- Aaron Swartz, under the iron
- Paul Graham: What You Can’t Say – it’s dated Jan 2004, but wasn’t this published way earlier last year?
- Creative Nomad Muvo2 4gb MD DOWNGRADE 😉 Step by step – take apart a $299 Muvo2, which has a 4GB MicroDrive ($499 retail)
- Asus WL330 Pocket Access Point includes Ethernet, repeater – whoa, it’s cheap too. Can’t resist (but utilitarian!) geek lust
- Asia Times: The masters of the universe – critical article about the Bilderberg club, an ultra-VIP capitalist seekrit society?
Just got an email from Tim Conner, developer of BlogApp and BlogScript (also, he has some neat AppleScript snippets as well) with a couple of string functions he uses:
(**** Example ****)
-- this example will find the word "work" in the string
-- "Bob went to work." and replace it with "the beach".
set myResult to snr("Bob went to work.", "work", "the beach")
display dialog myResult
--
(**** fast search and replace methods ****)
on snr(the_string, search_string, replace_string)
return my list_to_string((my string_to_list(the_string, search_string)), replace_string)
end snr
on list_to_string(the_list, the_delim)
my atid(the_delim)
set the_string to (every text item of the_list) as string
my atid("")
return the_string
end list_to_string
on string_to_list(the_string, the_delim)
my atid(the_delim)
set the_list to (every text item of the_string) as list
my atid("")
return the_list
end string_to_list
on atid(the_delim)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the_delim
end atid
Should come in handy next time I take the fork to the eye.
- What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model? – more great stuff at InfoDesign
- A longitudinal study of Web pages continued: a consideration of document persistence – in English: studying linkrot
- meantime: non-consensual http user tracking using caches – clever, clever
- Mapping built into latest Nokia mobile
- Aerogel Experimentation – Art Center indeustrial design student doing cool stuff at USC/JPL
- Tufte: Evidence and assumptions in cladograms (and other tree diagrams) (hey, running on ACS)
- Four’s a crowd – fascinating article on string quartet interpersonal dynamics
- Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks, via danah
- Spam sucks, however, development of advanced high-accuracy filtering has long-range implications for data organization. Notes (from MIT Spam Conf, blogged last year)
- Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
- Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
Thought: would remove human error from spam/ham classification if you sent for training based on message location (if misclassified message is in inbox, always classify as spam, if it’s in the error mailbox, always classify as ham); working on that tonight.
OK, done. Here’s a version of my script that will automatically submit as misclassified spam anything in the inbox, and misclassfied ham if its anywhere else (easier than coding the specific folder, should be just as effective). Sure it has the possibility of being slightly usafe, but less than human error for me at least. (Alternate method would be to tokenize message and find out if it’s classified as spam or not and reverse, actually not that hard since I already tokenize to strip the X-CRM-Status header)… Well, it’s late and I’m lazy. Good enough.
- CBS Cuts MoveOn, Allows White House Ads During Super Bowl
- Seth Landsman wrote an Mail.app Applescript for training SpamAssassin: Queue Spam Applescript
- Justin Frankel On AOL, Subverting The Status Quo – read this article earlier, but some of the comments are interesting
- When Word-to-XML Conversion Get Nasty
- ETCON Participant Sessions
- Jonathan Weed does some goes off on bottled water
- More web security:
- The History of Electronic Mail, by co-writer of CTSS MAIL program (1965)
- Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Spam
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During some searching today, came across a site called Fine Waters, dedicated to bottled water connoisseurs. There’s a huge database of bottled water from around the world as well as articles such as Matching Bottled Water With Food and discussing water mouthfeel. Wacky. (hooray for the internet)
I finally got around to setting up postfix, courier, procmail, getmail, and crm114 all up on my server. It was surprisingly painful considering I already had postfix and courier working. I’ve not figured out why mutt is being a pain… In any case, I’m now training CRM114. Having done only a few dozen error corrections, it’s already starting to get pretty good. Hopefully I’ll have enough volume in the next couple of weeks to really get it well trained, and then never have to worry about it again. Training involves forwarding erroneous mail back to yourself prepended with a ‘spam’ or ‘nonspam’ command and your password. Since Apple’s Mail.app doesn’t do full-source forwarding by default, I wrote to AppleScripts to automate the process (one of Apple’s included scripts gets you half-way there). They send out an email automatically as spam/nonspam (stripping the bad X-CRM114-Status line as well) and either delete or move to the