DeXSS -- Java program for removing JavaScript fromHTML
Dynamic web sites which allow users to enter text content containing HTML are at risk for so-called cross-site scripting attacks (Wikipedia, Securitydocs) attacks. … DeXSS uses TagSoup, an open-source HTML parser that attempts to mimic how web browsers work. TagSoup reads wild HTML and generates SAX2 events. DeXSS invokes TagSoup and follows it with a pipeline of SAX2 filters to remove HTML tags such as script and attribute values containing such scripts
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Student writes essay, arrested by police
High school senior Allen Lee sat down with his creative writing class on Monday and penned an essay that so disturbed his teacher, school administrators and police that he was charged with disorderly conduct.
Chicago Tribune — Wake up!
La chuteDenis Darzacq — A portfolio of photographs of people in mid-fall
It’s depressing to think that SOAP started just about 10 years ago and that now that everything is said and done, we built RPC again. … That realization would have gotten me down if not for the fact that something else jazzed me up an hour or so later. I was in the process of considering the alternatives when I finally understood REST. And wow, it was eye-opening.
Tim Ewald
This morning when I was taking a shower Farrell sang his first entire line of song (this was in fact his first full sentence) - Bang Bang You Shot Me Down.
James Governor, Monkchips
The Process of Research Writing
The Process of Research Writing is a web-based research writing textbook (or is that textweb?) suitable for teachers and students in research oriented composition and rhetoric classes. It’s published/maintained by me, Steven D. Krause.
Steven D. Krause — Aimed at students.
Logical FallaciesDeadpoet's Cave — A video from Rocketboom illustrating logical fallacies using recent news clips.
The point of an argument is to give reasons in support of some conclusion. An argument commits a fallacy when the reasons offered do not support the conclusion.
Stephen Downe’s guide to logical fallacies.
Really Good Umbrellas for Really Bad Weather
When and where the umbrella originated is not quite clear. What we do know is that SENZ Umbrellas does a big step forward in the evolution of umbrellas.
Core77 — Can’t get them outside of the EU right now.
Miracle Fruit: Tinkering with our Taste Buds
Miraculin, the extract of a West African fruit, is said to make sour foods taste sweet. It’s not sugary, but it’s said to trick your taste buds into misreporting the flavor of the food you’re eating. One of my students, Bill Zeller, bought some miraculin and a group of us tried it out. Here, in the interest of science, is my report.
Freedom to Tinker — Seems to have worked.
The Missing News of the Missing Methane
Two forces are at play here. One is that the huge premium in the science writing world on stories about new ideas. It was such a shock to think that methane was churning out of plants, particularly with global warming becoming such a hot topic. The science writing machine is much worse at follow-up. Does the editorial unconscious say, “Hey, we’ve already written about that. Let’s move on”? Or perhaps it would look bad to say, “Remember that story with the big headline a while back? Well never mind, looks like it may have been wrong.” But ignoring these follow-up papers does a disservice to science. Science is not about single major discoveries, but about the flow of research, of debate and hypothesis-testing.
The Loom
What happens if you drive behind a 747?YouTube — Nothing good :-)
User Generated Content, or how to enforce media hierarchies while appearing not to…
The whole concept behind “User Generated Content” as a means of describing content created by and for the People is flawed in that it simultaneously is presupposing a hierarchal difference — subjugating the “User” as a different class — as its maintaining this hierarchy by virtue of a disingenuous altruistic elevation of said content to that of Corporate under the guise of Marketing.
We like Users so much, they can replace us (but only if we control it)!
Black Rim Glasses
Unfortunate Placement of Yahoo adTodBits — You have to wonder if it isn’t on purpose.
Gore calls Tories' green plan a 'total fraud'
”I’m hearing a reduction in intensity is going to be presented to the Canadian people as a legitimate policy,” he said atthe consumer environmental show. “In my opinion, it is a complete and total fraud. It is designed to mislead the Canadian people.”
Gore also praised Canada’s best known environmentalist, David Suzuki, for confronting Environment Minister John Baird on Friday, the first day of the three-dayGreen LivingShow.
Suzuki told Baird hisplan was a disappointment and doesn’t go far enough.
CBC
Blaine Cook on Scaling TwitterPelle Braendgaard on Google Video — Video recording of Blaine Cook’s presentation on scaling Twitter/Rails. I don’t know why the Twitter developers were surprised by any of the scaling difficulties.
Bill Moyers talks with comedian Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s THE DAILY SHOW since 1999, about how faking the news can reveal more of the truth than all of the Sunday-morning talk shows put together.
Bill Moyers Journal, PBS — It’s a video, about a half hour long I suppose. Quite good.
