posts brought to you by the category “bendypig”
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.
I wonder how many anglophones will get the joke.
Thank you science, for ruining one of life's more colourful sexual
metaphors.
Robert Fisk : "How, I ask myself, does one describe this outside
the language of a military report?"
How, I ask myself, does one describe this outside the language of
a military report, the definition of the colour, the decibels of the
explosions? When the cruise missiles came in it sounded as if someone
was ripping to pieces huge curtains of silk in the sky and the blast
waves became a kind of frightening counterpoint to the flames.
Me : Lingua::Lexicon::IDP.pm 1.0
Bowie J. Poag : MicroBlogger
"as the name implies, is a small, simple,
flexible, reliable weblog engine written entirely in bash script. ...
Just look at Captain Kirk up there... He decided he was going to use
PHP4, MySQL, CGI, Perl, and JavaScript to make his "Captain's
Log".....Poor guy, he tried to overdo it with PHP-Nuke, and all he got in
return was angry and constipated! As the picture illustrates, you
shouldn't have to strain to make a log. There really is no need for any
other foo-foo gingerbread features like SQL servers and exotic Apache
mods.. Its just freakin' HTML for petes sake. Its not supposed to be
complicated. So, just look at that picture, and think back to all the
time and hassle you spent learning a skill thats obsolete in 6 months. If
all you want is a simple, full-featured weblog, you've come to the right
place."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : ribald
Ribald \Rib"ald\, n./ [OE. ribald, ribaud, F. ribaud, OF.
ribald, ribault, LL. ribaldus, of German origin; cf. OHG hr[=i]pa
prostitute. For the ending -ald cf. E. {Herald}.] A low, vulgar,
brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow. --Spenser. Pope. Ribald was
almost a class name in the feudal system . . . He was his patron's
parasite, bulldog, and tool . . . It is not to be wondered at that the
word rapidly became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal.
--Earle.
web1913
ribald adj : humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color
jokes"; "ribald language" [syn: {bawdy}, {off-color}] n : a ribald
person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hizzoe
A slighty nicer way to call someone
promiscuous.
ex. Alex has been hizzoe since middle
school.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mincer
Insult. Like jackass or moron, etc.
ex. The blond guy in N 'SYNC is a mincer.
see also :
mincer dict-ified
Les Orchard : MailToRSS
"I receive fewer items of email than news items I
manage to skim in a day, yet I never seem to get around to skimming or
reading all of the email. So, it might be useful to treat mail as news
items, turn my mail folders into personally syndicated weblogs. MailToRSS
will merge my incoming email stream with my news stream. Produce RSS from
mailbox indexes, provide links to read mail items, provide forms with
which to reply to email ala weblog comments."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : furbelow
Furbelow \Fur"be*low\, n. [Prov. F. farbala, equiv. to F.
falbala, It. falbal[`a].] A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's
garment.
web1913
furbelow n : a strip of pleated material used as a
decoration or a trim [syn: {frill}, {flounce}, {ruffle}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : potable
Potable \Po"ta*ble\, a. [F., fr. L. potabilis, fr. potare
to drink; akin to Gr. po`tos a drinking, po`sis a drink, Skr. p[=a] to
drink, OIr. ibim I drink. Cf. {Poison}, {Bib}, {Imbibe}.] Fit to be
drunk; drinkable. ``Water fresh and potable.'' --Bacon. -- n. A potable
liquid; a beverage. ``Useful in potables.'' --J. Philips.
web1913
potable adj : of alcoholic beverages that are suitable for
drinking; "it's an impudent young wine but I think you will find it
quite potable" n : any liquid suitable for drinking: "may I take your
beverage order?" [syn: {beverage}, {drink}, {drinkable}]
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POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be
potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even
they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder
known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great
and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all
countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of
substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that
liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be
unscientific -- and without science we are as the snakes and toads.
devils
Bran Van 3000 : What is Knabber Knossi?
