posts brought to you by the category “beaux arts”
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 am a sucker for buildings with curved facades.
Stewart Butterfield : "Caterina and I will also IM, even when we
are laying on the same bed with laptops open."
Mark Fowler : "It's all about my latest crazy crazy idea which is
XML::Filter::TT."
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.53
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.
SkiCal - an extension of iCalendar, draft 06
Nevermind writing secret messages in HTML comments
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
superextable
It's a compression of super extra double. It's used when
you really mean it.
ex. That was a superextable job on that test!
100%.
The New York Times has a recipe for limoncello
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hizzoe
A slighty nicer way to call someone
promiscuous.
ex. Alex has been hizzoe since middle
school.
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 : id (ten) t
error
Most common computer error.
ex. Oh, you have a "ID10T" error. (IDIOT)
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : beholden
Beholden \Be*hold"en\, p. a. [Old p. p. of behold, used in
the primitive sense of the simple verb hold.] Obliged; bound in
gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. --Tennyson.
web1913
beholden adj : under a moral obligation to someone [syn:
{beholden(p)}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : probity
Probity \Prob"i*ty\, n. [F. probit['e], fr. L. probitas,
fr. probus good, proper, honest. Cf. {Prove}.] Tried virtue or
integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.
``Probity of mind.'' --Pope. Syn: {Probity}, {Integrity}. Usage:
Probity denotes unimpeachable honesty and virtue, shown especially by
the performance of those obligations, called imperfect, which the laws
of the state do not reach, and can not enforce. Integrity denotes a
whole-hearted honesty, and especially that which excludes all injustice
that might favor one's self. It has a peculiar reference to uprightness
in mutual dealings, transfer of property, and the execution of trusts
for others.
web1913
probity n : complete and confirmed integrity
wn
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.
A follow-up to yesterday's thoughts about the iPod :
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : furbelow
Furbelow \Fur"be*low\, n. [Prov. F. farbala, equiv. to F.
falbala, It. falbal[`a].] A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's
garment.
web1913
furbelow n : a strip of pleated material used as a
decoration or a trim [syn: {frill}, {flounce}, {ruffle}]
wn
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}]
wn
Mozilla DOM Inspector
"is a tool that can be used to inspect and edit
the live DOM of any web document or XUL application. The DOM hierarchy
can be navigated using a two-paned window that allows for a variety of
different views on the document and all nodes within."
via
scottandrew
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is languid
| source : web1913 | Languid \Lan"guid\, a. [L.
languidus, fr. languere to be faint or languid: cf. F. languide. See
{Languish}.] 1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to
exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. `` Languid,
powerless limbs. '' --Armstrong. Fire their languid souls with Cato's
virtue. --Addison. 2. Slow in progress; tardy. `` No motion so swift or
languid.'' --Bentley. 3. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness;
as, a languid day. Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon. --Keats.
Their idleness, aimless and languid airs. --W. Black. Syn: Feeble; weak;
faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary; listless; heavy; dull;
heartless. -- {Lan"guid*ly}, adv. -- {Lan"guid*ness}, n. | source : wn |
languid adj : lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a
languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"
[syn: {dreamy}, {lackadaisical}, {languorous}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is impregnable
| source : web1913 | Impregnable
\Im*preg"na*ble\, a. [F. imprenable; pref. im- not + prenable pregnable,
fr. prendre to take, L. prehendere. See {Comprehend}, {Get} to obtain.]
Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able
to resist attack; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress; impregnable
virtue. The man's affection remains wholly unconcerned and impregnable.
--South. -- {Im*preg"na*ble*ness}, n. -- {Im*preg"na*bly}, adv. | source
: web1913 | Impregnable \Im*preg"na*ble\, a. [See Impregnate.] (Biol.)
Capable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a
plant. | source : wn | impregnable adj 1: able to withstand attack; "an
impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable"
[syn: {inviolable}, {secure}, {strong}, {unassailable}, {unattackable}]
2: impossible to take by storm [syn: {inexpugnable}]
DevShed : Understanding XML Schema
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is debouch
| source : web1913 | Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i.
