posts brought to you by the category
“punk's not dead”
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.
All your play are belong to loud
boulevard St. Laurent
,
Montréal
,
May 2004
For Pete : “Wow. I can listen to honest to goodness old-skool hardcore
Random Personal Picture Finder
inkdroid : Politics::US
I want to be able to keep up to date with the goings on of my congressman, senators, and I want Perl to help me.
...
Between the Senate website, and Thomas and WWW::Mechanize this isn't so far fetched at all.
I like to think that this is like the CSS version
"It will be a messy job that, in the short term, will sometimes require flashes of benevolent tyranny..."
Peter Hertzmann : Recettes en Français
An essay about translation.
zveno : [DocBook] SVG Slideshow
DocBook now has a DTD for producing slides. The DocBook project provides XSL stylesheets for creating slideshow presentations in HTML.
Instead of using HTML for presenting slides, this XSL stylesheet creates an SVG document that presents the slideshow. The idea is to have a slideshow presentation that (at least) mimics MS Powerpoint. In time, we hope to make the stylesheet create SVGs that are rich in features and allow for much flexibility in the presentation, such as non-linear slideshows.
Me : XML::SAXDriver::vCard.pm 0.02
inkdroid : "[T]he Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
is an protocol (XML over HTTP) for sharing and harvesting metadata. The protocol is actually quite elegant, and provides a framework for making all sorts of metadata formats available. Essentially it allows organizations to share their metadata in such a way that it can be harvested periodically by service providers. Kind of like RSS syndication, but for metadata."
DSTC : JackSVG
"is a Perl application that takes your presentation contents, written in a simple XML-based language, and writes out a single self-contained SVG file that contains your entire presentation."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : lolalam
Acronym for "Love Only Lasts As Long As (the) Money."
ex. You can describe her lifestyle as lolalam.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : befugaling, befugaled
Befuddled.
ex. Her behavior is thoroughly befugaling.
Me : Net::Blogger::Engine::Slash.pm
www.spamradio.com
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : propitious
Propitious \Pro*pi"tious\, a. [L. propitius, perhaps originally
a term of augury meaning, flying forward (pro) or well; cf.
Skr. pat to fly, E. petition, feather.]
1. Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious
season; a propitious breeze.
2. Hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; -- said of a
person or a divinity. --Milton.
And now t' assuage the force of this new flame, And
make thee [Love] more propitious in my need.
--Spenser.
Syn: Auspicious; favorable; kind.
Usage: {Propitious}, {Auspicious}. Auspicious (from the
ancient idea of auspices, or omens) denotes
``indicative of success,'' or ``favored by incidental
occurrences;'' as, an auspicious opening; an
auspicious event. Propitious denotes that which
efficaciously protect us in some undertaking, speeds
our exertions, and decides our success; as, propitious
gales; propitious influences. -- {Pro*pi"tious*ly},
adv. -- {Pro*pi"tious*ness}, n.
web1913
propitious
adj : presenting favorable circumstances; "propitious omens" [ant:
{unpropitious}]
wn
Ed Hawco : Manifest Destiny in a cup
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : farrago
Farrago \Far*ra"go\, n. [L. farrago, -aginis, mixed fodder for
cattle, mash, medley, fr. far a sort of grain. See {Farina}.]
A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a
medley; a mixture.
A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes,
and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.
--Sheridan.
web1913
farrago
n : a motley assortment of things [syn: {odds and ends}, {oddments},
{melange}, {ragbag}, {hodgepodge}, {mingle-mangle}, {hotchpotch},
{omnium-gatherum}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : mellifluous
Mellifluous \Mel*lif"lu*ous\, a. [L. mellifluus; mel, mellis,
honey (akin to Gr. ?, Goth. milip) + fluere to flow. See
{Mildew}, {Fluent}, and cf. {Marmalade}.]
Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly;
as, a mellifluous voice. -- {Mel*lif"lu*ous*ly}, adv.
web1913
mellifluous
adj : pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: {dulcet},
{honeyed}, {mellisonant}, {sweet}]
wn
Dave Winer : "Now imagine an outliner that works on the Internet.
In your bibliography, you cite a source. Link to it. When a reader double-clicks on the headline, the document expands, in place. Copy the citation into another outline, and you've got another link. Linking and outlining over the Internet. This is the start of something big."
See the person in red, riding the bicycle?
http://sax.perl.org
Some guy named "chregu" : php_imagick
"[is] a native php-extension written in c to access the ImageMagick-functions. A work in progress (ImageMagick has a lot of functionality)."