N.Y. Times : " The court began by observing that a hyperlink is not
merely a high-tech footnote
or reference card that conveys information to a
reader concerning the location of additional content. Rather, the court
said, a hyperlink contains a speech component and an additional
"nonspeech" component -- some computer code -- that has the functional
capacity to bring the content of the linked Web page to the user's
computer screen at the click of a mouse. It is this instantaneous,
functional nature of the hyperlink that distinguishes it from its
non-electronic print cousin, said the court, because a hyperlink to
digital material can result in "instantaneous worldwide distribution [of
prohibited material] before any preventative measures can be taken."
Because the D.M.C.A.'s anti-trafficking provision is targeted at the
functional, instantaneous aspect of Corley's hyperlinks, continued the
court, the regulation is "content neutral" and thus is subject to a
relaxed level of judicial scrutiny."
John Kricfalusi : "[The hippies] questioned everything that was
good about progress and technology, and destroyed Western
civilization,
as far as I'm concerned. Culture is dead, and has
been since the mid-'60s, when the dirty hippies took over. And now
corporate thought--you'd think corporations would be a purely American
product of progress and capitalism, but they're not. Not any more. Now
corporations are run by ex-hippies, people who go to retreats and beat
drums in the woods and bury themselves up to their necks and have Indians
piss on them. Can you believe all this crazy stuff? They've taken over
everything! It's creative people, and scientists, philosophers and
inventors that move the world. Those are the people that you
need--everyone else is a follower. But they've stopped that. All those
human endeavours that used to perpetuate themselves and drag the world
along with them, they're all run by corporations now--which are run by
ex-hippies. They stop creativity, they don't allow it to happen."
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Alberto Reggiori : RDF Perl Resources
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cajole
| source : web1913 | Cajole \Ca*jole"\, v. i.
[imp. & p. p. {Cajoled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cajoling}.] [F.
cajoler, orig., to chatter like a bird in a cage, to sing; hence, to
amuse with idle talk, to flatter, from the source of OF. goale, jaiole,
F. ge[^o]le, dim. of cage a cage. See {Cage}, {Jail}.] To deceive with
flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter
you into a reception of my views. --F. W. Robertson. Syn: To flatter;
wheedle; delude; coax; entrap. | source : wn | cajole v : influence or
urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into
going along" [syn: {wheedle}, {palaver}, {blarney}, {coax}, {sweet-talk},
{inveigle}] | source : foldoc | CAJOLE <language> (Chris And John's
Own LanguagE) A {dataflow} language developed by Chris Hankin
<clh@doc.ic.ac.uk> and John Sharp at {Westfield College}. ["The
Data Flow Programming Language CAJOLE: An Informal Introduction", C.L.
Hankin et al, SIGPLAN Notices 16(7):35-44 (Jul 1981)]. (1994-11-08)
Fabrice Desré : XSLTDoc
"This tool is itself an XSLT stylesheet that
analyzes another stylesheet and builds a clean documentation on it."
Normal Walsh : DTDParse
"reads an SGML or XML DTD and constructs an XML
database of its content. This database can be examined to construct other
views of the DTD."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is effusive
| source : web1913 | Effusive \Ef*fu"sive\, a.
Pouring out; pouring forth freely. ``Washed with the effusive wave.''
--Pope. {Effusive rocks} (Geol.), volcanic rocks, in distinction from
so-called intrusive, or plutonic, rocks. -- {Ef*fu"sive*ly}, adv. --
{Ef*fu"sive*ness}, n. | source : wn | effusive adj 1: uttered with
unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in burbly panting tones" [syn:
{burbling}, {burbly}, {gushing}] 2: extravagantly demonstrative;
"insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a
large gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry" [syn:
{emotional}, {gushing(a)}, {gushy}]
Damian Conway : Life, the Universe and Everything
From the Simple Pleasures department : cop shades
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is apotheosis
| source : web1913 | Apotheosis \Ap`o*the"o*sis\
(?; 277), n. pl. {Apotheoses}. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to deify; ? from + ?
to deify, ? a god.] 1. The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and
placing him among, ``the gods;'' deification. 2. Glorification;
exaltation. ``The apotheosis of chivalry.'' --Prescott. ``The noisy
apotheosis of liberty and machinery.'' --F. Harrison. | source : wn |
apotheosis n 1: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having
no equal [syn: {ideal}, {paragon}, {nonpareil}, {saint}, {nonesuch},
{nonsuch}] 2: the elevation of a person to the status of a god [syn:
{deification}, {exaltation}]
Geeks R Us : "The file is locked!
