posts brought to you by the category
“comix”
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.
“Does that say ‘Tintin is not an egg’
?”
metro Berri-UQAM, Montréal,
December 2003
Is there a Bran MacMufin in the house?
rue Drolet, Montréal, November
2003
Dubya::Poet : “Oh my, lump in the bed/How I've
missed you.”
Me : add-css-links.xsl 1.0
I see t-shirts and posters and all manner of swag.
Jeet Heer : Operation Blame Canada
Meanwhile, David "I'm just waiting for my application
for U.S. citizenship to be processed" Frum chastises
Americans for not being Canadians.
The Internet Topic Exchange
This is the first public implementation of the
Ridiculously Easy Group Forming concept. It's a central
server to host TrackBack-powered channels. It's designed
to let anyone effortlessly create a channel to archive
pointers to information on a given topic.
Andy Wardley : "I finally got around to releasing my
XML::Schema module(s)."
Amphetathoughts #3: I just sent Morbus diff files
In my on-effort to deny Karl user-defined
templates
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
dhinchak
Adjective used when you see really weird
clothing on nice people.
ex. Remember Smita's dhinchak tiger
skirt?
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
confute
Confute \Con*fute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Confuted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Confuting}.] [L. confutare
to chek (a boiling liquid), to repress, confute; con- + a
root seen in futis a water vessel), prob. akin to fundere
to pour: cf. F. confuter. See {Fuse} to melt.] To overwhelm
by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be
false or defective; to overcome; to silence. Satan stood .
. . confuted and convinced Of his weak arguing fallacious
drift. --Milton. No man's error can be confuted who doth
not . . . grant some true principle that contradicts his
error. --Chillingworth. I confute a good profession with a
bad conversation. --Fuller. Syn: To disprove; overthrow;
sed aside; refute; oppugn. Usage: To {Confute}, {Refute.}
Refute is literally to and decisive evidence; as, to refute
a calumny, charge, etc. Confute is literally to check
boiling, as when cold water is poured into hot, thus
serving to allay, bring down, or neutralize completely.
Hence, as applied to arguments (and the word is never
applied, like refute, to charges), it denotes, to overwhelm
by evidence which puts an end to the case and leaves an
opponent nothing to say; to silence; as, ``the atheist is
confuted by the whole structure of things around him.''
web1913
confute v : prove to be false; "The physicist
disproved his colleagues' theories" [syn: {disprove}] [ant:
{prove}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
equivocate
Equivocate \E*quiv"o*cate\, v. t. To render
equivocal or ambiguous. He equivocated his vow by a mental
reservation. --Sir G. Buck.
web1913
equivocate v : be deliberately ambiguous or
unclear in order to mislead or withhold information [syn:
{tergiversate}, {prevaricate}, {palter}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
extirpate
Extirpate \Ex"tir*pate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Extirpated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Extirpating}.] [L. extirpatus, exstirpatus, p. p. of
extirpare, exstirpare; ex out + strips stock, stem, root.]
To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate,
literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to
extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect;
to extirpate error or heresy. Syn: To eradicate; root out;
destroy; exterminate; annihilate; extinguish.
web1913
extirpate v 1: destroy completely, as if down
to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were
soon uprooted" [syn: {uproot}, {eradicate}, {exterminate}]
2: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that
has spread all over the garden" [syn: {uproot},
{deracinate}, {root out}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
off the hizzi fa schizzi
(His-e for sh-is-e) It means that something
is really "hot" or "cool". It can also mean that someone
is being serious.
ex. His new car is off the hizzi fa schizzi.
Or "She said that you lied." " No I didn't lie. I'm off
the hizzi fa schizzi."
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.7
Why couldn't we have just had The Cry-baby start in
nets
Me : If someone actually gets around to writing this,
please let me know
Movable Thoughts #14
UVM : ProcBuilder
"is a basic web interface to creating
and editing Procmail recipes."
I wonder if history books suffer the Soundtrack
Effect.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
billet
| source : web1913 | Billet
\Bil"let\, n. Quarters or place to which one is assigned, as
by a billet or ticket; berth; position. Also used fig.
[Colloq.] The men who cling to easy billets ashore.