[imp. & p. p. {Debouched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Debouching}.] [F.
d['e]boucher; pref. d['e]- (L. dis- or de) + boucher to stop up, fr.
bouche mouth, fr. L. bucca the cheek. Cf. {Disembogue}.] To march out
from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
Battalions debouching on the plain. --Prescott. | source : web1913 |
Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i. (Geog.) To issue; -- said of a stream passing
from a gorge out into an open valley or a plain. | source : wn | debouch
v 1: march out (as from a defile) into open ground; "The regiments
debouched from the valley" [syn: {march out}] 2: pass out or emerge; esp.
of rivers: "The tributary debouched into the big river"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is venerate
| source : web1913 | Venerate \Ven"er*ate\, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Venerated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Venerating}.] [L.
veneratus, p. p. of venerari to venerate; akin to Venus Venus, Skr. van
to like, to wish, and E. winsome. See {Winsome}.] To regard with
reverential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence;
to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders. And seemed to venerate the
sacred shade. --Dryden. I do not know a man more to be venerated for
uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius. --Sir W. Scott. Syn: To
reverence; revere; adore; respect. | source : wn | venerate v : be in awe
of; "Fear God as your father" [syn: {reverence}, {fear}, {revere}]
Paul Krugman : "After the attacks, I found myself wondering
whether some politicians would try to exploit the
horror to push their usual partisan agendas. Then I chided myself for
such an uncharitable thought. But it seems you can't be too cynical; sure
enough, the push is already on to sell tax breaks for corporations and a
cut in the capital gains tax as a response to terrorism."
Le Monde : Le dictionnaire intime de Milan Kundera
Norman Walsh : The Design of the DocBook XSL Stylesheets
"Building stylesheets for a large, rich XML
vocabulary is a challenging exercise. This paper explores some of the
design issues confronted by the author in designing XSL stylesheets for
DocBook... Five techniques stand out as important factors in achieving
these goals: modularity, parameterization, self-customizing stylesheets,
“literate” programming, and extensions. The rest of this
paper will discuss these techniques in detail."
Lingua Franca : Marxist Literary Critics Are Following Me!
"How Philip K. Dick betrayed his academic
admirers to the FBI."
brian d. foy : Profiling in Perl
Michael A. Fischer : The Worthless Word for the Day
"This week: words you likely won't find in your
desk dictionary (no matter how big)"
Teledynamics : HTML2DB...the Holy Grail of DocBook Converters?
"Don't get too excited: Asking a robot to convert
HTML to DocBook is like asking a machine to take a truckload of bricks
and build you a house. Still, a robot can get you part of the way there;
this package contains a shell script and a DSL file which take a first
stab at converting well-formed HTML into quasi-DocBook-like markup. It's
not the philosopher's stone, it can't possibly pass the NSGMLS test, but
it might save you some work translating old HTML docs to DocBook."
The Python Cookbook
"We invite you to contribute code, comments, and
ratings for recipes from the entire Python community. This living
collection will allow programmers to be more productive with Python, and
will provide a dynamic space for the rapid content development of a
cookbook."
Tricia Cusack : "The snowman is, of course, white and invariably
male.
[His] ritual location in the semi-public space of
garden or field imaginatively reinforces a spatial social system, marking
women's proper sphere as the domestic-private and men's as the
commercial-public. It presents an image, however jocular, of a masculine
control of public space. ... Like Father Christmas, he is round, fat and
smiling, suggesting overindulgence. The classic carnival figure is a fat,
lusty eater and drinker."
Indeed.
mmmmm....planibuses.
The mountain, good cheese and killer public
transportation. What more do you need in life? via
YULblog
This day has been Chrétienized
Yahoo : "NetDocuments Uses AvantGo Mobile Internet Service
to Allow Document Viewing On Palm Devices and
Web-Enabled Phones. ... With AvantGo, selected documents from a person's
NetDocuments folders can be viewed and read while on the go traveling,
visiting clients or customers or simply reviewing documents sent by
others. NetDocuments converts the original document format into HTML on
the fly and sends it to the person's mobile device via the AvantGo
service. An SSL connection is maintained to ensure complete privacy and
encryption of the documents while transmitted over the Internet."