Yes it seems that the Finder locking is in a
layer lower than the Unix POSIX layer, so not even root can muck with
files that are locked. Simply select the file in the Finder, choose Show
Info from the File menu, and uncheck 'Locked'. "
see also :
man chflags
John Gruenenfelder : GutenPalm
"Eventually I decided that I would like to have [
a Palm based PDA ] to use as a sort of eBook clone. I had used AportisDoc
Mobile edition and noticed that (surprise!) it sucks a lot. Much of this
apparent suckiness was due to it being the free version and being
featured limited. I wasn't really looking forward to paying $30 for an
ASCII viewer for the Palm. ... Anyway, all the other viewers used the
"open" DOC format. Open only because somebody had reverse engineered it.
Aportis wasn't very forthcoming. The problem is, DOC is not very good for
storing book length texts. Well... it's not that good for storing much of
anything. It uses, from the code I've seen, a "run length encoding"
scheme to compress the text. If you know what RLE is, then you probably
know that it's not the best thing to use to compress the written word.
What it does have, however, is speed. But, I'm willing to put up with a
20 second decompression time when it means saving about 33% in space over
DOC (more the larger the text is)."
developerWorks : An Introduction to RDF
"Many proclaim that RDF is really the XML's
killer app, and with good reason. Despite all this, RDF remains somewhat
obscure. This is mainly because at its core RDF is very abstract, very
dry, and very academic. With this article I hope to illustrate why RDF is
very important to anyone interested in XML."
There is still a god.
Disturbing Search Requests
"This website serves the purpose to reflect upon
the process of finding web sites by using search machines. If you write a
weblog on a regular basis, chances are you're going to post quotes from
other sites, opinions from other people etc. But since weblogs are highly
linked to and from, they get indexed very well by search engines. So,
even if you only once wrote about your hamster, and on the same day
mentioned you were wearing a three piece suit, google just might list you
as No.1 for 'hamster suit'. Now just imagine that you check your referer
logs and you find a query from a search engine, looking for 'hamster
suit'. This is where this site kicks in." via
metafilter
Rbmake
"is a "book maker" for the Rocket eBook. It
consists of a set of commandline tools that assemble or disassemble .rb
files -- the book format that is native to the ReB"
Jonathan G. S. Koppell
"Thinking of the Internet as a place certainly
makes it seem more intriguing. The idea of logging on and entering
another space is suggestive in all sorts of ways. It raises issues of
consciousness, allows us to think of ourselves as disembodied cybernauts,
and sets us apart not just from our primitive ancestors but also from our
recent ones. Not incidentally, representing the home computer and AOL
membership as a gateway to another dimension helps to sell home computers
and AOL memberships."
The Headless HorseMP3
"is a PHP script designed to be an interface for
playing MP3s (or any other type of file with slight modification) on the
web server. My intended use is to be able to play MP3s from a headless
(no keyboard, mouse, or monitor) old computer which I can stick out of
the way, under a bed or something. However many other uses do come to
mind. One could use it to scare his/her college roommate by making their
computer start playing MP3s from a public lab, or even start a web-cam
like server where the public internet controls what music (out of your
collection, entirely legal of course) he/she listens to."
Dirk Nicolas Wagner : Software Agents take the Internet as a
Shortcut to Enter Society
"A Survey of New Actors to Study for Social
Theory." What do you suppose agents would demand as inalienable rights?
Bandwidth? see also :
digitalMass on cyber-borders
, "Vartanian said one solution could be to let technology help solve the
problems it has created, by employing intelligent electronic agents, or
``cyberbots'' that would negotiate issues of jurisdiction for each
particular transaction, based on the complex rules set down by a global
standards commission."