--Harper's Mag. His shafts of satire fly straight to their
billet, and there they rankle. --Pall Mall Mag. | source :
web1913 | Billet \Bil"let\, n. [F. billette, bille, log; of
unknown origin; a different word from bille ball. Cf.
{Billiards}, {Billot}.] 1. A small stick of wood, as for
firewood. They shall beat out my brains with billets. --Shak.
2. (Metal.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron. 3.
(Arch.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of
wood either square or round. 4. (Saddlery) (a) A strap which
enters a buckle. (b) A loop which receives the end of a
buckled strap. --Knight. 5. (Her.) A bearing in the form of
an oblong rectangle. | source : web1913 | Billard \Bil"lard\,
n. (Zo["o]l.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the
coalfish. [Written also {billet} and {billit}.] | source :
web1913 | Billet \Bil"let\, n. [F. billet, dim. of an OF.
bille bill. See {Bill} a writing.] 1. A small paper; a note;
a short letter. ``I got your melancholy billet.'' --Sterne.
2. A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what
house to lodge; as, a billet of residence. | source : web1913
| Billet \Bil"let\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Billeted}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Billeting}.] [From {Billet} a ticket.]
(Mil.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence:
To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private
houses. Billeted in so antiquated a mansion. --W. Irving. |
source : wn | billet n : for military personnel (especially
in a private home) v : provide housing for, of military
personnel [syn: {quarter}, {canton}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
skulduggery
| source : wn | skulduggery n :
verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in
some way [syn: {trickery}, {hocus-pocus}, {slickness}, {hanky
panky}, {jiggery-pokery}, {skullduggery}]
It doesn't get much better
FreeBSD Diary : Installing via wireless NIC
"I installed a wireless NIC into my
desktop, configured it to act as a gateway, enabled NAT, and
used that as the gateway for my laptop. The laptop then
communicated with the gateway using its own wireless NIC.
Together, these two boxes allowed me to do an install on the
laptop using wireless. This was after I'd failed using the
laptop's CD, which I now know is broken."
Ronald Bourret : Mapping DTDs tp Databases
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
apotheosis
| source : web1913 | Apotheosis
\Ap`o*the"o*sis\ (?; 277), n. pl. {Apotheoses}. [L., fr. Gr.
?, fr. ? to deify; ? from + ? to deify, ? a god.] 1. The act
of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among,
``the gods;'' deification. 2. Glorification; exaltation.
``The apotheosis of chivalry.'' --Prescott. ``The noisy
apotheosis of liberty and machinery.'' --F. Harrison. |
source : wn | apotheosis n 1: model of excellence or
perfection of a kind; one having no equal [syn: {ideal},
{paragon}, {nonpareil}, {saint}, {nonesuch}, {nonsuch}] 2:
the elevation of a person to the status of a god [syn:
{deification}, {exaltation}]
From the "Sharp as a Chocolate Chip Cookie" department
:
I have been forced into the
understanding that the only place work and rest meet is where
one stops and the other begins.
Eric van der Vlist : XMLtree
An "XPath-ish" PHP library for
reading and manipulating XML files. Whoo-hoo!
National Post on Economy Class Syndrome
"On airplanes, [deep vein thrombosis]
can result when passengers sit for too long without moving,
which forces the blood to fight gravity on its flow back to
the heart. Slow blood flow causes a conversion of fibrinogen
to fibrin in the bloodstream, which causes a clot, or
thrombus. Cabin pressure, dehydration and long overseas
flights add to the risk."
James Spahr : LogTools
I am not much for OpArt, but there's
just something about logfiles...
Please think good thoughts for the Deepleap gang,
Robert J. Lurtsema : 1931 - 2000
PHPBuilder : PHP Extension and Add-on Repository
(PEAR)
"is an effort to develop a repository
similar to perl's CPAN and TeX's CTAN for the PHP community."
