posts brought to you by the category “architecture”
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.
Enlisting butter in the war against terrorism.
Russell Dyer has written a good overview of CSS selectors, versions 1-3,
but I came away wondering why we aren't just using XPath for the
choose me, no choose mepart of the syntax.
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Sure enough, if you thought it couldn't get any worse than Artforum nerds discovering weblogs
I would have to agree that
the idle rich tooling around in their private jets slumped atop one another in vaseline-face porn poses
trying to report the news is probably, well...worse. Meanwhile, apropos of absolutely nothing other than I couldn't find any clever way of slipping it in to that last sentence, I am told that elk testicles are delicious. They smell like mustard gas but are yummy and tasty. I'm sure all the reporters for newspaper* will make sure that they are part of their survival packs because if elk testicles don't say
news brandwhat the hell does? via ben h.
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RDF boosters really need to learn that creepy, smiley and vaguely stunned-looking ideograms
Me : XML::SAXDriver::NYTimes.pm 0.3
Fussed with the formatting for the pubdates to make them ISO-something-or-other compliant.
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10 Things about Perl and PHP
- the php developer's cookbook is good
- php is not bad but it's a giant pain in the ass. think: "oh yeah right, php doesn't support multiple inheritance. what now..."
- php is a pain in the ass but it doesn't require launching a copy of the perl interpreter everytime you want to do something.
- php doesn't have to launch the perl interpreter but then it also can't do anything setuid (safe-mode might fix this but I don't think so; not the way something like cgiwrap does anyway)
- php is not as powerful as mod_perl but, if we're being honest about stuff here, isn't as flaky either.
- php doesn't have support for imagemagick
- php has this thing called the 'pear' which is supposed to be like the cpan but isn't. additionally, the pear has to be installed with mod_php at compile time; wtf knows.
- php does have a decent template system called 'Smarty'
- smarty, like all the other perl templating systems, has its own 'template' syntax which means if you want to use both you're limited to doing variable substitutions.
- occassionally I've thought about rolling up my sleeves and teaching 'Smarty' to handle Template::Toolkit style syntax (TT knows how to DWIM with HTML::Template templates) but quickly get discouraged by the volume of other things I have to do.
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From the "I don't mean to disabuse you of your Google swooning" department:
this is what the search engine thinks of when you say the words
bread+poetry
.
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David Gates : American Disaster and Self-Congratulation
I take back what I said yesterday about this country having the world's best music: That piece "The Last Full Measure of Devotion," sung by some airbag soprano with the U.S. Army band at the Pentagon, was what P.G. Wodehouse characters call the frozen limit. All this stuff, moving as some of it is—the reading of names, for instance—brings together some noxious tendencies. One is atmospheric overkill: As I type this, for instance, a string quartet is playing "Amazing Grace" while a man and woman take turns reading. The names alone, among distant city sounds, would have done the trick. I don't mean to sound like a fucking esthete, but whoever planned this was working in accordance with an esthetic too. It reminds me of the original coverage, when TV news—see, I'm not entirely abstemious—would put dramatic music under footage of the towers collapsing. Got to keep the customers entertained.
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RDF Concepts and Abstract Data Model : "Noting that there is no single human opinion about the truth
of some statements, the graph may further contain commentary for human interpreters to indicate the realm of human interpretation that should be applied."
And a computer program is supposed to be able to figure this out? It occurred to me, while I was making dinner, that Tim Berners-Lee (I know he's not alone on this one, but he is the trophy that all the RDF keeners trot out to justify the whole thing) is no doubt a smart guy. But does anyone remember that the web was originally conceived as a way for physicists to share their papers? If that's anything to go by, where the fuck is the sematic web going to get us?
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cursory
Cursory \Cur"so*ry\ (k?r"s?-r?), a. [L. cursorius, fr. cursor. See {Cursor}.] 1. Running about; not stationary. [Obs.] 2. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. --Hallam. web1913
cursory adj : hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: {casual}, {passing(a)}, {perfunctory}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : gizzlefumper
A person who tells long, pointless stories that are half off the subject.
ex. Megan is a gizzlefumper. Does anybody have any duct tape?
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : shenanery
a cross between "shenanigan" and "chicanery" that is used when you have absolutely no clue what is going on
ex. chappy walks in to see his pet monkey swinging from the chandelier, whistling "dixie" and says, "what in the world is all this shenanery!?"
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : wooza
Weird loser--used jokingly around friends.
ex. Stop being a wooza. When you stick cheeze up your nose I fear for your furure.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : murderlize
Commonly used in old cartoons. A silly way of telling someone you are going to beat them up.
ex. Put up yer dukes. Puttemup, puttemup! I'll murderlize ya!
