posts brought to you by the category “only the nose
knows”
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.
Libby Miller & Martin Poulter : Easy Image Annotation for the
Semantic Web
Philemon nodded knowingly.
Joan Starr : "To the uninitiated, the development of a metadata
standard might appear to be a passionless occupation."
Oh god, Karl's going to want these comments embedded as RDF in each
picture...
Steffen Schwigon : pod-mode.el
A major mode for editing .pod-files in (X)Emacs
Me : Acme::Test::Weather.pm 0.2
Laura Holder : Illinois Flatland #5
Andy Milford : As I write this several of my friend sit in police
vans
Me : Net::ITE.pm 0.03
Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood 1.1b4
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : barney
A police officer or police cruiser, from Barney Fife of
_The Andy Griffith Show_.
ex. Slow down, I see a Barney up ahead.
see also :
barney dict-ified
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : apostasy
Apostasy \A*pos"ta*sy\, n.; pl. {Apostasies}. [OE.
apostasie, F. apostasie, L. apostasia, fr. Gr. ? a standing off from, a
defection, fr. ? to stand off, revolt; ? from + ? to stand. See {Off}
and {Stand}.] An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a
total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party;
esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from
Christianity.
web1913
apostasy n 1: the state of having rejected your religious
beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing
beliefs or causes) [syn: {renunciation}, {defection}] 2: the act of
abandoning a party or cause [syn: {tergiversation}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : id (ten) t
error
Most common computer error.
ex. Oh, you have a "ID10T" error. (IDIOT)
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : oh
crackerz
When you forget something or are
disappointed.
ex. Oh, crackerz! I wanted to go.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
giggersnort
Snorting sound, produced by laughing through the nose.
Often derisive laughter.
ex. Haha. That was so funny. (giggersnort)
Oh, would that the wunderkinds at Google add a SOAP interface to
their translation tool.
So, do you think Bill Guerin was asking Josie
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.4
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mincer
Insult. Like jackass or moron, etc.
ex. The blond guy in N 'SYNC is a mincer.
see also :
mincer dict-ified
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : friable
Friable \Fri"a*ble\, a. [L. friabilis, fr. friare to rub,
break, or crumble into small pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray: cf.
F. friable.] Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
``Friable ground.'' --Evelyn. ``Soft and friable texture.'' --Paley. --
{Fri'a*ble*ness}, n.
web1913
friable adj 1: easily broken into small fragments or
reduced to powder; "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue";
"friable curds formed in the stomach" 2: (used of soil) loose and
large-grained in consistency; "light sandy soil" [syn: {light},
{sandy}]
wn
Caterina Fake : "I was astonished, upon moving to this
country,
that Canadians didn't know how to
deface their own currency
."
Leon "Acme::" Brocard on pipelines
"But luckily pipelines seem to only go through
very beautiful places."
Bill Humphries : BlogML and the Semantic Web
"It would be a mitzvah if, when I read something
and wanted to comment on it, that content becomes an entry in my weblog,
and the original weblog could syndicate the responses into their weblog."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : sinecure
Sinecure \Si"ne*cure\, v. t. To put or place in a sinecure.
web1913
sinecure n 1: a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral
duties are attached 2: an office that involves minimal duties
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bodgieman
Someone who can 'fix' anything, given the right amount of
inappropriate materiél and sufficient amounts of boundless
enthusiasm. Balanced only by stunning incompetence.
ex. Alice: "Looks like the asbetos nozzle on my favourite
flamethrower has broken off." Bob: "Never mind, I'll call on
bodgieman. Chuck! Over here!" Chuck: "Hmm. I'll Sellotape
(Scotchtape) it back together. No problem." All: "Bodgieman can fix
anything with Sellotape!"
Kip Hampton : "Here's an example of a 'paginator' XSLT
stylesheet
for record-oriented data."
I have nothing bad to say about the XSLT Standard Library
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is transmute
| source : web1913 | Transmute \Trans*mute"\, v.
t. [imp. & p. p. {Transmuted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Transmuting}.]
