posts brought to you by the category “svg”
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.
Gregor N. Purdy : SVG and inline bitmaps
Random Personal Picture Finder
Norman Walsh : xmlchars.el
I can't say that I am much of a deep-thinker when it comes to
micro-payments.
The Resource Description Framework Explorer (RDFX) is a plugin for
Eclipse
"L'été c'est le temps de la crème glacée!"
Michel Rodriguez : xmlgrep
xmlgrep does a grep on XML files. Instead of using regular
expressions it uses XPath expressions ... The results can be the
names of the files or XML elements containing matching elements.
It appears that Simon Cozens has rolled his own weblogging
software.
Meanwhile, Nat Torkington has turned iTunes into Napster.
I'm not releasing the source, though, until I talk with Tim
O'Reilly and Apple and figure out whether I'll be getting my arse
sued off ...
Margaret Atwood : "Give me your tired, your poor, you sang, and for
a while you meant it."
Well, that just says it all doesn't it?
Greg London : Symbol::Table.pm
Symbol::Table allows the user to manipulate Perl's symbol table
while hiding all those nasty eval's and *typeglobs from the user.
Symbol::Table gives the user an object oriented interface to perl's
actual symbol table. The constructor returns a reference to a tied
hash as a Symbol::Table object. The object acts like a reference to a
hash: the keys are the name of the symbols in the symbol table, and
the values are references to the symbol itself. The tied bit of magic
allows changes in the actual symbol table to be reflected as changes
in the tied hash. Tieing also allows assignments to the hash to
translate into assignments into perl's actual symbol table.
Ariel Dorfman : Heaven help me,
Heaven help me, I am saying that if I had been given a chance
years ago to spare the lives of so many of my dearest friends, given
the chance to end my exile and alleviate the grief of millions of my
fellow countrymen, I would have rejected it if the price we would
have had to pay was clusters of bombs killing the innocent, if the
price was years of foreign occupation, if the price was the loss of
control over our own destiny. Heaven help me, I am saying that I care
more about the future of this sad world than about the future of your
unprotected children.
John R. Smith : mt.pl
[is a] a command line client that I wrote which talks to the MT
MySQL backend.
Jonathan Jones : "The world the bomb created is one where a certain
image of catastrophe is universally shared
diffused, reproduced - a constant of our visual
world, where, in 1995, the US Post Office planned to issue a
commemorative stamp with an image of a mushroom cloud, where an image of
mass death is recycled without cease."
I really don't care what you're reading
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : extirpate
Extirpate \Ex"tir*pate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Extirpated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extirpating}.] [L. extirpatus,
exstirpatus, p. p. of extirpare, exstirpare; ex out + strips stock,
stem, root.] To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to
eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to
extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to
extirpate error or heresy. Syn: To eradicate; root out; destroy;
exterminate; annihilate; extinguish.
web1913
extirpate v 1: destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" [syn:
{uproot}, {eradicate}, {exterminate}] 2: pull up by or as if by the
roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" [syn:
{uproot}, {deracinate}, {root out}]
wn
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that replacing
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : apas
as possible as soon
ex. I'll come apas
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : juicewell
A great resource of creative juice, something that will
keep you inspired for a while.
ex. I just saw a juicewell. Gotta go home and create
somethin'.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hole of
pluto
Middle of nowhere.
ex. She moved to the hole of Pluto. I don't even think
they deliver mail where she moved.
We were lucky enough to be staying with friends in the West
Village.
Me : SCNS.pm 0.1
# Simple
my $method = "examples.getStateName";
print SCNS->new("xmlrpc:http://betty.userland.com/RPC2")->$method(40);
# Less simple
my $service = SCNS->new("xmlrpc:http://betty.userland.com/RPC2");
my $debug = FileHandle->new(">./debug.txt");
# See below
$service->class("examples");
# Default is STDERR
$service->debug(1,*$debug);
my $answer = $service->getStateName(4);
if (! defined($answer)) {
die $service->last_error();
}
print $answer;
return 1;
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : fugacious
Fugacious \Fu*ga"cious\, a. [L. fugax, fugacis, from
fugere: cf. F. fugace. See {Fugitive}.] 1. Flying, or disposed to fly;
fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. Much of its
possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase.
