posts brought to you by the category “lego”
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.
Me : A better Photo RDF
The Gnome/Mozilla browser saves bookmarks as an RSS 1.0
document.
The Washington Post on lifestyle porn for the ruling classes.
Homeland security. First there was the agency. Then there was the
department. Now there is the brand.
Ben Hammersley : Contemporaria
It's not about oil, per se, it's about geography.
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.03
Now, I've never really been one for conceptual art
Ed Hawco : Montréal has a few mythical bus lines
erhaps someone should write an essay about the 29 as a failed
bridge of the two solitudes, going back and forth, empty and
ghost-like, between The Main ... and Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : aplomb
Aplomb \A`plomb"\, n. [F., lit. perpendicularity; ? to +
plomb lead. See {Plumb}.] Assurance of manner or of action;
self-possession.
web1913
aplomb n : great coolness and composure under strain; "keep
your cool" [syn: {assuredness}, {cool}, {poise}, {sang-froid},
{self-possession}]
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How to hide CSS from buggy browsers
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bastard
hat
An invisible device that has an overall negative effect
on the wearer, turning her into a bastard.
ex. "What's the matter with them today?" "Dunno, they
must be wearing the Bastard Hat."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : polymath
polymath n : a person of great and varied learning
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Simon Cozens : Mail::Miner
"Suppose every mail you receive gets sent through
a little program before delivery. This little program does several
things. It strips off any attachments, and stores them in an SQL
database, adding a note to the end of the email pointing out the ID
number of the attachment in the database. It also stores information
about who the mail was sent from, the subject line, the date, some
keywords as determined by Text::Keywords, and so on. The add-on
"recogniser" modules get hold of the email and try to pull out various
things - email addresses, patches, phone numbers, mailing addresses, and
so on."
Me : [RFC] wblgml.dtd 0.2
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : aspersion
Aspersion \As*per"sion\, n. [L. aspersio, fr. aspergere:
cf. F. aspersion.] 1. A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal
sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. --Jer. Taylor. 2. The
spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation,
like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid
critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body
of professional teachers. --Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot
thy virtue. --Dryden.
web1913
aspersion n 1: a disparaging remark [syn: {slur}] 2: the
act of defaming [syn: {calumny}, {slander}, {defamation}] 3: the act of
sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn: {sprinkling}]
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Kip Hampton : Introducing XML::SAX::Machines, Part One
Salman Rushdie : "Night after night, I have found myself listening
to Londoners' diatribes
against the sheer weirdness of the American
citizenry."
The Connection : The Politics of Cartooning
David Rees, Ted Rall and Barbara Brandon-Croft.
see also :
The Gulf
War
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : gelid
Gelid \Gel"id\, a. [L. gelidus, fr. gelun frost, cold. See
{Cold}, and cf. {Congeal}, {Gelatin}, {Jelly}.] Cold; very cold;
frozen. ``Gelid founts.'' --Thompson.
web1913
gelid adj : extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "let's get
inside; I'm freezing"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North
Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn:
{arctic}, {freezing}, {frigid}, {glacial}, {icy}, {polar}]
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Design Your Own O'Reilly Book Cover
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is punctilious
| source : web1913 | Punctilious \Punc*til"ious\
(-y[u^]s), a. [Cf. It. puntiglioso, Sp. puntilloso.] Attentive to
punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or
mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars. ``A
punctilious observance of divine laws.'' --Rogers. ``Very punctilious
copies of any letters.'' --The Nation. Punctilious in the simple and
intelligible instances of common life. --I. Taylor. --
{Punc*til"ious*ly}, adv. -- {Punc*til"ious*ness}, n. | source : wn |
punctilious adj : marked by precise accordance with details; "was
worryingly meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his
attention to rules of etiquette" [syn: {meticulous}]
Simple Web Services API Specification
Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood perl-tools 0.1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is etiolate
| source : web1913 | Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\ v. i.
[imp. & p. p. {Etiolated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Etiolating}.] [F.
['e]tioler to blanch.] 1. To become white or whiter; to be whitened or
blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants. 2. (Med.) To
become pale through disease or absence of light. | source : web1913 |
Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\, v. t. 1. To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by
depriving of the sun's rays. 2. (Med.) To cause to grow pale by disease
or absence of light. | source : web1913 | Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\,
Etiolated \E"ti*o*la`ted\, a. Having a blanched or faded appearance, as
birds inhabiting desert regions. | source : wn | etiolate adj :
(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of
light; "etiolated celery" [syn: {etiolated}, {blanched}] v 1: make weak
by stunting the growth or development of 2: bleach and alter the natural
development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight 3: make pale or
sickly; "alcohol etiolates your skin"
Some of the joys of dual U.S. - Canadian citizenship, so far :
Me : Blogger::Manila.pm 0.1
Olivier Berger and Olivier Tharan : Chrooted SSH CVS server
HOW-TO
Paul Prescod : Ideas about Subclassing and Inheritance in Generic
Documents
James Gleick : Inescapably Connected
"We find that people look at their watches four
dozen times a day. And at no time do you realize that more than when you
forget your watch. It's not just that you don't know what time it is; you
feel all out of sorts. The rhythm of your day is all thrown off. So we're
thinking, What other kinds of information can you push into that
peripheral channel? Contacts and schedules and things like that are good.
But what about your stock-market portfolio? Or biometric information
about your loved ones, so you can see how your parents are doing, just to
know whether they're having a good day or a bad day."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is raiment
| source : web1913 | Raiment \Rai"ment\, n.
[Abbrev. fr. arraiment. See {Array}.] 1. Clothing in general; vesture;
garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense. Living,
both food and raiment she supplies. --Dryden. 2. An article of dress. [R.
or Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. | source : wn | raiment n : especially fine or
decorative clothing [syn: {array}, {finery}, {regalia}] v : provide with
clothes or put clothes on [syn: {dress}, {clothe}, {enclothe}, {garb},
{tog}, {garment}, {habilitate}, {fit out}, {apparel}] [ant: {undress}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is ignoble
| source : web1913 | Ignoble \Ig*no"ble\, v. t.
To make ignoble. [Obs.] --Bacon. | source : web1913 | Ignoble
\Ig*no"ble\, a. [L. ignobilis; pref. in- not + nobilis noble: cf. F.
ignoble. See {In-} not, and {Noble}, a.] 1. Of low birth or family; not
noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble. I was not ignoble of
descent. --Shak. Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants. --Shak. 2.
Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base. 'T but a base, ignoble mind,
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. --Shak. Far from the madding
crowd's ignoble strife. --Gray. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Not a true or noble falcon;
-- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk. Syn: Degenerate; degraded;
mean; base; dishonorable; reproachful; disgraceful; shameful; scandalous;
infamous. | source : wn | ignoble adj 1: completely lacking nobility in
character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his
attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than
that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Jr. [ant: {noble}] 2: not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle)
birth"; "untitled civilians" [syn: {ungentle}, {untitled}]
brian d. foy : Creating a Perl Debugger
Eiten Cornfield : Themes & Variations, The Radio Documentaries
of Glenn Gould
Commentfield but it is deliberately verbose and you can win a little extra space by doing things like removing new lines. If your description is very long you could even stick it in a separate file and point to it as a external resource. I don't really like those kinds of solutions but atleast a reference to the data is embedded in the image itself which is a good deal better than having to remember [insert clever secondary file for image meta-data scheme here]. see also :/usr/local/bin/jhead -ce