The Internet has a great future behind it… –Jon Crowcroft
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You know how the Iraq War solved 9/11? That’s how RSS 2.0 solved syndication. As you can see above, dates in RSS 2.0 are mistakenly formatted according to RFC 822, a standard created in the early months of the Reagan Administration. I’ll make this mistake livable by writing some functions to turn RFC 822 dates into date strings that XSLT can understand.
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I Am Making a Difference
Rather than purchasing goods made by overseas laborers—who are often forced to work in unsafe conditions for low wages—I have kidnapped and enslaved a group of neighborhood children and chained them to a bench in my garage, where they make my clothes and build my gadgets. ¶ I carpool or ride my bike to Klan rallies. … ¶ I avoid wasteful, ecologically unsound packaging by stealing. ¶ That barbecue sizzle? Locally raised (ten miles from home), humanely slaughtered heirloom pandas.
Click here to read more about how Paul Ford is making a difference.
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