--Jer. Taylor. 2. (Biol.) Fleeting; lasting but a short time; --
applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as
compared with the life of the individual.
web1913
fugacious adj : enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral
joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty";
"love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" [syn:
{ephemeral}, {passing}, {short-lived}, {transient}, {transitory}]
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Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System
"The purpose of this document is to define the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Reference Model for
an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). An OAIS is an archive,
consisting of an organization of people and systems, that has accepted
the responsibility to preserve information and make it available for a
Designated Community... The reference model addresses a full range of
archival information preservation functions including ingest, archival
storage, data management, access, and dissemination. It also addresses
the migration of digital information to new media and forms, the data
models used to represent the information, the role of software in
information preservation, and the exchange of digital information among
archives. It identifies both internal and external interfaces to the
archive functions, and it identifies a number of high-level services at
these interfaces..." (pdf)
Me : Weblogs, Theory and Practice 1.1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is affray
| source : web1913 | Affray \Af*fray"\, n. [OE.
afrai, affrai, OF. esfrei, F. effroi, fr. OF. esfreer. See {Affray}, v.
t.] 1. The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
[Obs.] 2. Alarm; terror; fright. [Obs.] --Spenser. 3. A tumultuous
assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray. ``In the very midst of the affray.''
--Motley. 4. (Law) The fighting of two or more persons, in a public
place, to the terror of others. --Blackstone. Note: A fighting in private
is not, in a legal sense, an affray. Syn: Quarrel; brawl; scuffle;
encounter; fight; contest; feud; tumult; disturbance. | source : web1913
| Affray \Af*fray"\, v. t. [p. p. {Affrayed}.] [OE. afraien, affraien,
OF. effreer, esfreer, F. effrayer, orig. to disquiet, put out of peace,
fr. L. ex + OHG. fridu peace (akin to E. free). Cf. {Afraid}, {Fray},
{Frith} inclosure.] [Archaic] 1. To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale
foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep.
--Chaucer. 2. To frighten; to scare; to frighten away. That voice doth us
affray. --Shak. | source : wn | affray n 1: noisy quarrel [syn:
{altercation}, {fracas}] 2: a noisy fight [syn: {disturbance}, {fray},
{ruffle}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bedizen
| source : web1913 | Bedizen \Be*diz"en\, v. t.
To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried
hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his
tatters. --Sir W. Scott. | source : wn | bedizen v 1: decorate
tastelessly 2: dress up garishly and tastelessly [syn: {dizen}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is chimera
| source : web1913 | Chimera \Chime"ra\, n.; pl.
{Chimeras}. [L. chimaera a chimera (in sense 1), Gr. ? a she-goat, a
chimera, fr. ? he-goat; cf. Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe.] 1. (Myth.) A
monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion,
the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. ``Dire chimeras and
enchanted isles.'' --Milton. 2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or
creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author. --Burke. |
source : wn | Chimera n 1: (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster
with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of
Typhon [syn: {Chimera}, {Chimaera}] 2: a grotesque product of the
imagination [syn: {chimaera}] | source : foldoc | Chimera A modular, {X
Window System}-based {World-Wide Web} {browser} for {Unix}. Chimera uses
the {Athena} {widget} set so {Motif} is not needed. Chimera supports
forms, inline images, {TERM}, {SOCKS}, {proxy server}s, {Gopher}, {FTP},
{HTTP} and local file accesses. Chimera can be extended using external
programs. New {protocol}s can easily be added and alternate image formats
can be used for inline images (e.g. {PostScript}). Version 1.60 is
available for {(ftp://ftp.cs.unlv.edu/pub/chimera)}. {Home
(http://www.unlv.edu/chimera/)} Chimera runs on {Sun} {SPARC} {SunOS}
4.1.x, {IBM} {RS/6000} {AIX} 3.2.5, {Linux} 1.1.x. It should run on
anything with {X11}R[3-6], {imake} and a {C} compiler. (1994-11-08)
I've always thought Damien Hirst was a bit of a twit
Chris Cobb : Perl Tools Architecture (PTools)
"was created after attempting to move two
web-based applications consisting of many related pieces and over 100,000
lines of Perl each. After wrestling again and again with hard-coded file
paths, duplicated data file locations and other fundamental problems and
inconsistencies, a cleaner approach was clearly needed." via
gnat
N.Y. Times : The Lure of the Roof Is More Than Just Tar Beach
Kawai Takanori : DBD::Excel.pm
Tricia Cusack : "The snowman is, of course, white and invariably
male.