inbox as appropriate. (I also have procmail set up to move the training results into its own folder) Rename the last part to whatever you want your key command to be, and put it in your ~/Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts/ folder. Lastly, I want to reiterate how much AppleScript documentation sucks total ass. The Language Guide is useless since it doesn’t have any references to basic operations (so, if Google doesn’t turn anything useful up on applescript string parsing, you’re up a creek – this stuff isn’t in the application dictionaries either…). Basically, the only way to get anything done is to dig around until you find an AppleScript that does something similar. Well, this month has just flown by. Link-dumpy: This paper documents the use of pictorial images in social network analysis. It shows that such images are critical both in helping investigators to understand network data and to communicate that understanding to others. Locative Packets – debuting @ ETCON, coming up in… 3 weeks (!!!) The Locative Media Lab is co-sponsoring a Collaborative Mapping The workshop’s aggregator will offer a REST interface with a simple Being a public exposition of tricks, Clark’s new book, Winning Modern Wars, is 200 pages long, all about the Iraq war. Yet there is only one instance in the entire book in which he gives a physical description of the death of a human being, that being a mention of some Marines in Nasiriyah who were found with bullet holes in their heads. Everywhere else, human beings are described as “targets” or “objectives” or even “high-value targets,” and their deaths are rendered with sports/ football metaphors (“going ‘downtown’ with air power,” “Red Zone” attacks, “the Big Win,” etc.) and bloodless euphemisms for words like “kill” or “assassination” (“destroy,” “decapitating strike”). Moreover, he never mentions civilian casualties without qualifying his statements–the “alleged mistakes of the bombing campaign,” the “hapless women and children reported to be victims of the bombing.” If this kind of talk sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Clark doesn’t hide it. “I’m a product of that military-industrial complex General Eisenhower warned you about,” he said with a smile a few weeks ago, during a speech at the UNH campus in Manchester. The general assumed–correctly–that the term no longer inspired revulsion in young audiences. He says it’s something else, but maybe this is what Clark means by the New American Patriotism. New faces, no memories. Fresh recruits to replace the defeatists. A new base for Big Win thinking. [this is disturbing] So you are just going to change the subject?
Yeah. If we allow the Republicans to run the campaign based on divisive
Most people do not want to traffic in hate. And this election is going … A lot of people say that maybe we don’t have much economic
Balancing the budget would help that. I mean, this president has made See The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest: The most telling polling result from the 2000 election was from a Time magazine survey that asked people if they are in the top 1 percent of earners. Nineteen percent of Americans say they are in the richest 1 percent and a further 20 percent expect to be someday. So right away you have 39 percent of Americans who thought that when Mr. Gore savaged a plan that favored the top 1 percent, he was taking a direct shot at them. blogs: bIPlog – Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog, socialfiction.org – web/tech, Napsterization – P2P/social, Orcmid’s Lair – programming/tech The #1 reason that HTML pages render incorrectly in alternate browsers is because of differences in error handling and recovery.
workshop
at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology 2004 conference in San
Diego, CA. We invite developers to join our experiment in collaborative
geoannotation by connecting their applications to the workshop
aggregation service.
RDF/XML format for geoannotations, ‘locative packets’, with, we hope,
the following aims:
secret ploys, ruses and techniques
employed by those that send many
scurrilous messages through the ether
using the mysteries of electronics and
other modern marvels to dazzle the eye,
lighten the wallet and clog the recipient.
issues — like prayer in school, gay marriage and gun control — then
we lose. The right wing will try to make a big issue of it, and they’ll
get some votes from some people who would have voted for them anyway.
to be about whether we cater to the worst in us or cater to the best in
us, and I intend to do the latter.
pressure against the Saudis. They hold billions in U.S. Treasury notes.
What if they responded by threatening to liquidate their investment in
our government? Wouldn’t we be screwed?
us much weaker than we were when we got here: $500 billion deficits as
far as the eye can see is a terribly weakening thing to the economy.
Both the Chinese and the Saudis, and others, hold enormous amounts of
T-bills. That’s a huge problem for us in an era with a declining dollar
and a huge deficit. If most Americans understood what you just said,
George Bush would be gone.