posts brought to you by the category “the man”
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.
I <heart /> Montréal
On Sunday afternoon, I saw a hummingbird the size of a bumble
bee
And in the "Small ingredients, loosely arranged" department :
I'm sorry, but was I asleep when we developed the tool for
measuring the size of memes?
In my on-effort to deny Karl user-defined templates
Antoine Quint : Simple Text Wrapping [in SVG]
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : fettle
Fettle \Fet"tle\, n. The act of fettling. [Prov. Eng.]
--Wright. {In fine fettle}, in good spirits.
web1913
fettle n : a state of fitness and good health; "in fine
fettle"
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : rigid
A person who has it all going for him.
ex. Mike is rigid.
see also :
rigid dict-ified
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : fulminate
Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, n. [Cf. P. fulminate. See
{Fulminate}, v. i.] (Chem.) (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under
{Fulminic}. (b) A fulminating powder. {Fulminate of gold}, an explosive
compound of gold; -- called also {fulminating gold}, and {aurum
fulminans}.
web1913
fulminate n : a salt or ester of fulminic acid v 1:
criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut
Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies" [syn: {rail}]
2: come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated" 3: cause to
explode violently and with loud noise
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Gino Odjick : "Tomorrow, the sun is still going to come up
and we'll still have to use the bathroom."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
write-only
Unreadable or indecipherable. Something of sufficient
complexity that it is incomprehensible. Often applied to someone
else's style of writing software.
ex. I've spent an hour trying to figure out what your
freaking write-only PERL script does: lean to use some comments for a
change!
French Intellectuals to be Deployed in Afghanistan to Convince
Taliban of Non-Existence of God
"There they will drink coffee and talk animatedly
about the absurd nature of life and man´s lonely isolation in the
universe. They will be accompanied by a number of heartbreakingly
beautiful girlfriends who will further spread dismay by sticking their
tongues in the philosophers´ ears every five minutes and looking remote
and unattainable to everyone else."
Some guy named Matteo : "localpop.php"
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : tiridity
The state of being tired.
ex. "It is past my bedtime, thus, I am suffering from
severe tiridity."
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}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : callow
To touch someone inappropirately
ex. He just callowed my privates.
see also :
callow dict-ified
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is heterodox
| source : web1913 | Heterodox \Het"er*o*dox\, n.
An opinion opposed to some accepted standard. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. |
source : web1913 | Heterodox \Het"er*o*dox\, a. [Gr. ?; ? other + ?
opinion; cf. F. h['e]t['e]rodoxe.] 1. Contrary to, or differing from,
some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the
decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of
opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects. Raw and
indigested, heterodox, preaching. --Strype. 2. Holding heterodox
opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; -- said of persons.
--Macaulay. -- {Het"er*o*dox`ly}, adv. -- {Het"er*o*dox`ness}, n. |
source : wn | heterodox adj : characterized by departure from accepted
beliefs or standards [syn: {dissident}, {heretical}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is discrete
| source : web1913 | Discrete \Dis*crete"\, a.
[L. discretus, p. p. of discernere. See {Discreet}.] 1. Separate;
distinct; disjunct. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Disjunctive; containing a
disjunctive or discretive clause; as, ``I resign my life, but not my
honor,'' is a discrete proposition. 3. (Bot.) Separate; not coalescent;
-- said of things usually coalescent. {Discrete movement}. See {Concrete
movement of the voice}, under {Concrete}, a. {Discrete proportion},
proportion where the ratio of the means is different from that of either
couplet; as, 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6 as 8 does to
16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or
{continual proportion}; as, 3:6::12:24. {Discrete quantity}, that which
must be divided into units, as number, and is opposed to {continued
quantity}, as duration, or extension. | source : web1913 | Discrete
\Dis*crete"\, v. t. To separate. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | source : wn |
discrete adj : constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with
three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions" [syn: {distinct}]
Richard Martineau : "Suffit-il de posséder un passeport et un
crayon pour être journaliste?
Si oui, on ouvre la profession à tous les
casse-cou férus d'aventure. Les fils à papa blasés qui courent les pays
en guerre pour s'amuser, les crackpots suicidaires qui trompent leur
ennui en se jetant dans la gueule du loup, les dilettantes à la recherche
de gloire instantanée... Par ailleurs, si on ferme les écoutilles de la
profession à double tour et que l'on ne réserve l'appellation de
journaliste qu'à une caste accréditée, on risque d'étouffer... Ken
Hetchman était programmeur informatique. Mais le lendemain des attaques
du 11 septembre, il a décidé de sauter dans un avion et de se rendre en
Afghanistan afin d'écrire sur la situation. Mérite-t-il l'appellation de
journaliste?"
Does anyone know if any standardized vocabularies
stuntLab : dragscoll.js
Georgi Georgiev : class.dlist.db.php
is a "simple, not very well writen class, which
manages dynamic double-linked list structure of data."