[L. transmutare, transmutatum; trans across + mutare to change. See
{Mutable}, and cf. {Transmew}.] To change from one nature, form, or
substance, into another; to transform. The caresses of parents and the
blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. --Buckminster.
Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy. --H. Smith. | source
: wn | transmute v 1: change in outward structure or looks; "He
transformed into a monster" [syn: {transform}] 2: change or alter in
form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her
completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture" [syn:
{transform}] 3: alter in nature; of chemical elements in alchemy
Duke Law School : Conference on the Public Domain
Janice Stein : The Cult of Efficiency
"These lectures are about post-industrial society
in the making. There is a growing emphasis on efficiency in this era of
globalization, and the language of efficiency shapes the way citizens
think about their most important shared values. But hidden in the
polemics about efficiency are, I believe, much more important and
enduring conversations about accountability and choice in post-industrial
societies. To discover how these arguments live in practice, to move
beyond the fixed positions of our political warriors, I wanted to look at
what we as citizens are saying about public schools and hospitals. It is
here that citizens engage in the most immediate and practical ways with
the arguments of our times. I think by listening to these very local
debates we can explore the dilemmas of democratic processes in a global
age, where waste is a sin but the public trust remains sacred.
Surprisingly, I find that citizens want to see both less and more of the
state. Although citizens in post-industrial society are less deferential,
more distrustful of authority, and more confident of their capacity to
make the important choices, the escape from the state is more apparent
than real." (real audio)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is copse
| source : web1913 | Copse \Copse\, v. t. 1. To
trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
--Halliwell. 2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. --Swift. | source :
web1913 | Copse \Copse\, n. [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small
growth; a thicket of brushwood. See {Coppice}. Near yonder copse where
once the garden smiled. --Goldsmith. | source : wn | copse n : a dense
growth of bushes [syn: {brush}, {brushwood}, {coppice}, {thicket}]
Like many people, I am eager to see what Moveabletype is like,
Steve Pepper : The TAO of Topic Maps
"While it is possible to represent immensely
complex structures using topic maps, the basic concepts of the model
– Topics, Associations, and Occurrences (TAO) – are easily
grasped. This paper provides a non-technical introduction to these and
other concepts (the IFS and BUTS of topic maps), relating them to things
that are familiar to all of us from the realms of publishing and
information management, and attempting to convey some idea of the uses to
which topic maps will be put in the future." via
xblog
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.
Mac Central : "One of the [favourite MacHacks]
was the iTunes Dance Dock Plug-in, an iTunes plug
for Mac OS X that makes the icons in the dock resize to the music like a
graphic equalizer."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pervicacious
| source : web1913 | Pervicacious
\Per`vi*ca"cious\, a. [L. pervicax, -acis.] Obstinate; willful;
refractory. [Obs.] -- {Per`vi*ca"cious*ly}, adv. --
{Per`vi*ca"cious*ness}, n. [Obs.]
The truth is, I hate New York City.
Jason the Marten'taur : The Velveeta Rabbit
Daniel Solin : Introduction to socket programming in PHP
Philippe Jardin : The Power of Abstraction
"A proposition to have a better working Zope
product framework."
Bob DuCharme : Editing SGML Documents with Emacs
Jeff Covey thinks he can win the browser wars
by "[simplifying] the Web. We need to lower the
entry costs for the people writing alternative browsers. Web sites need
to loose the Flash, the Javascript links, and the font tags. That too is
hard work. If you have a Web page, resist the temptation to add clever
stuff to it. Disable Javascript, Java, and remote fonts in your browser.
Ignore sites which rely on these things. If you visit pages which do,
drop the author a line and tell him about it. Email is best. If you can't
be bothered with email, try the approach I use: I request links such as
http:// www.somecommercesite.com/using/
javascript/has/just/lost/you/a/customer/ or http://
www.someidiot.com/lose/ the/flash/or/lose/this/viewer in the hope that
somebody reads the error logs. ... Focus on content, not looks."
