posts brought to you by the category “greedheads”
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.
Mark A. Hershberger : XPath to Elisp
Spotted : The B. leg
boulevard St. Laurent, Montréal, September
2003
The Connection : A Life of Letters
Bill, that's a terrible analogy.
If I ever taught programming, I would set aside an entire class for
making risotto.
If you go to an old-skool barber, sooner or later you get used to
straight-edge razors.
Tomer Hanuka has some fine lines.
Just so no one is confused, Mont Royal and St. Laurent are
perpendicular to one another.
Meanwhile, David "I'm just waiting for my application for U.S.
citizenship to be processed" Frum chastises Americans for not being
Canadians.
Me : XML::SAXDriver::NYTimes.pm 0.21
Dispatches on an amazing project to set computers free and see what
happens
Cyberspace comes to the last place on earth you'd expect to find it.
In the slums of New Delhi, computers bolted into holes in the wall
enable children to teach themselves.
real audio
Ben Brown : Content-type: poetry/brilliant
"I took my huge spam file and ran it through
Dadadodo and immediately became enlightened. ... I spent hours, smoking
cigarettes in bed with my laptop, who had just then discovered her poesy,
letting her read poems she generated out in her sweet, robotic voice."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : busker
busker n : a person who entertains people for money in
public places (as by singing or dancing)
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Best line of the game : "And the world laughs together",
as yet another Brazilian player takes a dive and
plays the drama queen.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : rubicund
Rubicund \Ru"bi*cund\, a. [L. rubicundus, fr. rubere to be
red, akin to ruber red. See {Red}.] Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.
``His rubicund face.'' --Longfellow.
web1913
rubicund adj : inclined to a healthy reddish color often
associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund
cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion" [syn: {ruddy}, {sanguine}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : jsssk
Just Kidding. Usually follows an insult made in jest
towards a friend or something stupid that one may say.
ex. Ernie: (to Bert) You are such a loser. Jssk.OR Ernie:
I am the greatest basketball player ever. Jssk.
Michel Bergeron : "Rien ne va battre la rivalité entre le Canadien
et les Nordiques.
Ça allait au delà des équipes. C'était deux
villes, deux brasseries et des journalistes des deux côtés. Et chaque
équipe comptait 12 ou 13 Québécois dans son alignement. Moi, je ne vois
pas de grosse rivalité aujourd'hui. Le jeu est robuste, mais nous sommes
en séries éliminatoires."
Saku Koivu,ladies and gentlemen.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
senilosopher
A combination of "senile" and "philosopher." Used to
describe a computer that constantly sits and proccesses information
for no reason at all.
ex. Mark finishes booting computer and moves mouse,
causing computer to sit and "think." "Dangit! I haven't even opened
anything yet!! Stupid Senilosopher..."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : jake
Completely and utterly boring or lame.
ex. This movie's jake. Let's get out of
here.
Dave Winer : "Now it's interesting to note that, as far as I
know,
no one has ever said "You get what you pay for"
about XML-RPC."
Michael Graham : Palm::Progect.pm
" is a helper class for the Palm::PDB package. It
allows you to load and save Progect databases. ... This module was
largely written in support of the progconv utility, which is a conversion
utility which imports and exports between Progect PDB files and other
formats."
Me : xml-rss.js 0.2
I've been wating patiently for someone else to say it
Hunter S. Thompson : "This is going to be a very expensive war, and
Victory is not guaranteed
-- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as
baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the
war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been
chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will
declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody,
no matter where they live or why." via
doc searls
Michael De La Rue : Schedule::SoftTime.pm
"is a class to implement an `I'll get round to
you when I can be bothered' scheduler. It's based on the queue system in
our banks shops and some doctors I've been to. You turn up any time you
want, but then you have to wait till everyone else who was there before
you has been dealt with. The idea is to let the items being scheduled do
so at any free time they wish and then worry about resource requirements
later. If we can't handle some items when they were scheduled, they just
queue until they can be handled."