Me : Userland::weblogUpdates.pm 0.3
Dan Brickley : RDF Hacking, Understanding the Striped RDF/XML Syntax
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is benison
| source : web1913 |
Benison \Ben"i*son\, n. [OE. beneysun, benesoun, OF.
bene["i]?un, bene["i]son, fr. L. benedictio, fr. benedicere
to bless; bene (adv. of bonus good) + dicere to say. See
{Bounty}, and {Diction}, and cf. {Benediction}.]
Blessing; beatitude; benediction. --Shak.
More precious than the benison of friends. --Talfourd.
| source : wn |
benison
n : a spoken blessing
Poppy::UncleDick : "I would hope the American people would,
in effect, stick their thumb in the eye of the terrorists and say they've got great confidence in the country, great confidence in our economy, and not let what's happened here in any way throw off their normal level of economic activity."
I've been asked to "get in [my] own mud bog and post [my] own ideas. [To] take a stand."
There's a small-ish park near where I live.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is paterfamilias
| source : web1913 |
Paterfamilias \Pa`ter*fa*mil`i*as\, n.; pl. {Pateresfamilias}.
[L., fr. pater father + familias, gen. of familia family.]
(Rom. Law)
The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an
estate; one who is his own master.
| source : wn |
paterfamilias
n : the head of family or tribe [syn: {patriarch}, {head of
household}]
Calling Frontier from the command line
This Morning : Babes in Boyland
"CBC Radio's technology reporter, Julie Ireton, has been exploring the world of women in technology."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is flaneur
| source : web1913 |
Flaneur \Fla`neur"\, n. [F., fr. fl[^a]ner to stroll.]
One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.
Just for kicks, I rendered the SOD (sic) feed as DHTML outline.
Andrew Ó Baoill : Slashdot and the Public Sphere
"Jurgen Habermas's theory of the public sphere provides a model of idealised democratic debate. Three major features of this model can be identified - universal access, rational debate, and a disregard for rank. I analyse the model, and use it to examine Slashdot, a popular Web site, as an actualisation of public space."
Thomas Scoville
"Later, I reflected, maybe the problem is that the Turing Test just isn't so relevant anymore. Perhaps it's just a charming theoretical anachronism, an artifact of a distant time ... in which computers themselves were mostly theoretical. In this new millennium of wireless communications and ubiquitous computing, maybe the big challenge isn't for a computer to simulate a human. Maybe the real challenge is for people to prove they aren't machines."
Dru Lavigne : Accessing Microsoft Files [from FreeBSD] Using Sharity-Light
PHP Builder, XML & PHP : Using expat functions
Even if I could blog from the hot-tub
It doesn't get much cooler than ApachePDA
Jacques Parizeau
"[It means] Toronto is buying Montreal. It's not a question of nationalism - it's the character and identity of culture in the marketplace."
David L. Sobel
"[Corporate] stalking -- that's new to me. To a certain extent, lawyers have to go through some contortions in these cases because we don't have effective, concise privacy laws that are readily applicable. [The case] underscores the need for uniform federal legislation that would create a privacy framework." Mr. Sobel is general counsel for
EPIC.
CBC : Depleted uranium found in tissue of Gulf War veteran
"[Riordon's] military file also acknowledges what may be the strangest problem of all: his eyes changed colour in the nine years between his time in the Gulf and his death."
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)
A Citizen's Guide to the WTO
Internet: accord sur les droits d'auteur
Who needs another legacy programmer
Philip Nobel : The Architecture of Madness
“There is a certain perverse genius in the design of the building for people with poor ego boundaries.”
Janet Maslin : Who Needs Originality When You Have Synergy?
"We're much too used to serving as walking billboards and, when it comes to pop-cultural synergy, sitting ducks." I had a teacher in
CEGEP who used to tear out all the embroidered logos and brand-names from all his clothing. Not surprisingly, he taught a class called "Propaganda".
Bruce Sterling : Future Schlock
"There were 16 major political parties now, divided into warrior blocs and ceaseless internecine purges, defections, and counterpurges. There were privately owned cities with millions of "clients" where the standard rule of law was cordially ignored. There were price-fixing mafias, money laundries, outlaw stock markets. There were black, gray, and green superbarter Nets. There were health maintenance organizations staffed by crazed organ-sharing cliques, where advanced medical techniques were in the grip of any quack able to download a surgery program. Wiretapping Net-militias flourished, freed of any physical locale. There were breakaway counties in the American West where whole towns had sold out to tribes of nomads, and simply dropped off the map."
An American's Guide to Canada
I pulled this link off
an especially boring article about how Canadians have gone from spending all their time thinkng themselves boring to thinking themselves not boring. Whatever. Meanwhile, the ever attentive This American Life investigates
The Canadians Among Us.
