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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.

posts brought to you by the category “sociology” ←   → posts brought to you by the category “speak now”
 

Henry Jenkins : "Isn't there something vaguely oxymoronic about the phrase, official blog?"

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Graph Stylesheets (GSS) in IsaViz

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Douglas McLennan : "It's not particularly in their interest to cut us off. I can be their biggest deliverer of traffic."

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Jeroen Bekaert has restarted a thread about "URIrefs and granularity"

on the www-rdf-interest list. This is of value to me because it's the first time I've been able to find any kind of discussion about whether, and how, RDF plays nicely with things like XInclude. The participants are focussing on on XPointer, specifically, but I'll take what I can get at this point.

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The problem with the format previously known as RSS

(I mean aside from the name; I vote for using Prince's now discarded squiggly and calling it Victor) is not one of intent. The problem is that, just like RSS, the street will -- and I mean will -- find its own bloody use for it. Nevermind what it is, or will be, today everyone seems possessed by a desire to pinpoint what it was . I'm all for talking shop but seriously folks this is not a hard nut to crack : RSS was whatever anyone wanted it to be. At any given moment. Subject to every single whim imagineable. Without notice or compensation. If you get that simple simple fact through your thick thick skulls, we might just be able to stop trying to build a Grand Unifying Theory of Pithy Commentary . It just ain't gonna happen, not in any lasting fashion anyway. In the four years (two weeks ago today, now that I think of it) I've been doing this I have seen only two constants that can be used to accurately describe the Idea of Weblog:
  1. The level of hype will continue to grow and get progressively sillier (I find this one especially bothersome but it's out of my control)
  2. Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
This is not to say that some kind of concensus won't be achieved or that it won't be a good thing. There are enough people with enough interest, economic or otherwise, to make something happen and it sufficiently wonkish to ensure that the applications will be built. But don't kid yourself and think that when this magic pie doesn't do something that a person wants it to do that they'll stop and submit a patch for the spec. The same applies to tool makers, probably more so. These are all technical problems that are being dressed up a social ones and there is no really compelling set of norms and consequences to force people to use the One True Format. If you have something worthwhile to say, people will pay attention regardless of your bloody fucking syndication file. The ease of use and social software gang are probably sharpening their knives right now so I will say it again : this is a technical problem, not a social one. Furthermore, we have the tools to solve these problems right here, right now. If you want suck all of the links out of an entry, here's the code to do it . If you tell me that you want to only get some of those links and not others then you'll have to maintain some kind of list to keep track of who is on first. That's life. We haven't learned to read minds so it's not something we've taught computers how to do yet. And, and this is the important part, the kind of thing that the Idea of Weblog represent just doesn't lend itself to consensus. Sorry.

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Meanwhile, in the "Micropayments for Drunks and Lushes" department...

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user_pref("browser.block.bugzilla_server_push", true);

Not that I understand why, but the handy-dandy browser.block.target_new_window Mozilla pref to suppress new windows also disables the "Please wait..." server push hack in buglist.cgi.

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Who's on first? chat-bot

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This one made wasting my time looking at all the others worth it.

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Beware giant terrorists roaming the streets.

This would be funny if it weren't reminiscent of the 1982 documentary called The Winds of War (I can't find a link; the September 11th attacks seem to have taken ownership of the phrase whole-hog) in which a Reagan administration advisor claimed that 1) he could outrun the initial blast from a nuclear explosion and 2) the shade of a lilac tree would shield him from the radiation. Meanwhile, Bruce Sterling is upset that he is living in a 1980s William Gibson novel . Personally -- and maybe I'm feeling weak today -- I might settle for just living in a world without quite so many idiots .

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Matt Sergeant : AxKit OpenOffice Provider

The product includes an AxKit plugin, an AxKit provider and DTDs and Stylesheets to make delivering SXW files to the web a trivial matter, and the results are pretty too.

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www.papercdcase.com

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Diego Golberg : Time

On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by.

via laura holder

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After 26 hours of journey and 6 hours of sleep, we're back.

In no particular order : fix proxy related bug in Net::Blogger, fix XPath bugs in Image::Shoehorn::Gallery, write "iptced" program, move into studio, try to remember clever one-liners that were assigned to each day during the trip.

