posts brought to you by the category
“censorship”
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.
see also : Vincent & Bob
rue St. Dominique, Montréal, October 2003
Maciej Ceglowski : "...the Getty Center is the architectural equivalent of a Barry White record."
Mark Bittman : Borscht is the highest and best use for a beet.
inkdroid : Politics::US
I want to be able to keep up to date with the goings on of my congressman, senators, and I want Perl to help me.
...
Between the Senate website, and Thomas and WWW::Mechanize this isn't so far fetched at all.
Is it just now finally warm enough for people to wear their facial piercings outdoors
Me : ASCOPE::Apache::XSLT.pm 0.2
The Connection : An Ode to Clutter
evolt.org : Introduction to XFML Core Concepts
The Connection : Children's Book Art
RDF Concepts and Abstract Data Model : "Noting that there is no single human opinion about the truth
of some statements, the graph may further contain commentary for human interpreters to indicate the realm of human interpretation that should be applied."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : wonder-tard
1. One who acts exceedingly stupid and surpasses the idiocy for which one might just be called a retard.
2. Someone that has the drooling potentiality of a block of wood (see also: pocket lint).
ex. Yes, Chris's beyond stupid; he's a wonder-tard.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : shenanery
a cross between "shenanigan" and "chicanery" that is used when you have absolutely no clue what is going on
ex. chappy walks in to see his pet monkey swinging from the chandelier, whistling "dixie" and says, "what in the world is all this shenanery!?"
Abigail : Acme::Time::Baby.pm
"gives you the function babytime, which will return the time in the form
The big hand is on the ten and the little hand is on the three."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : tims
short for Timberland boots (highly thought of in the hip-hop/rap community)
ex. Yo . . .B! Those tims are off the hook!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : forlorn
Forlorn \For*lorn"\, n.
1. A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.
Forced to live in Scotland a forlorn. --Shak.
2. A forlorn hope; a vanguard. [Obs.]
Our forlorn of horse marched within a mile of the
enemy. --Oliver
Cromvell.
web1913
forlorn
adj 1: pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment;
"desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn" [syn: {desolate},
{godforsaken}, {lorn}]
2: marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn
attempt"; "a forlorn cause"
wn
5 - 2, baby.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mudguts
Most likely the younger sister of a skank, a mudguts typically has at least two inches of stomach showing. To be a true mudguts the stomach must also fall two inches beyond the top of her short skirt. A beer gut for young women. Muddy for short.
ex. For a sixteen year old she must drink a lot of beer.
She isn't pregnant, so she must be a mudguts.
Resource Synchronization Framework (RSF)
"provides a simple, lightweight mechanism for replicating files and other resources between remote hosts. RSF is meant to accommodate centralized models (client/server) and decentralized models (peer-to-peer). RSF is based on two XML files: a master fingerprint file and a resource history file. The master fingerprint file contains all the data necessary to execute basic synchronization between two separate versions of the same files. The resource history file contains data on a specific resource to facilitate a rollback or a restore from a pervious version."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is galumph
| source : wn |
galumph
v : leap around playfully, like young primates
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cosmopolite
| source : web1913 |
Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite
\Cos*mop"o*lite\ (k?z-m?p"?-l?t), n. [Gr. ???; ko`smos the world
+ ??? citizen, ??? city: cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.]
One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every
place; a citizen of the world.
| source : web1913 |
Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\, Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\,
a.
1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from
local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.
In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively
national, in Germany it is certainly too
cosmopolite. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of
the world.
The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. --R. Owen.
| source : web1913 |
Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\ (-m?p"?-l?t), a. & n.
See {Cosmopolitan}.
| source : wn |
cosmopolite
n : a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
[syn: {cosmopolitan}]
Uche Ogbuji : Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management
"shows how to add semantic knowledge to an RDF application by incorporating WordNet synonym sets. With the added knowledge of the WordNet lexical database, you can search a set of RDF data for related concepts, not just one keyword at a time."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is disport
| source : web1913 |
Disport \Dis*port"\, n. [OF. desport, deport. See {Disport}, v.
i., and cf. {Sport}.]
Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. --Milton.
| source : web1913 |
Disport \Dis*port"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Disported}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Disporting}.] [OF. se desporter; pref. des- (L. dis-)
+ F. porter to carry; orig. therefore, to carry one's self
away from work, to go to amuse one's self. See {Port}
demeanor, and cf. {Sport}.]
To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and
without restraint; to amuse one's self.
Where light disports in ever mingling dyes. --Pope.
Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun,
Disporting there like any other fly. --Byron.
| source : web1913 |
Disport \Dis*port"\, v. t. [OF. desporter. See {Disport}, v. i.]
1. To divert or amuse; to make merry.
They could disport themselves. --Buckle.
2. To remove from a port; to carry away. --Prynne.
| source : wn |
disport
v 1: occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion;
"The play amused the ladies" [syn: {amuse}, {divert}]
2: play or romp around; "The children frolicked in the garden";
"the gamboling lambs in the meadows" [syn: {frolic}, {lark},
{rollick}, {skylark}, {sport}, {cavort}, {gambol}, {frisk},
{romp}, {run around}, {lark about}]
Marc Jason Dominus : EZDBI.pm
Damian Conway : "I mean, how often do you get to see a destructor that calls its own invocant
in order to invoke a closure to lexically flag another destructor to delete itself, thereby removing a subroutine call from the middle of a series of nested closures?"
A couple of years ago, I painted buildings.
Stewart Baker and Eugene Volokh : Civil Liberties in Wartime
"So the measures we adopt today—constitutional rules, statutes, and perhaps even media ethics principles—won't be temporary. They won't go away. This doesn't mean these measures are wrong; they may be good permanent measures to have. But let's not fool ourselves that we can have them just for a few months and then return to business as usual. This is going to be business as usual."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is solecism
| source : web1913 |
Solecism \Sol"e*cism\, n.[F. sol['e]cisme, L. soloecismus, Gr.
soloikismo`s, fr. soloiki`zein to speak or write incorrectly,
fr. so`loikos speaking incorrectly, from the corruption of
the Attic dialect among the Athenian colonists of So`loi in
Cilicia.]
1. An impropriety or incongruity of language in the
combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp.,
deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules
of syntax.
A barbarism may be in one word; a solecism must be
of more. --Johnson.
2. Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety,
as in deeds or manners.
C[ae]sar, by dismissing his guards and retaining his
power, committed a dangerous solecism in politics.
--C.
Middleton.
The idea of having committed the slightest solecism
in politeness was agony to him. --Sir W.
Scott.
Syn: Barbarism; impropriety; absurdity.
| source : wn |
solecism
n : a socially awkward or tactless act [syn: {faux pas}, {gaffe},
{slip}, {gaucherie}]
From the pullquotes department : the Jazz Fest and two-year olds
Mac Central : "One of the [favourite MacHacks]
was the iTunes Dance Dock Plug-in, an iTunes plug for Mac OS X that makes the icons in the dock resize to the music like a graphic equalizer."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is collegial
| source : web1913 |
Collegial \Col*le"gi*al\, n. [LL. collegialis.]
Collegiate. [R.]
| source : wn |
collegial
adj 1: characterized by or having authority vested equally among
colleagues; "collegial harmony"; "a tendency to turn
from collegial to one-man management"- Merle Fainsod
2: of or resembling or typical of a college or college
students; "collegiate living"; "collegiate attitudes";
"collegiate clothes" [syn: {collegiate}]
Notes from the "Art Is Your Friend" department.
brian d. foy : Creating Perl Code Graphs
Dennis McCarthy : Introduction to VoiceXML
Amy Benfer : "Talking to Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez about their work
is like asking them to describe the women they love most. The brothers grew up in Oxnard, Calif., with their mother, a rabid comic book collector who suffered so greatly when her own mother threw out her comic books that she vowed that her children would have all the comic books they desired. She even let them read comics at the dinner table (though she stopped reading "Love and Rockets," says Jaime, "because it got a little too racy for her.")"
Perl weenies and webloggers take note
v 0.9 of Jonathan Eisenzopf's
XML::RSS.pm is available on
CPAN. This version allows you to write syndication files using the
proposed RSS 1.0 format. Later that same day, half-cocked from too much wine at dinner and not enough food during the day because he was too distracted debugging, our hero noticed a PHP [4] class for generating
old school RSS files straight outta MySQL.
