posts brought to you by the category “culture”
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 : practice consumer sovereignty
rue Duluth, Montréal, October 2003
Mélanie Baillairgé : Calvin
Simon Cozens : HouseShare.pm
Ken Wiwa appears to have found the connection between weblogs and
1984
Andrew Shapiro : "I am the ambassador of cheesesteak love."
I went to the Commerce and Design expo on Friday afternoon
Robert Fisk : Baghdad, the day after
One can hardly be moralistic about the spoils of Saddam's henchmen
but how is the government of America's so-called "New Iraq" supposed
to operate now that the state's property has been so comprehensively
looted?
Me : ASCOPE::Search::Boolean.pm 1.1
Matt Sergeant : AxKit OpenOffice Provider
The product includes an AxKit plugin, an AxKit provider and DTDs
and Stylesheets to make delivering SXW files to the web a trivial
matter, and the results are pretty too.
The Connection : An Ode to Clutter
Meanwhile, most people are shopping their way into a stupor,
And in the "Small ingredients, loosely arranged" department :
Some guy named Marcel : Spoken News
"Hear your favourite RSS newsfeeds: Take some
LWP, a little XML::RSS and season with command-line driven AppleScript."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cupidity
Cupidity \Cu*pid"i*ty\ (k?-p?d"?-t?), n. [F. cupidite, L.
cupiditas, fr. cupidus longing, desiring, fr. cupere to long for,
desire. See {Covet}.] 1. A passionate desire; love. [Obs.] 2. Eager or
inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice;
covetousness. With the feelings of political distrust were mingled
those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces
of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael.
--Prescott.
web1913
cupidity n : extreme greed for material wealth [syn:
{avarice}, {avariciousness}, {covetousness}]
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If I were a conceptual artist
I would have set up a video camera to the right
of the door at
open da
night
and filmed people as they came in walked to the corner of the bar. I
would capture the moment of realization and the slow turning of the head
as each realized that the line actually started three feet back, so as
not to block the game on television, and actually stretched all the back
to the
pool
table
. But I am not a conceptual artist. So much so that one of my tiny
moments of joy was meeting
Kelly Mark
in the cafeteria at NSCAD and ripping on Damian Hirst.
I am probably going to shut things down for , realistically, a week
or two
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : singleton
Non gender specific term somewhat akin to "spinster," with
less negative connotations (as popularized by Helen Fielding in
"Bridget Jones's Diary").
ex. "Just because you're a Singleton doesn't mean you can't
lead a normal fulfilling life..."
see also :
singleton dict-ified
Dachb0den Labs : bsd-airtools
"is a package that provides a complete toolset
for wireless 802.11b auditing. Namely, it currently contains a bsd-based
wep cracking application, called dweputils (as well as kernel patches for
NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD). It also contains a curses based ap
detection application similar to netstumbler (dstumbler) that can be used
to detect wireless access points and connected nodes, view signal to
noise graphs, and interactively scroll through scanned ap's and view
statistics for each. It also includes a couple other tools to provide a
complete toolset for making use of all 14 of the prism2 debug modes as
well as do basic analysis of the hardware-based link-layer protocols
provided by prism2's monitor debug mode."
Doug Harvey : "Why is communication impossible at the supposed
highest levels
of our culture when a few proles on the Internet
can punch a hole in the fabric of consensus reality with a few
keystrokes?"
BBC : "The US Government has bought all rights to all the pictures
of Afghanistan
and surrounding areas taken by the privately
operated Ikonos high-resolution imaging satellite. ...Under the terms of
the contract, Space Imaging, the company that operates Ikonos, will not
"sell, distribute, share or provide the imagery to any other entity"."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is disquisition
| source : web1913 | Disquisition
\Dis`qui*si"tion\, n. [L. disquisitio, fr. disquirere to inquire
diligently, investigate; dis- + quaerere to seek. See {Quest}.] A formal
or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full
examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts
bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or
grave disquisition he was not well qualified. --Macaulay. | source : wn |
disquisition n : an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or
discussion
Computer World : "If you are willing to donate IT goods or
services
to help in the wake of the tragedy in New York,
please enter the information below. If your donation will be needed, you
will be contacted in the coming days."
