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Comics

Comics of the Seventies

Two good general fan-sites for silver-age (up to 70s-80s) superhero comics: Quarter Bin and Unca Cheeks.

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Oddities short

NT Shock-horror: JC gay mage, says prof

The Strange Case of the Secret Gospel according to Mark

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Software and Programming

My article on RSS is at PCPLus

My article on RSS (Hebrew) has been published by PC PLUS magazine and can be read online at their site.

The first comment posted on the article was Why doesn’t the article tell me where I can download RSS from?

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Oddities

Turkish Supermen?

Looking for material about the Italian Three Supermen movie series (acrobatic musclemen in bullet-proof red costumes running around conducting various hi-jinks) I came across an article about Turkish Superhero movies. Gosh.

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Software and Programming

Is XML-RPC i18n-friendly?

Ben Trott says that XML-RPC is just ascii, while Fredrik Lundh says it isn’t. So who is right? I guess that depends on the implementation.

This is posted through Zempt (using Eric Kidd’s XML-RPC library) to Movable Type (using Perl’s Soap-Lite module). Can it have international characters?

Answer: not quite. Something in the pipeline (either the Zempt text box or Eric Kidd’s library) treats the text as 8-bit Hebrew. However, The standard has been updated.

Also, Fredrik Lundh has written an unofficial best-practices in XML-RPC document.