PHPBuilder : Sending MIME email in PHP
Christie Blanchford quotes Wilson Lee
"F--k, I feel like a Korean guy at a Reform/Alliance convention." Pause. "I am. lt's always a little unsettling to realize that a national party is so racially homogeneous." So the CRAP party elected Stockwell Day last night. Stockwell Day is a prudish, intolerant, Bible-thumping bigot -- not to mention a slash and burn fiscal conservative -- but I am also convinced that he must be a backroom weasel of a caliber never seen before in Canada. This is the only conceivable way he can escape the political ire and backroom weaseling of people like Brian Mulroney and manage to court the Big Money in this country. Any way you slice it, it is bad. Very very bad.
Pew Research Center survey on journalistic self-censorship
"There is general agreement about the extent of the self-censorship and its principal causes. Market pressures -- manifested when newsworthy stories are avoided because they are too boring or complicated -- are seen as the most common factor. Majorities in the print and broadcast media acknowledge that newsworthy stories are often or sometimes avoided because of their complexity or lack of audience appeal."
Doc Searls : Talking Jabber
"The architecture we're building includes instant messaging. But it's just one piece. What
we're doing is pushing structured data--pieces of XML--between clients, between servers, between different software agents. We're pushing XML data around the network."
The nice people at Strata
Remember, those who don't know history
are doomed to repeat it...or something like that.
Salon : Why leave your 'marks online
"On these sites, I had to select the link I wanted to move, click the move button, wait for a refreshed page, click the folder I wanted to put it in, wait again for a new page, click another move button and then -- after another wait -- voilà, the bookmark sat where I wanted it to go. Moving filing cabinets would have been more fun." I wrote my own version of this and came pretty much to the same conclusion. I liked the idea of being able to slurp my bookmarks from any machine, cross-browser, but ultimately the only way it will ever really beat what we've already got is with
a standardized bookmark description and
standardized DHTML interface. Oh well, hope springs eternal...
Harrumph : Pictures from the 5 à 7
Desmond Tutu
"Our country chose a middle way of individual amnesty for truth. Some would say, what about justice? And we say retributive justice is not the only kind of justice. There is also restorative justice, because we believe in Ubuntu -- the essence of being human, that idea that we are all caught up in a delicate network of interdependence. We say, "A person is a person through other persons." I need you in order to be me and you need me in order to be you."
From the Newspeak department
BMJ : Bumper Christmas Issue
The only thing better than an Instabroke card
Sarah Boxer : How I Took the Mensa Test and Joined the American Order of Idiots
Can someone help me understand why Americans are so obsessed with standardized testing?
Art Buchwald : Ventura vs. Buchanan
"Pat would wear a robe embroidered with "Mein Kampf," and Jesse would have one that says "There is almost no God."
HOWTO : Inflate the value of your art collection
The Boston Globe on the end of violence
Gil Courtemanche : Merci les femmes
"Mais plus profondément, ces femmes vivent au cour de toutes les distorsions de la société néo-libérale. Dans leur propres conditions de vie, en tout premier lieu, car si elles ne vivent pas la précarité financière, elles connaissent la précarité de l'emploi, l'incertitude du rappel, la mise à la retraite précoce, l'instabilité du système qui interdit de planifier une vraie vie familiale."
Alicia Neumann : The Overtime Stigma
"The start-up culture has taught many to think of work as a hierarchy-free team effort with distributed ownership -- even if most employees hold a tiny fraction of the shares held by the company's founders and investors." I want to believe. via
bump.
Hanoi, la nonchalante
I had the opportunity to visit Northern Vietnam in 1996. Too dumb to keep a travel journal, all I have to show for my trip is
some email I sent my friend Dave on my return.
Road Tripping
Josey Vogels reviews the Bad Girl's Guide. "The BGG tells you how to come up with a road name by combining what you had for breakfast with the name of the last place you peed by the road. If Waffles Minnesota doesn?t suit, try your homemade porn name. Combine the name of your first pet and your mother's maiden name (Uh, that?d make me Mandy Koks, not bad). " Meanwhile, This American Life
debunks the myth of being On The Road.
Shut Down the Computer
