posts brought to you by the category “cats”
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 don't actually disagree with most of what Steph says,
You know, IMP is a very good webmail client.
Me : date-periodparser-simpledates.diff
Anil Dash : "I want to be able to query Google's database with a
date filter."
Can I just cut the fucking ironic humor and ask a simple
question?
Dan Brickley : XMP Metadata Extraction Demo
This experimental metadata extractor will retrieve a document ...
and look for embedded metadata stored using the Adobe XMP embedding
conventions.
ATSA : Les Murs du Feu
Bill Turner : Baby boomer tableware
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : persiflage
Persiflage \Per`si`flage"\, n. [F., fr. persifler to quiz,
fr. L. per + siffler to whistle, hiss, L. sibilare, sifilare.]
Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any
subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. --Hannah More.
web1913
persiflage n : light teasing
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Julian Harris : Towards a new weblog design
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hotter than a
pickle, hotter'n
Extremely hot.
ex. God, it's hotter than a pickle today.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : {word}**n
{word} repeated n times. E.g., really**4 = really,
really, really, really.
ex. I really**6 get tired of typing the same thing over
and over again. What we really**2 need is some pseudomathematical
shorthand to use here.
5 - 2, baby.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fek
Used to show disgust at something, or to describe something
disgusting.
ex. "this is some really fek food" "that was the fekest
thing i have ever seen"
see also :
fek dict-ified
The Connection : Language and the Internet
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pantheon
| source : web1913 | Pantheon \Pan*the"on\, n.
[L. pantheon, pantheum, Gr. ? (sc. ?), fr. ? of all gods; ?, ?, all + ? a
god: cf. F. panth['e]on. See {Pan-}, and {Theism}.] 1. A temple dedicated
to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome. 2. The
collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity
of the Greek pantheon. | source : wn | pantheon n 1: all the gods of a
religion 2: a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes 3: (ancient
Greece or Rome) a temple to all the gods
Me : render-changes-rss.js
<il codice categoria della portata =
"pithy-comment">
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is interregnum
| source : web1913 | Interregnum
\In`ter*reg"num\, n.; pl. {Interregnums}. [L., fr. inter between + regnum
dominion, reign. See {Reign}, and cf. {Interreign}.] 1. The time during
which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign
and the accession of his successor. 2. Any period during which, for any
cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted.
| source : wn | interregnum n : the time between two reigns, governments,
etc. | source : devils | INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a
monarchical country is governed by a warm spot on the cushion of the
throne. The experiment of letting the spot grow cold has commonly been
attended by most unhappy results from the zeal of many worthy persons to
make it warm again.
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
We spoke of the intersection
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fallible
| source : web1913 | Fallible \Fal"li*ble\, a.
[LL. fallibilis, fr. L. fallere to deceive: cf. F. faillible. See
{Fail}.] Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be
deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
| source : wn | fallible adj 1: likely to fail or be inaccurate;
"everyone is fallible to some degree" [ant: {infallible}] 2: having the
attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only human";
"frail humanity" [syn: {frail}, {imperfect}, {weak}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is languor
| source : web1913 | Languor \Lan"guor\, n. [OE.
langour, OF. langour, F. langueur, L. languor. See Languish.] 1. A state
of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and
characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. 2. Any
enfeebling disease. [Obs.] Sick men with divers languors. --Wyclif (Luke
iv. 40). 3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. `` German dreams,
Italian languors.'' --The Century. Syn: Feebleness; weakness; faintness;
weariness; dullness; heaviness; lassitude; listlessness. | source : wn |
languor n 1: a relaxed comfortable feeling [syn: {dreaminess}] 2: a
feeling of lack of interest or energy [syn: {lassitude}, {listlessness}]
3: an unusual lack of energy [syn: {lethargy}, {sluggishness}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is coprolalia
| source : wn | coprolalia n : an uncontrollable
use of obscene language; often accompanied by mental disorders
Diane Hillman : Using Dublin Core
Guido van Rossum and Larry Wall : Programming Parrot
"covers the basic features and syntax of this
powerful new hybrid language, and provides reference material for many of
its most important interfaces and tools, including Internet scripting,
systems programming, ParroTk, C integration, Jarrot, Active Scripting and
COM extensions, Gnope (GNU/Zope), PSP server pages, restricted execution
mode, the Comprehensive Parrot Archive Network (a.k.a. the Vaults of
Madagascar), the HTMLgen and SWIG code generators, thread support,
Unicode, EBCDIC and Baudot support, JAPHs, and more."
Pierre Audet : "Canada is a cow where the milk of democracy
leaks,
and we must admit that it's in Quebec where we
find the cream of freedom of expression."
Honour, my arse. It's called data-mining
"In order to cooperate with governmental requests, to protect our systems
and customers, or to ensure the integrity and operation of our business
and systems, we may access and disclose any information we consider
necessary or appropriate, including, without limitation, user contact
details, transaction data, IP addressing and traffic information, usage
history, and posted content." see also :
Is
Amazon's Honor Plan Honorable?
I almost never remember dreams, but last night
I dreamt I went to the beach in San Francisco. I
have only ever been to the city once, when I was a small boy, so it all
looked strangely New England-ish. I stood at the edge of the water trying
to wrap my mind around the idea that the Atlantic ocean was behind me
wondering why the beach was overrun with dwarf squirrels.
WBOSS (Web Based Open Source SpellChecker)
"is designed to work with any text input form on
any web page. It is called from a second form, opens a pop-up window,
allows the user to check the text, then inserts the text back in the main
window's form field."
Why do people feel the need to override the UNIVERSAL::can
method?
Paul Tough : "[A]s of this morning, if you have one of those
handheld personal digital assistants,
you can automatically download each day's open
letter into its memory, and then read it later, while you pretend to be
looking up stock quotes." Yay! see also
This
Morning : The PDA Divide
Michal Wallace : Socratic methods
"The idea is you figure out the cause-effect
relationships that lead to a current undesireable situation, and work
your way back to the core issues ... Once you understand the current
system, you can map out a future reality tree that shows in precise
logical steps what you want to happen. Then you build a transition tree
to connect the two." I'm not sure I necessarily agree with Michal about
all of this but it is interesting and the chart he points to will delight
diagram-weenies everywhere.
Sightings
