I’ve just been listening to Chris Lydon’s show with David Remnick on boxing. I didn’t think I’d like it, but it’s actually really interesting. Some of the comments on the show blog are quite interesting to read too. Boxing is something which seems to appeal to people on a whole multitude of levels: the ‘baser’ urges as described in some of the comments, but also something similar to René Girard’s “mimesis” theory - and you could hear a secularised divine touch in the voices of some of the commentators on Lydon’s programme - the sacrificial element, the interplay between the sacred and the profane (the sacred violence, and the profanity of the public display?). It’s an interesting topic and one which I will have to think about.
Babel?
Anyone know German? If so, what’s this say?
I’ve tried Babelfish and the response isn’t particularly readable. I’ve always wanted to learn German so that I could read Kierkegaard Nietzsche, but never got around to it. Blame computers - I spend too much time learning computer languages instead of non-computer languages.
Another fan of MP3Outliner. Thanks! “;->”
Webpages have a secret beauty which a simple Java applet can reveal.
Ed Brayton has found an example of Paul Nelson lying about Keith Miller. There’s another creationist struck off the “trustworthy list”.
James has written up MP3Outliner. More thanks! (Both James and Keith like my “zany” cartoon, as well. I’ll hopefully do another cartoon if I get a good idea while out on my walk).
MP3 Outliner: Music Notebook
I’ve just released a new function for the MP3 Outliner called the “Music Notebook”. It’s taken me a little while to figure out how this works, but here’s what it does.
Everybody now gets a Music Notebook. The point of this is that it’s supposed to be very easy to add things to.
I have set up what is called a “responder”. What this does is makes it so that if you visit a specific URL it’ll do things.
With the Notebook, you can ‘bookmark’ outlines simply by clicking a link.
You can open your Notebook by choosing “Tools > opmlUtilities > MP3 Outliner > Open Notebook”
If you are putting together an outline, you can add a link to it so that people can add that outline to their notebook by going to “Tools > opmlUtilities > MP3 Outliner > Add Notebook Link”. There is also a link in the preview page which you can click or copy’n’paste.
To update, download the new opmlUtilities.root file. Then ensure that OPML Editor is quit, put the root file in to the Guest Databases/apps/Tools folder and relaunch the Editor. (Normal install instructions)
Daily Wireless has an interesting writeup of a program called Jambo. Looks very cool.
