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Monday, January 01 2001

Take me to your hot tub, Earthling.

Tuesday, January 02 2001

David Mertz : On the Pythonic Treatment of XML Documents As Objects
Wallpaper* : "If you are prepared to overlook a couple of things, Montreal is up there in the international big-league tables. It is cosmopolitan, it is nice to...

Wednesday, January 03 2001

The Forest of Rhetoric "is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small ...
What else can you get for ten bucks? How about a second-hand book on computer programming. Quote : "[T]he average computer user can...

Thursday, January 04 2001

Sarah Musgrave : "For the last few months I've been hearing about "Web loggers," some community of underground trolls whose sole purpose in life is to mine the Web for preciou...
The Conway Channel : It may say "yawnoC namiaD" on my door, but that don't mean I'm always backward. Before he could open his yap, I let him have it: "Wha...
developerWorks : An Introduction to RDF "Many proclaim that RDF is really the XML's killer app, and with good reason. Despite all this...
Joshua Allen : OPML and XSLT "Since OPML is designed to represent information that real people usually want to look at, and...
Nathalie Petrowski : "Or toutes ces choses confondues et mises bout à bout mènent directement à Montréal. Pourquoi? Parce qu'un Canadien défroqué, gay et modérément antiaméricain qui choisit de vivre ...

Friday, January 05 2001

Scott Draves : electric sheep - a distributed screen saver This software owes its name to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Shee...
Jonathan Eisenzopf has updated his Weblog suite. "Weblog 1.6 includes several bug fixes, simplified installation procedures, better RSS 1.0 sup...

Saturday, January 06 2001

Jeanne Schinto : Obscure Objects of Lapsed Desire "Only artists can ever destroy their own work without compunction, it seems. Maybe we would al...
Suwon City : Vision on Restroom Culture in the 21st Century "Several problems centering a restroom which has obtained a major status as the third living s...

Monday, January 08 2001

They don't call it a slippery slope for nothing.
Rohit Khare and Adam Rifkin : The Origin of (Document) Species "Whereas the first explanation implies a passive Web that accommodates all document formats eq...
Regular expressions reformulated as XML applications. In case you needed another reason to start painting again.

Tuesday, January 09 2001

Itamar Shtull-Trauring : A Developer's Guide to Learning Zope

Wednesday, January 10 2001

mmmm...the POD Object Model Meanwhile, in other Perl news it's been officially announced that, June 13 - 15, YAPC::NA 2001...
Jon Udell : Managing Web Images "Combining ImageMagick, JavaScript, and Perl"
National Post : The Inert-net for cyber-sloths "The chair allows users to log on to the Web through a keyboard that is built into a folding t...
I had no idea Montreal was running out of windshield wiper fluid.

Thursday, January 11 2001

It figures I would see Happy Birthday Barbie the same night I went out without my camera. I was walking home from the bagel store past one ...
Kip Hampton : Creating Web Utilities with XML::XPath
PHP Builder : Graphing with Flash

Friday, January 12 2001

Perlmonks : Perl Soap "Imagine a web site that keeps it’s viewers ensconced with same style of drivel that funds you...

Saturday, January 13 2001

Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to meet Bonne Fete Barbie.

Sunday, January 14 2001

National Post : "Another Heritage ministry spokesperson suggested an actor such as Mr. Douglas could be designated a person of "national historic significance," which is driven largely by n...
Sightings : A big old pile of dirty snow.

Monday, January 15 2001

Scott McLemee : I Am a Camera "Whatever its implications for the study of celebrity (or narcissism, for that matter), Webcam...
Ian Brown : "We hired Human Barbie." (real evil g2)

Wednesday, January 17 2001

On the potential advantages of the MySQL filesystem hack : "Why not to share /mnt/mysql with SAMBA and let marketdroids modify directly SQL database? The...
Web Reference : DOM Differences and Commonalities with IE5.x [and Netscape 6]

Thursday, January 18 2001

LA Weekly : "Apart from the unfathomable condescension inherent to what amounts to a smug citywide territorial pissing, the wholesale conversion of a...
Jean-Sébastien Marsan : "En somme, bien que les phantasmes technologiques des ingénieurs soient sans limites, des contraintes physiques, économiques et surtout humaines...
CNET : Better DHTML Through Object Oriented Design ...most [ cross-platform DHTML libraries ] include the code for all different browsers in each...
The thing I don't understand is why it's taken so long for the Manila kids to embrace and extend the Blogger kids.

