posts brought to you by the category “ad-jacking”
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.
C'est le sport municipal!
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.85
My sense is that this is sort of where the OSAF is going with
Chandler
Martine Pagé : Je t'aime, me neither
Some clever egg thought to stitch together the stills from the
webcam on the corner of Ste. Catherine and Peel
Kate L. Pugh : Find::File::Rule::MP3Info.pm
What he said.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
procrastination
Procrastination \Pro*cras`ti*na"tion\, n. [L.
procrastinatio: cf. F. procrastination.] The act or habit of
procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.
Procrastination is the thief of time. --Young.
web1913
procrastination n 1: the act of procrastinating [syn:
{cunctation}, {shillyshally}] 2: slowness as a consequence of not
getting around to it [syn: {dilatoriness}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : indignate
Similar to "indeed" but used in a posh accent. Pronounced
in-dig-narta.
ex. "Have you had enough caviar, Giles?" "Indignate, I
have, Samuel."
Me : XML::Filter::XML_Directory_Pruner.pm 1.1
Simon Cozens : Mail::Miner
"Suppose every mail you receive gets sent through
a little program before delivery. This little program does several
things. It strips off any attachments, and stores them in an SQL
database, adding a note to the end of the email pointing out the ID
number of the attachment in the database. It also stores information
about who the mail was sent from, the subject line, the date, some
keywords as determined by Text::Keywords, and so on. The add-on
"recogniser" modules get hold of the email and try to pull out various
things - email addresses, patches, phone numbers, mailing addresses, and
so on."
Sightings : Scary Easter Monsters #3
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dorkano
Female form of the word "dork." As in the possible
Spanish form. Dorkano for males. Used meaning stupid (in a funny way)
or just not thinking. This is not a mean term, but rather a term to
jokingly make fun of someone and bring attention to her action that
caused her to look so goofy.
ex. Sally couldn't believe what a dorkano her friend was
when he licked the ice cream store sign's large ice cream
cone.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
pronunciamento
Pronunciamento \Pro*nun`ci*a*men"to\, n. A proclamation or
manifesto; a formal announcement or declaration.
web1913
pronunciamento n : a public declaration of intentions (as
issued by a political party or government) [syn: {manifesto}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : maudlin
Maudlin \Maud"lin\, a. [From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen,
OE. Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with
weeping.] 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears;
excessively sentimental; weak and silly. ``Maudlin eyes.'' --Dryden.
``Maudlin eloquence.'' --Roscommon. ``A maudlin poetess.'' --Pope.
``Maudlin crowd.'' --Southey. 2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled;
given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.
web1913
maudlin adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; "a
bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy
effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {mawkish}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy},
{sentimental}, {slushy}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : flumpus
(n, v) An animal or person who sprawls all over while
looking squishy, cuddly, and cute. Plural: flumpi...or
flumpuses.
ex. My cat is the neighborhood flumpus. Look at her,
purring and flumpusing in the laundry basket. Squish!
Movable Thoughts #12
Gary Younge : "The relationship between these facts and last week's
atrocities is contextual, not causal.
Those who believe that America got what it
deserved as a payback for its former ills lack the very humanism which
they argue has been missing in America's foreign policy. But, similarly,
those eager to stifle any critical understanding as to why these attacks
happened lack the faculties to begin to imagine how to make the world a
safer place."
ActiveState : XSLT Cookbook
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is filial
| source : web1913 | Filial \Fil"ial\, a. [L.
filialis, fr. filius son, filia daughter; akin to e. female, feminine.
Cf. {Fitz}.] 1. Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a
child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience. 2. Bearing the
relation of a child. And thus the filial Godhead answering spoke.
--Milton. | source : wn | filial adj 1: (genetics) designating the
generation or the sequence of generations following the parental
generation [ant: {parental}] 2: relating to or characteristic of or
befitting an offspring; "filial respect" [ant: {parental}]
"The CPAN is Perl's killer-app."
Dan O'Connor : The FreeBSD Cheat Sheets
"are notes that I have made to myself, so that I
could re-create what I have done in the event of a catastrophic failure
of either the hardware or me. I have made no attempt to explain the 'why'
behind the actions, or to take into account all the possible
configuration options, as there are other sources available which cover
such topics in-depth."
The dictionary.com "word of the day" dict-ified
Paul Hodges : Locally correcting to the secure port with
mod_perl
Tina Mion : Virtual Election
"Tina and her friends held elaborate ceremonies
every Sunday to select one card from the Presidential bridge deck. Mion
then created an original painting of the figure represented on the card,
maintaining the card's face value and suit. The paintings were created
using a wide variety of styles and mediums inspired by the personalities
and periods in which the figures lived." see also :
Morning
Edition on Mion's portraits of U.S. first ladies
.
Weblogs, Theory and Practice
This is a very casual and unscientific project to
keep a record of the various writings on and about weblogs. Generally,
I've tried to exclude the semi-annual flamewars that break out
surrounding The One True Weblog.
Kip Hampton : Simple XML Validation with Perl
"Now what does Test.pm have to do with validating
an XML document? The answer lies in its combination with the XML::XPath
module. The XPath language provides a simple, powerful syntax for
navigating the logical structure of an XML document. XML::XPath allows us
to take advantage of that power from within Perl."
