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Robert Anton Wilson dies

2007-01-12T00:17:12Z

I mistakenly opened a spam email when I thought I was opening one
about Robert Anton Wilson's passing. The first words I saw were:

    footsteps, in the garden that I dreamed of walking in all night

I think that would have appealed to aleatoric Uncle Bob. :)

e7's pluggable text quoters in format strings

2006-11-29T05:37:00Z

I just implemented this. :)

The idea is that a format escape like %'foo's applies foo-quotation to the generated text. (%r also supports this)

Here's a REPL session:

>>> (format "<h1>%'html's</h1>" "<<>>")
   0 (format "<h1>%'html's</h1>" "<<>>")                 /dev/ttyp4:1
FormatError: unknown quoter name html at 6 "<h1>%'html's</h1>"
>>> (import strings)
>>> (import html)
>>> (setattr strings.format-quoters 'html html.escape)
#<EFunction (s) (begin (set s (replace "&" "&amp;" s)) (set s (replace "<" "&lt
;" s)) (set s (replace ">" "&gt;" s)) (set s (replace "'" "&apos;" s)) (set s (
replace "\"" "&quot;" s)) s)>
>>> (format "<h1>%'html's</h1>" "<<>>")
"<h1>&lt;&lt;&gt;&gt;</h1>"

U.S. Chief Justice Rehnquist Dead

2005-09-04T03:22:24Z

..and I just read this thing about him eating most of Sandra Day O'Connor's brain: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/37456 (via geoffcapp)