posts brought to you by the category “plastic”
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.
Simon Wistow : Python::Serialise::Pickle.pm
You could always dump the data structure out as YAML in Python and
then read it back in with YAML in Perl.
Randal Schwartz : "People moan at Perl's syntax, and then they
embrace XSL. Go figure!"
Dan Rinzel : Hacking Movable Type with WWW::Mechanize
Me : strip_unix_comments 1.0 (bloxsom plugin)
With truths like these, who needs lies?
In war, it's appropriate for the media to serve as watchdogs, but
you should not walk into a situation being a skeptic,
he says in an interview. Reporters shouldn't be digging for dirt or
even independently probing for facts, in his view. If something bad
happens, it's the military's job to investigate, Long says, not the
media's.
Our job is to provide the truth and provide context.
He fires up his stogie. He puffs.
The truth will set you free.
Meanwhile Ben Hammersley, in a fit of poetic license,
Me : links-to-unordered-list.xsl 1.0
Ed is dead!
Michael Kinsey : Deliver Us From Evil
If the subjective basis for terrorists hating America is off
limits for consideration, that would seem to leave the objective
basis: Is it something we did, or didn't do, to them or theirs? But
this violates the ancient conservative taboo (c. 1984, styling by
Jeane Kirkpatrick) against "blaming America first." So, check and
mate: Terrorism is evil, evil, evil—gosh, it's evil—and
there's nothing else to discuss.
Bill Turner : Baby boomer tableware
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : muppet
Mild insult to the mildly dippy. Usually reserved for
someone doing something without calling upon common sense in the
process.
ex. "And then the man from the RAC told me my car was not
working because I'd run out of petrol." "You muppet!"
Gen Kanai : "For to us, pho is life, love and all things that
matter."
www.spamradio.com
Dan Brickley : RDF for mail filtering - FOAF whitelists
"Other folk have been using whitelist based
filtering, which is based on the idea that you keep a 'whitelist' of
known email addresses, and filter unknown senders into a folder for
occasional scrutiny. After a some bad spam weather, I decided to try
combining this technique with content-based filtering, so that genuine
messages from unknown addresses would also be separated from the most
obvious spam. This document is mostly about the use of RDF to exchange
whitelist data, so that we minimise false positives in whitelist based
filtering."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : philish
Used to describe something that bothers you to no end and
makes you wish you had a gun to shoot them.
ex. That guy we saw yesterday--Lyphen?--what a philish
turd! I wish he just dropped dead on the spot! Not only was he rude,
but he also smelled awful!
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.2
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fussass
pronounced as fuss-arse. means that someone is
particularly fussy in their behaviours and work habits.
ex. Cathy is a fussass, because she likes to maintain a
high standard of work.
Two days ago : the eighth day of Not Winter
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : nescience
Nescience \Nes"cience\, n. [L. nescientia, fr. nesciens, p.
pr. of nescire not to know; ne not + scire to know.] Want of knowledge;
ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence
and nescience of mine. --Bp. Hall.
web1913
nescience n : ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)
[syn: {ignorantness}, {unknowing}, {unknowingness}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hole of
pluto
Middle of nowhere.
ex. She moved to the hole of Pluto. I don't even think
they deliver mail where she moved.
The Perl Review 0.0
Isabel Álvarez and Brent Kilbourn : Mapping the Information Society
Literature
"In spite of the infancy of the Information
Society phenomenon, a large literature has emerged in recent years that
discusses its nature. Not surprisingly, the literature does not present a
uniform view; rather, there are differences of opinion as to the nature
and significance of the Information Society. We argue that the literature
constitutes an educational problem for those teaching and learning about
this complex territory. The discussion visits the complexity by
constructing a comprehensive map that charts 1) topics, 2) perspectives,
and 3) root metaphors."
The Connection : Language and the Internet
I'm going to try and suspend my disbelief
I've been wating patiently for someone else to say it
Nigel Witters : Apache::Emulator.pm
"I work in a firm that uses Netscape as its
front-line webserver, but I prefer to code my Perl using mod_perl rather
than CGI. I also have an account on an internal Apache server running
mod_perl, but I don't have admin rights to restart the webserver while
I'm developing code [nor am I allowed to run my own copy of Apache]. I
also like to develop web applications that *will* run on a CGI platform,
but will run *very fast* on a mod_perl platform. The solution? Emulate
mod_perl within the CGI environment. It's slower than traditional CGI,
but you can develop for both platforms and deploy to mod_perl once your
code is finished."
Eric Meyer : CSS2 Reference Sidebar [for Mozilla]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is chimera
| source : web1913 | Chimera \Chime"ra\, n.; pl.
{Chimeras}. [L. chimaera a chimera (in sense 1), Gr. ? a she-goat, a
chimera, fr. ? he-goat; cf. Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe.] 1. (Myth.) A
monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion,
the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. ``Dire chimeras and
enchanted isles.'' --Milton. 2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or
creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author. --Burke. |
source : wn | Chimera n 1: (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster
with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of
Typhon [syn: {Chimera}, {Chimaera}] 2: a grotesque product of the
imagination [syn: {chimaera}] | source : foldoc | Chimera A modular, {X
Window System}-based {World-Wide Web} {browser} for {Unix}. Chimera uses
the {Athena} {widget} set so {Motif} is not needed. Chimera supports
forms, inline images, {TERM}, {SOCKS}, {proxy server}s, {Gopher}, {FTP},
{HTTP} and local file accesses. Chimera can be extended using external
programs. New {protocol}s can easily be added and alternate image formats
can be used for inline images (e.g. {PostScript}). Version 1.60 is
available for {(ftp://ftp.cs.unlv.edu/pub/chimera)}. {Home
(http://www.unlv.edu/chimera/)} Chimera runs on {Sun} {SPARC} {SunOS}
4.1.x, {IBM} {RS/6000} {AIX} 3.2.5, {Linux} 1.1.x. It should run on
anything with {X11}R[3-6], {imake} and a {C} compiler. (1994-11-08)
Dirk-Willem van Gulik : mod_auth_jabber
Brendan Scott : Copyright in a Frictionless World: Toward a
Rhetoric of Responsibility
"In this paper, the author reviews the history
and application of copyright and concludes that, although promoted as
being in the interests of authors, it is designed in such a way as to be
primarily a right which benefits distributors and publishers. The author
identifies a number of difficulties faced by distributors and publishers
in enforcing their rights in an age where the various sources of
"friction" which once limited infringement are being constantly reduced.
In particular, in the emerging frictionless world the typical targets of
the holder of a copyright monopoly (distributors pirating for profit) are
being overtaken by a new breed of target (individuals with a cost
reduction motive) and it is uneconomical for a holder of a copyright
monopoly to pursue this new breed. The author argues that recent
extensions to copyright monopolies add little to the illegality of the
infringing acts nor any stigma to the performance of those acts. Instead,
they exacerbate one of the main causes of infringement - consumer
cynicism as to the benefits to society of the copyright monopoly. The
author argues further that, rather than driving further cynicism through
more expansive rhetoric relating to rights, holders of a copyright
monopoly should instead seek to mollify consumer sentiment and encourage
compliance by emphasizing a rhetoric of responsibility in the exercise of
those rights."
The Friends of Poor People see no truck in protesting.
What the hell is an Amero-Canadian?
"[O]ur lives stretched before us along paths as
uncertain as the uncharted Canadian land mass that capped the
Amerocentric television weather maps of our youth."
So, apparently, while I've been busy geeking out,
83% of Canadians have a uniform fetish.