posts brought to you by the category “rituals”
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.
Dave Pawson : Emacs nxml-mode Q & A
I <heart /> Montréal
Steve Mumford's gone to Baghdad to draw.
Beverley McLachlin : The Civilization of Difference
So a close examination of Canadas past can disclose both a strong
foundation in the ethic of tolerance and inclusion, as well as the
dark side of group belonging in the form of intolerant treatment. I
want to explore both of these aspects of our heritage, in the hopes
of ultimately demonstrating that, as Canada has matured and grown as
a nation, we have embraced and cultivated the first of these
traditions in order to do a better job of confronting the second we
have learned to value and institutionalize the ethic of respect for
difference as a means of combating exclusionary thinking.
Andrew Gilligan : "I want to talk to you about my favourite Saddam
statues."
Me : XML::FOAF::Emailaddress.pm 1.0
I wrote it because I am punch drunk on using the Perl overload
hooks -- which in this case overloads the '' operator to return the
garbled email address -- and because I can never remember how to
actually handle email addresses in FOAF.
The Connection : Drawing the News
In a 24/7 news cycle, the political cartoonist lives on the verge
of constant overload. Artist, news junkie, provocateur, the political
cartoonist digests reams of newspaper column inches and hours of
broadcast news reports in the daily quest for the angles that rankle,
those choice twists of news that best lend themselves to visual
interpretation.
Sam Tregar : Class::XPath.pm
[A]dds XPath-style matching to your object trees.
The first two points on this author's wishlist will never
happen
Matt Biddulph : The Semantic Web, RDF and perl
Maybe someone will write a WSDL file for the Blogger API, now.
Me : ASCOPE::Apache::XSLT.pm 0.2
The Connection : Children's Book Art
From the "Men with Hammers" department :
Scrabble source code
There are many web sites on the net which allow you to play
Scrabble interactively. If that's what you're looking for, go use
Alta Vista or any of the search engines to find them on your own.
There are no downloadable executables here and no interactive web
games. What we have on our archive are only the sources of computer
programs for academic study.
Mozigo
MoziGo is the result of hacking the MOOzilla telnet code so that
it could be used as an Internet Go Server client. It's still in the
alpha stages and as of yet doesn't do much, but it's getting there.
Hopefully I'll have a working version in a few months (if not
more).
bookmarksync
"is a tool used for synchronizing different
bookmark files and types. It preserves current bookmark structures and
sorts in new ones correctly in existing directorys or create new one if
necessary."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bastard
hat
An invisible device that has an overall negative effect
on the wearer, turning her into a bastard.
ex. "What's the matter with them today?" "Dunno, they
must be wearing the Bastard Hat."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : leximaven
Someone who loves words, from "lexi" (word) and "maven"
(knowledgeable about something).
ex. Leximavens beware, pseudodictionary is
addictive.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : wuppie
web yuppie
submitted by alice
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : chary
Chary \Char"y\, a. [AS. cearig careful, fr. cearu care. See
{Care}.] Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift;
saving; frugal. His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame.
--Jeffrey.
web1913
chary adj : characterized by great cautious and wariness;
"a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks
involved"; "a chary investor" [syn: {cagey}, {cagy}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
murderlize
Commonly used in old cartoons. A silly way of telling
someone you are going to beat them up.
ex. Put up yer dukes. Puttemup, puttemup! I'll murderlize
ya!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
trustafarian
"someone who has adopted the style and demeanor of one
who eschews financial success, but with generous help from parents'
trust fund. Often seen sporting thriftstore clothing, dreadlocks and
a brand new vehicle."
ex. ""You used to get real cheap beer here, but all the
trustafarians infiltrated and prices have skyrocketed.""
5000!
