posts brought to you by the category
“oop”
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.
Joey deVilla : “You know you want to see me in a
penguin suit sport humping this man.”
The morning after #1
Loup de mer, Montréal, September
2003
Zeldman : "Over a year later we're still waiting for
the W3C to take the hint."
Me : Net::ITE.pm 0.05
You can put code references in @INC ?
Tim Bray : I want to have my idiomatic regexp cake and
eat my well-formed XML goodness too.
The Connection talks to Bernard Kouchner,
From the "But, designers *want* you to judge a book by
its cover" Department :
W3C Working Draft : Hlink, Link Recognition for the
XHTML Family
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
zeppster
An avid or devout fan of the band Led
Zeppelin.
ex. Wally's a real zeppster.
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.2
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
vomitose
In the state of vomiting.
ex. Jerry's had 14 beers, and now he's
vomitose.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
ineluctable
Ineluctable \In`e*luc"ta*ble\, a. [L.
ineluctabilis; pref. in- not + eluctabilis to be
surmounted, fr. eluctari to struggle out of, to surmount:
cf. F. in['e]luctable. See {Eluctate}.] Not to be overcome
by struggling; irresistible; inevitable. --Bp. Pearson. The
ineluctable conditions of matter. --Hamerton.
web1913
ineluctable adj : impossible to avoid or
evade:"inescapable conclusion"; "an ineluctable destiny";
"an unavoidable accident" [syn: {inescapable},
{unavoidable}]
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Radio Crankypants #16 : Radio BloggerLand
"By changing the radio.weblog.post ()
function to blogger.newPost (), you can use Radio as a
Blogger -> anything that supports the Blogger API tool.
Neat, huh?"
Radio Crankypants #4 : <%mirrorproject.Random
()%>
N.Y. Times : Prosciutto, Fig and Parmesan Rolls
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
conflate
| source : web1913 | Conflate
\Con*flate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conflated}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Conflating}.] [L. conflatus, p. p. of conflare
to blow together; con- + flare to blow.] To blow together; to
bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or
weld; to consolidate. The State-General, created and
conflated by the passionate effort of the whole nation.
--Carlyle. | source : wn | conflate v : mix together
different elements; "The colors blend well"; "fuse the
clutter of detail into a rich narrative"--A. Schlesinger
[syn: {blend}, {mix}, {commingle}, {immix}, {fuse},
{coalesce}, {meld}, {combine}, {merge}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
excrescence
| source : web1913 | Excrescence
\Ex*cres"cence\n. [F. excrescence, excroissanse, L.
excrescentia excrescences, neut. pl. of p. pr. of excrescere.
See {Excrescent}.] An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or
tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a
preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome
superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body,
or on a plant. ``Excrescences of joy.'' --Jer. Taylor. The
excrescences of the Spanish monarchy. --Addison. | source :
wn | excrescence n 1: something that protrudes [syn: {bulge},
{bump}, {hump}, {gibbosity}, {gibbousness}, {jut},
{prominence}, {protuberance}, {protrusion}, {extrusion}] 2:
an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
Did Aaron think anything about that?
Simson Garfinkel : "Understanding the uses and power of
sync is vital
for accurately predicting the
direction that the Internet and e-commerce are likely to
grow. Most people like the safety that comes from having data
in multiple locations, and the speed that comes from having
the data immediately available on their own computers.
Products and services that offer sync, therefore, will
probably fare better in the marketplace than similarly priced
services that offer high-speed access to data stored on
remote systems. People don't want to just tap into a data
stream; they want to have their own copy of the information,
and they want it kept up-to-date.
Marc Jason Dominus : EZDBI.pm
Simson Garfinkel : Kooks and Terrorists
"The question we face, then, is a
simple one: is it possible to prevent future incidents of
terrorism by systematically monitoring all potential
terrorists and imprisoning them before they can strike? And,
if so, are such measures worth the cost?"
