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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.

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I have a soft spot for square-head brushes.

Montréal, September 2003

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The Common Lisp Cookbook

This is a collaborative project that aims to provide for Common Lisp something similar to the Perl Cookbook...

I have no idea why the idea of learning C still irks me but Lisp seems somehow okay via 0xDECAFBAD

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Me : xml résumé (XSL) formatting extensions 0.3

Bug fixes and a stylesheet for pruning selected elements from the source XML document (in case you want to make the source document public but don't want to include references or your address.) see also docs and changes .

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Political art or brain fart?

God help me, I'm linking to the Concordia student newspaper. I heard the artist on the radio this morning. Being still stunned from the night's sleep was probably the only thing that kept me from losing my head at the wishy-washy art-nerd blather coming out of her mouth. Aside from the overall spinelessness of Ms. Moor's comments -- oh yeah, I really believe you're trying to encourage any kind of rational and enlightened debate -- it was the same old rarified, myopic circle-jerk that passes for discourse and examination of an issue any time more than three "Artists" are within a fifteen foot radius of one another. It's not so much that I disagree with them -- although I find particularly noxious the attitude that politics is worthy only of scorn and not participation -- it's just that they can't seem to make their arguments without being childish and facile jackasses. Meanwhile, someone needs to tell Ms. Moor that the human arm does not hang anywhere near as far as the ankle. I will reserve any commentary about the hands until (if) I can work up the effort to go see this thing in the flesh. via thenewforum .

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Me : Net::Google.pm 0.53

Minor fixes to make -w shut up. see also : local copy , changes and docs

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Me : All versions of the Eatdrinkfeelgood DTD

are now licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License .

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David Gelernter : What is this universal information structure?

A narrative stream, which says, "Let me tell you a story. " The system shows you a 3-D stream of electronic documents flowing through time. The future (where you store your calendar, reminders, plans) flows into the present (where you keep material you're working on right now) and on into the past (where every e-mail message and draft, digital photo, application, virtual Rolodex card, video and audio clip and Web bookmark is stored, in addition to all those calendar notes and reminders that used to be part of the future and have since flowed into the past to be archived forever).

A few points : 1) How the hell did this guy get the editorial staff at the Times to okay running what is little more than a promotional brochure masked as an article? 2) For a guy claiming to make my life so much easier, it might behoove his network weenies to configure their web servers to return something more intellient than No web site is configured at this address. on a www-less URL. 3) Is the fact that the website for wunder-product opens a new window for seemingly every single internal link a design decision? Is that some clever information architect's way of reflecting The Patented Stream ? 4) "Let me tell you a story?" Someone needs to work with this guy on his analogies. Because so far the only thing this makes me expect is either one of those people you know who just never shuts up or one of those very smart people who seem to have bartered away all their social capital in exchange for brain-power and who, even if they are right and (eventually) helpful, can't open their mouths with making you want to hit them. 5) Scopeware? Who the fuck comes up with this stuff?!

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Emacs package for talking to a dictionary server

As my primary working environment is Emacs 21, I decided to write an Emacs-Lisp package for accessing this dictionary server. The older webster.el didn't work with the newer protocol. After starting the implementation I was pointed to an already existing implementation, but this was basically a wrapper to the dict client program and didn't have all the features I wanted and have now been implemented in this dictionary client.

see also : Emacs

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Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm 0.21

Bug fixes and breadcrumbs. Woot!

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : veg

"to relax, to chill out"
ex. i'm going to veg out for the afternoon...
see also : veg dict-ified

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : inchoate

Inchoate \In"cho*ate\, a. [L. inchoatus, better incohatus, p. p. of incohare to begin.] Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- {In"cho*ate*ly}, adv. Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. --Raleigh. web1913
inchoate adj : only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" [syn: {incipient}] wn

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : condign

Condign \Con*dign"\, a. [F. condigne, L. condignus very worthy; con- + dignus worthy. See {Deign}, and cf. {Digne}.] 1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. [Obs.] Condign and worthy praise. --Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. --Spenser. 2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. ``Condign censure.'' --Milman. Unless it were a bloody murderer . . . I never gave them condign punishment. --Shak. web1913
condign adj : fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment; "condign censure" wn

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Boston Globe : Too Many Memories

5-2, baby! 5-2!

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The Connection : Behold the Power of Cheese

"Medieval monks counted it among the pillars of civilization, along with art, scholarship, and beer. In certain European countries, the sentiment still holds. So leave it to America to spell cheese with a 'z' and spray it from a can."

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From the "I don't have time for a fancy website" department : OTLML 1.1b1

and XML::Filter::OTLML::IO.pm 0.1 . The DTD is basically done but I continue to have mixed feelings about the <cache> element, which was added to facilitate the parsing of remote nodes. So, until I decide to bite the bullet it's a beta. The changes are as follows :



 * Added optional 'cache' element to xref element



 * Added optional 'content-type' attribute to xref element



 * Added optional 'xi:encoding' attribute to xref element



 * Added required 'created' attribute to node element



 * Added required 'modified' attribute to node element



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Note that the Perl widget is an alpha, warts and all, release. Feedback is welcomed and encouraged. I'll try and merge the old site with the new in the next few days.

