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making
pretty pictures of web-page code - xavier
selection
of webgraphs from Flickr (yahoo.com).
This image is part of one of several pages on this
topic.
“Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these
websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information
on the web. Your browser's job is to render the HTML according to the specs
(most of the time, at least). You can look at the code behind any website
by selecting the "View source" tab somewhere in your browser's
menu.
“HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag
for images and so on. Since tags are nested in other tags, they are arranged
in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be represented as a graph.
I've written a little app that visualizes such a graph, and here are some
screenshots of websites that I often look at.”
We can see no discernible, technical use for this, but
it sure is pretty.
If you wish to have a particular web page calculated,
enter the page’s web address [URL] into this linked page and wait for the result to draw. [Note that you need to have
Java installed on your computer.]
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/fun0605.php#webgraph_290506
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the
moonbat left, may 1945 as recalled by Victor Hanson
“May 1, 1945 - After the debacles of February and March at Iwo Jima,
and now the ongoing quagmire on Okinawa, we are asked to accept recent losses
that are reaching 20,000 dead brave American soldiers and yet another 50,000
wounded in these near criminally incompetent campaigns euphemistically dubbed
"island hopping."
“Meanwhile, we are no closer to victory over Japan. Instead, we are
hearing of secret plans of invasion of the Japanese mainland slated for
1946 or even 1947 that may well make Okinawa seem like a cake walk and cost
us a million casualties and perhaps involve a half-century of occupation.
The extent of the current Kamikaze threat, once written off as the work
of a "bunch of dead-enders," was totally unforeseen, even though
such suicidal zealots are in the process of inflicting the worst casualties
on the U.S. Navy in its entire history.
“Worse still, our sources in the intelligence community speak of
a billion-dollar boondoggle now underway in the American southwest. This
improbable "super-weapon" (with the patently absurd name "Manhattan
Project" - in the midst of a desert no less!) promises in one fell
swoop to erase our mistakes and give us instant deliverance from our blunders
- no concern, of course, for the thousands of innocents who would be vaporized
if such a monstrous fantasy bomb were ever actually to work.”
Read on.... and on.... and on....
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And now for the latest
from Dingbat Drive, where it has long been claimed that the pictures from
the Pentagon filling station, held back for the recent Moussaoui trial, had
been censored or buried for deep and dark reasons.
“The latest pictures are the missing frames from a series taken
from two cameras at a filling station.” [Quoted from news.bbc.co.uk]
Here is a copy
of the critical frame from the security camera [first video on the link].
The alleged ’plane is a third of the way down on the right-hand side,
just in frame. The nearest wing of the aeroplane can be distingushed.
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Notes - my reading of the frame:
• black
- underside of aircraft
• white - topside of aircraft
• the ’plane is in front of the jagged dark hedge, behind
which is a white object (a building?). These can be seen in other frames.
[This is a correction, and thanks to Diane BB, who pointed out a problem.] |
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the web address for the item above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/fun0605.php#1945_170506
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the
greatest show on earth - first pre-warning
click on image for larger version
The greatest show in the world is steadily closing in. The
full route details have just been released, expanding the approximate
route shown on the map. Now it’s time to make sure you next trip to
France is close enough to the route and coincides with the dates. You know
it is the most important detail for planning your French holiday!
Meanwhile orientation starts with preparing
for the Great Day
After a record seven Tour victories, the great Armstrong has retired - though
I can hardly believe it. I keep expecting him to join on the start line. A
Tour without Armstrong, next it’ll be a Tour without the bikes.
This year the race is open and looking for a new master of the drama.
the web address for the item above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/fun0605.php#tour_de_france_160506
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teddy
bears - cruelty or adventure?
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“The gun [...] actually fires small pink teddy bears into the
air, which parachute down safely to the earth. What's it for, you
say? Why, it's a nascent Japanese wedding tradition [...] ”
[Quoted from engadget.com]
explanation from the auroran sunset
Here’s an answer that will only make sense to the Japanese and
probably not many of them at that. A
commmentor claims that bears are thrown because
This roughly translates to:
“‘Bear’ is short for ‘may they live happily
ever after’.”
The Japanese sometimes do this sort of radical abbreviation, so the
explanation is not entirely implausible. However, I
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more
teddy cruelty: super ball teddies [in Japanese]
And from the USA, another sort of cruelty to teddies:
the web address for the item above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/fun0605.php#teddies_080506
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in
his spare time, bush is a standup comedian -
the auroran sunset
For a few decades, the White House Correspondents’
Association has held an annual dinner. The sitting President is invited to
that dinner and expected to give a short speech. Their speech is supposed
to be amusing and without serious content, or at least without direct political
comment on the events of the day.
Last year, Bush let his wife Laura take over. This year,
he hired an impersonator to ‘translate’. Bush talked like Bush,
although with some twists in the content, while the clone explained what George
really wants to say. There was also mockery of Bush’s rhetorical and
pronunciation problems.
A
video of the full 15 minute routine is available
for free download at CSPAN. Here are my favourite parts:
Bush: “And I've continued to spread our agenda globally and around
the world, as well as internationally. ”
Clone: “Yes my fellow Americans, in the words of Sigmund Freud, ‘I
have a dream.’”
Bush: And one of those dreams is to eliminate barriers and I saw a wonderful
opportunity to do that when I was in China. Out on tour in the Chinese countryside
with the Chinese premier, When-He-Elbow, I looked him straight in the eye
and I said, ‘Mr.President, TEAR. DOWN. THIS. WALL.’”
related material
George and Laura in
2005
the web address for the item above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/fun0604.php#standup_bush_070506
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