there the other day.

The kids had a great time, of course, in the ball pit, the extensive system of tubes, and...
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Atom 1.0: "It's cooked and ready to serve. There are a couple of IETF process things to do, but this draft is essentially Atom 1.0. Now would be a good time for implementors to roll up their sleeves and go to work."

Thus Tim Bray announced the imminent completion of our work on the Atom...
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I released a new product last weekend, Tetra, that integrates with my RSS to HTML conversion script (CaRP) to put RSS newsfeeds into a DHTML (JavaScript) scroller. Tetra supports AJAX, enabling dynamic updating of the scroller's contents without requiring the webpage to be reloaded. A large number of feeds could be aggregated into one scroller,...
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A month or so ago, I loaned my lawn mower to the neighbors. They returned it with the bag full of grass. Since I don't use the bag, I just set it aside and forgot about it. Today, I was going to look for something I thought might have fallen behind the bag, and when...
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RSS feeds were originally used to point to content on websites, and did not carry anything more than a title or brief introduction to the content. It was natural to assume that syndication of feeds--republishing of them by third parties--was allowed and even desired, because it drove traffic to the publisher's website. But the way...
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(Apologies to Edgar Allen Poe)

I

Tear the envelopes, read the bills-

Stupid bills!

What a world of melancholy their advent instills!

Oh they stink, stink, stink,

In my icy grip of fright!

While the stars revolve, I think,

How the hell I'll eat and drink

With my bank balance so light;

They are slime,...
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