Monkinetic Weblog

As a few of my readers may have discerned, I've gotten a bit obsessed with microformats lately. Microformats are simple ways to add machine (searchengine, browser-plugin)-readable information to normal, XHTML-based web pages. They are designed to be simple so that they are easy for authors and publishers to add to their content rather than having to support separate, more verbose content formats.

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"This is my life and this is my time"...

>Stationed at South Korea's border with the North, my friend's job was to create soundscapes. By mixing sound effects loops, he created the audio illusion of an apparently endless procession of armored vehicles. To the North Koreans, who could not see what was on the other side, it sounded like an immense army was mobilizing at their border.

If you find yourself behind a firewall or filter that blocks popular podcast file servers like libsyn, try out the Feed Coralizer. The Feed Coralizer rewrites the feed, routing (mp3/m4a/m4v/wav/aiff/wma/wmv/mov/mp4/mpeg/avi/pdf) files through the Coral network.

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I've finally updated my about page, with some new information, hcard marked-up content, and (for posterity's sake) a copy of my first about page ever.

I've finally updated my about page, with some new information, hcard marked-up content, and (for posterity's sake) a copy of my first about page ever.

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I've finally updated my about page, with some new information, hcard marked-up content, and (for posterity's sake) a copy of my first about page ever.

Michael Kaply blogs about Windows Live Clipboard support for microformats in the Operator plugin for Firefox.

Based on some feedback from the trac issue, I've updated my VoteBack post and plugin.

Evan Prodromou is cleverly marking vote-links on his with Unicode symbols: ❤ and ☠.

Last night I dreamed that I got hired by The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Only they were based in Altensteig, Germany (where I worked for several years). Riiiiiight.

I've been hacking on a Wordpress implementation of VoteLinks - one that actually discovers if the incoming link contains a vote in the form of a rev attribute with one of the vote-link values: vote-for vote-abstain or vote-against.

I learned about VoteLinks from Jeremy Keith's post on 24Ways, and posted yesterday about some css+javascript VoteLink UI experiments.

In a recent 24 Ways entry, Jeremy Keith described how to Boost Your Hyperlink Power through the use of the a tag's rev attribute and the VoteLinks microformat.

for me to stop drinking soda RIGHT NOW.

Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Breyer participated in a debate sponsored by the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society. On Slate.com, Dahlia Lithwick descibes their diverging styles:

With Christmas coming up, I remembered that I had a rusty old wishlist over on Amazon. So today I pulled it out, scraped off the crud, gave it a polish and some upgrades. If you're a friend, family, or a kind stranger and want some ideas, check it out:

There's a hysterical Q&A with Sylvester Stallone on on AICN . Here's a great one:

This is repulsive: Republicans Set Obstacles for Incoming Democrats, and I'm ashamed I voted for anyone involved in this.