posts brought to you by the category “pets”
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.
The building on the corner of Marie-Anne and the Main always has the best grafitti.
Bob Stayton : DocBook XSL, The Complete Guide
www.wfmu.org
Anything that trumpets itself asWFMU 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...
freeformtends 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!
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
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
via
simon willison
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bong
"really good or nice, "
ex. your friend is really bongsee also : bong dict-ified
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How to hide CSS from buggy browsers
Me : XML::Filter::XML_Directory_Pruner.pm 1.1
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
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
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
Doug Tidwell : Extending XSLT to Encrypt XML on the Fly
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
Toby Lester : The Reinvention of Privacy
Michael Smith : Table.el
"is an Emacs lisp package that extends Emacs and
provides text based table creation and editing feature. With this package
Emacs is capable of editing tables that are embedded inside a document,
the feature similar to the ones seen in modern WYSIWYG word processors."
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Nathan Torkington : What every Perl programmer needs to know about .NET
"Where Microsoft betters Sun is that while Java
is the only real language that compiles to the JVM, Microsoft intends IL
[Intermediate Language] to be cross-language. That is, Perl, Visual Basic
and C# can be compiled down to IL. The idea is to make it possible to
integrate multiple languages into one system."
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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."
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My friend Mary got her book published.
There's a pretty funny story about the book cover
but I don't know if it's my place to tell it in public...
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Press the button,
smell the coffee
,
feel the rush
. Think of it as my sorry-ass way of making up for blowing the Day in the
Life meme.
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Sightings :
Please think good thoughts for the Deepleap gang,
they deserve it.
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This American Life : Americans in Paris
"Why come to Paris and go to the one place you're
not aloud to smoke?" ( real evil g2 )
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Marc St-Maurice, leader of the Marijuana Party :
"I'm just waiting for Jean Chrétien to drop the
writ and call a by-election, then I'm off to Okanagan-Coquihalla to go
mano a mano with Stockwell Day. We're putting marijuana on top of the
agenda and I'm itching for a debate."
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"It is worth noting that good argument does not guarantee good action" [sic]
I was going through my stuff this morning, in
anticipation of The Big Move 2.0, and I came across my notes from a
philosophy class I took during my last semester at school. It was one of
a series called "Philosopical Issues for Artists", and this one was
titled "Being reasonable: What's right and what's art?" but I quickly
renamed it "Teaching Artists to be Reasonable." On the first day of
class, I drew
this
drawing
on my course outline. I wonder what I was thinking about.
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Python for the PalmOS
Cool! Watch as Perl weenies, the world over,
gnash their teeth in silent simmering respect. via
inessential
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Super Bang Pettit III : Paintings
LA Weekly : Better Living Through Electro-Politics
"If I’m elected, and if they ever repair
City Hall, there will be a Webcam in my office whenever I’m working
... [we] need a drastic change from total behind-the-curtain to total
open-the-curtain. I don’t think there’s a middle ground on
this one. If a contractor is in my office negotiating a bid, he’s
not negotiating with me, but with the citizens of Los Angeles. And he has
to be prepared to tell those citizens what he’s doing."
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The Big Trip
Tarano or bust!
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Michael Schwern : Sex.pm
"Given two (or more, I'm a liberal guy) packages,
Sex.pm will recombine their symbols at random recombining them into the
new module thus providing a cross-section of its functions and global
variables."
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Apparently this is
a sign in botany for plants with life cycles of many years, which are
not bush-like.
but I just keep seeing a telephone pole and sickle.
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Since returning to Montreal
the weekly
flatfishnight
has been replaced by let's eat dinner at 23h00 night. Perhaps this week I
will suggest a simple meal of
peanut butter and ramen sandwitches
. via
/usr/bin/girl
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Charles C. Mann : Bugged
Wherein the author coins the phrase "Microsoftian
uselessness".
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Keith Dawson : Life, liberty, and Net anonymity
"Let's get two things straight. First, anonymity
is not a thorny problem, it's a basic American Constitutional right.
