posts brought to you by the category “nattering nabobs of
negativism”
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.
A friend in New York City : "I saw that tag about 600 times before
my son told me it was his."
rue Roy, Montréal, October 2003
I woke up, every morning, at 06H30 on the dot.
Denys Arcand : "If you are into metaphors, you are going to make
very bad films."
Because it wouldn't really be a war without a Leon Golub
moment.
The Sunday Edition : What It Means To Be a Liberal
a panel discussion with Michael Ignatieff and Charles Taylor
(real audio)
Tim Schockaert : Bathroom in Lokossa (Benin)
The Connection : Extra Chairs at the Table
The General Assembly has long talked about Security Council
reform, and now voices around the world are joining the call for
change. Germany and Japan have long been considered the most likely
pledges to join the fraternity, but now India, the world's largest
democracy, is looking like a top contender. However, Russia, China,
France, Britain, and the US still wield the real muscle; the veto,
and anyone looking to sit with the grown-ups needs their unanimous
sanction.
www.poetsagainstthewar.org
Anne Troake : Pretty Big Dig
Me : foaf-to-about.xsl 0.1
[Is] an XSLT stylesheet to transform a FOAF document into an HTML
'about' page. As of this writing, the stylesheet is one of those
80/20 things. Specifically, it works but doesn't handle the
formatting of foaf:interests very well. That's not too hard to fix;
it's just a lot of typing in XSLT.
David Kobulnik : "Our technology was in our hands and in our
minds."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : tocsin
Tocsin \Toc"sin\, n. [F., fr. OF. toquier to touch, F.
toquer (originally, a dialectic form of F. toucher) + seint (for sein)
a bell, LL. signum, fr. L. signum a sign, signal. See {Touch}, and
{Sign}.] An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of
alarm. The loud tocsin tolled their last alarm. --Campbell.
web1913
tocsin n 1: the sound of an alarm (usually a bell) [syn:
{alarm bell}] 2: a bell used to sound an alarm [syn: {warning bell}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : borejoysy
If you are a spoil-sport, you are borejoysy
ex. I dont want to go to the barn dance, I'm feeling
rather borejoysy
After the Ides of March come the Porsches of April.
5000!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : craveable
Being able to be craved.
ex. The sandwich was very craveable.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : irascible
Irascible \I*ras"ci*ble\, a. [L. irascibilis, fr. irasci to
be angry, ira anger: cf. F. irascible. See {Ire}.] Prone to anger;
easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an
irascible man; an irascible temper or mood. -- {I*ras"ci*ble*ness}, n.
-- {I*ras"ci*bly}, adv.
web1913
irascible adj 1: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded
commander" [syn: {choleric}, {hotheaded}, {hot-tempered},
{quick-tempered}, {short}, {short-tempered}] 2: characterized by anger;
"a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response" [syn: {choleric}]
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Libby Miller : A walk through an RSS 1.0 calendar
"My feeling is that for iCalendar in RDF to be
usable, a huge file describing every aspect of it is not what's needed.
Instead I've started to split it up into smallers parts, starting with
the properties and classes I've used most often when trying to describe
meetings, conferences and so on - I've called this the 'core' set."
From the salt-in-the-wounds department : 500 wins
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is putsch
| source : wn | putsch n : a sudden and decisive
change of government illegally or by force [syn: {coup d'etat}, {coup},
{takeover}]
Notes from the "Art Is Your Friend" department : Paging Dr.
Brute
Like many people, I am eager to see what Moveabletype is like,
NY Times : How We Lived the News
"At dinner that night at the seaside resort where
the president was staying, my colleagues and I did what generations of
White House reporters have done : complained about the need to drag
around with the president to the blandest of events,on the off chance
that disaster strikes." via
pssst!
(pdf)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hardscrabble
| source : wn | hardscrabble adj 1: yielding
little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil" [syn: {poor}]
2: of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's
hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence" [syn: {marginal}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is profuse
| source : web1913 | Profuse \Pro*fuse"\, v. t.