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8 out of 10

The story I heard was that, shortly before his death during the filming of Blade Runner, Dick had a dream where he saw Harrison Ford utter the immortal line "Freeze, or you're a dead android" - which is why I still have the still of Decker holding his gun in front of the immobile Pris just before she starts wailing on him. He woke up in a cold sweat and raced down to the studio and had his concerns laid to rest. via boing boing

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Michel Blanchard : "[A]près le Guy, Guy, Guy, de Guy Lafleur,

le Guy, Guy, Guy, de Guy Carbonneau, voilà le Gino, Gino, Gino de Gino Odjick."

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cosset

Cosset \Cos"set\, v. t. To treat as a pet; to fondle. She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. --O. W. Holmes. web1913
cosset v : treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: {pamper}, {featherbed}, {cocker}, {baby}, {coddle}, {mollycoddle}, {spoil}, {indulge}] wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : schreibtischfuhrer

An expression of disbelief, anger, or dismay.
ex. When Bob found out he got ripped off for his computer, he muttered "Schreibtischfuhrer."

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hotter than a pickle, hotter'n

Extremely hot.
ex. God, it's hotter than a pickle today.

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : jings

An exclamation of surprise. Originates from Oor Wullie as chronicled in the Sunday Post (Uk)
ex. Jings, would you look at the size of that.

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In Québec, it is called a "positive obligation"

under either the Civil code or the Charter of Rights (I have sent my little lawyer friend off to find out.) There is, however, a distinction to be made between whether or not the house is burning down or burning down with people inside. If the former there might be some grounds for bringing a suit on the grounds of negligence but apparently it is difficult to convict a person based solely on "acts of ommission". But, if the latter and you didn't call 911 and the person dies then you can be sued for having not fulfilled a civic responsibility. This was enforced a few years back when a driver neglected to provide any kind of assistance for persons stranded on the side of the road and they subsequently died of exposure. Equally important is the provision that says if you do come to the aid of a person and something bad, but unintentional, happens in the process you, personally, are immune from further suit. This is refered to as the "Good Samaritan" clause; something that apparently the American legal system overlooked much to the delight of its practitioners.

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<!ENTITY % Block "(abstract,(section|include)*)">

So, the other day I registered a new domain and sat down to start fleshing out the contents of the site. Eventually, the inevitable questions of separating form from content gave way to the inevitable questions of separating form from content from structure. In the past, I have relied heavily on server-based widgets, like PHP, for doing headers and footers. Later, I even wrote an Apache::Aaronland handler to take that PHP site and mod_perl-ize it without changing a single character in the source files. But both solutions just break if the site is moved to a server with no bells and whistles. At the very least, the raw HTML is all fucked up and won't validate. So, the thinking goes, maybe I will just create YA generic DTD for webpages or use one that someone else has written. Personally, I was considering using acmeml (for lack of a better name) or otlml and running the files through an XSLT processor. But, it's the same problem : what if you don't have access to an XSLT widget or it breaks? Further, there's always just that extra little bit of formatting that you want to able to add to your content; witness the description element in RSS. Wouldn't it be nice to have a markup language that you could add structure and logic to? To which arbitrary tags could be applied and that still "just worked" when the document proper is sent to a browser. Even if the backend magic suddenly broke, the site might look like crap but presumably it would still be usuable. HTML is, we'll all agree, not the best candidate at first blush. XHTML, on the other hand, comes pretty close. Through the magic of parameter entities and the ability to define and tweak them inside the DOCTYPE declaration, you can essentially wrap (X)HTML in your own case-specific tags.



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"



   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" [



<!ENTITY % dtdMods SYSTEM "http://www.eatdrinkfeelgood.org/dtd.mod">



%dtdMods;



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This is still an imperfect solution. The first problem is that the browsers have never been taught to deal with this syntax so the %dtdMods;]> from the DOCTYPE declaration gets printed to the browser window. Dunno. The second problem involves the fact that I am overriding the %Block; entity, in dtd.mod , which is used to determine the child elements for the body tag. The good news is that I can re-assign the list of valid children, in this case : abstract ; section ; include , thus applying more structure to my document than a pure formatting language allows out of the box. Since the children of the first two elements are p and div , respectively, I can start tapping away in HTML to my heart's content. The bad news is that the %Block; entity is also used by the blockquote and noscript tags. There isn't much to do about this since you can't redefine elements; oh well. A third problem is that you can not use already defined parameter entities inside new definitions...



