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short Software and Programming

W3C RSS feed

The W3C RSS feed makes nice use of an XML style sheet. Now, if there was a way to make something an actual link with just CSS, it would be practically a webpage…

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Blather

Explicitness is an act of violence

Esther Dyson and David Weinberger discuss the goodness of ambiguity in social contexts. The emphasis are mine this time:

ED: Ethics! Yes, it’s the most interesting question left [after technology, strategy, policy]. Without ambiguity, there is no free will.

DW: Explicitness is an act of violence. You think it’s archeological: You take something and dust it off, but in fact explicitness reduces things; it destroys. ….That’s why groups stay away from constitution writing.

ED: But they don’t stay away from constitution-writing. It’s more like moths to a flame. They can’t stop it. But they can’t handle the explicitness. It’s like pre-nuptial agreements.

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Software and Programming

Magpie RSS

Magpie RSS is another RSS parser written in PHP.

I’m fiddling around with Onyx RSS as a possible replacement for what I’m using in feed (hmm, that page needs updating too…).

Too bad no one has written a proper OPML parser in PHP I can steal. All the ones I’ve found so far are pretty ad-hoc tools.

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Software and Programming

RSS article in Hebrew

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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Hspell

Hspell is a Hebrew spellchecker for Linux.