Friday, January 19 2001

Politics of Culture : E-Books: On Paper or in the Hand? (real evil g2)

Saturday, January 20 2001

WBOSS (Web Based Open Source SpellChecker) "is designed to work with any text input form on any web page. It is called from a second for...
The Society of Robotic Combat

Sunday, January 21 2001

Behold, the mysterious "Three Fingered Dubya". Great. Now we're going to have wild packs of sanctimonious, yet strangely compassionate, weirdos...
John Gruenenfelder : GutenPalm "Eventually I decided that I would like to have [ a Palm based PDA ] to use as a sort of eBook...
Steve Traugott : Mail::TieFolder.pm

Monday, January 22 2001

Tina Mion : Virtual Election "Tina and her friends held elaborate ceremonies every Sunday to select one card from the Presi...
Irational Radio : DIY Net Radio Guide via frownland

Tuesday, January 23 2001

83% of Canadians have a uniform fetish.
Michael Smith : Table.el "is an Emacs lisp package that extends Emacs and provides text based table creation and editin...

Wednesday, January 24 2001

Eric Howeler : Paranoid Chic, The Aethestics of Surveillance "Our visible and invisible world is continually scanned by electronic technologies. The parano...
Neil Gaiman : Being an Account of the Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabolus

Thursday, January 25 2001

The Ubergeeks : "Code is an expressive language, just as are mathematical formulae, music scores and dance choreography. ... That code is liter...
National Post : "Taped to the walls and halls of Callahan's home are letters, both those in praise of his work and the sharply critical. One is from Judge Lanc...
Dave Cross : Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit I spent some time reading the docs to the Template Toolkit. It's very cool despite the fact that...

Friday, January 26 2001

Philippe Breton : "Quand on analyse les discours des fondamentalistes du "tout-Internet", qui sont d'ailleurs proches d'une certaine religiosité, on voit qu'un certain nombre de valeur...
Paul Kinnucan : XML Authoring Environment for Emacs "is an add-on software package that enables you to use Emacs and your system's HTML browser to...
Gisle Aas, Dick Hardt and Paul Everitt : "The Perl for Zope Project lets Perl code and Python code run in the same process, focused on making Perl an alternative ...
Michael J. Hammel : Linux Tools for the Graphic Artist
Andrew Ford : Tie::SentientHash.pm "provides intelligent objects. The objects are represented as hashes which: provide read-only ...

Saturday, January 27 2001

Jeff Covey thinks he can win the browser wars by "[simplifying] the Web. We need to lower the entry costs for the people writing alternative...
Sightings : Happy happy. Joy joy.

Sunday, January 28 2001

Michel Rodrigues : Simple XML Transformation with Perl

Monday, January 29 2001

WebNS.net "is a database of and home for namespaces, schemas, and terms in common use on the Semantic Web. It is home to the SWAG Dictionary, a dat...

Tuesday, January 30 2001

O'Reilly : Charting the Linux Anatomy [poster] Frankly, I find the tone of the article just a bit too saccharine for my taste ( "Oh, Tim! He's ...

Wednesday, January 31 2001

This American Life : Two Nations, One President "In the wake of the bitter Presidential election, the two political halves [ or "the non-intersec...
I almost never remember dreams, but last night I dreamt I went to the beach in San Francisco. I have only ever been to the city once, when I was...
Never mind the squirrels, though, Montreal is set to be overrun by tens of thousands of ICQ weenies.
The Meerkat Product "gives access to the Meerkat's XML-RPC API and allows the placement of news items in any Zope doc...
Falkkin of Minneapolis : Using Perl to Teach Perl
via strange brew

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