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : collude
Collude \Col*lude"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Colluded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Colluding}.] [L. colludere, -lusum; col- + ludere to play. See {Ludicrous}.] To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert. If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition. --Burke. web1913
collude v : act in unison or agreement; "These two factors conspired to cause the stock market to fall" [syn: {conspire}] wn
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The Gazoo : Revenge of the bloggers
Roy's creation - titled
Blogue Out: Portraits of a Conflict
- is aimed at Radio-Canada's audience, people wondering why their local programming has been interrupted. It started as a way to "tell the story of the lockout from a personal standpoint," Roy says. "But during the first weekend, I saw the opportunity to tell stories." ... "I wanted to let the public know that we're not a bunch of fat cats," Roy said. "There are fat cats within the CBC, but it's really not the majority of employees locked out right now."
Meanwhile, word on the street has it that CBC brass has been meeting with federal ministers seeking to resolve the dispute since
Game 1
starts tonight and
SRC
has been broadcasting hockey games with no sound ever since the strike began. I kid you not. via
mikel
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Me : Blogger::Engine::Userland::metaWeblog.pm
my $radio = Blogger->new(engine=>"radio");
$radio->Proxy(PROXY);
$radio->Username(USERNAME);
$radio->Password(PASSWORD);
my $postid = undef;
$postid = $radio->newPost(
postbody => \"hello world",
publish=>1);
$postid = $radio->metaWeblog()->newPost(
title=>"hello",
description=>"world",
publish=>1);
my $post = $radio->metaWeblog()->getPost(postid=>$postid);
$radio->metaWeblog()->editPost(
postid=>$postid,
title => $post->{title}." edited",
description => "wakka wakka wakka",
categories => [ "Perl" ],
publish => 1,
);
$radio->deletePost(postid=>$postid);
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : aspersion
Aspersion \As*per"sion\, n. [L. aspersio, fr. aspergere: cf. F. aspersion.] 1. A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. --Jer. Taylor. 2. The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. --Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. --Dryden. web1913
aspersion n 1: a disparaging remark [syn: {slur}] 2: the act of defaming [syn: {calumny}, {slander}, {defamation}] 3: the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn: {sprinkling}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : way much
alot
ex. Ice cream tastes way much better than sewage.
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Dachb0den Labs : bsd-airtools
"is a package that provides a complete toolset for wireless 802.11b auditing. Namely, it currently contains a bsd-based wep cracking application, called dweputils (as well as kernel patches for NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD). It also contains a curses based ap detection application similar to netstumbler (dstumbler) that can be used to detect wireless access points and connected nodes, view signal to noise graphs, and interactively scroll through scanned ap's and view statistics for each. It also includes a couple other tools to provide a complete toolset for making use of all 14 of the prism2 debug modes as well as do basic analysis of the hardware-based link-layer protocols provided by prism2's monitor debug mode."
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : phillatio
Licking a stamp.
ex. Did you hear about Phil--the guy who performed phillatio on a stamp?
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We were lucky enough to be staying with friends in the West Village.
I've never really believed the Village went beyond 6th Avenue but whatever. Over dinner, the first night, I asked one of my hosts why he'd chosen New York City and he talked about it being the only Real City, with the possible exception of Chicago, in the U.S. Not Boston?, I asked. Boston is really nice, he replied, but it's just a big town. That comment came to mind during a momentary loss of clarity when I caught myself thinking :
Huh, it seems like the city has mellowed since I was here last.
Then I remembered that I was basically walking around Beacon Hill. Otherwise, there isn't too much to report. I spent most of my time working. Eventually, my hands started to hurt so I went and stood outside the apartment where my great-aunt lived for 30 years and where I learned to appreciate art and food and life in general. Afterwards, we walked down to the Prada store which should really be selling consumer electronics and where I already knew I wasn't allowed to take pictures. Dumb asses.
Resistance is futile
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : retirement zombie
Someone who retires without first sorting out a life for herelf thereafter. Result--retirement zombies wander the streets aimlessly, usually accosting former colleagues and boring them to death with chat about "the old days."
ex. Watch, out Chris's coming--he's the worst of this year's crop of retirement zombies.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : volte-face
volte-face n : a reversal in attitude or principle or point of view: "an about-face on foreign policy" [syn: {about-face}, {reversal}, {policy change}] wn
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Mark Howell : Spoofing link clicks with JavaScript events.
