This American Life : The Growing Aesthetic of Cringe.
"There are movies and TV shows and photographs and books whose whole point is to make us cringe. In fact, it's a growing aesthetic in America right now. Cringe is the new horror. It shares some characteristics with horror, but has overtaken it in pop culture. And the land where cringe is king is the land of Reality TV." (real evil g2 - starts 19m30)
Norman Walsh : The Design of the DocBook XSL Stylesheets
"Building stylesheets for a large, rich XML vocabulary is a challenging exercise. This paper explores some of the design issues confronted by the author in designing XSL stylesheets for DocBook... Five techniques stand out as important factors in achieving these goals: modularity, parameterization, self-customizing stylesheets, “literate” programming, and extensions. The rest of this paper will discuss these techniques in detail."
Greg Fitzpatrick : SKI, the Swedish Calendar Initiative
"Since Why is to be free text; Who is itemized free text; and When, Where, and Who are already well provided for with standards, our main attention turned to the problem of What. We looked enviously at the museum sector with their SPECTRE but we found no existing thesaurus for the categorization of our events. We had the choice of creating our own thesaurus, which we knew would be a tremendously time-consuming and wearying struggle, or come up with an alternative. The alternative was to create a living register of the naming conventions used by each SKI compliant site, open to all. This causes a bit of confusion for our target groups: The distinction between being a centralized database of all events and merely a registry of naming conventions takes some time to sink in."
Mark-Jason Dominus : TRS80.pm
"At present, there is no port of Perl to the TRS-80 Model I computer. Until there is, this module is provided to simulate the TRS-80 environment."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is heterogeneous
| source : web1913 |
Heterogeneous \Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous\, a. [Gr. ?; ? + ? race, kind;
akin to E. kin: cf. F. h['e]t['e]rog[`e]ne.]
Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of
different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to
homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of
a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of
which it is made up. -- {Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly}, adv. --
{Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness}, n.
{Heterogeneous nouns} (Gram.), nouns having different genders
in the singular and plural numbers; as, hic locus, of the
masculine gender in the singular, and hi loci and h[ae]c
loca, both masculine and neuter in the plural; hoc
c[ae]lum, neuter in the singular; hi c[ae]li, masculine in
the plural.
{Heterogeneous quantities} (Math.), such quantities as are
incapable of being compared together in respect to
magnitude, and surfaces and solids.
{Heterogeneous surds} (Math.), surds having different radical
signs.
| source : wn |
heterogeneous
adj 1: consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or
nature; "the population of the United States is vast
and heterogeneous" [ant: {homogeneous}]
2: originating outside the body [syn: {heterogenous}] [ant: {autogenous}]
| source : foldoc |
heterogeneous
Composed of unrelated parts, different in kind.
Often used in the context of {distributed systems} that may be
running different {operating systems} or network {protocols}
(a {heterogeneous network}).
For examples see: {interoperable database}, {middleware}.
Constrast {homogeneous}.
(1999-05-06)