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CalGal Right on this one:
Saturday, November 01, 2003
Dubya has proclaimed this Protection From Pornography Week. I was hoping that would mean that the war would be on hold for the next week, but, alas, he is not talking about that kind of porn.
And while I applaud any and all efforts to end the exploitation of children and to stop the explosion of uninvited nekkid body parts in my email, I really wish that the Bush administration would acknowledge that we are more likely to be harmed by his actions (and those of his cronies) than we are by pictures of a woman with really big titties.
9:17:24 PM 
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Eno lecture in SF on Nov 14. Kevin Kelly sez,
Musician/producer BRIAN ENO will be giving a rare free public lecture next week at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Friday, Nov. 14, in the Herbst Pavillion. Coffee bar opens at 7pm, lecture at 8pm. Directions to Herbst Pavillion are here.
This is not a concert. Brian Eno will be speaking about "The Long Now." His talk will be the first of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking, sponsored by The Long Now Foundation (http://www.longnow.org). Eno's talks are usually as amazing as his music...
Admission to the lectures is free (a $10 donation is welcome but NOT required). The hall holds about 700 people. For unticketed lectures like this it's a good idea to come early for a good seat. [Boing Boing Blog]
8:43:37 PM
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Spidering Hacks. The latest book in the O'Reilly Hacks series, "Spidering Hacks," (written by Kevin "Morbus Iff" Hemenway and Tara "ResearchBuzz" Calishain) is out. It's the site-scraper's bible, with 100 tips and tricks for sucking in data from the Web.
Spidering Hacks takes you to the next level in Internet data retrieval--beyond search engines--by showing you how to create spiders and bots to retrieve information from your favorite sites and data sources. You'll no longer feel constrained by the way host sites think you want to see their data presented--you'll learn how to scrape and repurpose raw data so you can view in a way that's meaningful to you.
Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll begin with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable). Next, you'll collect media files and data from databases. Then you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content. LInk (via Ben Hammersley) [Boing Boing Blog]
8:39:38 PM
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WIFLBlog nominated to BlogsCanada's Top Blog list
so the little banner with the maple leaf represents that latest honor, and the following email was what notified me of this honor, thanks BlogsCanada!
"Hi Ted,
In October, WIFLblog was nominated to BlogsCanada's Top Blogs list. The November
2003 top ten list has now been published and your site is included. Congrats!
The Top Blogs page is at http://www.blogscanada.ca/topblogs/.
Best Regards,
Jim Elve
www.blogscanada.ca"
As is appropriate you will also see Dave Pollard's How To Save The World, another Canadian Salon blog, has also been nomiated to BlogsCanada's top blog list. I must admit to stealing a number of Dave's great articles and reposting them on WIFLblog. Check Dave's blog out for yourself at:
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/
6:43:25 PM
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