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Is there a better place to quickly see what people are up to in the world of mashups than ProgrammableWeb: Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix? This thing is truly amazing.

If you want to see what the beginnings of fluid information synthesis (the holy grail) looks like, check out what is really the equivalent of the open prairie in the time of homesteader. These little plots are going to grow into something quite incredible and life-altering.

Shillery that knows no bounds.

[cross-posted at drupal.org]
[thread started at civicspacelabs.com as well]

In various threads, like http://drupal.org/node/56972 and http://drupal.org/node/43712 there is very intense discussion about how to patch a problem with paths.module that causes sites with a lot of path aliases to eventually slow to a crawl as more and more paths are added.

I have one of those sites. It is a growing number of path aliases generated by path auto, and it is slowing down…. I need this fix. How do I fix it? I see various patches posted in these threads, but I also need to apply 4.6.6 for security reasons. I note that there will be no upgrade to the 4.6.x Drupal. One of the Drupal Gods (Killes? Dries?) dropped in on one of the threads briefly to point out that 4.6 is frozen. Well a lot of people are still choosing Drupal 4.6 to deploy right now, since 4.7 isn’t done and the modules haven’t nearly caught up with the core.

Apologies if this has become a non-issue since April 3rd when the last post on 56972 was made, but I don’t see a resolution, and the community as a whole should know about this problem before choosing Drupal 4.6.x if it isn’t going to be fixed. Path alias is an important component. The fact that it will eventually choke your site isn’t widely known.

Thanks

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Truly one of the great ironies of our time. Here’s the abstract of a new study on tinfoil as a cranial shield:

Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government’s invasive abilities. We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.

Not sure I’ll go all the way to the conspiracy with these guys. Sounds kind of, well, aluminium chapeau…

I suddenly realized how meaningless it is now to have a beta designation on this blog. For a while I had one because I wanted to belong. I wanted to be beta too. Now its just silly. Everyone is beta. Google started it and the herd just snapped into line like a bunch of desktop icons. I don’t want to be beta any more. So now I am my favourite Greek letter, iota.

Always ahead of the curve. Now I’ll never make it to the museum of modern betas.