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Irwin Cotler as Minister of Justice; that's one I didn't see coming.

So, le Steamé has appointed Ann McClennan to squawk at Tom Ridge about homeland security , Pierre Pettigrew to yammer on at the US drug czar about health issues and Irwin Cotler to debate the finer points of legal theory with John Ashcroft.

Curious — to say the least. I admit to a nagging sense that I may have to reevaluate my generally poor estimation of Paul Martin but don't expect anything from me until after the next election. Three or fours months of good deeds and fresh faces do not five years of governing make.

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It's bigger than a Mooseheads game.

Baci di dama, Montréal, September 2003

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www.ilesansfil.org

IleSansFil is a non-profit community group that promotes free public wireless internet access in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We use open source software and inexpensive commercial wifi equipment to share broadband internet connections. ... Besides doing this to provide something to regular members (the fortunate ones that have laptops) of the community, we also plan to use these hotspots to promote more interactions and collaboration between local digital artists and hobby-ists. We're thinking webdesign vernisages, digital comic book jams, linux meetings, online gaming nights, etc.

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If I ever taught programming, I would set aside an entire class for making risotto.

It would be proof that there are just some things computers can't do. That all your fancy code-fu won't save you from standing in from of the stove stirring, for at least a half an hour. And that's okay. Ed mentioned that few, if any, labs would be equipped for this sort of thing what with them being full of computers and all. This led to some very silly images of people making virtual risotto and "stirring" their mice for twenty or thirty minutes.

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All I wanted was a Pepsi

To build JDK 1.4.1 port, you should have at least 1.5Gb of free disk space in build area!

All this because the only decent XSL-FO processor is written in Java. Meanwhile, I misread this post and was left wondering what rock I'd been living under that I didn't know Black Flag had covered Institutionalized . Oh well, you can always dream...

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Does this mean that Apple is going to release iFeed

and we're all going to have to read RSS data using a swooshy swooshy hotsauce browser ?

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"They do care. They just have a bad attitude."

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Me : XML::SAXDriver::vCard.pm 0.02

Added support for AGENT property and bug fixes. Until the CPAN listings are updated, a local copy can be found over here . see also : docs .

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Ha! Stick this in your RSS pipe and smoke it.

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Bitflux Editor

"is a browser based Wysiwyg XML Editor. ... Now you can edit your content semantically and at the same time display it to your users and editors in its final form. "

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : camarilla

Camarilla \Ca`ma*ril"la\, n. [Sp., a small room.] 1. The private audience chamber of a king. 2. A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique. web1913
camarilla n : a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue [syn: {cabal}, {faction}, {junta}, {junto}] wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : leximaven

Someone who loves words, from "lexi" (word) and "maven" (knowledgeable about something).
ex. Leximavens beware, pseudodictionary is addictive.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : persiflage

Persiflage \Per`si`flage"\, n. [F., fr. persifler to quiz, fr. L. per + siffler to whistle, hiss, L. sibilare, sifilare.] Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. --Hannah More. web1913
persiflage n : light teasing wn

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : laudable

Laudable \Laud"a*ble\, a. [L. laudabilis: cf. OE. laudable. See {Laud}, v. i.] 1. Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition. 2. (Med.) Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. --Arbuthnot. web1913
laudable adj : worthy of high praise; "applaudable efforts to save the environment"; "a commendable sense of purpose"; "laudable motives of improving housing conditions"; "a significant and praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence" [syn: {applaudable}, {commendable}, {praiseworthy}] wn

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Never mind the "weblog as journalism" meme,

I watch The Mirror Project

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hole of pluto

Middle of nowhere.
ex. She moved to the hole of Pluto. I don't even think they deliver mail where she moved.

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Philip A. Mansfield :Using XSLT to Generate SVG

Following the resources listed, I also found :J.M. Vanel's XSLT transforms library , Oliver Becker's XML to HTML Verbatim Formatter and Muhammad Athar Parvez's Calendar stylesheets.

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : ambimoustrous

Equally adept at using a computer's mouse with either hand - often in reaction to early-onset RSI.
ex. Oh, Paul's mouse is always on the wrong side of the PC - he's not a leftie though, he's ambimoustrous.

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : flumpus

(n, v) An animal or person who sprawls all over while looking squishy, cuddly, and cute. Plural: flumpi...or flumpuses.
ex. My cat is the neighborhood flumpus. Look at her, purring and flumpusing in the laundry basket. Squish!

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : adunyaha

A variation of "duh," to be used only under extreme circumstances.
ex. A. Neil Armstrong went to the moon. B. Adunyaha.

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Notes from the "You say French beans" department.

