I’ve just been for a walk around town, taking a few photos on the way, with the camera’s clock sync’d to that of my new GPS. I’ve not yet figured out the best tool to use (other than write my own) for hooking up the photo and location metadata. It’s easy enough to [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Infallibility
The Pope is widely held to be infallible. This caused a minor schism in the church when, in 1307, he stated “I am not the Pope.” [source: Uncyclopedia]
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Conspiracy Theory?
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t.
–Robert Benchley, Benchley’s Law of Distinction
From a recent Guardian article, “Police scrutinise extremist Islamist websites“:
Among the sites causing concern is Jihadunspun (JUS), a highly professional website which claims to present [...]
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Sample SPARQL query
PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
SELECT ?book ?title ?authorname
WHERE {
?book dc:creator ?author .
?author dc:type <http ://hoppa.com/Painters/> .
?author dc:title ?authorname .
?book dc:title ?title .
}
…works with rdf data describing some books by painters. I tested in Dave Beckett’s Redland-based online SPARQL demo. The query finds 5 results. [...]
Data syndication
There have been various developments in the last week, via Planet RDF, on the topic of data syndication using RSS/Atom.
Edd Dumbill on iTunes RSS extensions; a handy review of the extensions they’ve added to support a “podcasting” directory. See also comments from Danny.
Nearby in the Web, Yahoo! and friends are still busy with [...]
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