Michael Arick : iCal in UML
"The diagrams can be used as a reference guide
for someone starting to develop an application using iCal. More
importantly, however, the diagrams can be used as a minimum requirements
document for developing new protocols to perform internet calendaring"
see also :
The
Weblog As A Project-Management Tool
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is inexorable
| source : web1913 | Inexorable \In*ex"o*ra*ble\,
a. [L. inexorabilis: cf. F. inexorable. See {In-} not, and {Exorable},
{Adore}.] Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm;
determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an
inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge. ``Inexorable equality
of laws.'' --Gibbon. ``Death's inexorable doom.'' --Dryden. You are more
inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania.
--Shak. | source : wn | inexorable adj 1: not to be placated or appeased
or moved by entreaty;"grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's
final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless
persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood [syn: {grim},
{relentless}, {stern}, {unappeasable}, {unforgiving}, {unrelenting}] 2:
not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to
persuasion; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia
was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an
intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendancy" [syn:
{adamant}, {adamantine}, {intransigent}]
The Society of Robotic Combat
Web Reference : DOM Differences and Commonalities with IE5.x [and
Netscape 6]
Blair Zajac : WebFS::FileCopy.pm
"provides some simple routines to read, move,
copy, and delete files as references by string URLs, URI objects or URIs
embedded in HTTP::Reqeust or LWP::Request objects."
Bryan Boyer : "Nomadicism is thus no longer lamenting the lack of
Home,
but redefining it altogether. Home as series.
(This makes a rather large assumption that one's aesthetic is influenced
by their Home. I'd like to extend the idea of Home as more than physical
dwelling, but now cultural, spiritual, and geographic locus.)" I'm not
sure I agree with this but I will say that, more and more, not just
having a home but knowing what and where it is is a luxury not to be
overlooked. see also :
Chez moi is not
a home
I promise I will fix the heinous IE (Win) display bug in the
morning...
New Scientist : Tetris-playing amnesiacs reveal why dreams can be
so weird
"By blocking declarative memories and forcing the
system to work with these weak associations, the brain is coerced into
looking for unexpected, novel and potentially highly creative and useful
connections that otherwise we would not notice."
Chappaquiddick
Orange plaid couch / Plastic trees and
shaggy crochet
/ Estimated time to empty is 0:11
CNN : "On Monday, Handspring will release the VisorPhone,
a $299 product that essentially turns the Visor
into a [GSM] cell phone. Using the microphone built into the PDA, the
cartridge includes software that provides caller ID and integration with
the Visor address book." Thanks
Chris
I'm not one for single-issue voting,
The only thing worse than X?
I got my hair cut the other day.
It is shorter than I planned but my only real
concern during the summer is that [it] not stick to my forehead when it
gets hot. As expected, I've started getting comments from people that I
look an awful lot like Stockwell Day, leader and idiot-savant of the CRAP
party and general all-around tool of The Man. Seeing as how some guy in
B.C. managed to register
stockwelldaysucks.com
before me, I'm thinking of using my new found disguise to travel the
province of Quebec
pretending to be the Holy Word of CRAP
, quoting liberally from the works of Pierre Trudeau and Diane Francis
wherever I go.
Abigail : JAPHS and other obscure signatures
In Rome, last Wednesday
I ate pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner and
was nearly killed when a six foot chunch of building on via del
trastevere fell off and crashed 10 feet in front of me. This weekend I
went to the beach, got sunburned and ate cowboy dry meat.
Jean-Louis Leroy : Tangram.pm
"is an object-relational mapper. It makes objects
persist in relational databases, and provides powerful facilities for
retrieving and filtering them. Tangram fully supports object-oriented
programming, including polymorphism, multiple inheritance and
collections. It does so in an orthogonal fashion, that is, it doesn't
require your classes to implement support functions nor inherit from a
utility class." Neat, but why is it called Tangram?
