RasterWeb!

The RGLN, or “Race/Gender Linking Network” is a way to annotate links so that you (and your software) can easily tell if a link is going to a white male, or black female, or whatever race/gender you may be. These things are important you know!

Where you would once type:

<a href="http://somewhiteguy.com/">White Male</a>

You will now use:

<a href="http://somewhiteguy.com/" rel="white male">White Guy Blogger</a>

And of course:

<a href=”http://someblackwoman.com/" rel="black female">Black Woman Blogger</a>

I hope that’s clear. In the coming months we will release software to allow you to easily block the opinions of the groups you wish to ignore. We’re also working on a toolbar to alter the content coming from the people of whatever race/gender you disagree with. That should make everyone quite happy, or amused, or annoyed. I’m not sure which.

(Disclaimer: I am white, and I am male, but I didn’t really choose either of those things, it just sort of happened…)

The newest pages on my personal wiki are entitled “Meal Plan” and “Grocery List” which I’m pretty sure propels me into some sort of weird Wiki Geek status where almost everything is put into a wiki.

I used to keep the shopping list on the Palm, but, I mean, it’s just not accessible from any browser anywhere on the planet! What would I do when confronted with a strange computer, nothing but a net connection, and the realization that I really need to purchase olive oil?

I’ve written before about an idea I had for an md5sum differ and I even implemented it and called it the md5checker.

Well, I can’t just leave old MD5 alone can I?

Our most recent use works like this: A script that processes hundreds of files in a loop first does an md5hash on the whole file as a string, and saves the result, and then it does all of it’s processing (which involves a whole lot of regular expression magic) and then at the end, before it writes the string to disk as a file, once again does an md5hash on it again, and if it hasn’t change, it doesn’t bother writing out a new file.

After processing it’s simple to see how effective the script is after each run, and how many files are affected. Amazing, huh?

(This post is brought to you by the letters M and D and the number 5.)

(PS, Perl r001z!)

Those guys are Yahoo! are cool. Not only are the creating interesting web services, they’re asking for suggestions and implementing them! (Are you listening Google?)

We asked for a way to use latitude and longitude with Local Search, and now we can. (Time to see what else I can do with Yahoo’s new toys… )

Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about the fun to be had with Google’s maps, but it might be time to hack at that Geo Plugin again…

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is pretty funny. I mean, it’s a serious story and everything, but this weekend while I was working on a project which required visual attention, I played the LOTR: TTT DVD with the audio commentary by the cast, and while Elijah and Sean tend to make these deep introspective comments, Dom and Billy tend to make humorous remarks about things, all sort of true to their characters I guess…