posts brought to you by the category “art theory”
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.
I see a toilet plunger, a sunken garbage can and a pair of big-ass
Magic 8-balls.
C'est le sport municipal!
Phillipe A. Martin : Integration of WordNet 1.7 in WebKB-2
...although WordNet categories have intuitive names (English nouns
or nominal expressions), they do not have intuitive identifiers (the
WordNet API mainly uses numbers). Intuitive identifiers are mandatory
for permitting people to read, write and update knowledge statements
in text files, i.e. outside the graphical interface of a particular
tool. This is a minimal requirement for knowledge sharing/re-use and
also greatly simplifies the development of knowledge-based tools.
Hence, we designed an algorithm to create intuitive identifiers for
WordNet categories based on their names. This algorithm combines
various heuristics we learnt from many trials.
From the "Oui Are All in the Same Boat" department :
But then Canada would become a donut-shaped country.
Well, given the popularity of Tim Horton's it's only a matter of
time.
Me : Class::Phrasebook::Simple.pm 0.1
Nicole Maile : "The seduction process is what I find so interesting
as a business person."
I think Karl would look rather fetching with a Magnum P.I.
moustache, don't you?
Fishing with Saddam
Autrijus Tang : "PAR is like Java's .jar files
.par files contains a zip-compressed folder of a
typical blib/ directory, and could be put into @INC, loaded and executed
on the fly, as well as turning into stand-alone scripts or executables
(aka Perl2Exe or PerlApp)."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : grimble
1.Any movie in which, no matter how important the man's
job (stopping an assasination, saving the universe, generally
preserving life), his wife does nothing but gripe about how it's
breaking the family up and that he missed little Jimmy's birthday
again. 2. The act of a movie woman griping in this way.
ex. Sissy Spacek did nothing but grimble all the way
through the movie _JFK_.
Ryo Sode : rss2fmp.xsl
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : lolalam
Acronym for "Love Only Lasts As Long As (the)
Money."
ex. You can describe her lifestyle as
lolalam.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mandals
Bulky, strappy, sandals worn by men. European men wear
them with socks.
ex. Phil could walk no further, as his new mandals had
given him a blister. If only he'd worn his socks!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : allugot
All you have; everything.
ex. How much do you think this marriage will cost?
Allugot.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
yummolicious
When something tastes really good or yummy. A cross
between yummy and delicious.
ex. Auntie Sar, this candy sure is
yummolicious.
xmlwebgui
"is a validating xml editor that runs in every
DOM-conform browser (Mozilla, Netscape6 and MSIE5+). On the client sie it
works with JavaScript and CSS, at the server side are some [Java]
servlets for parsing the DTD and transforming the xml data via XSLT."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dorkano
Female form of the word "dork." As in the possible
Spanish form. Dorkano for males. Used meaning stupid (in a funny way)
or just not thinking. This is not a mean term, but rather a term to
jokingly make fun of someone and bring attention to her action that
caused her to look so goofy.
ex. Sally couldn't believe what a dorkano her friend was
when he licked the ice cream store sign's large ice cream
cone.
Hockey Night in Canada
Paul Kennedy's Ocean Journal
Kevin Altis : ""When the app starts up, it automatically grabs the
text in the clipboard
and pastes it into the content field."
xml-dev : Public identifiers and topic maps
"What namespace does the name "Lake Geneva" exist
in? Who owns that namespace? If, for Joe Author, Lake Geneva (the lake
itself, not just its name) is a topic, how should Joe Author refer to it?
(In fact, the Lake Geneva example points up another interesting aspect of
the problem. In France, the very same lake is called "Lac Leman". Two
names, one lake.) Joe Author needs to point at the Lake itself as a
topic, and he needs to do it in a way that will be maximally useful to
unknown others for figuring out what it is that he's regarding as this
topic. Nobody is ever going to "resolve" this pointer; if somehow they
did resolve the pointer, a flood of living water would come pouring out
of the CRT, or the user would be teleported into the lake and be drowned.
That's not what we're trying to accomplish here."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : contravene
Contravene \Con`tra*vene"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Contravened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Contravening}.] [LL. contravenire;
L. contra + venire to come: cf. F. contrevenir. See {Come}.] 1. To meet
in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to
contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a
proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. --Southey. 2. To
violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law.
