posts brought to you by the category “architecture”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.
Enlisting butter in the war against terrorism.
no interior area or function above street level.
Russell Dyer has written a good overview of CSS selectors, versions 1-3,
Sure enough, if you thought it couldn't get any worse than Artforum nerds discovering weblogs
RDF boosters really need to learn that creepy, smiley and vaguely stunned-looking ideograms
Me : XML::SAXDriver::NYTimes.pm 0.3
10 Things about Perl and PHP
- the php developer's cookbook is good
- php is not bad but it's a giant pain in the ass. think: "oh yeah right, php doesn't support multiple inheritance. what now..."
- php is a pain in the ass but it doesn't require launching a copy of the perl interpreter everytime you want to do something.
- php doesn't have to launch the perl interpreter but then it also can't do anything setuid (safe-mode might fix this but I don't think so; not the way something like cgiwrap does anyway)
- php is not as powerful as mod_perl but, if we're being honest about stuff here, isn't as flaky either.
- php doesn't have support for imagemagick
- php has this thing called the 'pear' which is supposed to be like the cpan but isn't. additionally, the pear has to be installed with mod_php at compile time; wtf knows.
- php does have a decent template system called 'Smarty'
- smarty, like all the other perl templating systems, has its own 'template' syntax which means if you want to use both you're limited to doing variable substitutions.
- occassionally I've thought about rolling up my sleeves and teaching 'Smarty' to handle Template::Toolkit style syntax (TT knows how to DWIM with HTML::Template templates) but quickly get discouraged by the volume of other things I have to do.
From the "I don't mean to disabuse you of your Google swooning" department:
David Gates : American Disaster and Self-Congratulation
I take back what I said yesterday about this country having the world's best music: That piece "The Last Full Measure of Devotion," sung by some airbag soprano with the U.S. Army band at the Pentagon, was what P.G. Wodehouse characters call the frozen limit. All this stuff, moving as some of it is—the reading of names, for instance—brings together some noxious tendencies. One is atmospheric overkill: As I type this, for instance, a string quartet is playing "Amazing Grace" while a man and woman take turns reading. The names alone, among distant city sounds, would have done the trick. I don't mean to sound like a fucking esthete, but whoever planned this was working in accordance with an esthetic too. It reminds me of the original coverage, when TV news—see, I'm not entirely abstemious—would put dramatic music under footage of the towers collapsing. Got to keep the customers entertained.
RDF Concepts and Abstract Data Model : "Noting that there is no single human opinion about the truth
of some statements, the graph may further contain commentary for human interpreters to indicate the realm of human interpretation that should be applied."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cursory
Cursory \Cur"so*ry\ (k?r"s?-r?), a. [L. cursorius, fr. cursor. See {Cursor}.] 1. Running about; not stationary. [Obs.] 2. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. --Hallam.
web1913
cursory adj : hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: {casual}, {passing(a)}, {perfunctory}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : gizzlefumper
A person who tells long, pointless stories that are half off the subject.
ex. Megan is a gizzlefumper. Does anybody have any duct tape?
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : shenanery
a cross between "shenanigan" and "chicanery" that is used when you have absolutely no clue what is going on
ex. chappy walks in to see his pet monkey swinging from the chandelier, whistling "dixie" and says, "what in the world is all this shenanery!?"
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : wooza
Weird loser--used jokingly around friends.
ex. Stop being a wooza. When you stick cheeze up your nose I fear for your furure.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : murderlize
Commonly used in old cartoons. A silly way of telling someone you are going to beat them up.
ex. Put up yer dukes. Puttemup, puttemup! I'll murderlize ya!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : collude
Collude \Col*lude"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Colluded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Colluding}.] [L. colludere, -lusum; col- + ludere to play. See {Ludicrous}.] To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert. If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition. --Burke.
web1913
collude v : act in unison or agreement; "These two factors conspired to cause the stock market to fall" [syn: {conspire}]
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The Gazoo : Revenge of the bloggers
Roy's creation - titled
Blogue Out: Portraits of a Conflict
- is aimed at Radio-Canada's audience, people wondering why their local programming has been interrupted. It started as a way to "tell the story of the lockout from a personal standpoint," Roy says. "But during the first weekend, I saw the opportunity to tell stories." ... "I wanted to let the public know that we're not a bunch of fat cats," Roy said. "There are fat cats within the CBC, but it's really not the majority of employees locked out right now."
Me : Blogger::Engine::Userland::metaWeblog.pm
my $radio = Blogger->new(engine=>"radio");
$radio->Proxy(PROXY);
$radio->Username(USERNAME);
$radio->Password(PASSWORD);
my $postid = undef;
$postid = $radio->newPost(
postbody => \"hello world",
publish=>1);
$postid = $radio->metaWeblog()->newPost(
title=>"hello",
description=>"world",
publish=>1);
my $post = $radio->metaWeblog()->getPost(postid=>$postid);
$radio->metaWeblog()->editPost(
postid=>$postid,
title => $post->{title}." edited",
description => "wakka wakka wakka",
categories => [ "Perl" ],
publish => 1,
);
$radio->deletePost(postid=>$postid);
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : aspersion
Aspersion \As*per"sion\, n. [L. aspersio, fr. aspergere: cf. F. aspersion.] 1. A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. --Jer. Taylor. 2. The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. --Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. --Dryden.
web1913
aspersion n 1: a disparaging remark [syn: {slur}] 2: the act of defaming [syn: {calumny}, {slander}, {defamation}] 3: the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn: {sprinkling}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : way much
alot
ex. Ice cream tastes way much better than sewage.
