Watching President Bush's news conference right now, I couldn't help but wonder whether it was "live" or whether it is being delayed a few seconds in case he has a wardrobe malfunction, swears at Bin Laden or something.

Google's AdSense ads have started showing up in RSS feeds from a few different publishers. At present, they're just testing the concept, so not many publishers are able to participate, but it sounds like the program will be expanding soon. This will likely lead to more feeds carrying full content, rather than just summaries or...
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Macworld: Feature: Surfing with Safari, Tiger-Style discusses the new RSS and Atom handling features in Apple's Safari web browser. Among other new features, Safari 2.0 enables you to bookmark keyword searches within feeds. It sounds like this release will help raise awareness of RSS and Atom feeds, but it may not yet be feature rich...
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One needn't assume from the title of this post that I'm unhappy with Atom. For the most part, I think the specification is good. But if it were up to me, a few things would be different. That's probably true for everyone in the Working Group, and we probably all have different gripes. Here's my...
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What do you get when a programmer works at home with a small child? An homage to Slashdot, sung to the tune of the cartoon Caillou:

I'm just a karma whore

Each day I earn some more

Not quite sure what it's for

Slashdot

So many things to write

All day and every night

My...
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Summary: House of Flying Daggers is eye candy best viewed with one's brain turned off. It had potential--some interesting plot twists, entertaining martial arts action, and rich, beautiful colors throughout--but was ultimately too completely divorced from reality to even approach the level of a movie like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

WARNING: Some spoilers follow

A...
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The bookmarks file generated by Mozilla is busted. The other day, I tried to create an XHTML file to turn my bookmarks file into a CSS-powered cascading menu, but I ran into a problem: since bookmarks.html doesn't have closing tags for many of its elements, I couldn't get the CSS styles applied as desired. Mozilla--please...
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My yesterday's entry in Mental Arc about the difficulty of finding a website among a growing number of TLDs prompted me to write a pre-draft of an RFC for a generalized method of autodiscovery of information about and services provided by a website. The core idea is to have an "autodisc" folder at the root...
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Anwar got sent home tonight. Anthony didn't. Something is definitely busted. Although Bo has divided my loyalty to Anwar somewhat, I'd have to say that as a musician and a person (as far as I can tell from watching the show), Anwar is my favorite of this year.

Oh well, he may not have won...
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Everybody knows who the domain name "microsoft.com" belongs to--that 10-ton gorilla from Redmond. But what about hansen.com? That could be any of many millions of individuals. Let's take a slightly simpler example: hansens.com. That could be any one of probably hundreds of companies--some big, some small, some in one industry and some in another. Unfortunately,...
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