Jish : "God dammit, I'm Canadian."
David Bollier : Can the Information Commons Be Saved?
"How Intellectual Property Policies Are Eroding
Democratic Culture and Some Strategies for Asserting the Public Interest"
via
libjuice
. (pdf)
First, there was the laundromat-cafe.
Sean M. Burke : perlpodspec, draft 1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is intrepid
| source : web1913 | Intrepid \In*trep"id\, a.
[L. intrepidus: cf. F. intr['e]pide. See {In-} not, and {Trepidation}.]
Not trembling or shaking with fear; fearless; bold; brave; undaunted;
courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit. Syn: Fearless;
dauntless; resolute; brave; courageous; daring; valiant; heroic; doughty.
| source : wn | intrepid adj : invulnerable to fear or intimidation;
"audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid
pioneers" [syn: {audacious}, {brave}, {dauntless}, {fearless},
{unfearing}]
Me : Apache::SOAP::NYTimesParser.pm
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is parse
| source : web1913 | Parse \Parse\, v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Parsed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Parsing}.] [L. pars a part;
pars orationis a part of speech. See {Part}, n.] (Gram.) To resolve into
its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech,
and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze
and describe grammatically. Let him construe the letter into English, and
parse it over perfectly. --Ascham. | source : wn | parse v : analyze
syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence) |
source : jargon | parse [from linguistic terminology] vt. 1. To determine
the syntactic structure of a sentence or other utterance (close to the
standard English meaning). "That was the one I saw you." "I can't parse
that." 2. More generally, to understand or comprehend. "It's very simple;
you just kretch the glims and then aos the zotz." "I can't parse that."
3. Of fish, to have to remove the bones yourself. "I object to parsing
fish", means "I don't want to get a whole fish, but a sliced one is
okay". A `parsed fish' has been deboned. There is some controversy over
whether `unparsed' should mean `bony', or also mean `deboned'.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nettlesome
| source : wn | nettlesome adj 1: causing
irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with
his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport";
"found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay";
"nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats";
"a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought
annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are
wrong" [syn: {annoying}, {bothersome}, {galling}, {irritating}, {pesky},
{pestering}, {pestiferous}, {plaguy}, {plaguey}, {teasing}, {vexatious},
{vexing}] 2: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious
young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn: {cranky},
{fractious}, {irritable}, {peevish}, {peckish}, {pettish}, {petulant},
{testy}, {tetchy}, {techy}]
Rocco Lucia : Darwin ports
"As every FreeBSD enthusiast I wanted to see the
Ports Collection working on Darwin as soon as I installed Mac OS X on my
Powerbook. Here there is a quick and dirty way that will give a start to
the magic."
Helena Echlin : Letter from Yale
Feed : "Joe Wenderoth's Letters to Wendy's
is made up of a series of comments written over
the course of a year on Wendy's customer-feedback cards. Wendy's asks its
customers to "TELL US ABOUT YOUR VISIT," and Wenderoth spares no detail,
from fantasy couplings with its nubile mascot to the challenges of
ordering after ingesting marijuana brownies. ... The mechanistic rituals
and the bland, uniform settings of the fast-food transaction have become
so naturalized that we're not even aware of them until something disturbs
the artificial tranquility -- like Wenderoth replying "Daddy fucked me!"
when another man in line grouses that "You'd think they had to grow the
potatoes!" "
Andrew Odlyzko : Content is Not King
"Content can be profitable. Numerous media
companies are doing very well. Content can also be of value to a network,
even aside from providing traffic for the network to carry. However, it
is probably best to think of content as either catnip or icing on the
cake; something to attract new users, or enhance user experience. That is
what broadcast TV programs do for the advertisers who pay for them. That
may also have been the main role of the Web and browsers in bringing more
people to the Internet."
Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to meet Bonne Fete Barbie.