<!ENTITY % foo "(a|b|%c;|d)*">



...without causing the w3c validator grief. I don't know why. Rudimentary testing suggests that you should not waste your time trying to assign styles to your new tags. Your mileage may vary.

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Letter from Montreal : To whom it may concern.

I realize that the editorial staff at the Guardian Weekly must be terribly busy and have not the time to mind over their many overseas correspondents. But, perhaps you should send someone to check up on a Mr. Clayton Bailey who, I fear, may be living in an alternate and potentially dangerous Universe from the one you and I inhabit. In his essay, published three days ago, entitled Snow Job , Mr. Bailey describes -- no, waxes poetic about Montreal's "enthuastic denial" of winter and the torrent of snow that follows in its path every year. To be sure, Mr. Bailey's tale is a not altogether inaccurate account of a typical winter in Montreal. However, it simply does not map to anything that has actually happened, so far, this winter. I was concerned that perhaps it was I who was living the fantasy, but after consulting with friends and colleagues we have all reached the same conclusions : 1) Though it is not uncommon, no one of can remember a time in recent months when the temperature has dropped below -10, let alone the truly soul-crushing -20 cited by Mr. Bailey. 2) We have not had the first, never mind the second, of the two "blizzards" that the author describes. Maybe they were blizzards compared to the weather which he apparently grew accustomed to in other cities, but nothing that anyone I know would recognize as such. 3) As I write this, there is indeed a light dusting of snow on the ground. It does little, though, to hide the fact that almost all the snow that has fallen this year has also melted in the last two days. Without meaning to seem indelicate, is it possible that Mr. Bailey has fallen victim to a "charging sidewalk snowplough" ? After "caroming off fences and trees", did it strike him "like a billiard ball" leaving him dazed and confused? Traumatized and delirious, is he walking the streets of downtown Montreal shaking little Christmas paperweights and listening furtively as the sirens of emergency services vehicles race past him? I am concerned that Mr. Bailey's "war on winter" may really be a call for help.

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Simson Garfinkel : Fake Security

"All of these thoughts went through my mind; I nevertheless wisely decided to say nothing about the futility of sniffing for explosives."

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Scott Andrew : Your MT Blog as a Moreover feed

Interesting. Maybe I will write a template to generate MT data as an RSS string variable for use with xml-rss.js . And since no one asked, I still think embedding code in your templates is a bad idea...

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Matt Sergeant : 50-second XPath Primer

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perl -e 'use Date::Format; use Time::Timezone; print &time2str("%c",1000000000 + &tz_local_offset()),"\n";'

09/08/01 17:46:40

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No, Windows! No, Mac! No, *nix! Mmmm, beer.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tirade

| source : web1913 | Tirade \Ti*rade"\, n. [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See {Tear} to rend, and cf. {Tire} to tear.] A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. --Quarterly Review. | source : wn | tirade n : a violent denunciation [syn: {philippic}, {broadside}]

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is blackguard

| source : web1913 | Blackguard \Black"guard`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blackguarded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blackguarding}.] To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. --Southey. | source : web1913 | Blackguard \Black"guard\, a. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language. | source : web1913 | Blackguard \Black"guard\, n. [Black + guard.] 1. The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the ``black guard''; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. --Webster (1612). 2. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. [Obs.] 3. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. --Macaulay. 4. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [Obs.] | source : wn | blackguard n : someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn: {cad}, {bounder}, {dog}, {hound}, {heel}] v 1: subject to laughter or ridicule: "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" [syn: {ridicule}, {guy}, {laugh at}, {jest at}, {rib}, {make fun}, {poke fun}] 2: use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher" [syn: {abuse}, {clapperclaw}, {shout}] | source : devils | BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market -- the fine ones on top -- have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman.

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Intellidimension : Experiments with Sample Calendar Data and RDFQL

"In response to this posting of the rdf-calendar newsgroup, I put together some simple examples of things we can do with RDFQL and the sample calendar data. All examples use a few simples RDFQL rules to dynamically map some of the properties in the source schema to new properties that can be queried against."

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We took my friend's truck to the market yesterday.

There was a parking ticket on the front seat, a not uncommon sight. I guess mention was made of it later on because it turns out the ticket was written, shortly before the glow-worm one night, because the doors to the truck had been left unlocked. I am hardly an expert in municipal law but this one ranks up there with the law in Saint John's, only recently repealed I'm told, prohibiting persons from spitting against the wind.

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Paolo Marcucci : MS Word 2 OPML

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