N.Y. Times : Art on City Streets Till the Cows Come
Home
"We're the largest producer of public
art in the world. There are a lot of copycats and a lot of
different forms out there, but the cow has the absolute
perfect size and dimensions. It's also probably the only
animal in the world that is universally known and liked. If
you're talking about fish, we don't have any connection with
them except that we eat them."
mmmm...foldable solids
Le Monde : Le dictionnaire intime de Milan Kundera
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
inkhorn
| source : web1913 | Inkhorn
\Ink"horn`\, n. [Ink + horn; cf. F. cornet [`a] encre, G.
dintenhorn.] A small bottle of horn or other material
formerly used for holding ink; an inkstand; a portable case
for writing materials. ``With a writer's inkhorn by his
side.'' --Ezek. ix. 2. From his pocket the notary drew his
papers and inkhorn. --Longfellow. | source : web1913 |
Inkhorn \Ink"horn"\, a. Learned; pedantic; affected. [Obs.]
``Inkhorn terms.'' --Bale. | source : easton | Inkhorn The
Hebrew word so rendered means simply a round vessel or cup
for containing ink, which was generally worn by writers in
the girdle (Ezek. 9:2, 3,11). The word "inkhorn" was used by
the translators, because in former times in this country
horns were used for containing ink.
The Forest of Rhetoric
"is intended to help beginners, as
well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small
scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the
large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into
which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and
practiced for 2000+ years)."
Scot Hacker : "No, Be isn't getting back into the
hardware business.
Rather, Aura is a "reference
platform" -- a sample implementation of a networked,
home-stereo MP3 recording and playback unit, meant to be
adopted by OEMs and vendors who will customize, manufacture,
and distribute devices to the consumer audio market. ... .
Part of the magic of Aura is that it's networked, both to the
world at large and to the rest of the home. As a result, it
could be capable of retrieving MP3s from sources like
MP3.com, or from record labels. It also could be capable of
looking up inserted CDs in online music databases like the
cddb, and of sending separate audio streams to various rooms
in the house simultaneously. Audio could originate from
standard CDs, from data CDs containing MP3 tracks, from MP3
"radio" sources like icecast or live365, or MP3s stored in
the unit's own storage system."
Mark Fowler : A Perl Module Advent Calendar
"This goes along way to proving what
I always say: I come up with the best ideas when I'm hung
over."
The UCLA Internet Report : Surveying the Digital
Future
"We hope our findings about the
Internet will have broad implications for government
policymaking, corporate planning, and social and cultural
study. To begin this project now is critical if we hope to
fully understand the Internet as it evolves. Had this type of
research been conducted on the evolution of television as it
emerged in the late 1940s, the information would have
provided policy makers, the media, and ultimately historians
with invaluable insights about how broadcasting has changed
the world." (pdf)
Noah Richler : "But even as it is true that our economy
depends on 'renewal',
that accumulation of stuff -- and our
throwing it away to make room for more -- it is also true
that there is no more dynamic system than capitalism to
create value where previously there was none at all. Our
garbage problem, after all, is nothing a little legislation
wouldn't fix: Make landfills like those at Kirkland Lake
illegal (and exporting the stuff to other countries), and put
the onus on recycling or reducing the stuff at home -- within
the metropolitan areas, factories or communities that
generate the stuff -- and you'll see ingenuity applied to the
problem in no time. It's nowhere near as alluring as the
smell of sex, but there's nothing like the whiff of garbage
to prompt an equal frenzy."
Ann Shin on fetal marketing and internal branding
"Putting up a Web site is equivalent
to opening up a storefront, placing an ad, and launching a
brand, all at once. If you're not on the World Wide Web,
where are you? Do you exist if people can't find you on a
search engine?"
The GlobeCom Jukebox
is another in the growing pool of web
based music players. It appears to do everything under the
sun including "remote CD ripping", which is pretty cool if it
really works. You'll need a Unix weenie to get it running,
though.