International Panel of Eminent Personalities : Report
on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide
"But when it came to trying to
understand the actual act of killing, we confess our total
failure. We acknowledge from the outset this failure. We have
grasped the insidious process by which people were stirred
up. We understand how they were manipulated and how they came
to accept the demonization and dehumanization of
others. We studied the literature, some of it highly
controversial, that attempts to account for collective human
breakdowns in which ordinary citizens turn into
monsters. We have arrived at a certain comprehension of
the complex series of factors at work. But we do not
pretend for a moment that we have reached any understanding
of the act of one neighbour or one Christian or one teacher
actually hacking another to death. Perhaps, some day,
answers will emerge. But for now, we are able to offer
little illumination on the first questions that so many
people reasonably ask."
The Rocket, 1921 - 2000
The Francis Bacon Image Gallery
It's as if you have to wait for the dough to rise
Dr. Stickgold said. And we all know
what happens to bread dough once it's risen...
SAGE : Perl Practicum
"From 1993 to 1997, ;login: published
a series of articles "intended to demystify some of the more
occult aspects of Perl programming" (to quote from the
introduction to the first article, published in August 1993).
We are pleased to present the entire collection here."
Adbusters : Vandalism is Art
"Vandalism is a kind of parasitism
born from the essence of millennial western civilization. In
our current culture we stand fractured, manipulated by
technology and commercial interests. Marketers assign meaning
to clothing, cars, furniture, even food; we choose our
meanings with our products, simultaneously creating and
eradicating our sense of our selves. We are commercial
projects of meaning. We are host organisms and commodity
culture is the parasite. We are vandalized objects - bent,
warped, covered with markings we can't honestly say we chose
by free will. Sapped of community and humanity, we have come
to believe that we depend on our parasite for identity." I'm
not sure I really agree with all of this, but the
Invasion of
the Body Snatchers
language cracks me up. One day, I noticed that a friend had a
small card in her office that read "Yelling is an act of
violence" (ugh.) While she wasn't looking, I quickly covered
it with a new card that read "I need a more suitable host
body."
Leah Casner on webcams
"We have reached an even emptier
level of fame, beyond even the "being famous for being
famous" level. We are feeling famous for just being in view
of anyone who wants to look. At least I haven't mistaken my
new celebrity as an indication that I should run for
president."
Washington Post : OSHA Covers At-home Workers
"If an employee is allowing it to
happen, it is covered." Does it cover workers outside of the
States?
Julia Hill gives new meaning
William Saleton on Vote.com
"Meanwhile, [Morris] predicts that
"money won't work in politics anymore, because you won't be
able to reach people by buying television ads," since "the
Internet is taking the place of television in politics." So
if you're a special interest, where can you take your money
to reach the voters? To Morris, of course. He boasts that
vote.com is "free" because "we get our money from
advertisers." And who's going to advertise on a site where
people vote on political issues? Why, special interests,
naturally."
The National Post considers pubic hair
"The notion that the pubis is the
last frontier of female one-upmanship was recently floated by
British Vogue, which reported a trend toward dyeing
well-coiffed pubic hair the blue of a Tiffany box." see also
:
Visiting the pubic library
(quicktime)
via Slashdot comes good news
iDot is selling 450$ BeOS machines
Brave New Waves
"There's nothing wrong with your
radio. Maybe it's you."
Live on the Internet
, Monday-Friday 00h05 - 04h00 EST. Some of my happiest
moments in life have been staying up all night making art,
listening to BNW.
The Dr. Seuss Purity Test
It's hard to know whether you want to
pass or fail...
Not only does Montreal have a killer public
transportation system
O'Reilly's MySQL & mSQL
<a href =
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msql/chapter/ch10-beta.html">beta
sample chapter</a>
I had no idea that
N.Y.Times : High-Speed Lines Leave Door Ajar for
Hackers
Meanwhile, the new ( and as yet
unpublished on-line ) issue of
Web
Techniques
has a piece by Lincoln Stein on setting up appropriate
security for your home computer.
Scott McCloud
"But this wasn't what people were
picking up from the book. They were talking about the nature
of cartoons, and they were talking about the combination of
words and pictures. That one comes up a lot. And they were
comparing the experience of surfing the Web to the alchemy
that occurs between the panels. " I'm glad to see this book
[<a href =
"http://scottmccloud.com/objects/uc/uc.html">Understanding
Comics</a>] getting around. I read it a few
times over when it first came out. A couple years ago I
started to see it popping up in art schools and recently more
and more web people are takling about it. It's a truly
remarkable piece of work!
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.