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RDF Weblogging

RDFaification of Drupal

Don’t you love it when people take bits and pieces of different words, creating a new word that manages, somehow, to be understandable? A word like RDFaification? But the RDFa beautification of Drupal is upon us, helped along by writings such as A Roadmap for RDFa in Drupal 7, based, in part, on this previous post and discussion, […]

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Political

Easy to spot

That’s us, ole too-close-to-call Missouri. And the NY Times had a great title for an op-ed piece: Missouri Compromised? I can tell you, Missourians are not happy losing official Bellwether status. It’s all Nader’s fault.

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SVG

And now the SVG version

I borrowed Jeff Schiller’s SVG election map, and added the appropriate “rep” class to Montana, and “dem” class to North Carolina, to preserve Missouri’s pristine undecided-to-the end status. Sure is simple to modify an SVG map. Stuart Langridge’s purple map using the same basic map from Wikipedia, but shading the states based on the closeness of the […]

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Internet Media

A new nail in the video over internet coffin

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Two stories of interest this week. The first story is about the FCC’s decision to open the so called “white space” spectrum, to allow for new wireless services. This is good news for those hoping for more competition in the broadband market, and has been long anticipated by companies such […]

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Critters Places

Zoo Stories

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The St. Louis Zoo is a favorite place of mine, but the web site for the Zoo doesn’t provide all the back stories to the animals. Or at least, not as many as I would like. Happily, I spotted a story on the Amur Tiger cubs’ father, Khuntami by Dr. Jeffrey Bonner, […]