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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.
Ira Glass : Howard and Me
I'm the host of a show on public radio, and when my listeners
tell me they don't care for [Howard] Stern, I always think it reveals a
regrettable narrowness of vision. Mostly, they're put off by the
naked girls. But Stern has invented a way of being on the air that
uses the medium better than nearly anyone. He's more honest, more
emotionally present, more interesting, more wide-ranging in his
opinions than any host on public radio. Also, he's a fantastic
interviewer. He's truly funny. And his staff on the air is
cheerfully inclusive of every kind of person: black, white, dwarf,
stutterer, drunk and supposed gay. What public radio show has that
kind of diversity?
KCRW runs a fucking station.
My new radio VCR
For Pete : “Wow. I can listen to honest to goodness old-skool hardcore
The Current talks to Maher Arar
The Connection : Dean.com
Go on, give the gift of love.
Lin, Yung-Chung : PerlIO::via::Babelfish.pm
Leon Brocard : Image::IPTCInfo::TemplateFile.pm
...allows the loading of data from an IPTC template file...
The Gnome/Mozilla browser saves bookmarks as an RSS 1.0 document.
Peter Hertzmann : Recettes en Français
An essay about translation.
Wow, I'm not sure I could be any more underwhelmed.
Me : sql-abstract-_recurse_where-order-by.2.diff
Andy Wardley : "I finally got around to releasing my XML::Schema module(s)."
Dos Pesos : I dont know what fixt is but I am eksited.
Me : HTML::RSSAutodiscovery.pm 1.1
Claire Harrison : Hypertext Links - Wither Thou Goest and Why
I began to ask myself questions about my intuitions regarding linking. Was this behavior completely idiosyncratic? Or was I making decisions based on principles that I had not articulated? If so, what were these principles and what did their application mean for hypertext authors and users?
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : camarilla
Camarilla \Ca`ma*ril"la\, n. [Sp., a small room.]
1. The private audience chamber of a king.
2. A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a
king; a cabal or clique.
web1913
camarilla
n : a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue [syn: {cabal},
{faction}, {junta}, {junto}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fark
Fuxk, used to bypass email scanners when emailing from the workplace.
ex. Fark this!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : apostasy
Apostasy \A*pos"ta*sy\, n.; pl. {Apostasies}. [OE. apostasie, F.
apostasie, L. apostasia, fr. Gr. ? a standing off from, a
defection, fr. ? to stand off, revolt; ? from + ? to stand.
See {Off} and {Stand}.]
An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total
desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or
party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as,
Julian's apostasy from Christianity.
web1913
apostasy
n 1: the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your
political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing
beliefs or causes) [syn: {renunciation}, {defection}]
2: the act of abandoning a party or cause [syn: {tergiversation}]
wn
8 out of 10
All I have to say is : What is the deal with the nipple-shirt?
Someone, give this woman a prize!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : adamant
Adamant
(Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond.
This stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind of hard
steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of
the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard-heartedness against the
truth (Jer. 17:1).
easton
Adamant, VT
Zip code(s): 05640
gazetteer
Adamant \Ad"a*mant\ ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt,
adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis,
the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. +
dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L.
adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet,
as in OF. and LL. See {Diamond}, {Tame}.]
1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a
name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme
hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical
signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for
the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample
shield. --Milton.
2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] ``A great adamant of
acquaintance.'' --Bacon.
As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene.
web1913
adamant
adj : not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course;
unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his
refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable;
she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an
intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal
tendancy" [syn: {adamantine}, {inexorable}, {intransigent}]
n : very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: {diamond}]
wn
ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in
solicitate of gold.
devils
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bigity-bam
Used to describe something good that happens very quickly and out of the blue. From the movie "Mall Rats".
ex. "I put a dollar into the slot machine, and Bigity-Bam. I won $100."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : quiztory
the recording of a quiz night victory
ex. WOW,What a win by table number 8, this will surely go down in quiztory as the greatest win ever
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : i saw ying
Slang for "a saying."
Fig: To see one side of things. A killer.
ex. Don't blame me if you don't understand me!...I saw ying...only.
Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. : What the Cultural Sector Can Learn from Enron
"Artistic and cultural products are no longer objects, like books, paintings, sculpture, with the degree of immanence that the physics of the natural world imparts; nor are they discrete, self-contained events in time, like musical performances, dance performances, and so forth. They will not stand alone, but depend on the presence of a network of activities, relationships and contingencies, that must be maintained."
Perlmonks : SOAP::Lite and Security
"But the fundamental problem is that SOAP is a poorly designed protocol designed with no eye to security, and built largely for the convenience offered because most firewalls will let through http traffic. This was said pointed out a long time ago by Bruce Schneier, but it is amazing how many people have missed the basic point. The point is that firewalls are retroactive protection for security mistakes in applications. If applications seek new ways around firewalls but continue to make the same basic mistakes then you are guaranteed to get into a situation where firewalls need to retroactively filter a more complicated protocol."
The Monthly Montreal Comix Jam has a website
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is mulct
| source : web1913 |
Mulct \Mulct\, n. [L. mulcta, multa.]
1. A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.
2. A blemish or defect. [Obs.]
Syn: Amercement; forfeit; forfeiture; penalty.
| source : web1913 |
Mulct \Mulct\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mulcted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Mulcting}.] [L. mulctare, multare.]
1. To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine
or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine.
2. Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or
discipline. [Obs.]
| source : wn |
mulct
n : money extracted as a penalty [syn: {fine}, {amercement}]
v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"
[syn: {swindle}, {rook}, {nobble}, {diddle}, {bunco}, {defraud},
{gyp}, {con}]
2: impose a fine on [syn: {fine}]
Michael Stern : "The atmosphere is strained, but polite.
