Daily Archives: September 26, 2007

RSS 2.hohoho

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 26, 2007

I love stuff like this… 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 [...]

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Making a difference

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 26, 2007

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 [...]

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Irish X

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 26, 2007

It is a mistake to think that early in a fascist shift you see the profile of barbed wire against the sky. – Naomi Wolf Madame Levy posts a brilliant juxtaposition of the fatuous bleating of a tech-pop blogger with Naomi Wolf’s and Nicholas Wind’s gimlet eyed viewpoints on American democracy (and language?) under Bush.

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