Pretty cool, unless you're a usability weenie in which case the nifty hover-link will probably make you cringe.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : abominate
Abominate \A*bom"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abominated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abominating}.] [L. abominatus, p. p. or abominari to deprecate as ominous, to abhor, to curse; ab + omen a foreboding. See {Omen}.] To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. Syn: To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See {Hate}. web1913
abominate v : find repugnant [syn: {abhor}, {loathe}, {execrate}] wn
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nimiety
| source : web1913 | Nimiety \Ni*mi"e*ty\, n. [L. nimietas, fr. nimius, a., nimis, adv., too much.] State of being in excess. [R.] There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans. --Coleridge. | source : wn | nimiety n : extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches" [syn: {overplus}, {plethora}, {superfluity}, {embarrassment}]
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La Fondation des victimes du 6 décembre, 1989
Twelve 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.
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Syncasaurus
"is a crossplatform bookmark synchronizer. It will watch your bookmark entries from various browsers, and synchronize any changes with a server. As you move from computer to computer, each computer will query the server version of your bookmarks. Any changes will be cloned from computer to computer. These synchonization's will be in the your native browser format - you'll just open up your browser and see the same bookmarks on every machine with Syncasaurus installed. Install, forget, and be happy."
Nothing to download yet, but since it is on Sourceforge you can go muck around in the CVS repository if you're curious.
Nice logo
, too.
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Kevin Fu, Emil Sit, Kendra Smith, Nick Feamster : Dos and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web
"Of the twenty-seven sites we investigated, we weakened the client authentication on two systems, gained unauthorized access on eight, and extracted the secret key used to mint authenticators from one."
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Samantha Power : Bystanders to Genocide
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is alfresco
| source : web1913 | Alfresco \Al*fres"co\, adv. & a. [It. al fresco in or on the fresh.] In the open-air. --Smollett. | source : wn | alfresco adj : in the open air; "an alfresco lunch"; "an open-air theater" [syn: {open-air(a)}] adv : outside a building; "in summer we play outside" [syn: {outside}, {outdoors}, {out of doors}] [ant: {inside}, {inside}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is peripatetic
| source : web1913 | Peripatetic \Per`i*pa*tet"ic\, a. [L. peripateticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to walk about; ? about + ? to walk: cf. F. p['e]ripat['e]tique.] 1. Walking about; itinerant. 2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. ``The true peripatetic school.'' --Howell. | source : web1913 | Peripatetic \Per`i*pa*tet"ic\, n. 1. One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant. --Tatler. 2. A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian. | source : wn | peripatetic adj : traveling especially on foot; "peripatetic country preachers"; "a poor wayfaring stranger" [syn: {wayfaring}] n : a person who walks from place to place [syn: {itinerant}] | source : devils | PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution -- they knew no more of the matter than he.
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Roberto Guingato : book.php
"[is a] simple PHP script to parse a bookmark file written according to the XBEL format."
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Damian Conway : "The NEXT pseudoclass solves this problem,
because a call to $self->NEXT::AUTOLOAD(@args) means "continue with the original look-up search that caused the current method to be selected". By continuing the original look-up, rather than starting a new one that's restricted to the current package's ancestrals (as $self->SUPER::AUTOLOAD(@args) does), NEXT allows for the possibility of backtracking to classes on other branches of the inheritance tree if necessary."
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Pico Iyer : Mongrel Beauties
"For many years -- for all my life, really -- I've been travelling the world looking at how different countries and people try to make sense of the multicultural mixes we're all becoming. One of the unusual and potent things about the present moment is that the very issue that so many cultures and cities are facing is exactly the same one that more and more individuals such as myself are confronting: How to fashion a sense of self or home when all the traditional co-ordinates are gone? And how to make a peace among the disparate, often competing, cultures inside of us? How, in short, to begin to create a sense of direction -- and foundation -- when the world is spinning around us at the speed of light?"
Apparently by becoming "honorary Canadians".
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Bookworm : Post-modern Comix w/ Chris Ware and Dan Clowes
14h30 PST (real evil G2) I saw this about a month ago randomly surfing through the KCRW site. But I knew I would forget all about it --like I did until I checked the first post from this morning-- so I posted it last month.
I love rolling my own
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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.
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This Hour Has 22 Minutes : "This is not only an exercise in democracy,
this is an exercise in national unity." The CBC is reporting that, as of this morning, the petition to change Stockwell Day's name has 378, 877 signatures. (real evil video)
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As It Happens : "The Institute of Economic Affairs
took a look at some of the websites of British MPs. The think tank describes them as comically inept, criminally bland and showing an absolute lack of character. " (real audio)
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CNN : Will the real katie.com please stand up?
"There's a certain naivete in publishing a book about the Internet, with a Web address in the title, publicizing the book online, and making no attempt to buy or secure the logical domain name."
