OK this is old news, but pretty cool so I’m happy to write it up belatedly.
I just logged into MSN chat, and was greeted by Mario Menti’s IM bot, which provides a text-chat UI for navigating the BBC’s news feeds from their Persian service. I’m pasting the output here, hoping it’ll display reasonably. I can’t [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Zoolander test
OK, well this only works in France…
From Joost : Zoolander
Le celebre mannequin Derek zoolander (Ben Stiller) a toutes les chances de recevoir pour la quatrieme fois consecutive le trophee “Top-Model de l’annee”. Mais rien ne se passe comme prevu et Zoolander, effondre, voit son prix lui echapper au profit d’un jeune “hippie”, Hansel (Ow…
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An OpenID roster
I recently added OpenID support to my Wordpress blog installation, and asked folks to test it out by leaving OpenID-authenticated comments. Seems to be working OK. I had a couple of issues with over-zealous spam filters, and people have reported a few glitches with specific providers (see comments for detail). OpenID doesn’t remove the [...]
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Scareplane
“He looked so mean, the way he was looking at everyone,†Robbins said. “It was very frightening, like something out of a movie.†[...]
[as the plane prepares to take off]
Hanging Lady: Nervous?
Ted Striker: Yes.
Hanging Lady: First time?
Ted Striker: No, I’ve been nervous lots of times.
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OpenID plugin for Wordpress
I’ve just installed Alan J Castonguay’s Wordpress OpenID plugin on my blog, part of a cleanup that included nuking 11000+ comments in the moderation queue using the Spam Karma 2 plugin. Apologies if I zapped any real comments too. There are a few left, at least!
The OpenID thing appears to “just work”. By which I [...]
Posted in FOAF, General, RDF, SPARQL, Semantic Web, Technology 31 Comments
Flickr’d
Just renewed my Flickr-Pro account for 2 years, ensuring an irregular supply of pigeon, fish and other misc depictions.
I wasn’t 100% happy with the wording of their terms though.
To participate in Flickr pro, you must have a valid Yahoo! ID and, solely if you have not received a free offer or gift for [...]
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