This site hosts the ephemera of Sean B. Palmer and friends. There are thousands of files here, from essays on bolides to programs and more, some of the highlights of which are shown below. Or maybe you'd like to find out more about inamidst.

Software Packages

• n3proc - a Notation3 parser suite in Python, including n3pp.py, which is a Notation3 normaliser. Generates a program based on the official RDF BNF input for Notation3. Now included in both the 4Suite and rdflib RDF packages.
• Phenny - a popular IRC bot written in Python. She runs on the Freenode IRC server amongst others, and has the usual features one expects from an IRC bot, e.g. Wordnet and thesaurus lookups. She's modularly extensible, and can reload modules on the fly.
• Other Code - random utilities in Python, Bash, Javascript, and C. For example, programs to:
  • Straightforwardly remove HTML from text input (striphtml.py)
  • A version archival system that's lightweight but works (archive.sh)
  • And a hybrid lists and dicts implementation (listdict.py)
  Plus many more of those bits of unix glue that all programmers write.

Literature & Antiquarianism

• Anomalous Luminous Phenomena - an introduction to various forms of natural, but anomalous, light forms such as Will-o'-the-wisps, earth lights, earthquake lights, and St. Elmo's fire. Contains transcriptions of old materials on the subject, images, anecdotes, and theories as to what the causes of these lights may be.
• What Planet is This? - random essays on historical and linguistic matters by Sean B. Palmer. Where else could one find information on the following matters all in one place?
  • Electrophonic Sounds from Bolides
  • Virgular Quinquecostate Ogham
  • De Mirabilibus Britanniae
  What Planet is, hence, a smorgasbord of linguistics, astronomy, the paranormal, trivia, and other general antiquarian nonsense lovingly researched and presented.
• Notes About Shakespeare. The two most important resources here at the moment are the Shakespearean Chronology, which is getting quite long, and an essay about an Undiscovered Pun in King Lear.

Technology

• Atom Extensibility Framework - an alternate serialisation of RDF in XML written for the Atom syndication format, written with Ken MacLeod and Sjoerd Visscher.
• RSS 1.1 - an elegant and very cleanly specified revision of RSS 1.0 in RDF/XML. Written with Christopher Schmidt and Cody Woodard.

Services

• Change MIME Type - ever come across a page with a broken MIME type? Seeing HTML as plain text? Images not working correctly? This service allows you to correct those problems
• Reverse DNS - ever wonder what hostname a particular IP is using? This service uses the dig unix program to find out.
• more services...

But for a better view of the rest of the ephemera, including articles, essays, code, documentation, images, and services, you should try the sitemap and the directory browser.