Perl Golf Apocalypse
"will have 10 teams, each comprised of up to 3
Perl hackers. Each team will be given its own computer to use and will to
try to solve a set of simple problems by writing a short piece of Perl
code. Each team must submit its code, which will then be tested and
compared to the answers from the other teams. Each problem (or hole as we
call them) will be given to all the teams at the same time and will have
a time limit (about 5-7 minutes, depending on the hole). There will be 9
holes in all and after 4 of them the 5 lowest scoring teams will be cut
(just like in real golf tournaments)."
The Honeypot Project : The Motives and Psychology of the Black-hat
Community
Jonas Liljegren : CGI::Debug.pm
"will catch (almost) all compilation and runtime
errors and warnings and will display them in the browser." Nice.
I wonder who decided
James Fallows : Inside the Leviathan
If there is something you love or hate about
Microsoft programs, don't thank or blame Bill Gates; some specific member
of the Microsoft team decided to "own" that feature and include it in a
program. There is even a person who created the "It looks like you're
writing a letter" auto-annoyance feature in Word. I had to sign a
separate confidentiality clause promising not to name him.
Pyra : What's New in Blogger 2.0
Using a Command-line interface
"Open the Apple menu and choose System
Administration, then choose Terminal." Pray for the tech support people.
see also :
Dan Lyke : Unix Usability
Denise Caruso
"Unlike print and broadcast media, for example,
most Web sites feel no particular need to distinguish between what
information is paid for by sponsors and what is not. In fact, next to
labeled advertising, the sale or barter of a hypertext link on a Web page
is probably the most fundamental value exchange for those conducting
business on the Internet."
Phyllis Lambert
"We don't have a democracy here, it's a
dictatorship. It's not one man who made Montreal, but it can be one man
who could ruin Montreal. I think he (Bourque) is doing that." see also :
Heritage Montreal
and the
Canadian Center for
Architecture
.
Les objets du siècle : la carte postale
"Pourquoi avoir inventé la carte postale? Parce
que le 1er juillet suivant (1870), la Prusse entre en guerre contre la
France et que les soldats montent à l'assaut avec des cartes postales
plein la musette."
I am one with my error messages.
Calvin & Hobbes Snow Art Gallery
The last I heard was that Bill Watterson wanted
to start painting full-time. Has anyone seen the work? Is it online?
CBC : Cockroaches don't like catnip
Warren Beatty & Bob McKenzie in 2000!
"And where the future President Beatty is a
recovering ladies' man--perhaps the only man alive who has loved more
than President Clinton and who is now happily raising a family in a
successful marriage--I, on the other hand, can bring a great deal of
knowledge and experience to the debate on Internet pornography."
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
The Ninth Judicial Court of Florida has begun
broadcasting"live" on the web (requires the evil g2 player.) Maybe if
this is a success, we can start doing live broadcasts from prisons. Maybe
if that's successful I can make millions setting up a website where
people from all over the world can "adopt a prisoner".
NY Times : Is Linking Always Legal?
"Until the courts provide clear guidelines, the
experts say, powerful intellectual property owners like movie studios
will fill the legal vacuum with their untested assumption that deep
linking is illegal."
iboy.aaronland.net
now points to abhb. Because it was easy and
because I'm trying to do my small part to help render iWords irrelevant.
I finally got my copy of Yeska's "Skafrocubanjazz"
Falling Through the Net : Defining the Digital Divide
"This is our third report examining which
American households have access to telephones, computers, and the
Internet, and which do not. The "digital divide"-- the divide between
those with access to new technologies and those without -- is now one of
America's leading economic and civil rights issues."
Cowboys Junkies : Live From the Archive
Courtesy of the nice people at the <a href
= "http://www.virtuallycanadian.com">Virtually Canadian
Broadcasting Network</a>. Archived and upcoming shows are
listed <a href =
"http://www.virtuallycanadian.com/Shows/LiveArchive/">here</a>.
real audio.
Leah Lazariuk : Virtual Squat
"Virtual Squat is intended to be a forum for
experience and exploration about alternative living solutions." I went to
school with Leah, and had no idea she was working on the web until I saw
her name in an overview of
Quebecois web artists
.
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.