Laws that place the subjects in such a state contravene the first
principles of the compact of authority. --Johnson. Syn: To contradict;
set aside; nullify; defeat; cross; obstruct; baffle; thwart.
web1913
contravene v 1: go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran
afould of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules" [syn:
{conflict}, {run afoul}, {infringe}] 2: deny the truth of [syn:
{contradict}, {negate}]
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Radio Crankypants #6-8
Chris Nandor : Mac:: modules on MacOS X
"The icon looks more like iHam on iWhole iWheat. iSo iSue
iMe."
Did Aaron think anything about that?
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is popinjay
| source : web1913 | Yaffle \Yaf"fle\, n.
[Probably imitative of its call or cry.] (Zo["o]l.) The European green
woodpecker ({Picus, or Genius, viridis}). It is noted for its loud
laughlike note. Called also {eccle}, {hewhole}, {highhoe}, {laughing
bird}, {popinjay}, {rain bird}, {yaffil}, {yaffler}, {yaffingale},
{yappingale}, {yackel}, and {woodhack}. | source : web1913 | Popinjay
\Pop"in*jay\, n. [OE. popingay, papejay, OF. papegai, papegaut; cf. Pr.
papagai, Sp. & Pg. papagayo, It. pappagallo, LGr. ?, NGr. ?; in which
the first syllables are perhaps imitative of the bird's chatter, and the
last either fr. L. gallus cock, or the same word as E. jay, F. geai. Cf.
{Papagay}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The green woodpecker. (b) A parrot. The pye
and popyngay speak they know not what. --Tyndale. 2. A target in the form
of a parrot. [Scot.] 3. A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb. ``To be
so pestered with a popinjay.'' --Shak. | source : wn | popinjay n 1: a
vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) 2: archaic
developerWorks : Reading and writing Excel files with Perl
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is wiseacre
| source : web1913 | Wiseacre \Wise"a*cre\, n.
[OD. wijssegger or G. weissager a foreteller, prophet, from weissagen to
foretell, to prophesy, OHG. w[=i]ssag?n, corrupted (as if compounded of
the words for wise and say) fr. w[=i]zzag?n, fr. w[=i]zzag? a prophet,
akin to AS. w[=i]tiga, w[=i]tga, from the root of E. wit. See {Wit}, v.]
1. A learned or wise man. [Obs.] Pythagoras learned much . . . becoming a
mighty wiseacre. --Leland. 2. One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom;
a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce. |
source : wn | wiseacre n : an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic,
insolent comments [syn: {wise guy}, {smart aleck}, {wisenheimer},
{weisenheimer}]
Chris Cobb : Perl Tools Architecture (PTools)
"was created after attempting to move two
web-based applications consisting of many related pieces and over 100,000
lines of Perl each. After wrestling again and again with hard-coded file
paths, duplicated data file locations and other fundamental problems and
inconsistencies, a cleaner approach was clearly needed." via
gnat
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bacchanalia
| source : web1913 | Bacchanalia
\Bac`cha*na"li*a\, n. pl. [L. Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in
the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr.
?] 1. (Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. 2. Hence: A drunken
feast; drunken reveler. | source : wn | Bacchanalia n 1: an orgiastic
festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus) [syn:
{Dionysia}, {Bacchanalia}] 2: a wild gathering involving excessive
drinking and promiscuity [syn: {orgy}, {debauch}, {debauchery},
{saturnalia}, {riot}, {bacchanal}, {drunken revelry}]
N.Y. Times : "Beck and his ilk try to emulate Gainsbourg
- get bad haircuts, strike ridiculous lothario
poses - but they can't resist winking at the audience: "Don't worry, I
get the joke." Gainsbourg never flinched; he was authentically cool, and
he reveled in tackiness with gusto and confidence. Listening to his
tuneful, obscene, witty records, we encounter an original: a musician
with the nerve, and the chops, to make great art out of bad taste."
Daniel Lundin : xmlrpc.el
"is an XML-RPC client implementation in emacs
lisp, capable of both synchronous and asynchronous method calls (using
the url package's async retrieval functionality)."
