posts brought to you by the category “rugrats”
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.
Susheel Daswani : "We have just started a project to integrate
Creative Commons licenses into the LimeWire (Gnutella) client."
Know you know : The only thing more fun that riding your bike up
the mountain in the rain
Mark Fowler : "It's all about my latest crazy crazy idea which is
XML::Filter::TT."
The Animal Internet-o-pedia
Sure enough, if you thought it couldn't get any worse than Artforum
nerds discovering weblogs
Joseph J. Esposito : The Processed Book
This is painful to behold for someone who prayed earnestly that
Isabel Archer would not return to Osmond, but words are symbols and
are ideally suited for the manipulations of the symbolic logic of
computers. The processed book takes Isabel Archer and shows her to be
the collection of words that she is. She then can be processed.
perl -e 'use strict; use Cwd; my $dir = getcwd; my $i = -1; map {
$i += $_ eq "/" } (split("",$dir)); print $i,"\n";'
Eat Poop You Cat
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
insectclopedia
Insect encyclopedia.
ex. I am researching the insectclopedia.
Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm 0.2
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : aohater
One who hates users of the America Online internet
service provider.
ex. You guys are all aohaters. Leave use AOL users
alone.
N.Y. Times 7#34;Something magical occurs when the pastry hits the
hot oil.
The creamy white vegetable shortening filling
liquefies, impregnating the sponge cake with its luscious vanilla flavor
(sure, it's imitation, but nevertheless potent). The cake itself softens
and warms, nearly melting, contrasting with the crisp, deep-fried crust
in a buttery and suave way."
To my ever-lasting shame, I will admit to having read a book by
Michael "rhymes with frighten" Creighton.
N.Y. Times : The Brave New Kitchen (No Room for Cooking)
"I studied [the design] a long time before
saying: "It's beautiful. But where do we put the ugly stuff?" There was
no place in this clever kitchen for a trash can. And yet cooking is all
about garbage. Garbage for a good cause, but garbage nonetheless. Our
hired genius wound up designing a clever slot under a counter alongside
the stove, the perfect solution in a kitchen that still feels perfect 10
years later. Still, I think of that oversight whenever I hear the words
"architect" and "food" in a single sentence."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : varicolored
varicolored adj 1: having a variety of colors [syn:
{varicoloured}, {variegated}] 2: having sections or patches colored
differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the
painted desert,"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied
daisies" [syn: {motley}, {multicolor}, {culticolour}, {multicolored},
{multicoloured}, {painted}, {particolored}, {particoloured}, {piebald},
{pied}, {varicoloured}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : evanescent
Evanescent \Ev`a*nes"cent\, a. [L. evanescens, -entis, p.
pr. of evanescere.] 1. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor;
vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the
fashions of the world in these particulars. --Hawthorne. 2. Vanishing
from notice; imperceptible. The difference between right and wrong, is
some petty cases, is almost evanescent. --Wollaston.
web1913
evanescent adj : tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent
beauty"
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I wrote an AxPoint DTD
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
jackfucker
Someone whose action indicate she possesses the heinous
attributes of both a jackass and a motherfucker.
ex. You're directly behind a woman in line at a fast food
drive-through who is sorting through her purse, letting other people
get in front of her, and drastically increasing your wait. She then
drives off without ordering. "Jackfucker!"
Chris Russell : "And being asked to swallow a frozen cube of
onion
in green apple juice so you'd burp and be ready
for the next course was a little much."
Nat Torkington : Jihaddict
"A Skewed View of the War on Terrorism."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is transmute
| source : web1913 | Transmute \Trans*mute"\, v.
t. [imp. & p. p. {Transmuted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Transmuting}.]
[L. transmutare, transmutatum; trans across + mutare to change. See
{Mutable}, and cf. {Transmew}.] To change from one nature, form, or
substance, into another; to transform. The caresses of parents and the
blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. --Buckminster.
Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy. --H. Smith. | source
: wn | transmute v 1: change in outward structure or looks; "He
transformed into a monster" [syn: {transform}] 2: change or alter in
form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her
completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture" [syn:
{transform}] 3: alter in nature; of chemical elements in alchemy
Professional XML Web Services : SOAP Basics
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is dictum
| source : web1913 | Dictum \Dic"tum\, n.; pl. L.
{Dicta}, E. {Dictums}. [L., neuter of dictus, p. p. of dicere to say. See
{Diction}, and cf. {Ditto}.] 1. An authoritative statement; a dogmatic
saying; an apothegm. A class of critical dicta everywhere current. --M.
Arnold. 2. (Law) (a) A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points
that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
(b) (French Law) The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who
has given it. --Bouvier. (c) An arbitrament or award. | source : wn |
dictum n 1: an authoritative declaration [syn: {pronouncement}, {say-so}]
2: an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on
the case in question and therefore not binding [syn: {obiter dictum}]
Robert Scoble : "We must change their memes. How do we do
that?
I guess with two ways. First, we kill their women
and children. Why? Well, these are future hosts of their memes. And, we
must get their memes to understand that if we get attacked, we will make
their other meme holders pay and pay big. ... They are killing my memes.
Until they stop killing my memes, and start talking on the Internet with
me, my memes will want to wack them, and wack them hard."
Me : rss2blogger 1.1
Steven L. Telleen : Intranet Organization - Strategies for managing
change
"Talking to companies that have implemented
Intranets, the toughest issues are not the technology but the people
issues. What is missing entirely is a book that takes a thoughtful look
at how an organization might transition to all these wonderful benefits,
what it means in terms of organizational needs, role requirements and
reskilling people and how the organizational strategy relates to the
technology decisions. In other words, the critical stuff that links
strategy and technology."
I guess it happens all the time
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is penury
| source : web1913 | Penury \Pen"u*ry\, n. [L.
penuria; cf. Gr. ? hunger, ? poverty, need, ? one who works for his daily
bread, a poor man, ? to work for one's daily bread, to be poor: cf. F.
p['e]nurie.] 1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme
poverty; destitution. ``A penury of military forces.'' --Bacon. They were
exposed to hardship and penury. --Sprat. It arises in neither from penury
of thought. --Landor. 2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] --Jer.
Taylor. | source : wn | penury n : a state of extreme poverty or
destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need
exists among the homeless" [syn: {indigence}, {need}, {pauperism}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is egress
| source : web1913 | Egress \E"gress\, n. [L.
egressus, fr. egredi to go out; e out + gradi to go. See {Grade}.] 1. The
act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure. Embarred
from all egress and regress. --Holland. Gates of burning adamant, Barred
over us, prohibit all egress. --Milton. 2. (Astron.) The passing off from
the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit. | source : web1913 |
Egress \E*gress"\, v. i. To go out; to depart; to leave. | source : wn |
egress n 1: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the
emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins" [syn:
{emergence}, {issue}] 2: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming
apparent [syn: {egression}, {emergence}] 3: (astronomy) the reappearance
of a celestial body after an eclipse [syn: {emersion}]
Thomas A. Phelps : "The Multivalent Document Model
extensively opens to enhancement all aspects of a
digital document system. Document content is constructed from layers of
often heterogeneous type, each with specialized purpose, all semantically
aligned. All user-visible document functionality is constructed from
stylized program components called behaviors. Document system operations,
such as drawing a representation of the document on the screen and saving
an edited version, derive from the fundamental operation found to some
degree in every digital document system, newly codified as extensible
programmatic protocols. This diverse open content, open functionality,
and open operation are woven together by numerous mechanisms to produce a
final composition that appears built from the ground up as a unified
whole."
Philip Greenspun talks about "Content Management"
Hats off to Sally Ann
The Recipe Markup Language
I'm not much for pop-up windows
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.