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After the Ides of March come the Porsches of April.

Is it like this in other cities? In Montreal, you can pretty much gauge the arrival of spring by the volume of Porches on the street. They overrun the city like big shiny locusts, growing in numbers every day, until St. Jean Baptiste. The first time I noticed this, I thought maybe everyone in the city had gone nuts and bought expensive new cars in a pique of lifestyle porn. People are funny here that way; if something catches on, it is usually only about 2-3 days before the borg-mind takes over and everyone is doing it. Supertramp; sunglasses with yellow lenses -- it's one thing to see the hipsters on the Main wearing them another thing entirely to get the eye from a 60-something Portuguese grandmother lugging the groceries home sporting Disco-2000-I-Kill-You-Dead shades; the return of 80's fashion victims; boy-bands -- someone pointed out the other day that while any given boy-band of the week will play New York City for one night, they'll then hop on a bus and play ten nights in Montreal. No one is too sexy for their shirt here; everyone just wears the same shirt. So, while I've never bothered to investigate, I've always been pretty sure that the mean little sports cars tooling up and down St. Denis are nothing more than loaners doled out to eager wannabees, for a couple weeks at a time, not so much to generate a buzz but to make it look like the buzz has already happened. But once you see the first one, it usually means that spring is, not withstanding this year's fake winter , probably only another two or three feet of snow away.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : peccadillo

Peccadillo \Pec`ca*dil"lo\, n.; pl. {Peccadillos}. [Sp. pecadillo, dim. of pecado a sin, fr. L. peccatum. See {Peccant}.] A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. --Sir W. Scott. web1913
peccadillo n : a petty misdeed [syn: {indiscretion}] wn

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In passing : The Eraserhead of shoe stores.

Early last week I went out to pick up a sandwich for lunch. While I waited, I sat down with a cup of coffee and read one of the local news weeklies. Flipping through the pages, I stopped on a photograph of a woman's high heel shoe sitting on the remains of a building destroyed by fire. Somehow, I had missed the news that Karl's shoe store had burned down . Sure enough, I've walked past the still smoldering rubble twice in as many days, taking in the smell of burnt leather. That the store was destroyed by fire almost doesn't come as news. The store, as such, had long since been closed down by fire inspectors but I'm told the fire actually started a block over and eventually made its way to the the Main, where the store fronted. Officially or not, the doors were always open and, when it was warm, Mr. Karl was always sitting outside ready to sell you...shoes. Going to Karl's was alot like watching Eraserhead. It was difficult, unsatisfying, ultimately left a bad taste in your mouth and you never wanted to do it again. But somehow it was like a rite of passage and afterwards you felt that it was something that every person should experience exactly once. Who knows where Mr. Karl got his shoes and he was probably the only one who knew where to find them once they made their way into the building. I've never met anyone who ever found a pair of the same shoe sitting side by side. The metal utility shelves that lined the store were overflowing with shoes of every size and variety that spilled in to cardboard boxes already full of shoes, presumably waiting for their own place on high. Buying a pair of shoes at Karl's involved two distinct steps. First, you made your way through the offerings trying to find something that you liked which was an effort all to itself. But it paled compared to what followed. If you'd spent 20 minutes finding a shoe that matched your taste, you were assured of spending atleast twice as long trying to walk out the door with the other one. Who knows whether the other shoe just didn't exist or whether Mr. Karl didn't care to try to find it. But he would always bring you something in its place. Back in the days of cheap army surplus Czechoslovakian basketball shoes, my friends and I would go to Karl's looking for cheap Converse high tops. The pressure to buy the pink and green and white combo that would invariably come out of the backroom is the stuff of legend in Montreal. We've all seen them, held them and pretended to consider them and then fought to free our hands of them, lest there be any confusion about whether or not we wanted to buy them. It was an amazing experience that left you equally dazzled and annoyed. And while I doubt anyone has ever bought more than one pair of shoes, if that, from Karl's I'm pretty sure it will be a presence sadly missed.

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : tiridity

The state of being tired.
ex. "It is past my bedtime, thus, I am suffering from severe tiridity."

