Bill Adler : "Disgusted as I am with two-party politics,
I thought it was crucially important to support Nader, who has long been a hero of mine and who represents a soul-stirring alternative to the big-money candidates. It was very gratifying to reach out to some of my musician pals and discover that they felt the same way. These recordings put some modern beats to the best of Ralph in bite-sized pieces. I thought he could use the rhythm." via
robot wisdomAnne Charlton & Clive Bates : "We argue that the mobile phone is an effective competitor to cigarettes
in the market for products that offer teenagers adult style, individuality, sociability, rebellion, peer group bonding, and adult aspiration. ... To explain the link with declining teenage smoking, mobile phones are particularly important as they consume teenagers' available cash, especially the pay-as-you-go cards. If some teenagers cannot afford to smoke and pay for a mobile phone satisfies the same needs as smoking, they may decide not to smoke."
Salon : The gleeful contrarian
"Now Dutton [ publisher of
Arts & Letters Daily, the weblog we'd all like to be ] has struck again, founding the online publishing house Cybereditions, dedicated to making available worthwhile scholarly books that had fallen out of print. Cybereditions offers them up as e-books, HTML downloads and print-on-demand paperbacks."
XML-DBMS
"is [Perl/Java] middleware for transferring data between XML documents and relational databases. It views the XML document as a tree of data-specific objects in which element types are generally viewed as classes and attributes and PCDATA as properties of those classes. It then uses an object-relational mapping to map these objects to the database. An XML-based mapping language is used to define the view and map it to the database." )
Blair Zajac : WebFS::FileCopy.pm
"provides some simple routines to read, move, copy, and delete files as references by string URLs, URI objects or URIs embedded in HTTP::Reqeust or LWP::Request objects."
NewsDaemon
is the [PHP] code that run
daily.daemonnews.org and has been just been open sourced by it's authors. see also :
Über phpCMS "Meanwhile my homepage assumes a size, with which modifications at the layout become difficult. For this reason I decided to write a content management system." [babelfish]