To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander. [Obs.]
--Chapman. | source : web1913 | Profuse \Pro*fuse"\, a. [L. profusus, p.
p. of profundere to pour forth or out; pro forward, forth + fundere to
pour: cf. F. profus. See {Fuse} to melt.] 1. Pouring forth with fullness
or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as,
a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse
of flowers. --Milton. 2. Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as,
profuse expenditure. ``Profuse ornament.'' --Kames. Syn: Lavish;
exuberant; bountiful; prodigal; extravagant. Usage: {Profuse}, {Lavish},
{Prodigal}. Profuse denotes pouring out (as money, etc.) with great
fullness or freeness; as, profuse in his expenditures, thanks, promises,
etc. Lavish is stronger, implying unnecessary or wasteful excess; as,
lavish of his bounties, favors, praises, etc. Prodigal is stronger still,
denoting unmeasured or reckless profusion; as, prodigal of one's
strength, life, or blood, to secure some object. --Dryden. | source : wn
| profuse adj : produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous
blooming" [syn: {exuberant}, {lush}, {luxuriant}, {riotous}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is blackguard
| source : web1913 | Blackguard \Black"guard`\,
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blackguarded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Blackguarding}.] To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. --Southey. |
source : web1913 | Blackguard \Black"guard\, a. Scurrilous; abusive; low;
worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language. | source : web1913 |
Blackguard \Black"guard\, n. [Black + guard.] 1. The scullions and lower
menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from
one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being
smutted by them, were jocularly called the ``black guard''; also, the
servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode
with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping
pans. --Webster (1612). 2. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a
town or community, collectively. [Obs.] 3. A person of stained or low
character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with
foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. A man whose manners and sentiments are
decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard.
--Macaulay. 4. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [Obs.] | source : wn |
blackguard n : someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog"
[syn: {cad}, {bounder}, {dog}, {hound}, {heel}] v 1: subject to laughter
or ridicule: "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house";
"The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" [syn: {ridicule},
{guy}, {laugh at}, {jest at}, {rib}, {make fun}, {poke fun}] 2: use foul
or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave
her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher" [syn:
{abuse}, {clapperclaw}, {shout}] | source : devils | BLACKGUARD, n. A man
whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market
-- the fine ones on top -- have been opened on the wrong side. An
inverted gentleman.
FreeBSD Diary : Installing via wireless NIC
"I installed a wireless NIC into my desktop,
configured it to act as a gateway, enabled NAT, and used that as the
gateway for my laptop. The laptop then communicated with the gateway
using its own wireless NIC. Together, these two boxes allowed me to do an
install on the laptop using wireless. This was after I'd failed using the
laptop's CD, which I now know is broken."
Jeffrey Pinyan : Sex, Eger!
"or Reverse Regular Expressions."
Notwithstanding everything else that's happening in Quebec
city,
Brian Aker : mod_index_rss
"provides RSS output for directories. Sites that
publish mainly static content to directories (whether images, html...)
can use it to have dynamic lists of their content."
How much do you want to bet
that the clever propeller-heads at Apple are
beavering away on some kind of funky plasma casing that pulls a lava lamp
when you play MP3s on your next iMac?
National Post : "Another Heritage ministry spokesperson suggested
an actor such as Mr. Douglas
could be designated a person of "national
historic significance," which is driven largely by nominations by the
Canadian public. ... To be declared of national historic significance, an
individual must make "an outstanding and lasting contribution to Canadian
history" and prove "a representative example of an important aspect of
Canadian history."
developerWorks : An Introduction to RDF
"Many proclaim that RDF is really the XML's
killer app, and with good reason. Despite all this, RDF remains somewhat
obscure. This is mainly because at its core RDF is very abstract, very
dry, and very academic. With this article I hope to illustrate why RDF is
very important to anyone interested in XML."
Dr. Bruno : Evaluating content management for Bell Media
