posts brought to you by the category “branding”
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 have a soft spot for square-head brushes.
Montréal, September 2003
The Common Lisp Cookbook
Me : xml résumé (XSL) formatting extensions 0.3
Political art or brain fart?
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.53
Me : All versions of the Eatdrinkfeelgood DTD
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).
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
Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm 0.21
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
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}]
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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"
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Boston Globe : Too Many Memories
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."
From the "I don't have time for a fancy website" department : OTLML
1.1b1
After the Ides of March come the Porsches of April.
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}]
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In passing : The Eraserhead of shoe stores.
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."
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}]
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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.
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.
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."
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.
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."
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
Brian Llyod : Web Services for Zope
Neils Ferguson : Censorship in action - why I don't publish my HDCP
results
Gary Groth : "It was dangerous agitprop."
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}]
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."
Tamer Fahmy : eyemodule.py
"is a Python program that extracts images and
notes of the eyemodule pdb files and lets you view or convert them to
jpeg files which are put in directories reflecting the categories. It
optionally creates a HTML thumbnail index of the images." yippee!
The release of Amaya 4.0
has demonstrated that
there is still some work to do
in making this site truly portable. Amaya ships with some very useful
features that I think all browsers should have : line numbering when you
view source, an error-log and the too cool for words
View Structure tool
.
Peter Merholz : What I Know About Poontang
Amazing but true!
NY Times : The Pressure To Take It Off
"Rosie Perez, whose first film role, in "Do the
Right Thing," had such a memorable nude scene that a decade later she's
still living it down (or up), convened a round table of some of her
friends and colleagues, inviting a reporter to participate, to talk about
the pressures, rewards and plain facts about getting naked in public."
This Morning talks to Niall Ferguson
author of "The Business of Politics and the
Economics of Democracy" (real audio)
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada : Annual Report 1999-2000
"Privacy is related entirely to the degree to
which we respect each other as unique individuals, each with our own sets
of values which we are entitled to make known or not as we see fit. To
truly respect your neighbour, you must grant that person a private life.
Respecting one another's privacy means the difference between a life of
liberty, autonomy and dignity, and a hollow and intimidating existence
under a cloud of constant oppressive surveillance." On a lighter note,
I'm not sure if I am more troubled by the claims in this report or the
fact that the report reprints old Cathy comic strips to further its
arguments. ( 500kb )
Heather Champ : Random Rothko
Personally, I can't stand Rothko's work (the
postcards are alright, but the paintings are just too chalky and dusty of
colour) but I really am
a sucker
for this kind of thing.
Al Purdy, 1918 - 2000
"He wrote about going to good hockey games and
fighting with the foreman at work... the kind of things that occupy
ordinary people."
Crunchy spinach
LA Weekly on Napster
"Dr. Lincoln Stein, part of the project at the
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, is exploring how to use
Napster-style automated resource discovery to enable scientists to
publish their discoveries in the genome. The reason Stein and other
experts are so excited is that Napster turns the prevailing computer
technology of client-server on its side. ... 'We've been stuck in a
client-server paradigm for many, many years. People who had stuff to
share had to learn arcane knowledge, like FTP, static IP addresses -
there were a lot of technical hurdles. The beauty of this system is, it
does automatic resource discovery. Napster publishes the route to the
user's information. Not just the IP address, which may change, but the
port.' " If you didn't already think that Lincoln Stein was cool enough
for having written
CGI.pm
, he's also written
MP3::Napster.pm
(requires threaded Perl).
Georges Raby
"Je crois que le gouvernement du Québec devrait
inscrire au plus tôt à l'intérieur de la loi 101 un nouveau règlement qui
inciterait les jeunes Anglaises à pratiquer le french kiss le plus
souvent possible, dès le secondaire, pour qu'elles s'habituent à tourner
leur langue du côté de la majorité. Ainsi, grâce à cette forme d'exercice
fort plaisant, elles pourraient développer dès leur plus jeune âge un
goût marqué pour notre langue, en accord avec l'idéal de la loi 101."
Weblog Nation
Bob Metcalfe : What if I-commerce were restricted on weekends?
You know, I tend to agree that trying to regulate
the hours an e-commerce site is "open" is pretty goofy on a global level.
I do not, however, think that the efforts of people to try and insure a
quality of life we have come to expect and enjoy need to be subject to
this kind of petty sarcasm. [These] are complicated and important issues
that need to be addressed because we all still breath the same air. Just
because I might want to be a keener doesn't make me more special and
someone else a loser. To think otherwise, from what I've seen, is often
just ego-fucking.
The Internet Stress Reduction Tool
Why does Amazon.com show up as the number one
listing for
Internet stress
on Google?
Microsoft's Mike Nash on Windows 2000
"If I decide to put up mikenash.com and I want to
sell T-Shirts with my picture on them, for something uninteresting like
me five [client-access licenses] is all I need since I probably won't
have more than five people buying at one time." I guess I just assumed
that a company full of obviously smart people would be able to hire
better liars.
Andy Oram : The Lexus, the Olive Tree, and the Internet
This is not the sort of thing I would have ever
expected to see in
web review
. Good for them.
Bernard Buffet 1928 - 1999
"C'était l'un des peintres français les plus
connus, et probablement le plus contesté. Bernard Buffet s'est suicidé,
lundi 4 octobre, dans sa propriété de Tourtour (Var), à l'âge de soixante
et onze ans."
Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt
"Sometimes we have to remove the navel and find a
new spot for it." Not for the squeamish. shockwave.
Simson Garfinkel weighs in on the Unix wars
"If I had to pick out the single difference
between the BSD community as a whole and the proponents of Linux, I would
say it is something called 'correctness.' The BSD developers are more
concerned that the underlying technology in their operating systems be
implemented in a manner consistent with the overall design of the
systems. Linux developers, overall, are more interested in just putting
together something that works."
I guess if you're too poor
Janet Maslin : Who Needs Originality When You Have Synergy?
"We're much too used to serving as walking
billboards and, when it comes to pop-cultural synergy, sitting ducks." I
had a teacher in
CEGEP
who used to tear out all the embroidered logos and brand-names from all
his clothing. Not surprisingly, he taught a class called "Propaganda".
It's election time in Saskatchewan
and
the NDP
is talking about free university tuition
. "The idea of free tuition has raised a few eyebrows," [Janice
MacKinnon] said. "Everybody's talking about it because it's innovative.
But people are talking about how important education is for the new
economy in the new millennium. We thought it's time to stop talking and
to just do something." It's an election, but Canada got
universal health-care
from the Saskatchewan NDP, so maybe there's hope yet.
Scott McNealy
"The car is a vast, untapped market for
advertisers...I often refer to the automobile as nothing more than a Java
browser with tires." I think I'm going to have to break something today.
Morning Edition on KPFA
and a brief history of the Pacifica Radio
Network. real audio.
Philip Greenspun on the $100B mark
"Maybe this will convince my students they
shouldn't work so hard to become rich. Because they're probably not going
to be richer than Bill Gates, so they might as well do something
interesting and valuable to society instead."
iCab 1.6 supports HTTPS
"iCab (only the PPC version) now uses the [MacOS
8.6] system extension 'URL Access' to support HTTPS (SSL)." Yay!
William Neukom on The Law of Increasing Returns
"The thing to remember is that we're engaged in a
legal decathlon, and we're still at an early stage."
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.
