Author: mr.snow

SELECT fearful;

sqlite> SELECT ratings_1.q3,articles.title FROM articles LEFT JOIN ratings_1 ON articles.id = ratings_1.id ORDER BY ratings_1.q3 DESC LIMIT 10;

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Gallows pole.

[‘happy’, 0.2646606779829892]
[‘angry’, 0.20234941569505008]
[‘fearful’, 0.19969005601320605]
[‘sad’, 0.0]
[‘disgusted’, 0.0]
[‘surprised’, 0.0]

Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while,
Think I see my friends coming, Riding a many mile.
Friends, did you get some silver?
Did you get a little gold?
What did you bring me, my dear friends, To keep me from the Gallows Pole?
What did you bring me to keep me from the Gallows Pole?
Continue reading Gallows pole.

Basic conceptnet2.1 query

#!/usr/local/bin/python

import sys, os
reload(sys)

os.environ['CONCEPTNET'] = 'libs/conceptnet2.1'
sys.path.append('libs/')
sys.setdefaultencoding("latin1")

import ConceptNetDB
processor = ConceptNetDB.ConceptNetDB(None,'ConceptNet.ini')

phrase = sys.argv[1]
print  phrase

text = processor.nltools.guess_mood(phrase)
print text

$ python _test-mood.py
PC_524727138 <- for/IN good/JJ man/NN PC_902158629 <- of/IN party/NN PC_725835205 <- for/IN all/DT good/JJ men/NNS PC_502591577 <- of/IN the/DT party/NN [('disgusted', 0.4862797314730406), ('angry', 0.44568548377190498), ('sad', 0.25683556430435933), ('fearful', 0.2219426823049894), ('happy', 0.11441016214900629), ('surprised', 0.0)]

McLuhan

the wheel
is an extension of the foot
the book
is an extension of the eye
clothing, an extension of the skin,
electric circuitry,
an extension of
the
central
nervous
system

The Medium is The Massage, Marshall McLuhan p 31-40

As youth enters this clan world and all their senses are electrically extended and intensified, there is a corresponding amplification of their sexual sensibilities.

From “The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan�, Playboy Magazine, March 1969. © Playboy

…[I]f a new technology extends one or more of our senses outside us into the social world, then new ratios among all of our senses will occur in that particular culture… And when the sense ratios alter in any culture then what had appeared lucid before may suddenly become opaque, and what had been vague or opaque will become translucent.

Marshall McLuhan, “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, 1962.

Software combination

Current verison

Linux waikato 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 25 14:28:12 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Aug 27 2010, 20:59:12)
feedparser
pytz
paramiko
pyserial
pytwitter
PyRSS2Gen
pysqlite2
AsciiDammit
MontyLingua
xmlrpclib

First version

Python 2.3.5 (#1, Aug 19 2006, 21:31:42)

feedburner 4.1

MontyLingua 2.1

upgraded php & sqlite with macports
$ php -v
PHP 5.2.4 (cli) (built: Oct 13 2007 11:43:55)
$ sqlite3 -version
3.5.1
$ uname -a
Darwin whale.local 8.10.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386