posts brought to you by the category “the semantic web”
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.
Daniel Zambonini : Diagramming the XML Family
Beware of anything that says
but this is pretty cool, all the same.
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Me : Images and thumbnails, a pure CSS hack.
It sure would be nice if you could pass
selectors as rvalues in CSS declarations. Something like:
#20030810-pnd {
background-image:url( span#20030810-pnd + span.caption > a[href] );
}
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Jirka Kosek : Understanding the node-set() Function
You might be wondering whether the node-set() function will be part of [XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0]. The answer is no, but don't worry. The authors of XSLT 2.0 made an important decision: result tree fragments are gone. There will be no need to use the node-set() function in XSLT 2.0 as you can operate directly on XML fragments stored in a variable, as on any other node-set. Regardless, you should put the node-set() function in your bag of tools as it will take several years before XSLT 2.0 will be deployed as widely as XSLT 1.0 is deployed today.
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freebsd-update
FreeBSD Update is a system for automatically building, distributing, fetching, and applying binary security updates for FreeBSD. This makes it possible to easily track the FreeBSD security branches without the need for fetching the source tree and recompiling (except on the machine building the updates, of course). Updates are cryptographically signed.
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I have a friend who joked once about turning a church into a pizza joint and calling it Cheesus Crust.
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Jeanette Winterson : The Secret Life of Us
I know of a man, a Quaker, who volunteered as an ambulance driver in the second world war. While other men had pictures of their sweethearts in their breast pockets, he carried a photo of a Queen Anne chair. In his despair at where human folly had brought him and millions of others, he needed to remember the glory of the human spirit, as well as its loss. Like Barbara Hepworth, he believed that art affirms and sustains life at its highest level. He became an antique dealer because he wanted to be surrounded by what the Jews call "real presences". A real presence is one where spirit and body, or spirit and object, have never been separated. It doesn't matter whether we are talking a chair, a picture, a book or a human being; what makes us feel alive is the living quality lodged there.
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Allen Day: Video::OpenQuicktime.pm
Sigi Moeslinger : "Since cities are so strange and dense and anonymous,
you are driven to surround yourself with things
that have personality. Things become like pets."
I often wonder how to reconcile my
appreciation for many of these 'things' with the drivel spouted by the
people who either produce or champion them. Oh yeah,
the street
finds it's own use for things
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : begator
A female alligator. Used as a description of someone or as a curse.
ex. That begator is very large. OR Begator! Begator this!
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : peregrination
Peregrination \Per`e*gri*na"tion\, n. [L. peregrinatio: cf. F. p['e]r['e]grination.] A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. ``His peregrination abroad.'' --Bacon. web1913
peregrination n : travel (especially by foot) wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : perspicacity
Perspicacity \Per`spi*cac"i*ty\, n. [L. perspicacitas: cf. F. perspicacit['e]. See {Perspicacious}.] The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. --Sir T. Browne. web1913
perspicacity n 1: intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) [syn: {shrewdness}, {astuteness}, {perspicaciousness}] 2: the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions [syn: {judgment}, {judgement}, {sound judgment}, {sound judgement}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : yummolicious
When something tastes really good or yummy. A cross between yummy and delicious.
ex. Auntie Sar, this candy sure is yummolicious.
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As I write this, I am listening to Desmond Tutu being interviewed
and answering questions about the elections
in Zimbabwe. A listener called in and asked what Americans, given their
general tunnel-vision and a growing apathy with the state of affairs,
could take away from other nations experience of democracy . You could
hear Bishop Tutu giggling all the while the caller spoke. When he
finally replied, he paused and said :
Well, if I were to be truly facetious I would suggest that you
learn how to count.
He then continued with a serious and considered answer.
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Lawrence Lessig : weblogger
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : celerity
Celerity \Ce*ler"i*ty\, n. [L. celeritas, from celer swiftm speedy: sf. F. c['e]l['e]rit['e].] Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness. Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. --Johnson. web1913
celerity n : a rate that is rapid [syn: {quickness}, {rapidity}] wn
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Perlmonks : Security issues when allowing file upload via CGI
Not much new here, but it's always a good
idea to read these things because you never know.
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Christian Jaeger : ETHLife-CMS
"Unlike most [CMS'], it doesn't try to use a
browser as its sole interface, but combines the benefits of a stable,
seasoned html editor and file sharing techniques like samba, netatalk,
ftp with the exact text markup definitions and standard data format of
xml. It will work on both Windows and MacOS, and maybe even Linux, other
unixes and other OS's provided there is a decent wysiwyg html editor."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is epicene
| source : web1913 | Epicene \Ep"i*cene\, a.
& n. [L. epicoenus, Gr. ?; fr. 'epi` + ? common; cf. F.
['e]pic[`e]ne.] 1. Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar,
to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or
feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox
and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites. 2. Fig.:
Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. The literary prigs epicene.
