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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.

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The building on the corner of Marie-Anne and the Main always has the best grafitti.

I spotted this Stephen Hawking -esque dealie last year. It's not there any more which isn't too surprising. It probably creeped people out. I would have started bumming, too, if I'd had to come to that every night in the dead of winter.

Marie-Anne near St. Laurent, Montréal, July 2002

This year the wall to the left was painted with something more like the grafitti you come to expect everywhere. I don't really like it except for the space-blaster guy in the corner:

Marie-Anne near St. Laurent, Montréal, August 2003

Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure that these were the inspiration for the milk carton thingies that show up in the taint and room projects.

St. Laurent near Rachel, Montréal, August 2003

Every summer there seems to be a single graffiti meme that predominates. One year it was the milk cartons. Another year it was the numbered bunny rabbit heads . This year it's these funny cartoons mouths. I'm not convinced that they aren't actually just a marketing gimmick for some yet to be announced product.

St. Laurent near Bagg, Montréal, August 2003

Switching gears, entirely, it was pointed out to me that those were actually yellow tomatoes on the vine. Waiting for them to ripen any more would only yield rotten fruit.

In my defense I will just say that I never paid much attention to the tomatoes on the farm and this isn't my garden. Circumstances dictated that I take care of it this year so I opted for stuff that I thought I could grow a lot of for canning or drying.

I guess we'll have lots of yellow tomatoes this year. I certainly didn't buy yellow tomatoes so I'm left to assume that hooligans re-arranged all the tags at the nursery. It's a drag but it's also something I could see myself doing a few years ago.

The first tomatoes from the garden, Montréal, August 2003

That red-ish one is apparently a black tomato. Dunno. We swapped vegetables with someone on the way out and that's what she called it.

St. Laurent near Mont Royal, Montréal, August 2003

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Bob Stayton : DocBook XSL, The Complete Guide

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www.wfmu.org

WFMU is an independent freeform radio station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in the New York City area, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, and live on the web...

Anything that trumpets itself as freeform tends to make me suspicious and worry that it's just going to be wall-to-wall Difficult Music Hour but how can you not love a station that has a program called JM in the AM ? Speaking of music that makes your ears bleed, I am going to have to start a CBC bootleg club so that I can listen to Brave New Waves in the morning. Please CBC, get a fucking clue and spend some of that money you're pouring down your Flash-hole on an MP3 encoder and disk space... via laura holder

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Kellan's "similar entries" hack is pretty interesting.

I can understand the desire to make it reliable, but I'd settle for making it surprising.

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Happy war to ya!

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Apparently, the Internet is just a giant piece of installation art

and your monitor ties you to "meta-space equal in its specificity to that of the installation." You know, just in case you were wondering.

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Never mind the Friday Five, I propose the Daily Three.

Just as the Catholic Church has managed to fill the entire calendar with a Saint Someone-or-other day, perhaps it is time for the left-of-center press in the U.S. to fill the calendar with daily specials on why Some-country-or-another hates America. In November, it was the Germans and today it appears to be the French: 1 , 2 , 3 . I'm sure that there are thoughtful people, right of the center, who engage in their own hand-wringing over this kind of thing but they are noticeably few and far between many apparently having gone off to get drunk and party with the Let God Sort 'em Out crowd. What is it about American popular opinion, or atleast what passes itself off as popular opinion, that gets its panties all tied in knots over anything but unconditional love? Meanwhile, the French and the Americans consider bombing Saskatchewan .

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Christopher DeWolf : Two Months in Montreal

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Me : WebService::weblogUpdates.pm 0.33

Nothing to make the Earth move; hooks to use XMLRPC::Lite and POD fixes. Still managed to forget to include Test::More in Makefile.PL ...

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Daniel Glazman : Small Screen Rendering

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bong

"really good or nice, "
ex. your friend is really bong
see also : bong dict-ified

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How to hide CSS from buggy browsers

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Me : XML::Filter::XML_Directory_Pruner.pm 1.1

Sent off to the CPAN. In the meantime, you can see the docs over here .

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : hirsute

hirsute adj. Occasionally used humorously as a synonym for {hairy}. jargon
Hirsute \Hir*sute"\, a. [L. hirsutus; prob. akin to horridus horrid. Cf. {Horrid}.] 1. Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy. 2. Rough and coarse; boorish. [R.] Cynical and hirsute in his behavior. --Life of A. Wood. 3. (Bot.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs. --Gray. 4. (Zo["o]l.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds. web1913
hirsute adj : having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar" [syn: {hairy}] [ant: {hairless}] wn
hirsute Occasionally used as a humorous synonym for {hairy}. [{Jargon File}] foldoc

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Matt Haughey : "Dead tree printing is also mired in old thinking,

that of contracts and paychecks and witholding stories until specific launch dates. It goes against every fiber of the average weblogger's personality..." Well, here's to being different then. Y'all just keeping thinking those deep deep thoughts. I'm going to watch the hockey game...

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I will update the long neglected xml-rss.js library, accordingly

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Bill Kearney has created a bunch of cool weblog maps

"based on the site URL's IP address."

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5 - 2, baby.