Second, the methods used by the unknown DoS perpetrators to cover their
tracks had very little to do with anonymity."
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Sarah Boxer : How I Took the Mensa Test and Joined the American Order of Idiots
Can someone help me understand why Americans are
so obsessed with standardized testing?
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Center for Land Use Interpretation
"The Center is neither an environmental group nor
an industry affiliated organization. Rather, the work of The Center
integrates the many approaches to land use, the many perspectives of the
landscape, into a single vision that illustrates the common ground in
'land use' debates. "
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Microsoft's Mike Nash on Windows 2000
"If I decide to put up mikenash.com and I want to
sell T-Shirts with my picture on them, for something uninteresting like
me five [client-access licenses] is all I need since I probably won't
have more than five people buying at one time." I guess I just assumed
that a company full of obviously smart people would be able to hire
better liars.
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While I was Montreal, I popped my head into
the newly minted SoftImage offices and quickly dubbed [them]
The Anxiety
Building
. The whole thing looked like it was built expressly to make even to
most ardent Techo-fetishist and Believer feel inadequate and worthless.
The ground floor also houses the Cinema Parallele / Cafe Melies combo
which used to be up the street in slightly more humble and human
environments. Now they both look like they are straight out of Blade
Runner. When you buy tickets for a movie, you don't actually look at a
human being but rather a port hole shaped computer monitor that
displays a distorted video feed of the cashier taken with a webcam
located on the other side of the monitor/window.
Caro
and Jeunet
, here we come!
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randomcam news
Over the weekend, I did a bunch of backend stuff,
most too dull to explain here. One of them was to add a script that lets
people include a single random webcam on their webpage by including the
following <a href =
"http://aaronland.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/asc/randomcam?function=single">url</a>
as the src attribute for an img tag. (If the server suddenly gets
swamped, I will have to take it down, however.) I am also generating a
fresh <a href =
"http://aaronland.net/xml/randomcam.xml">xml
file</a> of all the info everytime the database is updated.
Much of the information is still undefined (latitude, longitude, etc.)
and I will fill in the blanks as time allows; the randomcam is pretty low
on the totem pole. Enjoy!
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Mœbius
"Avec l'ordinateur, on peut faire une révolution
dans la BD, comme Fred Beltran dans Megalex, créer un univers en trois
dimensions, faire dedans un travail de caméraman, chercher le point de
vue qui correspond à l'image qu'on veut montrer. On le stocke et on
travaille dedans pour le perfectionner. Ça devient quelque chose qui est
suspendu entre le théâtre, la sculpture, le cinéma, la mise en scène,
l'univers virtuel de nos têtes, ça crée un résultat complètement martien
qui fait un choc culturel dans la tête du lecteur."
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Tiananmen Square, 1989 : The Declassified Documents
"A National Security Archive Electronic Briefing
Book". Meanwhile, the radio show that does it all presents
A People's
History of Tiananmen Square
. real audio.
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Dimanche magazine
"Le fumeur et la cigarette sont-ils en train de
devenir les boucs émissaires de toutes les intolérances? C'est la
question que soulève le film Cigarette, une récente production de
l'Office national du film du Canada réalisée par Monique LeBlanc. Ginette
Lamarche, animatrice de Dimanche magazine, discute du propos du film avec
le comédien et co-scénariste Yvan Vanhecke." Cigarette was awarded the
prize for Best Documentary at the 1998
Atlantic Film
Festival
. real audio
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William Neukom on The Law of Increasing Returns
"The thing to remember is that we're engaged in a
legal decathlon, and we're still at an early stage."
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Benoit Aubin
"With the nationalist government facing mounting
problems and revolts, and a nationalist movement organizing a
"cosmopolitan" parade, you have to wonder how many more contradictions
can be piled up in Quebec before something, somewhere, gives way. "
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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
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.
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:
Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure that these were the inspiration for the milk carton thingies that show up in the taint and room projects.
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.
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 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.
That red-ish one is apparently a tomato. Dunno. We swapped vegetables with someone on the way out and that's what she called it.