BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. When I wrote the first chapter of the book, Practical RDF I used the analogy of the blind men describing an elephant to describe how people see RDF. With the original fable, each blind man would feel a different part of the elephant and make a decision about what the elephant looked […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In 1996, the director Masayuki Suo wrote and directed a quiet little movie called Shall We Dansu (Dance). In 2004, an Americanized version was filmed, this time directed by Peter Chelsom. I watched both recently: the American version first, then the original. I liked both movies; the stories are similar in outline, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Found via Blogebrity a debate between Anil Dash and Catarina Fake in regards to Flickr’s new interestingness concept. Interestingness is a variation on online popularity, except that rather than links it’s based on an equation of number of comments, number of visitors, and number of times a photo has been listed as someone’s favorite. When you search on […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I called Amtrak to ask about the mysterious extra hour in the schedule, due to Daylight Savings Time ending, and the very nice lady I talked to said that the train actually does stop around 2 in the morning, and waits for time to catch up. So at 2 in […]
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