Irational Radio : DIY Net Radio Guide
Wolfgang Stobl : "Now that the beta version of the Zope Book is
out,
I've just created a fully indexed [Windows]
HTMLHelp version."
Chris Fofiu : GIMP Aqua-pill Tutorial
The eagle has landed.
Josh Harris : "I'm the guy.
I'm telling you, I'm the guy. The only
predecessor to me is Andy Warhol. To me, Andy Warhol was my ad man. He
reflected the future of what was coming; he was a surface reflection. I'm
the product that he advertised." baaa-aaaa-aaaa.
Naomi Klein : When is a moose just a moose?
"There are many other intertextual moose projects
in the works: the Great Canadian Moose Hunt (rules TBA), and mass moose
pie-ings (inspired by the much-maligned tart-slingers in PEI). And while
it's hard to find a moose that still has its antlers attached, virtual
antlers have begun sprouting up around Toronto in the oddest of places --
for instance, drawn onto the heads of models in bus-shelter billboards.
(If corporate advertisements are transformed into works of art when
painted onto moose statues, then surely all ads can similarly be
transformed into impromptu moose.)" see also :
Charles Pachter : Moose Factory Gallery
Jerrad Pierce : English::Reference.pm
"Provides the ability to use: ARRAY $arrayref en
lieu of @$arrayref" I can't decide if this is laziness or hubris...
Les Entartistes : Éthique de la tarte
"Pratiquez une politique d'entartement universel.
Entartez les chefs de tout acabit et ceux qui occupent les positions
d'autorité, mais d'une façon non-partisane. Silvousplait, pas de tarte
séparatiste, fédéraliste, communiste, sexiste, raciste, etc. Nous sommes
contre TOUT pouvoir, qu'il soit économique, politique ou médiatique, mais
sommes définitivement en faveurs des humains, libres." see also :
Le manifeste de
'Internationale pâtissičre
"Entartons, entartons les pompeux cornichons !"
CBC : Guggenheim may open on Las Vegas strip
This weblog
The road to Hell is paved with telephone companies
It's the dial-tone stupid. The modem I bought for
my Visor doesn't grok the Italian dial tone. I will rant at length about
the morons who run high tech companies when I get back. Until then I will
write for the web periodically; I didn't come to Italy to sit in front of
a web browser. The rest will have to wait. Sorry, I'm not very happy
about it either.
They're called dictionaries for a reason...
A
tangram
is a "Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other
suitable material, into seven pieces...being capable of combination in
various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures." RTFM
...doh!
I generally like my bank
but it is perpetually staffed by trainees. I've
begun to develop elaborate conspiracy theories that this, coupled with
the banks network terminals that are slower than a 14.4 Internet
connection, is a deliberate strategy on the part of The Suits to drive me
to do all my banking online. Once that happens, [they] can simply fire
all the tellers and use the money to build more trophy houses on Martha's
Vineyard. I'm hardly above using an Instabroke machine, but I think human
interaction in our day to day lives is important and, ultimately,
enriches us. I remeber Kurt Vonnegut, speaking after the infamous
commencement speech brou-haha, saying he preferred going to the post
office over sending email. "I met a cop today," he said.
Sean Conner : mod_litbook
"The primary article that relates to mod_litbook
is using the URL as UI; in that the URL should aid in the navigation of
the website. The primay point of Jakob Nielson's article is that the URL
should help visualize the structure of the website but I mis-remembered
the article in thinking that the URL should also provide an easy way to
retrieve the information requested."
One of the best things about the hot tub
is that there are no emergencies, only
opportunites. For instance, when the seat you're sitting on suddenly
detaches itself from the bottom of the tub, you don't think "Where will I
sit now." You think "Floating bar!" Yay! Floating bar!
Don't worry kids.
Boston Phoenix : Annals of Confection
I'll spare you the details
and just say that if it breaks, it's broken.