Bill Adler : "Disgusted as I am with two-party politics,
I thought it was crucially important to support
Nader, who has long been a hero of mine and who represents a
soul-stirring alternative to the big-money candidates. It was very
gratifying to reach out to some of my musician pals and discover that
they felt the same way. These recordings put some modern beats to the
best of Ralph in bite-sized pieces. I thought he could use the rhythm."
via
robot wisdom
Wolfgang Stobl : "Now that the beta version of the Zope Book is
out,
I've just created a fully indexed [Windows]
HTMLHelp version."
Gisle Aas : Data::DumpXML.pm
mmmm... arbitrary data structures.
Salon : Reading, writing and candy ads
"At Colorado Springs' Harrison High School,
students are largely unimpressed by the debate over their ZapMe computer
lab. 'Sure, the ads can be distracting,' says one 16-year-old junior,
adding that he doesn't see anything unusual about being pitched at in
school. After all, he says, 'we see ads everywhere we go. It just seems
natural.' And about the possibility that students' every mouse click
could be monitored from afar? 'Big deal,' replies another student. 'That
starts the day you get a Social Security number.' "
DIY law?
The road to Hell is paved with telephone companies
It's the dial-tone stupid. The modem I bought for
my Visor doesn't grok the Italian dial tone. I will rant at length about
the morons who run high tech companies when I get back. Until then I will
write for the web periodically; I didn't come to Italy to sit in front of
a web browser. The rest will have to wait. Sorry, I'm not very happy
about it either.
Jean-Louis Leroy : Tangram.pm
"is an object-relational mapper. It makes objects
persist in relational databases, and provides powerful facilities for
retrieving and filtering them. Tangram fully supports object-oriented
programming, including polymorphism, multiple inheritance and
collections. It does so in an orthogonal fashion, that is, it doesn't
require your classes to implement support functions nor inherit from a
utility class." Neat, but why is it called Tangram?
This American Life considers the practice of character
assination
in American politics. I've always wanted to do a
cable-access / net-show called "5 Second Character Assination" which is
more commonly refered to, in polite society, as "people watching". (real
evil g2)
The Arts Today : Art on the Web
Where does all this bad computer karma come from?
These are also the times when I ask where all the
Boundless Enthusiasm comes from, but I guess that's a different story.
The Francis Bacon Image Gallery
Rick Salutin : Yikes! Not another brave new world
These issues long have been discussed by hackers
and hacktivists on the Internet. They were the context of the attacks,
with AOL-Time Warner as the last straw. There's widespread contempt for
what some call "the AOL lamer," says Toronto Net activist Jesse Hirsh,
and agreement that there's nothing wrong with "bumrushing the mall,
because these guys, the dot.coms, aren't the Internet, they're the mall,
and if we shut down the mall, the Internet will still exist." Maybe the
promise of the Net can then be reborn. There's a complex anger among such
people, reminiscent of early industrial workers before they sorted out
strategies like unions and socialism. There are older hackers, says
Jesse, who have a more developed analysis; and there are the younger kids
"who are like, 'Yeah, whatever, let's just fuck it up.'"
I had no idea that
William Saleton on Vote.com
"Meanwhile, [Morris] predicts that "money won't
work in politics anymore, because you won't be able to reach people by
buying television ads," since "the Internet is taking the place of
television in politics." So if you're a special interest, where can you
take your money to reach the voters? To Morris, of course. He boasts that
vote.com is "free" because "we get our money from advertisers." And who's
going to advertise on a site where people vote on political issues? Why,
special interests, naturally."
Builder.com : Generating dynamic headlines with Flash
CyberNotes
"CyberNotes is published every two weeks by the
National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC). Its mission is to
support security and information system professionals with timely
information on cyber vulnerabilities, hacker exploit scripts, hacker
trends, virus information, and other critical infrastructure-related best
practices." Courtesy the nice people at the
DOJ and
FBI
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Jesus of the Week
"I used to work with someone in the food and
beverage industry who had a cocaine problem that left her nasal cavity in
roughly the same state as this unfortunate Christ's. As I recall, she
sought treatment, but Betty Ford doesn't offer help to Sons of God carved
on palm trees."
Some people
Jason Kottke : Silkscreen
"I'm a big fan of small, bitmappy fonts. I've
been using a font called Sevenet (derived from Joe Gillespie's excellent
Mini7) for a while now, but I didn't quite like the look of it...too
wide. I wanted a font that was narrower and included a bold version."
mmmmm...fonts.
On Friday, I saw "Why Are My Eyes Still Open?"
and watched as Tom Cruise wrestled with the ghost
of action-movies past.
Spider Robinson : Senator Socksdryer and the Two Million Dollar
Boondoggle
Giordan on Photoshop 5.5
Well, I'm glad someone is happy about it but I
fear that, rightly it wrongly, it will suffer the same fate as MacOS 7.6
and be pirated to death.
nextmonet.com
"Research then confirmed that Claude Monet is the
most recognized artist in the world – his name synonymous with
"art" even to a novice." I'm going to reserve judgement on this one for a
while.
Flash 4
supports streaming MP3's. This is cool, very
cool. Now I can write a streaming MP3 player for my Mac (instead of a
<a href = "http://aaronland.net/toys/jukebox">half-assed
swa player</a>.)
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.
