posts brought to you by the category “frogs”
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.
It's bigger than a Mooseheads game.
Baci di dama, Montréal, September 2003
Me : ASCOPE::Apache::XSLT.pm 0.3
Philip Roche has written an RSS aggregator for Mozilla
Lars Lundgren : PDF::Reuse::Tutorial
William Grimes : On a Clear Day I Can Eat Forever
It's the dawn of a bright new day. But to usher it in, the
government has had to declare shade illegal.
Margaret Atwood : "Give me your tired, your poor, you sang, and for
a while you meant it."
perl -e 'use strict; use Cwd; my $dir = getcwd; my $i = -1; map {
$i += $_ eq "/" } (split("",$dir)); print $i,"\n";'
Kendall Grant Clark : The Social Meaning of RDF
Ben Hammersley : Contemporaria
The APXL (Apple Keynote) Schema
Can I just cut the fucking ironic humor and ask a simple
question?
Me : eatdrinkfeelgood-1.1-to-indexcard-fo.xsl 0.9
Meanwhile, the New York Time starts a photo-blog
Each week, staff photographers around the world send thousands of
images to the editors on the picture desk at The New York Times. Only a
fraction appear in the newspaper. Margaret O'Connor, picture editor,
and Mike Smith, deputy picture editor, will select their favorites each
week – both published and not – and tell the stories behind
them.
see also :
WBUR
pictorial roundup
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
fempulation
Female population.
ex. The majority of the fempulation of the world have
once uttered the phrase "men are pigs."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : malfeasance
Malfeasance \Mal*fea"sance\, n. [F. malfaisance, fr.
malfaisant injurious, doing ill; mal ill, evil + faisant doing, p. pr.
of faire to do. See {Malice}, {Feasible}, and cf. {Maleficence}.] (Law)
The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an
illegal deed. [Written also {malefeasance}.]
web1913
malfeasance n : a wrongful act that the actor had no right
to do; improper professional conduct; "he charged them with electoral
malpractices" [syn: {malpractice}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
pyrokleptomanic
Someone who steals disposable lighters, usually without
knowing it--or claiming not to know it.
ex. My boyfriend is a pyrokleptomanic, is
yours?
Ray Whitmer : SOAP Scripts in Mozilla
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : roister
Roister \Roist"er\, n. See {Roisterer}.
web1913
roister v : engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making;
"They were out carousing last night" [syn: {carouse}, {riot}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : apogee
Apogee \Ap"o*gee\, n. [Gr. ? from the earth; ? from + ?, ?,
earth: cf. F. apog['e]e.] 1. (Astron.) That point in the orbit of the
moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth. Note: Formerly,
on the hypothesis that the earth is in the center of the system, this
name was given to that point in the orbit of the sun, or of a planet,
which was supposed to be at the greatest distance from the earth. 2.
Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination.
web1913
apogee n 1: a final climactic stage; "their achievements
stand as a culmination of centuries of development" [syn:
{culmination}] 2: apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where
a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth [ant: {perigee}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
resiprocal
ReCIPprocal--for drinking situations.
ex. Our drinking was resiprocal at the
party.
weblog-devel thread : Adding a shortcut/macros feature
Benjamin Wright : "The [ IE6 P3P ] filters force administrators to
post new privacy policies for their web sites,
coded in a technical language called P3P. The
filters punish administrators who fail to publish properly coded P3P
privacy policies by blocking or impeding their cookies. Cookies are an
important web feature. The P3P coding language raises, for any
corporation, government agency or other institution that uses it, a
lawsuit danger. A privacy policy written in it exposes the organization
to liability, with little or no escape."
Michael S. Shapiro : Copyright as Cultural Policy
Mike J. Brown and Jeni Tennison : Pretty XML Tree Viewer
"produces an HTML document that shows, in the
form of 'ASCII art', the node structure of an XML document. A CSS 1
stylesheet (tree-view.css) helps render the HTML in an appealing style.
There are different ways of representing what's in an XML document. This
particular model is what is used by XSLT and is prescribed by Section 5
of the XPath recommendation." via
eclectic
Ken Simpson : Pyinline
"allows you to put source code from other
programming languages directly "inline" in a Python script or module. The
code is automatically compiled as needed, and then loaded for immediate
access from Python. PyInline is the Python equivalent of Brian Ingerson's
Inline module for Perl"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is germane
| source : web1913 | Germane \Ger*mane"\, a. [See
{German} akin, nearly related.] Literally, near akin; hence, closely
allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more
germane to the matter. --Shak. [An amendment] must be germane. --Barclay
(Digest). | source : wn | germane adj : having close kinship and
appropriateness; "he asks questions that are germane and central to the
issue" [syn: {germane(p)}, {related}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is brackish
| source : web1913 | Brackish \Brack"ish\, a.
[See {Brack} salt water.] Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water
in saline soil. Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though
they be. --Byron. | source : wn | brackish adj : slightly salty; "a
brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep" [syn: {briny}]
Mick McFadden : "Since when is the word 'Canadian'
interchangeable with or similar to 'crappy' ?"
Mike Godwin : Thieves R Us
This Morning : Babes in Boyland
"CBC Radio's technology reporter, Julie Ireton,
has been exploring the world of women in technology."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is furtive
| source : web1913 | Furtive \Fur"tive\, a. [L.
furtivus, fr. furtum theft, fr. fur thief, akin to ferre to bear: cf. F.
furtif. See {Fertile}.] Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth;
sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look. --Prior. A hasty and furtive
ceremony. --Hallam. | source : wn | furtive adj 1: marked by quiet and
caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive
manner"; "a lurking prowler"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a
surreptitious glance at his watch"; "someone skulking in the shadows"
[syn: {lurking}, {skulking}, {sneak(a)}, {sneaky}, {stealthy},
{surreptitious}] 2: secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his
low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive
behavior" [syn: {backstair}, {backstairs}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bevy
| source : web1913 | Bevy \Bev"y\, n.; pl.
{Bevies}. [Perhaps orig. a drinking company, fr. OF. bev['e]e (cf. It.
beva) a drink, beverage; then, perh., a company in general, esp. of
ladies; and last applied by sportsmen to larks, quails, etc. See
{Beverage}.] 1. A company; an assembly or collection of persons,
especially of ladies. What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here ! --Beau.
& Fl. 2. A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd
of roes. | source : wn | bevy n 1: a group of girls or young women 2: a
flock of quail
Michael A. Fischer : The Worthless Word for the Day
"This week: words you likely won't find in your
desk dictionary (no matter how big)"
R.V. Guha and Tim Bray "There is no useful distinction between data
and metadata.
Every item of information, without exception, is
likely to be regarded by some applications as ancillary and never to be
displayed, and by others as core content that needs to be formatted,
printed, or searched."
Falkkin of Minneapolis : Using Perl to Teach Perl
Spencer Kimball : "It's almost like it's our duty
to create cool things for the world."