Serge Halami on the Cyberdamned
"It's like Communist China under Mao," explains
one of the new economy's production-line workers, "you're constantly
being pushed to help the collective. If you fail to do this, you're going
against your family. But if this is a family, it belongs on the Jerry
Springer show."
Ars Technica : MacOSX DP3, Trial by Water
Lydia Lee : Friends don't let friends use AOL
The last line says it all, but AOL still sucks.
Morning Edition on cigarettes, taxes and the Internet
All that's missing is sex and death, but I
suppose you could make a reasonable argument that both are already
implicit in the former. (real evil g2)
Voir : Cris et chuchotements
"Les webabillards: foire aux rumeurs ou véritable
petite révolution dans le monde de l'information? Rencontre avec
Carl-Frédéric De Celles, cofondateur de pssst, un weblog qui n'épargne
personne." Remember kids, there will be a test next week on how you spell
weblog in French.
Brian J. Reardon : Laundry, A Quantum Mechincal Approach
or "Why You Should Never Empty the Lint Trap"
William Safire : Bagels vs. Doughnuts
"In the bagel's adaptive triumph lies the
poppyseed of its self-destruction. For the bagel has moved toward the
center, and that center has no distinctive hole; its crust has lost its
hard-boiled nature." Finally, someone else who thinks blueberry bagels
are the work of dark dark forces!
For Seven Generations
Final Report of the Royal Commission on
Aboriginal Peoples
City of Montreal : Top 10 Garbage Crimes
In the last 30 years, Montreal has had three
mayors. The first built the <a href =
"http://www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/panoramas/refvdm/to.mov">Olympic
stadium</a>. The second spent $1M to rewire the cross on
<a href =
"http://www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/panoramas/belvedere/98nov/mtl13.mov">the
mountain</a> with fiber-optics so that it will turn purple
when the Pope dies. Finally, we have a guy who got elected on a platform
of doing nothing but planting <a href =
"http://www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/mtl-hiroshima/expo-mtl/quicktimevr/refvdm/jjv2h.mov">lots
of flowers</a> and who now wants to fine people 500$ if
their garbage bags are too small. I can't wait to go home!
Sam Henderson
thinks you should
avoid the
School for Visual Arts
if you want to be a cartoonist. I recommend reading Dave Sim's
How
to become a cartooning self-publisher
. A series of twenty essays originally published in his Notes from the
President column, they cover most of the bases including 'How to find a
printer', 'Copyright, trademarks and taxes' and 'How not to waste time
and just produce comics'.
NY Times : The Éminence of Excess
Isn't is fitting that on the craziest weekend in
recent memory, here on the Vineyard, the Times runs a feature on Mickey
-The Gapman- Drexler's architect. (Drexler recently built an enormous
boat-shaped trophy house, up-Island, complete with 5000$ bathroom
fixtures.)
The Sunday Times : So what is Stuckism?
The group's manifesto proclaims it "bitterly
opposed to Brit Shit (inexplicably known by some as Brit Art) and other
elitist art school pretensions, ie most contemporary art, including, but
not limited to, performance art, installation art, video art, conceptual
art, minimal art, academic art and particularly any so-called art which
incorporates dead animals or tents". Meanwhile, the
Anti-Stuckist
is described by her dealer as a "gracious anti-diva." The year before I
got to
art school
, a disgruntled graduating student mounted a show called "stuck" -- as
in, stuck in the 70's.
slashdot has pointed people to the Stan Lee site
Melamid on art and religion
"I truly believe that art has become a religion.
. . . If you like the Mona Lisa, God bless you, there's nothing wrong
with that -- just as you can believe in Jesus, or in any God you want.
But the organized church of art, those education departments that try to
convince people by force of persuasion that this or that is good art,
doesn't leave you any room or choice to say if something is good or bad.
. . . They used to beat up children, now they show them paintings."
Giordan on Photoshop 5.5
Well, I'm glad someone is happy about it but I
fear that, rightly it wrongly, it will suffer the same fate as MacOS 7.6
and be pirated to death.
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.