5 - 2 . see also : It was a beautiful play.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : reticent

Reticent \Ret"i*cent\, a. [L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere to keep silence; re- + tacere to be silent. See {Tacit}.] Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative. web1913
reticent adj 1: temperamentally disinclined to talk [syn: {untalkative}] 2: cool and formal in manner [syn: {reserved}, {restrained}, {unemotional}] 3: reluctant to draw attention to yourself [syn: {self-effacing}] wn

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I wrote an AxPoint DTD

for easy editing of documents in Emacs. I sent a copy to the developer who was very nice about answering all my questions but may not give a hoot about this sort of thing. So, I will leave a copy on aaronland for people who want a non-authoritative PUBLIC identifier.

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The Connection : Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly

"[T]he New Yorker's arts editor, have been living for the past three months on the threshold of unfamiliar images. In September, downtown New York was eloquently captured by their collaboration, a black-on-black New Yorker cover, broken only by one, now-ghostly antenna. More images have followed, along with despair at their inadequacy, and triumph at their ability to communicate the deepest feelings in the simplest way." Apropos of nothing, and notwithstanding the Connection vs. Christopher Lydon curfluffle (sp?!), it was very nice to turn on the radio, while stuck in traffic on Storrow Drive over Thanksgiving, and hear Dick Gordon 's voice again. I remember hearing the announcement that he was leaving the CBC for The Connection and thinking that it was "our" loss. And then I spaced it until last month, suffering in my own private agony listening to the touchy-feely, sickly-sweet, it's all about me drivel that Sheilagh Rogers has turned This Morning into. Thank you, Internet radio. Thank you. see also : christopherlydon.org

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Tony Bowden : Yada::Yada::Yada.pm

"For Perl 6 we've been promised a "yada yada yada" operator, which makes '...' valid syntax for "I'll fill this bit in later.", allowing the code to compile, but issue a run-time warning. But, like many of the other things that may or may not happen in Perl 6, we can already make this happen in Perl 5."

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Movable Thoughts #13

MT builds with a handy template variable called $MTCommentAuthorLink$ with automagically tags a name with some kind of URI, if present. You can configure MT to force people to include an email address when they submit a comment which, notwithstanding the ubiquitous bob@bob.com , is understandable. You can also include an optional URI. The problem is that if you disallow anonymous comments and a user doesn't have, or doesn't include, a URL their email address gets stuck into the anchor tag. This is just bad form given the volume of spam-bots scraping the web. There are two hacks around this problem. The first is to update all your templates and change $MTAuthorCommentLink$ to $MTCommentAuthor$ , but this has the side-effect of never including an author's URL which may be cause for further annoyance. The second is to alter the conditional by hand, at lines 412-414, in MT::Template::Context.pm. Neither of these options are really very satisfying, though. Rather, this should be a configurable option in the mt.cfg file; something like MTCommentsAtNoSpam . Unfortunately, none of the objects contained in the MT::Template::Context object contain instances of the MT::ConfigMgr object. In the days to come, I will submit a bugfix to pass $app->{ "cfg" } as an argument to the Context.pm constructor...

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Me : DHTML::ypXmlTree.pm 0.1

implements an OOP-ish intereface for generating, and transforming, the XML documents used in Aaron Boodman's ypXmlTree DHTML widget.

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Simon Kittle : Text::Outline 0.8

"And (that's right, there's even more :) another method - asXBEL - has been added. This is a simple method which just outputs the outline as an XBEL file. The obvious thing to add is the functionality to read in XBEL files so you can convert them to an OPML file, edit them, and save the out again. That will come, in good time." Sweet. I will add the necessary hooks to tie this into Apache::XBEL over the weekend.

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Paul Millar : abi[word]2html.xsl

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is disquisition

| source : web1913 | Disquisition \Dis`qui*si"tion\, n. [L. disquisitio, fr. disquirere to inquire diligently, investigate; dis- + quaerere to seek. See {Quest}.] A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was not well qualified. --Macaulay. | source : wn | disquisition n : an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion

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CBC : Canadians with friends and relatives in NYC can call 1-800-387-3124 for information

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Doug Tidwell : Extending XSLT to Encrypt XML on the Fly

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Randal L. Schwartz : Developing a Perl Routine

"This doesn't sound like that difficult a task, but some interesting subtleties arose as I was starting to solve it in my head. So, I'm writing this column effectively in real time, as I would consider each piece of the problem, to illustrate effective practices at developing Perl routines."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is senescence

| source : web1913 | Senescence \Se*nes"cence\, n. [See {Senescent}.] The state of growing old; decay by time. | source : wn | senescence n : the property characteristic of old age [syn: {agedness}]

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is clamber

| source : web1913 | Clamber \Clam"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Clambered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clambering}.] [OE clambren, clameren, to heap together, climb; akin to Icel. klambra to clamp, G. klammern. Cf. {Clamp}, {Climb}.] To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. --Tennyson. | source : web1913 | Clamber \Clam"ber\, n. The act of clambering. --T. Moore. | source : web1913 | Clamber \Clam"ber\, v. t. To ascend by climbing with difficulty. Clambering the walls to eye him. --Shak. | source : wn | clamber n : an awkward climb; "reaching the crest was a real clamber" v : climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: {scramble}, {shin}, {shinny}, {skin}, {struggle}, {sputter}]

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Chris Nott : The 1k DHTML API

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