posts brought to you by the category “design”
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.
Loosely translated : Your business success depends on lifestyle porn
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Yehuda Berlinger : Podindex
Podindex is an attempt to provide an interface to the Perl documentation which is easier to navigate than the currently available perldoc or the html pages. ... We have created a module called Pod::Index which is the indexer and the core interface to the index. We are using it as the backend to all kinds of user interfaces.
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Dispatches : Should peacekeeping be privatized and for profit?
The building on the corner of Marie-Anne and the Main always has the best grafitti.
I spotted this Stephen Hawking -esque dealie last year. It's not there any more which isn't too surprising. It probably creeped people out. I would have started bumming, too, if I'd had to come to that every night in the dead of winter.
This year the wall to the left was painted with something more like the grafitti you come to expect everywhere. I don't really like it except for the space-blaster guy in the corner:
Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure that these were the inspiration for the milk carton thingies that show up in the taint and room projects.
Every summer there seems to be a single graffiti meme that predominates. One year it was the milk cartons. Another year it was the numbered bunny rabbit heads . This year it's these funny cartoons mouths. I'm not convinced that they aren't actually just a marketing gimmick for some yet to be announced product.
Switching gears, entirely, it was pointed out to me that those were actually yellow tomatoes on the vine. Waiting for them to ripen any more would only yield rotten fruit.
In my defense I will just say that I never paid much attention
to the tomatoes on the farm and this isn't
my
garden. Circumstances dictated that I take care of it this year
so I opted for stuff that I thought I could grow a lot of for
canning or drying.
I guess we'll have lots of yellow tomatoes this year. I certainly didn't buy yellow tomatoes so I'm left to assume that hooligans re-arranged all the tags at the nursery. It's a drag but it's also something I could see myself doing a few years ago.
That red-ish one is apparently a
black
tomato. Dunno. We swapped vegetables with someone on the way out
and that's what she called it.
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Tim Bray on inventing new characters
For example, it really hardly seems necessary to take a perfectly straightforward concept like countable-infinity and represent it with a typographical orgasm consisting of a large Hebrew letter Alef (U+05D0) with a subscript zero, pronounced Aleph-Null. Mind you, it looks kind of cool. Maybe that's the point.
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Me : xml résumé (XSL) formatting extensions 0.1
Why, why do I know how to do all of this shit?These stylesheets extend those included with the XML Résumé Library to add better support for external links and to support a small number of elements that are not part of the DTD.
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Me : eatdrinkfeelgood-1.1-to-indexcard-fo.xsl 0.93
xi:include
elements are processed. Next up are images though they may have to wait
a few days since there are, unrelated, friends arriving soon and more
little paper boxes to make.
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Cory Doctorow : Boring profs exposed by WiFi
Aside from the fact that in Canada, at least, university students barely pay for their school's floor wax with their tuition this kind of argument doesn't get much sympathy from me. The argument is not without merit but it makes the mistake of ignoring a few salient points: 1) some things are hard no matter how you dress them up 2) things that are hard are often seen as 'boring' at first blush 3) college students are hardly the most earnest and committed bunch you'll ever meet. There's also the whole issue of judging a post-secondary education on an investment-to-return ratio scale, but that's another story...Profs who bore their students and blame laptops don't get a lot of sympathy from me -- if you can't convince a room full of young people who've committed to a lifetime of debt in order to cram their heads with useful knowledge and skills to pay attention, it's time to re-evaluate your material and methods.
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Meanwhile, most people are shopping their way into a stupor,
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Me : [M]ost third-party weblog setups are fuct from the start.
It is worth mentioning, I think, that many (most) third-party weblog setups are often fuct from the start.
Not because there is anything inherently wrong with the software. Rather, the nature of multi-user environments, the nature of many of the protocols used to shuttle data back and forth, the inability of developers to account for every single case use (it's unreasonable, too) and the lack of specific tools on a given host all conspire to make doing this kind of thing "right" a difficult nut to crack.
[ There is also the tired old horse about making things "simple and easy" for people. For anything running on a Unix system (which is most), people need to take the bad news with the good : It will never be "simple" and will never just "do what I mean". On the other hand, it's just not that hard either. Boring, arcane and a bit confusing maybe, that's not the same thing. ]
Let's start with softwate that uses FTP to move files from one place to another: can anyone say clear-text passwords?
Not many hosts offer shell accounts (required to use a secure copy (SCP) program) and fewer still, I think, offer secure (encrypted) FTP (STFP).
Sniffing passwords out of thin air is not the easiest thing in the world, but it is possible. And, if you've got an account on a shared hosting server it's pretty easy to figure who else is using what for their weblogging needs.
Then there's software that runs as an a CGI program without a setuid wrapper : 666 is the number of the beast *and* world writeable files.
Translation: the CGI is running as the same user running the web server. Since plain old users don't have permissions the change ownership of files, their only recourse when they need to let their tool write static files is to make them writeable by anyone. No means no. Anyone means everyone.
[ It can, in fact, be worse: I've even seen software th... ed:wtf?! That Blogger suffered a break-in points out the risks of keeping lots of sensitive data in a centralized place. I don't, however, think that it demonstrates the relative merits of one weblog application over others.
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developerWorks : Use recursion effectively in XSL
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : concomitant
Concomitant \Con*com"i*tant\, n. One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment. Reproach is a concomitant to greatness. --Addison. The other concomitant of ingratitude is hardheartedness. --South. web1913
concomitant adj : following as a consequence; "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with related problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management" [syn: {accompanying}, {attendant}, {incidental}, {incidental to(p)}] n : an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another [syn: {accompaniment}, {co-occurrence}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : pugnacious
Pugnacious \Pug*na"cious\, a. [L. pugnax, -acis, fr. pugnare to fight. Cf. {Pugilism}, {Fist}.] Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting. --{Pug*na"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Pug*na"cious*ness}, n. web1913
pugnacious adj 1: tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: {hard-bitten}, {hard-boiled}] 2: ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men" [syn: {rough}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : apposite
Apposite \Ap"po*site\, a. [L. appositus, p. p. of apponere to set or put to; ad + ponere to put, place.] Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. -- {Ap"po*site*ly}, adv. -- {Ap"po*site*ness}, n. web1913
apposite adj : being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply" [syn: {appropriate}, {apt}, {pertinent}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : temerarious
Temerarious \Tem`er*a"ri*ous\, a. [L. temerarius. See {Temerity}.] Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless. -- {Tem`er*a"ri*ous*ly}, adv. I spake against temerarious judgment. --Latimer. web1913
temerarious adj : presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff" [syn: {brash}, {daredevil}] wn
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Joe Johnston : "It's not the language designer's perview to make you code clearly.
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Mark Howell : Spoofing link clicks with JavaScript events.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : myrmidon
Myrmidon \Myr"mi*don\, n. [L. Myrmidones, Gr. ?, pl.] 1. One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war. 2. A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc. --Thackeray. With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward. --W. H. Ainsworth. web1913
myrmidon n 1: a follower who carries out orders without question 2: (Greek mythology) a member of the warriors who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy [syn: {Myrmidon}] wn
MYRMIDON, n. A follower of Achilles -- particularly when he didn't lead. devils