Barrie Slaymaker : XML::AutoWriter.pm
Rick Olson : commonWeblogAPI.root
Simon Winstow : WWW::Amazon::Wishlist.pm
"grabs all the details from [an] Amazon
wishlist."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is copse
| source : web1913 | Copse \Copse\, v. t. 1. To
trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
--Halliwell. 2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. --Swift. | source :
web1913 | Copse \Copse\, n. [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small
growth; a thicket of brushwood. See {Coppice}. Near yonder copse where
once the garden smiled. --Goldsmith. | source : wn | copse n : a dense
growth of bushes [syn: {brush}, {brushwood}, {coppice}, {thicket}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is dishabille
| source : web1913 | Dishabille \Dis`ha*bille"\,
n. [See {Deshabille}.] An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.
They breakfast in dishabille. --Smollett. | source : wn | dishabille n :
the state of being carelessly or partially dressed [syn: {deshabille}]
Cynthia Malaran : Watching the Changes
"I had originally started this photo collection
as a tribute to the view out of my bedroom window that I grew up with.
Never did I think I would be speaking of it in the past tense, at least
not under these conditions." via
calamondin
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is vertiginous
| source : web1913 | Vertiginous
\Ver*tig"i*nous\, a. [L. vertiginosus, fr. vertigo a whirling around,
giddiness: cf. F. vertigineux. See {Vertig??}.] 1. Turning round;
whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion. Some vertiginous
whirl of fortune. --De Quincey. 2. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of
heaven. --Jer. Taylor. -- {Ver*tig"i*nous*ly}, adv. --
{Ver*tig"i*nous*ness}, n. | source : wn | vertiginous adj : having or
causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a
dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice";
"feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the
face of the cliff" [syn: {dizzy}, {giddy}, {woozy}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is slake
| source : web1913 | Slake \Slake\, v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Slaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slaking}.] [OE. slaken to
render slack, to slake, AS. sleacian, fr. sleac slack. See {Slack}, v.
& a.] 1. To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
``And slake the heavenly fire.'' --Spenser. It could not slake mine ire
nor ease my heart. --Shak. 2. To mix with water, so that a true chemical
combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime. | source :
web1913 | Slake \Slake\, v. i. 1. To go out; to become extinct. ``His
flame did slake.'' --Sir T. Browne. 2. To abate; to become less decided.
[R.] --Shak. 3. To slacken; to become relaxed. ``When the body's
strongest sinews slake.'' [R.] --Sir J. Davies. 4. To become mixed with
water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime
slakes. {Slake trough}, a trough containing water in which a blacksmith
cools a forging or tool. | source : wn | slake v 1: satisfy (thirst)
[syn: {quench}, {allay}, {assuage}] 2: make less active or intense [syn:
{abate}, {slack}] 3: cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water,
as of lime [syn: {slack}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is exegesis
| source : web1913 | Exegesis \Ex`e*ge"sis\, n.;
pl. {Exegeses}. [NL., fr.Gr. ?,fr. ? to explain, interpret; ? out + ? to
guide, lead, akin, to ? to lead. See {Agent}.] 1. Exposition;
explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of
Scripture. 2. (Math.) The process of finding the roots of an equation.
[Obs.] | source : wn | exegesis n 1: an explanation or critical
interpretation (especially of the Bible) 2: critical interpretation of a
text (especially of the Bible)
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."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is spry
| source : web1913 | Spry \Spry\, a. [Compar.
{Sprier} or {Spryer}; superl. {Spriest} or {Spryest}.] [Cf. dial. Sw.
sprygg lively, skittish, and E. sprag.] Having great power of leaping or
running; nimble; active. [U.S. & Local Eng.] She is as spry as a
cricket. --S. Judd (Margaret). If I'm not so large as you, You are not so
small as I, And not half so spry. --Emerson. | source : wn | spry adj :
moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as
a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it
was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it" [syn: {agile},
{nimble}, {quick}] | source : gazetteer | Spry, PA (CDP, FIPS 73528)
Location: 39.91250 N, 76.68753 W Population (1990): 4271 (1905 housing
units) Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
