Some snappy explanation.
- Use URIs to identify things
- Use HTTP URIs so that people can locate and look up these things
- Provide useful information about the thing when it's looked up
- Include links to other, related things in the exposed data as a means of improving information discovery on the Web
links for 2008-09-29
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this is the one I've been hunting!!!
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Ian Paisley, at his lunatic dangerous best.
Are sane people not justfied in burning him at the stake?
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for the morning
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not read, could be bollocks
Cure for the common cold
Well, not exactly, but bear with me. About three days ago I came down with a stinker of a (man) cold. First the nose and head, managed through heaps of tissues and aspirin, then the throat, then the chest. Waking in the night with hacking cough, very unpleasant. Although I’ve been lucky and not had many colds in recent years, I’m familiar with the way these things play out with me. Usually it takes a week or so to get over the upper respiratory bits, then several weeks for the chest to clear up (often involving a course of antibiotics). This time around I expected it to drag out more – although I’ve been comparatively moderate on drink recently I’ve been smoking heavily, diet and exercise well below par.
So yesterday I tried a little experiment. Set my watch to bleep every hour, at which point I’d take a gram of vitamin C. Ok, this morning I overslept and still feel a little blurry, but that’s almost certainly due to the hefty dose of Valium I took to ensure a good night’s kip. But now my nose and throat feel near normal, and while there’s still a bit of grolly on my chest there’s none of the infected feeling.
Nobel Prize winning chemist Linus Pauling was a big advocate of vitamin C megadosing for not only the common cold but even for cancer. Although the chemical is accepted as a necessary component of diet, and is known to act as a antioxidant and general cell detoxifier, Pauling lost a lot of credibility due to his claims. But it does seem likely that many of the clinical trials that followed (and allegedly disproved) his claims were suspect, main reason being, to quote Wikipedia :
The biological halflife for vitamin C is fairly short, about 30 minutes in blood plasma, a fact which high dose advocates say that mainstream researchers have failed to take into account.
To take a cynical view, it’s hard to imagine the pharmaceutical industry stumping up decent research funding for something that might undermine the enormous sales of drugs for symptomatic treatment of the common cold.
Anyhow, at some point along the evolutionary path, humans (and a few other critters like guinea pigs) lost the ability to synthesize the stuff (with uric acid covering some of its role), almost certainly because their diet at the time was rich in fresh fruit & veg. Consider this (Wikipedia again):
An adult goat, a typical example of a vitamin C-producing animal, will manufacture more than 13,000 mg of vitamin C per day in normal health and the biosynthesis will increase “many fold under stress”.
The vitamin is remarkably non-toxic, usually when taken orally in high doses diarrhea happens before any other side effects (didn’t happen to me after the dozen+ grams I had yesterday). The LD50 (a test that’s not only morally indefensible but broken by design, IMHO, btw) dose in rats is 11.9 grams per kilogram of body weight.
To conclude, while I can only offer one little anecdote and some circumstantial info, if you find yourself with the snuffles coming on (’tis the season), high doses of Vitamin C could be worth a shot.
PS. Not ridded the cold properly – took the dogs out for a walk, one mile felt like 500.
links for 2008-09-28
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W3C Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting
Mon-Tues 20 and 21st October 2008, Cannes-Mandelieu, France
Name that tune (please!)
As I mentioned in March, there’s a little melody that’s been bugging me. It just appeared on CSI NY soundtrack, and although I wasn’t quick enough to record it direct I was able to whistle a very poor imitation (the version on CSI was whistled too). I’ve not captured the catchiness in the way it loops before you expect it, but hopefully it’s near enough for someone to recognise : Whistly tune
Bonus points if you can explain why it bugs me so.
links for 2008-09-26
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SIOC-rich RSS 1.0 feed
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"TOPLAP exists to promote the writing and modifying of rules while they are followed. This includes the writing of software while it is being executed, allowing programmers to improvise music and visuals live before an audience as well as conduct exploratory research with live source code."
(bookmarking before I unsubscribe from their list
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starter post
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"State of the Semantic Web" blog response
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"State of the Semantic Web" blog response
links for 2008-09-25
links for 2008-09-14
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not what you'd expect
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common-sense stuff, not looked yet
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Latin "it is solved by walking" – much more useful than Nietzsche's "What does not kill me, makes me stronger (apart from the limp)"
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director Chuck Jones’ rules for writing Road Runner cartoons, via http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/09/06/hi_im_a_mac_beep_beep/
(I've got the Chuck Jones book somewhere, must dig it out for a re-read) -
music ontology xslt required!
Superb Job Opening
Linked Data Developer at Talis. Where the action is, can work remotely, decent pay, people who know what you’re talking about. Friends.
I chuckled in IRC about one of the preview questions : “We want people who…have an opinion on httpRange-14”
If it helps, I have no opinion on httpRange-14 whatsoever.
Which counts as a pass for me – but then IANALogician.
Mobile Access to University Services?
Over on the Talis List blog , Ian Corns asks a question I’d also really like to hear answers to (I suspect the readership of Planet RDF may be well-informed) :
Is anyone aware of any quantitative information/reports regarding the use of mobile devices by students to access library or university services via the web?
thx
Premonition
Greetings from Amazon.co.uk,
We thought you would like to know that the following item has been sent
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Your order #202-5001539-3695565 (received June 18,2008)
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Not sure if I dare listen to it now…
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