New Scientist: ‘Collective stomach’ drives wasp society. Article describning experiments that tried to understand how wasps in a nest communicate to regulate their behaviour and organize their nest-building. Interesting but skimpy on details.
I got an email today from someone who tried to use my RSS news feed script – he was getting a PHP error which I just fixed the script to avoid. So I put my fixed code up on the site.
Then I stumbled across Rev Jim’s feedParser – wonder how it stacks up to the code I’m using, which I took from Jonah. Perhaps I should switch to using that?
Of related interest, LiveJournal is now also an RSS/Syndication Aggregator. Maybe my LJ friends will add me now, if I beg. Interestingly, the comments hint that Neil Gaiman’s blog might be syndicatable…
Read Comics in Public, a comics blog of sorts, also links to Bipolar this week.
Maariv ran an interview with talented Israeli comics artists Assaf and Tomer Hanuka (Hebrew, Registration required) last Friday (25th October, 2002), focusing on their comic (Biopolar) being mentioned the The Face. The article ends with a list of recommended alternative comics (none of which are really available in Israel) and has a link to Tomer Hanuka‘s site, which features a portfolio of his illustrations and details about the 3 issues of Bipolar published to date.
Whatever happened to Tal Liron?