[His] ritual location in the semi-public space of
garden or field imaginatively reinforces a spatial social system, marking
women's proper sphere as the domestic-private and men's as the
commercial-public. It presents an image, however jocular, of a masculine
control of public space. ... Like Father Christmas, he is round, fat and
smiling, suggesting overindulgence. The classic carnival figure is a fat,
lusty eater and drinker."
Indeed.
Naomi Klein : Where do we go from here?
"There is no shortage of principled, radical
organizing taking place, yet it is almost completely disconnected from
the major political voice of the left, the NDP. Listen to the people
excluded from the Liberal mainstream and you hear ideas entirely absent
from the NDP platform: the deep distrust of state powers, immigration
crackdowns, police harassment, punitive welfare offices, and
mismanagement of community affairs. ... By consistently failing to speak
to the hunger for local control, or to the well-deserved skepticism of
centralized power, the NDP has yielded the entire anti-Ottawa vote to the
right. The Alliance is the party that offers Canadians outside Quebec the
opportunity to "send a message to Ottawa" -- even if it is only by
demanding a refund for poor service in the form of a tax cut."
M.J. Dominus : ArrayHashMonster.pm
"manufactures an object that can be used as
either an array reference or a hash reference. Why would you ever want
such a thing? Well, it's the natural way to present an ordered hash. You
could then use $orderedhash->[7] to get item number seven, or
$orderedhash->{key} to get the item with the specified key." mmmm ....
data structures.
For those who don't already know today is the anniversary of the
shootings at l'École polytechnique in Montreal.
Eleven years ago Marc Lepine, deliberately
targeting women, shot his way in to a engineering class at the University
of Montreal. He ordered all the men out of the room and then opened fire
on the remaining students. Fourteen women were killed, and thirteen
others wounded, before Lepine killed himself.
Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara
Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Maria Klucznick
Widajewicz, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia
Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie
Turcotte.
From the Life is Hell department :
I spent most of yesterday certain that Hell was
having to listen to a cell phone that never stops ringing to the tune of
Pachabel's Canon. This morning it was being forced to listen to Jackson 5
clones sing Consumer Season melodies like they were cranked up on angel
dust, over coffee too hot to taste. I don't know what's worse, the
experiences themselves or the fact that my reaction is to start sentences
with phrase like "You people..."
The Basics of Italian Cuisine
A most excellent site cross-referencing recipes
and their ingredients.
If the DeCSS code set to folk music turned your crank,
you might also enjoy
Mama
Cranberg's Cranberry Relish recipe set to song
. Following a pretty silly train of thought, I was reminded of a
conversation I once had with a local radio executive, recently turned
father. Having bought into the idea of
the Mozart
Effect
, he decided that he was going to put a radio in his young daughter's
bedroom and play classical music while she slept. I guess when you work
in commercial radio you just think that advertising is a good thing,
since it pays the bills and all, until your daughter wakes up and knows
the tunes and lyrics to insidious marketing ditties that she's never
heard before.
Mike Hall : JavaScript Crunchinator
"This is not a script you would include on a web
page. Instead it's a utility that you can use to reduce files sizes by
compressing JavaScript code. By removing comments and extraneous spacing
you may significantly improve download times on pages that use long
scripts."
