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RDF

Browser Dux or Deus or Duck?

In comments Dylan writes about having a visual RDF browser, …it would seem that a RDF Browser would be useful in traversing different distributed data as you follow connections and learn new information.. Danny Ayers also responded with: If I have your Poet Vocabulary plugin for my browser, whenever I encounter material containing appropriate terms from that vocab […]

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outdoors People Photography Places

Fighting Failure

All indications say that the fall colors this year will be muted compared to last year. I can see this already when I go out for a walk — too many leaves just dying without that final burst of color, falling to the ground as damp, dark shapeless lumps. But it’s still a bit early […]

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Connecting Diversity Political

An actual conversation

Recovered from the Wayback Machine from today, played back from memory “So, who are you voting for? Kerry or Bush?” “I’m going to write in McCain.” “Why? That’s throwing your vote away.” “I don’t really care for either Bush or Kerry.” “But McCain’s not running, that will throw your vote away.” “I like McCain. I […]

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RDF

And why would you want to?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Danny Ayers points to Leo who says that A generic RDF browser is not possible. He further clarifies his statement that you would need a stylesheet to render the data correctly. And this means you would, according to him, need a separate stylesheet for every schema. Danny disagrees partially, saying: From a random snippet […]

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Critters Just Shelley outdoors Photography

On a wing and a prayer

Someday I’m either going to get shot for trespassing or hit a deer in the dark. The drive to the wildlife refuge was longer than I expected, and cloud cover cut into the afternoon light. By the time I pulled in, it was too dark and too gray to get any pictures. I did explore […]