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If TiVo Thinks You Are Gay …

Machines trying to predict what humans want from historical data
can sometimes give some curious results.

Amazon is the best example
on this field. I really find it creapy when I look at their front
page and find that they really know what I like the most.

This article is about TiVo
and its not so wonderfull mind reading capabilities. I speccialy
liked the fact that it thinks that: ‘If you’re not into Korean News
then you must be Chinese’.

From href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1038261936872356908,00.html">
online.wsj.com.

W3C Style Guide

Sergio is on a roll
and keeps pouring links to great readings on Web-Development and
Development in general. This one is an oldie but incredibly it
still feels very current.

From href="http://blog.portugalmail.pt/K/archive/000159.html">blog.portugalmail.pt.

Mozilla 1.2 Is out

Mozilla 1.2 as just been released.

New goodies include:

• Type Ahead Find
• Basic toolbar customization (text/icons/both)
• Support for GTK themes on Linux
• multiple tabs as startpage
• Link Prefetching
• Re-filtering and filter logging in Mail
• Palm sync for Mozilla addressbook on MS Windows
• …

(Feature list shamelessly stolen from href="http://slashdot.org/">Slashdot)

Mail re-filtering is the feature that I wanted the most as it
was the reason I was still using href="http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/">evolution as
my mail client.

See also:

• href="http://slashdot.org/articles/02/11/27/0541251.shtml?tid=154">Slashdot
  Discussion

From href="http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=2695">www.mozillazine.org.

Syndication is not publication

Mark explains why the recent movements for replacing RSS with
semantic XHTML are wrong. I think the reasons he mentions are clear
enough and only someone completely blind will continue to argue
with him IMHO I think that a standard for marking a link as the
link for that site RSS feed would be the standard that should be
proposed. Something like:

<a href=”index.rdf” class=”rssfeed”> Syndicate Me
</a>

This would help developing bookmarklets that would add the current
site to the user’s favourite rss aggregator.

Update: I’ve just been called to the attention
that href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/06/02.html#important_change_to_the_link_tag">
a standard already exists for this. A nice screenshot showing
how tools can use it is href="http://www.newzcrawler.com/images/scrshots/rssauto.gif">here.

Although it’s clear that XHTML is not the answer for syndication
I would really like to see some XHTML standards arise. For
instance, one that would provide a standard for constructing web
pages, into which compliant CSS could be applied without any
changes. That would allow web designers and web developers an
easier way to cooperate.

From href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/11/26.html#syndication_is_not_publication">
diveintomark.org.

Bag End 2

Build your own Hobbit Hole. All the plans are there. Now I just
have to find some href="http://www.hansonconcreteproducts.com/elliptical.asp">Large
Pre-Formed Concrete Pipes and a hill where to build it.

From href="http://www.stormbear.com/bagend2/">www.stormbear.com.