--Prof. Wilson. He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor
layman. --J. A. Symonds. | source : wn | epicene adj 1: having an
ambiguous sexual identity [syn: {bisexual}] 2: having unsuitable feminine
qualities [syn: {effeminate}, {emasculate}, {cissy}, {sissified},
{sissyish}, {sissy}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is doyen
| source : web1913 | Doyen \Doy`en"\, n. [F. See
{Dean}.] Lit., a dean; the senior member of a body or group; as, the
doyen of French physicians. ``This doyen of newspapers.'' --A. R.
Colquhoun. | source : wn | doyen n : the senior member of a group; "he is
the dean of foreign correspondents" [syn: {dean}]
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From the Simple Pleasures department : cop shades
Clever XSL/JavaScript hack for returning the name of the current node
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is plaudit
| source : web1913 | Plaudit \Plau"dit\, n. [From
L. plaudite do ye praise (which was said by players at the end of a
performance), 2d pers. pl. imperative of plaudere. Cf. {Plausible}.] A
mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and
plaudits of the throng. --Longfellow. Syn: Acclamation; applause;
encomium; commendation; approbation; approval. | source : wn | plaudit n
: enthusiastic approval; "the book met with modest acclaim"; "he
acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd"; "they gave him more eclat than
he really deserved" [syn: {acclaim}, {acclamation}, {plaudits}, {eclat}]
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Lincoln Stein : "Who ever heard of holding a conversation
with someone so forgetful that you have to
continually remind them who they're talking to by handing them back a
slip of paper with your name written on it?"
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I would consider buying one of these
Neil Bowers : Wordz
"is a simple application for finding words which
match a particular pattern. I wrote it to help when solving crosswords,
and also to learn about database programming under PalmOS."
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I wonder how hard it would be to write an Apache::ZODB module
mmmm...the POD Object Model
Meanwhile, in other Perl news it's been
officially announced that, June 13 - 15,
YAPC::NA
2001 will be held on the campus of McGill University, located in the
heart of downtown Montréal, Québec, Canada
. Yip-eeeeee!
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Ovidiu Predescu : XSLT-process minor mode
"Have you ever developed XML applications using
XSLT? If so you probably felt the need of viewing the result of applying
the XSLT processor on the XML file using an XSLT sheet you have been
working on right inside your (X)Emacs, without having to go to a terminal
or to the Web browser. This minor mode allows you to do it!"
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This day has been Chrétienized
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Adbusters : Chris Woods Art Gallery
I had no idea you could do that with french
fries. Beautiful!
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Bob Rogers : Do It Yourself
(lynx weenies will only be frustrated)
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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."
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It's not as though no one else produces crap.
There's no shortage of it in Canada --
domestic, imported, exported or otherwise.
It's just that the super-abundance of it in the States is truly
staggering and seemingly unmatched anywhere else in the world. The
weekend provided
an opportunity to visit
one of big name monster supermarkets and I was amazed at the ability to
make so many seemingly different products from the same basic
components : plastic, corn syrup and food colouring. Well, not really
surprised, but the shock never seems to abate. It's like this crap has
evolved into a self-preserving life-form and spawns new progeny -- or
atleast new packaging -- right there on the shelf, in front of your
eyes. see also :
fresh watermelon
It's just that the super-abundance of it in the States is truly
staggering and seemingly unmatched anywhere else in the world. The
weekend provided
an opportunity to visit
one of big name monster supermarkets and I was amazed at the ability to
make so many seemingly different products from the same basic
components : plastic, corn syrup and food colouring. Well, not really
surprised, but the shock never seems to abate. It's like this crap has
evolved into a self-preserving life-form and spawns new progeny -- or
atleast new packaging -- right there on the shelf, in front of your
eyes. see also :
fresh watermelon
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InterGuru's E-Mail Address Book Conversions
"This service will convert e-mail address lists
between Eudora alias files, Pine address books, Elm address files,
Pegasus address files ( Europe and USA ) address files, databases and
spreadsheets Compuserve, Spry, Lotus cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, Microsoft
Internet Mail, ldif formatted file, Netscape address books Mac AOL,
T-Online , and Claris Emailer. Other conversions are being developed."
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Globe and Mail : Dot-com this!
"Reid hears something else, when his "geek"
friends and colleagues are talking. 'Knowledge is what's valued in this
industry, and that's how people speak,' he says. 'There's a rapid-fire
passing back and forth of facts, it's almost like a pissing contest, in
the way it sounds. But it's just exchanging knowledge. There's no wisdom
or value attached.' "
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Washington Post : Do-It-Yourself Checkout
"We're so Internet-oriented, so ATM-oriented.
It's a natural transition. It's a natural extension of what we do every
day." And you just know that whenevers he mouths drivel like this he sees
not his sorry-ass grocery store self but instead Obi-Wan Kenobi jedi
mind-fucking stormtroopers telling them : "There is nothing to see here."