What follows is a mix of trivia, notes and precious explanations provided by Grant Morrison: I collected this during the translation of Morrison’s The Filth comic book series into italian and I’m providing it here, in a per issue list, in the hope some of the readers of the series will find some interesting and/or useful info.
The Filth 1 - Us Vs Them Leggi il resto »
(questo testo è disponibile anche in italiano)
In other words: how to obtain your favorite RSS or Atom feeds and then read them when at last you have some time or it’s quiet but there’s no Internet connection.
It took me almost two months but I more or less managed to read Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Galapagos.
I borrowed it at the (very good) local public library just after the writer’s death, when they put a series of books as suggested readings. A couple of them were in the original english edition, i.e. not translated into italian.
I picked Galapagos, which is one of those I haven’t still read and, to tell the truth, I read almost entirely in the bathroom, one or two chapters at a time. I usually read during travelling but I didn’t do it that much and when I did there were overdue jobs to do like updating my website. Last year I tried to read Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park but got only so far as one third or half of the book. Leggi il resto »
Based on my two previous posts (both in italian) and the developers mailing list thread here’s a condensed list of resources available to check one’s del.icio.us bookmarks for dead urls, this time in english:
I created and put on del.icio.us a palette of web-colors corresponding to the infamous sixteen “illegal” digits comprising the AACS key. The hex(es) are grouped by six with four final zeros to even the number.
The background and how-to is in the (italian only, sorry) “del.icio.us hacking: le palette di colori” entry.
Listed in a Monkey Bites piece there are some ways to implement under Mac OS X a well-known* function of Windows: i.e. create new empty files in the OS (filesystem), not through the applications.
I’d like to add that there are other ways to do it:
a) Install OnMyCommand and then download one of the scripts, among which there is one to make new (empty) files Leggi il resto »
Nota: questo testo è disponibile anche in italiano
In my daily dose of web-wandering I landed on a web site, The RSS cookbook, that lists and discusses a list of “10 advanced RSS tricks”.
Among these there’s a note, titled “The del.icio.us blend” where it is stated that:
“It’s easy to blend the RSS feeds for these three del.icio.us tags into one feed using Feedblendr, or alternatively you can use the del.icio.us inbox to blend the tags and then simply use the RSS feed for the entire inbox.”
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