Yahoo Pipes:
Yahoo came out swinging a big "pipe" last week to snag back some respectability from Search Leader Rival: Google.
Yahoo Pipes is a Web-based RSS "mash-up" tool that lets you graphically connect Source Information (from one or many rss-feed places), and add a bit of logic or filters and create a "New View" of the RSS data.
They say it's a tip-of-the-hat to Unix Pipes Tools, which for anyone running any recent distro of Linux knows, is alive and well in the Linux OS.
Scripting languages can do pretty much what Yahoo Pipes does, but the Web based GUI is a pretty big deal. It was supposedly developed by Yahoo In-House, and beats Google to a pretty nice New Tool.
REAL Competition IS Good.
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The BOOBs at Network News:
When oh when did they become PEOPLE Magazine?
CNN is now the ANS Channel.
You know what the letters stand for.
One of the cool and needed things you can do with Yahoo Pipes is grab the News RSS feeds and Filter-Out any mention of ANS.
Hopefully the "NETWORKS GONE WILD!" mentality will be over real-soon-now, before any more attention-starved nymphets shave their heads in protest.
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Bernice and Hair Bobbing:
"Huh! she giggled wildly. "Scalp the selfish thing!"
Quoted from Bernice Bobs Her Hair from the book Flappers and Philosophers.
New York:Scribners.1922.
A title of a short story from high school was "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", and it was mentioned at work recently. And Not having heard that title before I decided to "Look it up".
Wikipedia has become a very good place to start, and was so in this case too. I was surprised to find that it was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the same writer that gave us the "The Great Gatsby".
Sidenote: (also found on Wikipedia).
Louise Brooks of the film silent era became synoymous with the bobbed or flapper look of the twenties.
New MC2 BLOG: "Thursdays, we saved the World." Check it out.
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