Perhaps the frequency of every New Yorker's intercourse (in the old-fashioned sense) with members of other ethnic groups helps. That didn't help the Jews in Germany in 1938, or Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, but maybe it helps here."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is moil
| source : web1913 |
Moil \Moil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moiled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Moiling}.] [OE. moillen to wet, OF. moillier, muillier, F.
mouller, fr. (assumed) LL. molliare, fr. L. mollis soft. See
{Mollify}.]
To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil.
--Spenser.
| source : web1913 |
Moil \Moil\, v. i. [From {Moil} to daub; prob. from the idea of
struggling through the wet.]
To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful
effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
Moil not too much under ground. --Bacon.
Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
--Dryden.
| source : web1913 |
Moil \Moil\, n.
A spot; a defilement.
The moil of death upon them. --Mrs.
Browning.
| source : wn |
moil
v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework" [syn:
{labor}, {labour}, {toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge},
{dig}]
2: be agitated; of liquids [syn: {churn}, {boil}, {roil}]
3: moisten or soil: "Her tears moiled the letter"
I spent some time beating on VRML when I was in college
Justin Mason : Mail::SpamAssasin.pm
"is a Mail::Audit plugin to identify spam using text
analysis and several internet-based realtime blacklists. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is avatar
| source : web1913 |
Avatar \Av`a*tar"\, n. [Skr. avat[^a]ra descent; ava from + root
t[.r] to cross, pass over.]
1. (Hindoo Myth.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his
incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated
with the incarnations of Vishnu.
2. Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or
admiration.
| source : wn |
avatar
n 1: ny new embodiment of a familiar idea; "the incarnation of
evil"; "the very avatar of cunning" [syn: {embodiment},
{incarnation}]
2: the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in
human or superhuman or animal form; "the Buddha is
considered an avatar of the god Vishnu"
| source : jargon |
avatar n. Syn. [in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of a god]
1. Among people working on virtual reality and {cyberspace} interfaces,
an "avatar" is an icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual
reality. The term is sometimes used on {MUD}s. 2. [CMU, Tektronix]
{root}, {superuser}. There are quite a few Unix machines on which
the name of the superuser account is `avatar' rather than `root'.
This quirk was originated by a CMU hacker who found the terms `root'
and `superuser' unimaginative, and thought `avatar' might better impress
people with the responsibility they were accepting.
| source : foldoc |
avatar
1. <chat, virtual reality> An {image} representing a user in a
multi-user {virtual reality} (or VR-like, in the case of
{Palace}) space.
2. (CMU, Tektronix) {root}, {superuser}. There are quite a
few {Unix} computers on which the name of the superuser
account is "avatar" rather than "root". This quirk was
originated by a {CMU} hacker who disliked the term
"superuser", and was propagated through an ex-CMU hacker at
{Tektronix}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1997-09-14)
| source : vera |
AVATAR
Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator (BBS)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bucolic
| source : web1913 |
Bucolic \Bu*col"ic\, n. [L. Bucolic[^o]n po["e]ma.]
A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life,
manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of
Theocritus and Virgil. --Dryden.
| source : web1913 |
Bucolic \Bu*col"ic\, a. [L. bucolicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? cowherd,
herdsman; ? ox + (perh.) ? race horse; cf. Skr. kal to drive:
cf. F. bucolique. See {Cow} the animal.]
Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd;
pastoral; rustic.
| source : wn |
bucolic
adj 1: used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian
contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in
its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: {arcadian},
{pastoral}, {rustic}]
2: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising
sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral
land"; "a pastoral economy" [syn: {pastoral}]
n 1: a country person [syn: {peasant}, {provincial}]
2: a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life [syn: {eclogue},
{idyll}]
Christian Stocker : XML_sql2xml
"takes an sql-query, a pear::db_result or an array and gives you back a xml string or object representing the data. You get a more or less decent result with just the basic settings, but it's also highly configurable, so you can almost get what you want. And furthermore, if you have joined queries, this class tries to detect the relationship and gives you back a nested xml out of that. This does not always work right, but you can customize the relationship between the tables, as well. The automatic relationship detection does only work with mysql at the moment. But the class itself can be used with any db supported by the pear database abstraction class." via
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Helena Echlin : Letter from Yale
Object by Design : XSLT by Example
"These pages ... shift the focus toward the nitty-gritty details of writing XSLT stylesheets."
Honour, my arse. It's called data-mining
"In order to cooperate with governmental requests, to protect our systems and customers, or to ensure the integrity and operation of our business and systems, we may access and disclose any information we consider necessary or appropriate, including, without limitation, user contact details, transaction data, IP addressing and traffic information, usage history, and posted content." see also :
Is Amazon's Honor Plan Honorable?
The revolution is being televised.
"What blogs do is they give a context for chunks, and they arrange them chronologically, which is really simple for people to follow," Mr. Williams said. "That for me is an example of a medium finding something that works and that's unique to the medium."
Web Techniques : Blog Rolling Competitions
"If I were deploying a Weblog on a machine over which I had complete control, I would lean strongly toward using Squishdot for my Weblog. The biggest reason for this is ease of installation and maintenance; both of these are benefits that come with using Zope. Also, Zope is highly extensible, and its separation of content and presentation scales well when you have multiple people customizing the site itself."
Geoffrey Harder : A Humanists Struggle to Understand Information as a Commodity
"Theories of information evolve in relation to the
A bit harsh perhaps but, seriously, you crazy fuckers.