Michael Best : "The act of participation
seems to entrap us at once into becoming captive
markets of information economies."
I am one with the basement.
Greetings from beautiful, sunny Black Dog Island.
More to come as I get settled...
Perlmonks : Opinions on the best way to inherit class data
Tangentially related,
Damien
Conway talks shop
: "Whatever software your trying to build, you need people who are
inspired by the idea of that software. Even if they aren't virtuoso
hackers: you can always teach a person to code better, or tidy their code
after it's written; you can never teach a person to love your project.
And without that emotional engagement, you'll never get the superhuman
effort that's required to produce quality software."
TechNetCast : The Social and Legal Impact of XLink
"The lawsuits and threats over deep linking,
framed sites and image theft are nothing compared to what lay ahead.
XLink, XPointer and XFragment suggest a world where information is
routinely transcluded between documents, with or without permission." (
real -sigh- video )
Eric Meyer : The CSS Anarchist's Cookbook
"I kept telling myself that CSS should never be
used for evil. That in the wrong hands, it could wreak havoc upon the
face of the Web as we know it. Then I thought, what the heck, it's not
like anyone can hack servers with CSS. So I gave in and joined the dark
side. Once joined, I felt the need to lure others into the same trap.
Sure, it's evil, but what can you do?"
This American Life : In Dog We Trust
Snort bargle blap
Can someone explain why art stores are so loathe
to sell pencils with erasers on the ends?
If you're in to that sort of thing
David Adams : Speller RPC Interface
"This interface will allow any Internet-
connected application to connect to a Speller server and check the
spelling of any arbitrary text."
But seriously folks
since the talk has turned to art, I'd like to
digress for a moment. I went to art school for a whole host of reasons to
dull to discuss here. I got two degrees; the first was my BFA, the second
was teaching myself the web. I did the latter for some very pragmatic
reasons -- if you're going to say stupid things like "I want to be a
studio artists" you should have something to fall back on -- and because
computers and The Network looked like they had matured beyond the
gee-whiz factor. Surely, I thought, there must be something more
interesting "out here" than just crunching credit cards.
I am a big fan of any OS installation
The nature lover left few clues
"about his state of mind when he decided to
commune with a carnivore the size of a bus. A joint was found inside his
pile of clothes, but no admission ticket to SeaWorld. Anonymous park
workers made a surprise announcement that this was not the first time
Daniel had communed with sea mammals. Two years ago, they recall that he
jumped into the manatee tank, which is filled with warmer water and less
offensive creatures."
Richard Martineau
"Autre théorie; même langage froid qui rabaisse
tout au niveau de la productivité. Pour les marxistes, l'homme n'est
qu'un pion que l'on déplace sur l'échiquier de la Révolution. Pour les
tenants du néolibéralisme, il n'est qu'une boule que l'on fait glisser au
bas d'un abaque. Marx is alive and well and playing at the New York Stock
Exchange."
This Morning : Whose Country Is It?
A forum on law, politics and Indian rights.
Tom Wolfe : Digibabble, Fairy Dust, Human Anthill
"Our guests today are a group of American artists
from the Manual Age."
David Bowie is hosting the entire Sensation show on his
website
"All 141 pieces will be on virtual display,
complete with artist biographies/photos and David Bowie's descriptions of
many pieces under scrutiny."
For Seven Generations
Final Report of the Royal Commission on
Aboriginal Peoples
Salon considers QuickTime4
Bastard child of the happy user-interface family.
Chaos theory can help with crowd control
"The principle behind the software is that, by
using chaos theory, the way large groups of people move is both
predictable and open to subtle steering." I don't know about you, but
I've felt a real lack of 'subtle steering' in my life lately.
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses
CSS
kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its
contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the
content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it
shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
browser with incomplete
CSS
and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one
browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they
will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some
later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's
just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I
rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old
stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through
the cracks.
See also :
W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.