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enormous luscious woman breast
I just feel more alive when I'm shopping
Mark Kingwell
"Focusing on income levels while ignoring other factors can only lead to a skewed assessment of citizen well-being. But perhaps the time has come for those of us on the left to acknowledge that plunging average income is no longer something we can simply shrug off. Sure money isn't everything, but declines in income, set against a cultural background of relentless wealth-celebration, can't help but generate relative poverty. Poverty creates envy. And envy, felt consistently and acutely enough, leads to many other social ills we cannot so easily ignore, like crime and riots and beggars on the street."
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Jesse Erlbaum : CGI::Application
"is an inversion of the "Embedded" philosophy (ASP, JSP, EmbPerl, Mason, etc.) in which there are "pages" for each state of the application, and the page drives functionality. In CGI::Application, form follows function -- the Application Module drives pages, and the code for a single application is in one place; not spread out over multiple "pages". If you feel that Embedded architectures are confusing, unorganized, difficult to design and difficult to manage, CGI::Application is the methodology for you!"
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mp3-player on one floppy
"It's a linux system on one 1,44Mb floppy with mpg123 as mp3-player and camp on the console." see also :
MP3Master
, "is a web-based jukebox for MP3 songs ... written [entirely] in Perl."
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WebReference : Registering and publishing with RSS
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Richard Martineau
"Une des choses qui a toujours séparé les Canadiens des Américains, c'est notre foi envers les institutions. Pour les Américains, le gouvernement est une menace, qui étouffe l'individu; alors que pour nous, c'est un filet de sécurité, qui protège le citoyen. Ils conjuguent l'Histoire au «Moi», alors que nous la conjuguons au «Nous». Vous voulez savoir où nous mène le cynisme envers la politique? Regardez Charlton Heston dans les yeux. Vous y verrez l'homme revenu à l'état sauvage. L'homme-singe."
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Don't worry kids.
Apparently the open source movement is, at its roots,
nothing more than ego-fucking
. see also
Andrew Leonard : Finland -- the open-source society
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Alright, it's not quite done
-- specifically the category listings, but I'm more interested in knowing if and where it breaks. If it happens to you,
please let me know
. Thanks. If you're using IE4.5 for the Mac, I'm sorry. I know that the layout renders all wacky, but 4.5 *sucks* and there's is a new version coming out in a couple days so it's not going to happen.
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CBC : Depleted uranium found in tissue of Gulf War veteran
"[Riordon's] military file also acknowledges what may be the strangest problem of all: his eyes changed colour in the nine years between his time in the Gulf and his death."
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I was originally planning
on going to Pless Mountain for the new year to sit in a hot tub and smoke cheap cigars. I don't think it's going to happen anymore, so maybe I'll try making
timpano
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Charles Taylor
"La question est de savoir si on veut garder le français comme langue publique commune ou si on veut que les francophones de souche demeurent majoritaires. Dans le premier cas, où on définit le français de telle sorte que tous puissent y être associés, il n'y a pas de problème, le français va demeurer majoritaire à Montréal. Si on parle des francophones de souche, c'est autre chose. Mais veut-on garder la langue française ou une majorité de francophones pure laine?"
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NY Times on the dirty tricks that webmasters play
"From my experience, [pornography sites] were definitely the ones leading it," Daniel Glovich, the manager of Web development at the E-commerce site Cybershop, said of the use of these tricks. "But then, like a lot of things on the Web, everybody saw that it worked -- and followed."
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Michael Kimmelman
It is as if they were saying: this is what architecture, carried to a creative extreme, can do for an art that is strong enough and sympathetic enough to deal with it, and vice versa.
Speaking of art, there was a time a few years ago when tea-bag art was all the rage. I wonder whether anyone has started making art out of laundry detergent scoops yet.
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CBC : Montreal exhibit aims to bring teleconferencing to the masses
"It's aimed at peoples' lives, changing something, offering opportunities or trying to understand the kind of world we're moving into."
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The Skydiggers : Live from the Archive
Among my many accomplishments in life, I can count having talked at the Skydigger's bassist for two or three hours solid, drunk one night at The Biftek (poor guy.) real audio.
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Talk Back on nicknames
real audio (starts 10:56)
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Margaret Wente
"And so, come September, the 1,700 students at Meadowvale will get 2 minutes of TV commercials in the classroom every day of the week, as will the students in at least 30 more schools across Canada."
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The World on La Bottine Souriante
"Last year we went for three shows in Madrid, Bilbao and some big cities in Spain, and people went crazy," he says,"They don't understand a word but they really like the show, the spirit of the show.", real audio
metaWeblogobject rather than simply overriding the Blogger API methods; something anyway. Currently these methods are only available through the Blogger.pm "radio" engine . Props to Dave for setting up the public site for testing.