posts brought to you by the category “mail”
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.
15,000!
Dan Farmer and Charles C. Mann : Surveillance Nation
Martine Pagé : Il y a plusieurs ... qui n'ont pas eu
leur baptme de sucre.
Mike Hearn : Using the Mozilla JavaScript interface to XSLT
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.02
Me : [M]ost third-party weblog setups are fuct from the start.
Denis Krylov : "Every one one of us had his own September
11th."
A FreeBSD Operating System Security Checklist
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : recondite
Recondite \Rec"on*dite\ (r?k"?n*d?t or r?*k?n"d?t; 277), a.
[L. reconditus, p. p. of recondere to put up again, to lay up, to
conceal; pref. re- re- + condere to bring or lay together. See
{Abscond}.] 1. Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret;
abstruse; as, recondite causes of things. 2. Dealing in things
abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies. ``Recondite
learning.'' --Bp. Horsley.
web1913
recondite adj : difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to
one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures
were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep
metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography" [syn:
{abstruse}, {deep}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : too hard
basket case
A guy that you love to death but is too hard to get
together with for reasons that are extremely annoying.
ex. Bob's a bit of a too hard basket case.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : intractable
Intractable \In*tract"a*ble\, a. [L. intractabilis: cf. F.
intraitable, formerly also intractable. See {In-} not, and
{Tractable}.] Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed;
indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn;
obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child. Syn: Stubborn;
perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable; unruly;
headstrong; violent; ungovernable; unteachable. --
{In*tract"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*tract"a*bly}, adv.
web1913
intractable adj : not tractable; difficult to manage or
mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most
intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal" [ant: {tractable}]
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If I were a conceptual artist
I would have set up a video camera to the right
of the door at
open da
night
and filmed people as they came in walked to the corner of the bar. I
would capture the moment of realization and the slow turning of the head
as each realized that the line actually started three feet back, so as
not to block the game on television, and actually stretched all the back
to the
pool
table
. But I am not a conceptual artist. So much so that one of my tiny
moments of joy was meeting
Kelly Mark
in the cafeteria at NSCAD and ripping on Damian Hirst.
I was telling Michael the other night that I was pretty sure a
Toronto-Ottawa series
Rasterweb : See if there's interest in at least embedding Lynx in
the sidebar...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : tims
short for Timberland boots (highly thought of in the
hip-hop/rap community)
ex. Yo . . .B! Those tims are off the hook!
Ed Hawco : Bullet holes, Tokyo Restaurant, Montreal
From the "Thinking Out Loud" department : forbidden searches.
Not only have the project7 gang written a VDX -> SVG
stylesheet
Dave, it's not hard to think about a site that uses "all the latest
and greatest technology
Philip A. Mansfield :Using XSLT to Generate SVG
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : joust
Playful fighting or sparring.
ex. They are not really angry. They are just jousting with
each other.
see also :
joust dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : retes
Slang Doritos. Sounds like "pete's."
ex. Pass my the retes.
N.Y. Times : Prosciutto, Fig and Parmesan Rolls
From the salt-in-the-wounds department : 500 wins
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is diablerie
| source : web1913 | Diablerie \Dia`ble*rie"\,
Diabley \Di*ab"le*y\, n. [F. diablerie, fr. diable devil, L. diabolus.
See {Devil}.] Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed;
mischief.
Me : renderRSS.js
Me : Perlblog
Jabber User 1 says : jabber
Jabber User 2
says: web1913 Jabber \Jab"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jabbered}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Jabbering}.] [Cf. {Gibber}, {Gabble}.] To talk rapidly,
indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to
chatter. --Swift. web1913 Jabber \Jab"ber\, v. t. To utter rapidly or
indistinctly; to gabble; as, to jabber French. --Addison. web1913 Jabber
\Jab"ber\, n. Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance;
gibberish. --Swift. web1913 Jabber \Jab"ber\, n. One who jabbers. wn
jabber n : rapid and indistinct speech [syn: {jabbering}, {gabble}] v :
talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner [syn: {rant}, {mouth
off}, {spout}, {rabbit on}, {rave}] foldoc jabber <networking> An
event that occurs when a device on a network using the {LAT} {protocol}
continues to broadcast its availability even though its availability
status is known by the network. (1996-05-10)
Marc Waldman, Aviel D. Rubin and Lorrie Faith Cranor : Publius
"A robust, tamper-evident, censorship-resistant
web publishing system." (pdf)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is exhort
| source : web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, v. i. To
deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.
With many other words did he testify and exhort. --Acts ii. 40. | source
: web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, n. Exhortation. [Obs.] --Pope. | source :
web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exhorted}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Exhorting}.] [L. exhortari; ex out + hortari to incite,
encourage; cf. F. exhorter. See {Hortative}.] To incite by words or
advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable
conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise,
warn, or caution. Examples gross as earth exhort me. --Shak. Let me
exhort you to take care of yourself. --J. D. Forbes. | source : wn |
exhort v 1: urge on or encourage esp. by shouts; "The crowd cheered the
demonstrating strikers" [syn: {cheer}, {inspire}, {urge}, {barrack},
{urge on}, {pep up}] 2: force or impel in an indicated direction; "I
urged him to finish his studies" [syn: {urge}, {urge on}, {press}] |
source : devils | EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the
conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown
discomfort.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is apotheosis
| source : web1913 | Apotheosis \Ap`o*the"o*sis\
(?; 277), n. pl. {Apotheoses}. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to deify; ? from + ?
to deify, ? a god.] 1. The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and
placing him among, ``the gods;'' deification. 2. Glorification;
exaltation. ``The apotheosis of chivalry.'' --Prescott. ``The noisy
apotheosis of liberty and machinery.'' --F. Harrison. | source : wn |
apotheosis n 1: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having
no equal [syn: {ideal}, {paragon}, {nonpareil}, {saint}, {nonesuch},
{nonsuch}] 2: the elevation of a person to the status of a god [syn:
{deification}, {exaltation}]
Lincoln Dahlberg : Extending the Public Sphere through
Cyberspace
Marie-Joelle Gros : Le «Gitoyen» contre le Web commercial
"Pour eux, la constitution d'un GIE «associatif»
est une étape supplémentaire dans l'édification d'un Web indépendant des
pressions économiques. «
On n'a rien contre le business, mais on défend une
autre idée: celle d'une appropriation du réseau par le public
, explique Laurent Chemla.
La liberté d'expression appartient à tous. Elle n'a
rien à voir avec une logique marchande.
»"
mmmmm...recursive web applications.
Jean-Sébastien Marsan : "En somme, bien que les phantasmes
technologiques
des ingénieurs soient sans limites, des
contraintes physiques, économiques et surtout humaines détermineront
l'informatique et les réseaux de demain. «Notre propre temps biologique
demeure relativement constant, même si celui qui nous entoure nous donne
l'impression de s'accélérer sans cesse, relativise M. Poussart. C'est
ainsi que la dimension d'une main demeure encore incontournable dans la
réalisation d'une interface tactile…»."