I was given a book of recipes, originally published in the New York Times The Minimalist column, for Christmas. Over coffee, this morning, I stumbled across the following passage :
Any kind of green beans will work, although thinner beans, like delicate, flavorful [sic] haricots verts, should be added a minute or two later than common green beans.
After pausing for a moment, I decided to consult the venerable Robert & Collins (how can you not love a dictionary that has a translation for the term fuckwit ?) which defines the French to English translation for haricot vert as French bean. However, there is no listing for the French bean in the English to French translation and, indeed, green bean is translated as, well, haricot vert. Further research yielded nothing from the Joy of Cooking and all that The New Basics, that penultimate of yuppie cookbooks which can atleast be counted on to make much ado about these sorts of silly distinctions, had to say was that French green beans known as haricots verts are "slender and delicate". And before you say it, a broad bean is known as a feve , although I for one have no idea where the accent circonflexe is on this dastardly keyboard...

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is surly

| source : web1913 | Surly \Sur"ly\, a. [Compar. {Surlier}; superl. {Surliest}.] [Probably from sir, and originally meaning, sirlike, i.e., proud. See {Sir}, and {Like}, a.] 1. Arrogant; haughty. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. 2. Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look. ``That surly spirit, melancholy.'' --Shak. 3. Rough; dark; tempestuous. Now softened into joy the surly storm. --Thomson. | source : wn | surly adj : inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" [syn: {ugly}]

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is malapropism

| source : web1913 | Malapropism \Mal"a*prop*ism\, n. [From Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Sheridan's drama, `` The Rivals,'' who makes amusing blunders in her use of words. See {Malapropos}.] A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used. | source : wn | malapropism n : the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar [syn: {malaprop}]

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The nice people from the band Ozomatli

have posted their two albums online, in RealAudio format. Note, you'll need to reverse-engineer the URLs on the most recent ablum. This really just means stripping the "30sec" from the link, which sort of begs the question.

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Anthony Lane : This is not a movie

"If the disaster movie is indeed to be shamed by disaster, we would do well to remember the exact moment of its defeat. It came, I think, when the cameras began to pick up moving dots in the steel grid of the towers: people waving for help that would never arrive. Was it just me, or did the networks back off of these long-lens shots, and revert, with something like relief, to the wider view? Too late: the aesthetic habit had cracked, and there was no going back."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pablum

| source : wn | Pablum n 1: a form of cereal for infants [syn: {Pablum}] 2: a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders [syn: {soft diet}, {pap}, {spoon food}] 3: worthless or oversimplified ideas [syn: {pap}]

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is doyen

| source : web1913 | Doyen \Doy`en"\, n. [F. See {Dean}.] Lit., a dean; the senior member of a body or group; as, the doyen of French physicians. ``This doyen of newspapers.'' --A. R. Colquhoun. | source : wn | doyen n : the senior member of a group; "he is the dean of foreign correspondents" [syn: {dean}]

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There's a small-ish park near where I live.

It's like the hundreds of other small parks in the city; a few thousand square feet of grass with trees, benches and a couple playsets for children resting in sand. Sometimes, a man and a woman come to the park with their bunny. The bunny is brown, has big floppy ears and wears a harness with about fifteen feet of leash. It's pretty great to watch the man and the bunny chase each other around the playset.

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Some desperately earnest half-wit : "After sitting at home in my bathrobe,

and having some nice man hand me my movie, how can I ever go back to Blockbusters? It's like living in a Third World country." How, exactly, do we who've been blessed with so much good fortune and privilege manage to raise and nurture such fucking idiots?

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cudgel

| source : web1913 | Cudgel \Cudg"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cudgeled} or {Cudgelled} (-?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cudgeling} or {cudgelling}.] To beat with a cudgel. An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. --Shak. {To cudgel one's brains}, to exercise one's wits. | source : web1913 | Cudgel \Cudg"el\ (k?j"?l), n. [OE. kuggel; cf. G. keule club (with a round end), kugel ball, or perh. W. cogyl cudgel, or D. cudse, kuds, cudgel.] A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon. He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. --Bunyan. {Cudgel play}, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels. {To cross the cudgels}, to forbear or give up the contest; -- a phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who lay one cudgel over another when the contest is ended. {To take up cudgels for}, to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something). | source : wn | cudgel n : used as a weapon v : strike with a cudgel

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Julia Hayden : The Daily Decision

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Ronald Bourret : Mapping DTDs tp Databases

Mr. Bourret is the clever guy who wrote the XML-DBMS package. This article, however, appears to be part of a growing trend at the Oreilynet collective to simply repackage existing documentation or presentations and sell them as capital-A articles. Maybe it's always been this way and I've only just caught up with the practice. I'm not even sure I think it's a bad thing since you could make a reasonable argument that it provides and effective vehicle for people to learn about cool stuff. Still, it just seems a bit cheap. Anyway, I love DTDs...

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Andrew Van Etten : "So... help me understand where [WebDAV] fits in the CMS world..."

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