Jay Barwell and Derek Rogusky : Social conservatives come out of
the closet
"This social conservative belief in, and
preference for, the democratic political process stands in contrast to
the practice of many left-wing organizations that prefer to use the legal
system to force their agenda on Canadians. These organizations don't
trust Canadians to vote properly so they turn to the courts in pursuit of
their agenda and rely on judicial activism to impose their values and
beliefs on society." What kind of nonsense is that? If you scratch the
surface on this one it reads : who needs a legal system when the tyranny
of the majority will do the job for you? see also :
Warren Kinsella : Ten reasons why Day won't be PM
"At the launch of his leadership campaign in March, Mr. Day stated that
he planned to invoke the non abstante section -- the constitutional
override -- whenever a court decision 'conflicts with the intent [sic] of
government.'"
I've decided that all OS reviews should end
with the reviewer blasting the hard drive -- zot!
-- and telling me instead how hard it's going to be to put back all [my]
carefully crafted tweakage after it's been laid to waste.
David Talbot
"Salon's redesign project was not simply a
perverse experiment, though it seemed that way to many of you. We needed
to find a way of showcasing our growing volume of articles, editorial
departments and reader services in a new and useful way." Word of mouth,
as you may have recently discovered. via
mikel
. see also :
Simson
Garfinkel : Undo me!
and
Michael
LeBlanc : The Power of the Undo
But seriously folks
since the talk has turned to art, I'd like to
digress for a moment. I went to art school for a whole host of reasons to
dull to discuss here. I got two degrees; the first was my BFA, the second
was teaching myself the web. I did the latter for some very pragmatic
reasons -- if you're going to say stupid things like "I want to be a
studio artists" you should have something to fall back on -- and because
computers and The Network looked like they had matured beyond the
gee-whiz factor. Surely, I thought, there must be something more
interesting "out here" than just crunching credit cards.
Salon
"Austin Hill, president of Zero-Knowledge, opened
the conference like a true techno-believer, quoting John Gilmore as
saying, 'I want to guarantee [privacy] with physics and mathematics, not
with laws.' " First of all, if Mr. Hill is going to say dumb things like
this then his company needs to spend a little more on physics and
methematics, instead of an IPO-driven ad campaign, because your product
is slower than molasses. Secondly, if Mr. Hill is going to say dumb
things like this, then I have to seriously question whether he and his
company are more concerned with my privacy than they are with simply
capitalizing on my concerns about privacy.
I would feel bad about this
if they hadn't already started making such shitty
ice cream years ago.
I'm not much for instant messaging
Ray Thomas, RTMark
Lance Gould : Blame Canada? Hell, let's declare war!
Slashdot
Using a Command-line interface
"Open the Apple menu and choose System
Administration, then choose Terminal." Pray for the tech support people.
see also :
Dan Lyke : Unix Usability
Virginia Postrel : Dynamism, Stasis, and Popular Culture
"From trade to immigration, medicine to financial
markets, education to urban development, biotechnology to transportation,
the open-ended future has become the central issue of our time. How we
feel about the "out of control" future, the future that evolves through
creativity, competition, and choice, is as important as the Cold War once
was in defining our political categories. And both popular culture and
technology are smack in the middle of these debates."
Talking About an Online Revolution : Interactive E-Service
A lecture by Ron DiCarlantonio, webcast tonight
at 19h30 EDT.
The only thing worse than censorship
Nardwuar : The Human Serviette
How many lonely nights did I spend in the studio
listening to this freak? Possibly the only person to ever
faze
Courtney Love
. via
saturn
Apparently, I only have a 17% Humanity Quotient.
FEMA : Today in Disaster History
The New Scientist : Unusual Suspects
More on the dark heart of Flipper.
The Suffragists Oral History Project
I had no idea that
It's Bastille Day
The consumer incarnation of Microsoftiness
"The Microsoft world is all about sushi-ginger
stationery. It's synonymous with miniature Japanese rock gardens, aroma
therapy kits and velvet pillows stuffed with buckwheat hulls." Does
anyone remember Steve Jobs saying that the one thing Apple still had,
even when it had hit bottom a couple years ago, was a brand name (read:
kool-aid) ? via
jjg.net
WebOS
Wow. It even has a dhtml web browser! Requires
IE4 (windows) and a T-1. via <a href =
"http://www.camworld.com/list/">camlist</a>.
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses
CSS
kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its
contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the
content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it
shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
browser with incomplete
CSS
and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one
browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they
will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some
later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's
just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I
rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old
stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through
the cracks.
See also :
W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.