Dachb0den Labs : bsd-airtools
"is a package that provides a complete toolset for wireless 802.11b auditing. Namely, it currently contains a bsd-based wep cracking application, called dweputils (as well as kernel patches for NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD). It also contains a curses based ap detection application similar to netstumbler (dstumbler) that can be used to detect wireless access points and connected nodes, view signal to noise graphs, and interactively scroll through scanned ap's and view statistics for each. It also includes a couple other tools to provide a complete toolset for making use of all 14 of the prism2 debug modes as well as do basic analysis of the hardware-based link-layer protocols provided by prism2's monitor debug mode."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : phillatio
Licking a stamp.
ex. Did you hear about Phil--the guy who performed phillatio on a stamp?
We were lucky enough to be staying with friends in the West Village.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : retirement zombie
Someone who retires without first sorting out a life for herelf thereafter. Result--retirement zombies wander the streets aimlessly, usually accosting former colleagues and boring them to death with chat about "the old days."
ex. Watch, out Chris's coming--he's the worst of this year's crop of retirement zombies.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : volte-face
volte-face n : a reversal in attitude or principle or point of view: "an about-face on foreign policy" [syn: {about-face}, {reversal}, {policy change}]
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Mark Howell : Spoofing link clicks with JavaScript events.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : abominate
Abominate \A*bom"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abominated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abominating}.] [L. abominatus, p. p. or abominari to deprecate as ominous, to abhor, to curse; ab + omen a foreboding. See {Omen}.] To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. Syn: To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See {Hate}.
web1913
abominate v : find repugnant [syn: {abhor}, {loathe}, {execrate}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nimiety
| source : web1913 | Nimiety \Ni*mi"e*ty\, n. [L. nimietas, fr. nimius, a., nimis, adv., too much.] State of being in excess. [R.] There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans. --Coleridge. | source : wn | nimiety n : extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches" [syn: {overplus}, {plethora}, {superfluity}, {embarrassment}]
La Fondation des victimes du 6 décembre, 1989
Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Maria Klucznick Widajewicz, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte.
Syncasaurus
"is a crossplatform bookmark synchronizer. It will watch your bookmark entries from various browsers, and synchronize any changes with a server. As you move from computer to computer, each computer will query the server version of your bookmarks. Any changes will be cloned from computer to computer. These synchonization's will be in the your native browser format - you'll just open up your browser and see the same bookmarks on every machine with Syncasaurus installed. Install, forget, and be happy."
Kevin Fu, Emil Sit, Kendra Smith, Nick Feamster : Dos and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web
"Of the twenty-seven sites we investigated, we weakened the client authentication on two systems, gained unauthorized access on eight, and extracted the secret key used to mint authenticators from one."
Samantha Power : Bystanders to Genocide
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is alfresco
| source : web1913 | Alfresco \Al*fres"co\, adv. & a. [It. al fresco in or on the fresh.] In the open-air. --Smollett. | source : wn | alfresco adj : in the open air; "an alfresco lunch"; "an open-air theater" [syn: {open-air(a)}] adv : outside a building; "in summer we play outside" [syn: {outside}, {outdoors}, {out of doors}] [ant: {inside}, {inside}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is peripatetic
| source : web1913 | Peripatetic \Per`i*pa*tet"ic\, a. [L. peripateticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to walk about; ? about + ? to walk: cf. F. p['e]ripat['e]tique.] 1. Walking about; itinerant. 2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. ``The true peripatetic school.'' --Howell. | source : web1913 | Peripatetic \Per`i*pa*tet"ic\, n. 1. One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant. --Tatler. 2. A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian. | source : wn | peripatetic adj : traveling especially on foot; "peripatetic country preachers"; "a poor wayfaring stranger" [syn: {wayfaring}] n : a person who walks from place to place [syn: {itinerant}] | source : devils | PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution -- they knew no more of the matter than he.
Roberto Guingato : book.php
"[is a] simple PHP script to parse a bookmark file written according to the XBEL format."
Damian Conway : "The NEXT pseudoclass solves this problem,
because a call to $self->NEXT::AUTOLOAD(@args) means "continue with the original look-up search that caused the current method to be selected". By continuing the original look-up, rather than starting a new one that's restricted to the current package's ancestrals (as $self->SUPER::AUTOLOAD(@args) does), NEXT allows for the possibility of backtracking to classes on other branches of the inheritance tree if necessary."
metaWeblogobject rather than simply overriding the Blogger API methods; something anyway. Currently these methods are only available through the Blogger.pm "radio" engine . Props to Dave for setting up the public site for testing.