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Some cranky readers didn’t like the political tone of last week’s SGOTW. These crybabies probably need to have the crusts cut off their peanut butter sandwiches. So this week I’m going to SUPPORT OUR TROOPS and just get on with your noise news.

There is nothing quite like finding your own personal “better half.” Whirlwind sagas and sex without strings may be the stuff of Harlequin novels, but for me, an over 30-er who knows better, romance is a dish best served drama free. Communication, comfort and openness are quite sexy and satisfying.

When Steven Carrol of The Next Web admitted to using a content generation service known as Datapresser, reportedly after seeing it used by an unnamed author at TechCrunch, he seemed to indicate that it was the future of mainstream blog publishing.

With the American economy in the toilet, our government is chomping at the bit ready with a dubious bailout that will flush away our tax dollars to save the greedy capitalist pigdogs down on Wall Street.

I mean, the secret’s out, right? We know that rubbing alcohol, which burns when it’s put on a cut, is no longer necessary- and hasn’t been necessary probably since the early days of the 20th century- to use when trying to clean a scraped knee.

ESPer2008 conference has been held with 100+ attendees in Shinagawa, Tokyo at 14th September 2008. ESPer is a conference held by alumni of the Mitoh software grant (Exploratory Software Project) (in English). The Mitoh is a grant by Japanese government which is given to individual software developers.

Most of the debate about content reuse has focused on copying. Whether it is Creative Commons licenses allowing some copying, spammers scraping content en masse, plagiarists copying works without attribution or aggregators copying content questionably, most of the talk has centered around traditional copy/paste reuse.

Links for 2008-09-16 September 16, 2008 at 10:05 pm Build a Web Page Monitor with Google Docs : incredible. the GDocs spreadsheet supports getting a remote URL, extraction using XPath, and RSS output, making it a pretty credible scraping platform (tags: google-docs google xpath rss feeds

Josh Homme’s favorite band, the ever-defiant and unabashedly offensive Dwarves, needs no introduction to any of you awkward overgrown boys who stood gawking and giggling in the local Sam Goody at their album covers as even more immature adolescents.

Hi, My updated version of SearchBot, finally finished during the night. SearchBot is a URL scraper and it scraped over 32,000 Wordpress blog URLs. (Normally, search engines only show 1,000 results at the most). Woot! I believe that gives us the World’s Largest List of Wordpress Blogs.