Never mind "It happened (n) years ago today",
As It Happens : Existential Bee Gees Missing Lyrics Contest
Me : Blogger.pm 0.2
mmmm...foldable solids
Integrating Web Applications: XML-RPC in PHP
Steve Gibson : Denial of Service with Windows XP
Damian Conway : Life, the Universe and Everything
This American Life : The Growing Aesthetic of Cringe.
"There are movies and TV shows and photographs
and books whose whole point is to make us cringe. In fact, it's a growing
aesthetic in America right now. Cringe is the new horror. It shares some
characteristics with horror, but has overtaken it in pop culture. And the
land where cringe is king is the land of Reality TV."
(real evil g2 - starts 19m30)
I'm not much for pop-up windows
Christian Stocker : XML_sql2xml
"takes an sql-query, a pear::db_result or an
array and gives you back a xml string or object representing the data.
You get a more or less decent result with just the basic settings, but
it's also highly configurable, so you can almost get what you want. And
furthermore, if you have joined queries, this class tries to detect the
relationship and gives you back a nested xml out of that. This does not
always work right, but you can customize the relationship between the
tables, as well. The automatic relationship detection does only work with
mysql at the moment. But the class itself can be used with any db
supported by the pear database abstraction class." via
more like
this
Michael Lewis : Boom Box
"The means of consumption, not the means of
production, are the engine of modern economic life. The consumer's
neurons will be measured and priced only if the consumer wants his
neurons to be measured and priced, because their precise measurement
enables others to give him exactly what he wants. If this is a
conspiracy, it's a whole new kind of conspiracy. The consumer must
conspire against himself." I'm going to turn my computer off now and
continue enjoying the weekend.
This sight at the Vatican museum
is possibly the only thing that saved an
otherwise aggravating trip to Popeworld. That and the knowledge that I
really don't like Michealangelo's work very much. By the time we got to
St. Peter's in the morning,
The Man was busy blessing pilgrims
, many decked out in fancy Jubilee 2000 outfits. We had to pass through
metal detectors and I beeped because I had left my Visor in my back
pocket. Without even thinking, I whipped it out and lay it on top of the
x-ray machine forgetting that I had put a
Satan Has
Your Nose
sticker on the cover. "What's that?" the security guard asked. "A
computer," I replied, bracing for a fight. "Oh. Okay," she said, waving
me through.
Matt Neuberg's Frontier : The Definitive Guide
has been "open-booked". When did that happen?
Monkeyfist
Ars Technica : MacOSX DP3, Trial by Water
FuckU-Fuck Me : Changing the feel of communication
Arts & Ideas : Censorship on the Web
"A new law makes it a federal crime for
commercial websites to make available materials, such as pornography,
that are considered harmful to minors. Does this law, which forces
website operators to censor their sites and make judgments about what is
harmful to children, violate the First Amendment?"
Live
18h00 EST.
(quicktime)
It was a dark and stormy evening
Web Review : Cross Browser Events for Dynamic HTML
"As I mentioned earlier, using events to perform
functions on your web site sounds great in theory. But in reality, I've
discovered only nine unique events that work equally well with both
Netscape and IE." see also : <a href =
"http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1999/02/junk/">Generalized
Event Handling in JavaScript </a>
Le Devoir : Les étudiants bloquent le pont Jacques-Cartier
«Tout le monde fait la grève, résumait un élève.
D'autres étudiants l'ont faite. Les infirmières l'ont faite cet été.
Pourquoi pas nous autres?»
What is startpage?
"[S]tartpage is actually called renderStartPage,
and is a Frontier macro. When you call renderStartPage in your web page,
it returns a nice set of tables that correspond to a set nested tables in
the Frontier Object Database (ODB) containing URL's organized by
categories."
We (work) got our new bumperstickers
back from the printer this morning! I snagged
some of each, so if you'd like one
drop me a line
with your postal address.
Some people
Tom Lehrer : The Political Musician That Wasn't
"All my life I was reading about this stuff, oh
Dylan did this and the Beatles did that, and I'm thinking 'well I don't
know, I didn't see it.' You know, we're all going to hold hands and be
beautiful and change the world... well that's nice, but then you go back
to the dorm and get stoned."
Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque wants to
give 200-year-old streets newfangled high-tech
monikers like "pixel."
MOSR on MacOS X Developer Preview 1
Bless them for their enthusiasm, but take it with
a grain of salt.
Mondo Canuck Trivia Applet
Mondo Canuck,
the
book
, was co-written by a guy who to used to deconstruct American sitcoms on
national radio, but it's still worth reading. Requires Java.
I went to the Brooklyn Museum of Art website
to get the dates for the "Sensation" show. I was
pleasantly surprised to see the number of good shows this year,
notwithstanding the obligatory Impressionist exhibition. Now to figure
out how to get to New York three times this summer...
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.
