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Blather short

The Wrong Trouser Leg of Time

Charlie Stross:Can I have the real twenty-first century back now, please? I don’t want this one; it stinks and bits keep falling off it.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy short

Rational

Rational is an Allen Varney parody of Greg Egan.

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Software and Programming

Plat goes Splat

Trying out Aggreg8 (an RSS aggregator written in XUL, apparently as a school project), I discovered that Mark Pilgrim (or rather, his evil twin) has made his RSS feed particularly annoying for lowly aggregators that try to display HTML content in the feed’s description element. Aggregators like Aggreg8 and, oh, I don’t know… Radio, perhaps? Making true on this threat?

Here’s what Mark stuck in all his feed’s description elements:

<a href="http://www.ragingplatypus.com/"  
style="display:block;
position:absolute;
left:0; top:0; width:100%; height:100%;
z-index:1;
background-color:black;
background-image:
url(http://www.ragingplatypus.com/i/cam-full.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat;"></a>
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Software and Programming

Edit Live CSS

Bookmarklets for CSS is a set of bookmarklets that let you manipulate a page’s style sheets. They include an amazing “edit CSS” tool that lets you change a page’s style sheets just by typing. (via divintomark)

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Software and Programming

Tutorials (Python/Perl, STL)

A Python/Perl phrasebook By Jak Kirman (who passed away, according to the article where I found this link), and a modest STL tutorial, by same.