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : incipient

Incipient \In*cip"i*ent\, a. [L. incipiens, p. pr. of incipere to begin. See {Inception}.] Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day. -- {In*cip"i*ent*ly}, adv. web1913
incipient adj : only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" [syn: {inchoate}] wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : borality

The ethical conduct between bores
ex. When Max recounted two consecutive fishing trips I think I spoke for all when I reminded him of the borality of the situation.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is troglodyte

| source : web1913 | Troglodyte \Trog"lo*dyte\, n. [L. troglodytae, pl., Gr. ? one who creeps into holes; ? a hole, cavern (fr. ? to gnaw) + ? enter: cf. F. troglodyte.] 1. (Ethnol.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes. In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the ``mad lake.'' --Holland. 2. (Zo["o]l.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee. 3. (Zo["o]l.) The wren. | source : wn | troglodyte n 1: one who lives in solitude [syn: {hermit}, {recluse}] 2: someone who dwells in a cave [syn: {caveman}, {cave man}, {cave dweller}] | source : jargon | troglodyte n. [Commodore] 1. A hacker who never leaves his cubicle. The term `gnoll' (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported. 2. A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment. The combination `ITS troglodyte' was flung around some during the Usenet and email wringle-wrangle attending the 2.x.x revision of the Jargon File; at least one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with pride. | source : foldoc | troglodyte <jargon> (Commodore) 1. A hacker who never leaves his cubicle. The term "Gnoll" (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported. 2. A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment. The combination "ITS troglodyte" was flung around some during the {Usenet} and {e-mail} wringle-wrangle attending the 2.x.x revision of the {Jargon File}; at least one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with pride. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-11) | source : devils | TROGLODYTE, n. Specifically, a cave-dweller of the paleolithic period, after the Tree and before the Flat. A famous community of troglodytes dwelt with David in the Cave of Adullam. The colony consisted of "every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented" -- in brief, all the Socialists of Judah.

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Nicols Fox : Our History Is in Our Mail

"There is a very good chance that our battery-powered, digitized generation will be lost to the future. Most people have no idea how fragile our color photographs, our videos, our floppy disks are; how unlikely it is that what is not on paper will survive even a few decades. ... Our generation, communicating by cell phone, tapping out those terse little messages that pepper e-mails whose half-lives are numbered in minutes, may be lost to history entirely. Even printed out and preserved, these messages feel lifeless. My father wrote that day on paper that set the time and place and the mood. It located him, not just geographically, but within a family and a tradition."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is diablerie

| source : web1913 | Diablerie \Dia`ble*rie"\, Diabley \Di*ab"le*y\, n. [F. diablerie, fr. diable devil, L. diabolus. See {Devil}.] Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief.

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Ave Wrigley : App::Control.pm

"is a simple module to replicate the kind of functionality you get with apachectl to control apache, but for any script or executable. There is a very simple OO interface, where the constructor is used to specify the executable, command line arguments, and pidfile, and various methods (start, stop, etc.) are used to control the executable in the obvious way."

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Hunter S. Thompson : "This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed

-- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why." via doc searls

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Brian Llyod : Web Services for Zope

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Neils Ferguson : Censorship in action - why I don't publish my HDCP results

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Gary Groth : "It was dangerous agitprop."

God, help us. Someone has given Gary Groth a bigger soapbox... If you think the Internet defines hyperbolic vitriol as an artform, you haven't seen anything until you've read this guy. Frankly, most of the arguments in this debate strike me as spurious. This is not about the paperness (or lack thereof) of the paper -- and we're doomed if it is about animated gifs -- it is about the same issue that has always plagued the comics industry : distribution and, by extension, control. Okay, McCloud stops there long enough to talk about micropayments, but then seems to devolve into goofy arguments about how paper is dead and and and ...and painting has been dead for about six thousand years now, too. This is art school level posturing and just makes everyone involved look like children. It is, rather, an issue of economics : it's cheaper produce words-and-pictures online than it is in print. Further, there is the chance of reaching a larger audience in the process. That is, swag notwithstanding, the entirety of the Internet revolution. The degree to which the art form you practice suffers in the transition is just the price you pay. Trust me when I say you don't want to see comix artists doing work about the "materiality" of the Internet. see also : McCloud in Stable Condition Following Review, Groth Still at Large

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is mephitic

| source : web1913 | Mephitic \Me*phit"ic\, Mephitical \Me*phit"ic*al\, a. [L. mephiticus, fr. mephitis mephitis: cf. F. m['e]phitique.] 1. Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions. 2. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors. {Mephitic air} (Chem.), carbon dioxide; -- so called because of its deadly suffocating power. See {Carbonic acid}, under {Carbonic}. | source : wn | mephitic adj : of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution [syn: {miasmic}]

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Ryan Rempel : Installation Instructions for Mac OS X OldWorld Support

"Installation is somewhat complex. In effect, we need to add kernel extensions to the /System/Library/Extensions directory on the Mac OS X installation CD. Since we can't do that, we'll do the next best thing: we'll make a copy of the installation CD on a hard drive, and add the kernel extensions there." A friend tells me he got it running on a old 8600 with 32 megs of RAM. No swooshy graphics there but I suppose you could just hide it in a closet, configure the rc process to never start Aqua and run it as a headless server...

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