Sheriff Mark Dion
"For me this was an ethical, a moral decision. I
voted out of conscience. When you look at law enforcement, that's about
making sure rules are obeyed. But justice is about finding the exceptions
to those rules. I think this is a case where the citizens of Maine
recognize that there should be an exception. And I support that."
Inspired by Rasterweb's
Meta
As if things around these parts hadn't been slow
enough already, they might just stop this weekend. After a year of
dawdling and fiddling, I am finally going to upgrade the software that
runs this site. It may or may not have all the bells and whistles of
other fancy weblog sites, but I get to say "I made this" and I wrote it
back in the bad old days when the big kids were still struggling with
their ftp clients. I would like nothing more than to release the source
but for reasons too involved to get into, it probably won't happen.
Sorry; maybe I'll post some screenshots. In the meantime, I'm going to
stop typing for a while...
Norman Nie
"No one is asking the obvious questions about
what kind of world we are going to live in when the Internet becomes
ubiquitous. No one asked these questions with the advent of the
automobile, which led to unplanned suburbanization, or with the rise of
television, which led to the decline of our political parties. We hope we
can give society a chance to talk through some of these issues before the
changes take place." see also
Jon Katz : How
many hours did you work this week?
Jorn Barger : DecentOS
Eeep! The idea of combining Emacs and HyperCard
-- in any measure -- sends shivers up my spine.
Honeylocust : Linux got me kicked out of Wal-Mart
"She told us that wasn't allowed, so we'd have to
leave or she'd have to take [the pictures]. Afterward we wondered what
would have happened if they'd tried to search the computer. Would they
have had anyone who could have figured out how to log in?"
NY Times : How Small-Town Standards Can Block a Big City Class
"Michael Cherry, technical systems administrator
for the Hory County schools, is the main arbiter of what is allowed or
not allowed on the Internet in the county's schools. Mr. Cherry described
his community as 'deep in the Bible Belt,' and said he tried to use that
standard as his guide. ... 'I can sit anywhere in the world, if I can get
on the Internet, and I can see where anyone has been.' Mr. Cherry said."
Ars Technica
"Actually using DP2 is akin to logging into a
demented Xterm running a poorly designed window manager theme meant to
look something like Mac OS. Launch a Cocoa application and you feel like
you've been warped into NEXTSTEP, again running that funny window
manager. Run a classic applications and it's like being in a slightly odd
version of Mac OS 9, with that alternate NeXT universe still visible in
the background. Pull up the command line and you start to think that all
of this is one big facade running on top of good old Unix."
Mother Jones : Low Power to the People
"After reviewing a series of petitions filed on
behalf of self-proclaimed "microbroadcasters" yearning for a legal on-air
voice, [FCC Chairman] Kennard last January introduced a proposal for new
low-power FM broadcast licenses that could allow thousands of small
broadcasters to operate at power ratings of between 1 to 10 watts, 100
watts, and 1,000 watts, filling in the gaps that now separate bigger
stations' signals on the FM dial."
Jon Katz : The Net - Boon or Nightmare?
Spider Robinson : Senator Socksdryer and the Two Million Dollar
Boondoggle
As It Happens : The dark heart of Flipper
"Recently scientists off the coast of Scotland
watched an adult dolphin whack a dolphin calf against the water until it
finally sank from view. Recent news reports describe dolphins bludgeoning
porpoises, biting human swimmers, as well as killing their own young."
real audio (starts 23:40)
Ontario judge bans spam for breach of Netiquette
Michael Geist, a law professor at the University
of Ottawa, said the legal ruling is troubling because it attempts to
define Netiquette and use it as a legal principle. "If you export this
decision into a different context, this provides an open opportunity for
people to get out of contracts that they might not get out of otherwise,"
he said. "If I send out content that someone finds objectionable, is that
breach of Netiquette?"
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.
