An Excellent Hebrew article about RSS, with slight errors (RSS 1.0 isn’t a W3C recommended standard; RDF, which it is an application of, is).
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Month: April 2003
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Hspell
Hspell is a Hebrew spellchecker for Linux.
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The Problem with Wikis
James A. Robertson tries to explain “the problem with Wikis”:http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3228889836
bq. People like rich client software. People tend to not like basic editing tools – which is what Wikis use. Combine a Wiki with decent posting tools, and I bet you would see more collaboration.
I just had to do this entry with “MT-Textile”:http://www.bradchoate.com/past/mttextile.php markup, obviously. :-)
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Yum, Unicode!
Tim Bray: On the Goodness of Unicode
Also, a cool Unicode Converter, which appears to be written in Javascript. I think Javascript in current browsers is going to be a good solution for handling international character data (my personal problem is mixing Hebrew and European characters).
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Peter Wyngrade
Thanks to a discussion on Barbelith I found on LinkMachineGo, I discovered that two comics characters, Mr. Six in The Invisibles and Jason Wyngrade of the Hellfire Club (Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s revised take on Mastermind, from the X-Men storyline that lead into the Dark Pheonix story), are actually based on actor Peter Wyngrade, who played a supervillain running a Hellfire Club in an episode of The Avengers TV series (“A Touch of Brimstone“); In that episode he turned Emma Peel into a “Queen of Sin”, with a fetish outfit (spikey collar, corset, boots) very similar to Jean Grey’s “Black Queen” identity.
However, Jason Wyngrade’s look, with the mustache and sideburns, as well as his first name, came from the character Jason King which Wyngrade played in a TV series called Department S and a later series of spin-offs. Grant Morrison’s Mister Six in The Invisibles is more simply derived directly from Jason King. Austin Powers probably owes a greater debt to Jason King than to most other sources.
