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 |::| Monday, September 16, 2002

 |::|   10:07:51 AM 

If yesterday was a politics day, today might be a Wealth Bondage day. (Though I'm open to the case that there's not really a difference...)

WB Power Struggle.

Posted on the QT by Dick Minim

Candidia has been looking at the cost/benefit projections and wants to make us a Market Dominant Player in the CyberSex Bondage Business. "Maximizing profit and pleasure," as she puts. 

Her idea is to Top the leading Silicon Valley Libertarians, to make them kiss her Venture Capital Butt, and admit that for them the Free Market is just a Metaphor for selling yourself and everyone else on the Planet, body, mind and soul, to the highest bidder in an International Slave Ring. Freedom is a Strap-on, and she says, "These freedom loving trash talkers do love it so."

 |::| Nostalgia ain't what it...um...oh, wow, deja vu...  9:47:17 AM 

It's hard to know how to introduce the Happy Tutor. To me, he's a sort of snarky zen-master [with emphasis on...?], replacing our perception of the natural world with the perception of our human-created world -- which is the one we really live in, after all. From Wealth Bondagage:

Athletic Brand Reenactors..

Posted by The Happy Tutor

Long after the company failed, the business plan had been forgotten, and the products had long since gone out of fashion, the Reenactors got together every year to wear their athletic shoes, logo shirts, and baseball caps, to reenact the Life-Style of Morons 2003.

 |::|   8:34:59 AM 

Haven't done a geek-post in a while. From Scripting News:

The Second Open Source Content Management Conference will take place "at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, from Wednesday, 25 September to Friday, 27 September 2002."

Here are some interesting links from the program:

Bitflux

WYSIWYG, cross-platform, browser-based XML editor, said to be used in the Wyona content management system (see below). Apparently, this is built entirely in JavaScript (and, presumably, XSL). This is very much like something that I spec'd out a few months ago, but never got moving on. I was behind the curve already, of course, but it's nice to know that I wasn't insane. (NOTE: Xopus [see below] also claims to be used in Wyona, and is also cross-platform and browser-based. Is Xopus a Java version of BitFlux?)

[abstract] [BitFluxEditor.org] [BitFlux.com] [BitFlux.ch]

Xopus

WYSIWYG, cross-platform, browser-based XML editor; when I looked at this the other day, I'd swear the site page said it was used in the Wyona content management system (see below), but I don't see that now.

[abstract] [link] [Q42.NL] [Xopus.org] [Xopus Group on Yahoo]

Wyona

This must have been where I got the impression that Xopus is part of Wyona -- there's an item on the front page to the effect that Xopus2 is shipped with Wyona. This looks like a very interesting product indeed. Built around Coccoon and Apache, it seems as though it may in face be a sort of meta-CMS. From the Wyona.org site:

Wyona is an interpreter of various XMLs, not just user's data, such as for instance articles, press-releases or addresses, but also regarding functionalities, such as for instance access controlling (IML and PML resp. XACML), revision controlling (RCML) or workflow management (WFML). The concept is similar to the one of a "HTML Browser". You should be able to switch the Content Management System at any time. The network is the CMS.

Based on their documentation, they seem to support several editors, including both BitFlux and Xopus.

[Wyona] [link] [link] [link]

OpenCms

Java-based, of course, and apparently JSP-centric.

[abstract] [Alkacon Software] ["An introduction to OpenCms, Version 4.6" [pdf]] [OpenCms.org] [link]

ZOPE, Nuke

Also mentioned are the ZOPE CMF and Plone, a particular implementation thereof that seems like it's worth looking into. Xoops and PostNuke are mentioned -- PostNuke in particular will be an important thing to at least look at with regard to the upcoming August Group project.

[abstract: Plone] [abstract: Xoop, PostNuke]

OS Search Engines

This would be a good session to go to, especially since I don't really understand why you'd need a search engine if you have a CMS. Drops names of several OS search engines: SWISH-E, ht://Dig, ASPSeek, mnoGoSearch and Lucene.

[abstract]

The Red Hat CCM Content Management System

Java/JSP oriented CMS system which seems to be based on earlier, possibly proprietary products. The supporting documentation could be educations.

[abstract] [link]

Miscellaneous

Other names dropped in the program that I need to check out:

• WebDAV
• Midgard

 |::|   8:04:20 AM 

Someone at the NY Post needs lessons in english composition: "...caused a terror scare by allegedly joking ..." (Just so this is clear: If they were allgedly making jokes about terrorism, then they also allegedly caused the scare....) But what else should I expect from the Post?

For a real laugh (or a chill down your spine, or both), check out the FReep thread on this story.