posts brought to you by the category “cannabis”
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.
Are you a MovableType weenie feeling left out by all the
XPath-enabled searching going on?
It's a beautiful tissue dispenser so long as your bathroom has no
water or your room no dust.
Montréal 2003, a city where to be a dépanneur
Separated at birth : Aaron Startup Cope
devshed : Date Arithmetic With MySQL
Karl Dubost : Dépanneurs de Montréal
The Connection : Drawing the News
In a 24/7 news cycle, the political cartoonist lives on the verge
of constant overload. Artist, news junkie, provocateur, the political
cartoonist digests reams of newspaper column inches and hours of
broadcast news reports in the daily quest for the angles that rankle,
those choice twists of news that best lend themselves to visual
interpretation.
Ron Hill : Astro::Sunrise.pm
"It's like having a conversation speaking in nothing but airport
codes."
bookmarksync
"is a tool used for synchronizing different
bookmark files and types. It preserves current bookmark structures and
sorts in new ones correctly in existing directorys or create new one if
necessary."
Did I mention that I was going to Cambodia for three weeks,
today?
Jonathan Jones : "The world the bomb created is one where a certain
image of catastrophe is universally shared
diffused, reproduced - a constant of our visual
world, where, in 1995, the US Post Office planned to issue a
commemorative stamp with an image of a mushroom cloud, where an image of
mass death is recycled without cease."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : disconcert
Disconcert \Dis`con*cert"\, n. Want of concert;
disagreement. --Sir W. Temple.
web1913
disconcert v 1: cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant
attention of the young man confused her" [syn: {confuse}, {flurry},
{consternate}, {put off}] 2: cause to lose one's composure [syn:
{upset}, {discompose}, {untune}, {discomfit}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : adamant
Adamant (Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas
means diamond. This stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind
of hard steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of
the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard-heartedness against the truth (Jer.
17:1).
easton
Adamant, VT Zip code(s): 05640
gazetteer
Adamant \Ad"a*mant\ ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt,
adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the
hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. + dama^,n to tame,
subdue. In OE., from confusion with L. adamare to love, be attached to,
the word meant also magnet, as in OF. and LL. See {Diamond}, {Tame}.]
1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name
given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in
modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a
rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable
hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield.
--Milton. 2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] ``A great adamant of
acquaintance.'' --Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene.
web1913
adamant adj : not capable of being swayed or diverted from
a course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his refusal to
change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"-
W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal
tendancy" [syn: {adamantine}, {inexorable}, {intransigent}] n : very
hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: {diamond}]
wn
ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset.
Soluble in solicitate of gold.
devils
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : juicewell
A great resource of creative juice, something that will
keep you inspired for a while.
ex. I just saw a juicewell. Gotta go home and create
somethin'.
Does anyone know if any standardized vocabularies
eclectic : Understanding the ID
"I thought it might be useful to post a rolling
summary of the current XML-DEV discussion concerning ID attributes, to
help avoid creating a "cauldron of seething expectations". "
Matt Sergeant : Just for Damians
Hendrik Van Belleghem : Palm::PalmDoc.pm
"can format ASCII text into a PalmDoc PDB file."
B. K. Oxley : Arguments.pm
"I had an epiphany to use subroutine attributes
for argument type checking, and to try and make it clean and simple to
use. It is not there yet, but I hope to get it there. If nothing else, it
is a new, fun area of Perl for me to explore."
Mark Deuze : Online Journalism: Modelling the First Generation of
News Media on the World Wide Web
"The Internet and specifically its graphic
interface the World Wide Web is reaching a level of saturation and
widespread adoption throughout the world. Specifically for journalism
practiced online - in the discipline of computer-assisted reporting (CAR)
and a specific kind of journalism: online journalism - we can now
identify and theorize about the impacts the global system of networked
computers has had on journalism. This paper signals four particular
journalisms online as these have emerged in the 'first generation' of
newsmedia on the World Wide Web (1993-2001), discusses the key
characteristics - cf. hypertextuality, interactivity, multimediality -
which determine the 'added value' of these journalisms, and provides
three specific strategies journalists may use to further enhance the
potential of journalism online: annotative reporting, open source
journalism and hyperadaptive news sites."
DevShed : The Fundamentals of DTD Design
David C. Druffner : phpTidyHt
"is a PHP script which allows you to filter all
your PHP generated HTML through HTML Tidy before it is sent to the
browser. Thus you have the advantage of automatically fixing most HTML
errors on the fly, presenting a nicely formatted source to the browser,
optionally converting the output to XHTML automatically, and obtaining
useful information for debugging HTML source. "
Ed, are you flying East
Norman Walsh : A URN Namespace for Public Identifiers
"Unfortunately, public identifiers do not fit
neatly into the existing web architecture because they are not legal
URIs. Many new specifications (XSLT, XML Schema, etc.) have the implicit
or explicit requirement that all external identifiers be URIs. The
purpose of this namespace is to allow public identifiers to be encoded in
URNs in a reliable, comparable way." see also
Norman Walsh on XML Catalogs
and
Why
URLs are good URIs, and why they are not
Jeffrey Pinyan : Sex, Eger!
"or Reverse Regular Expressions."
Elizabeth Hayt : Modern Art as Spectacle - That's
Entertainment!
"Ambitious art wants to have the same impact as
Tom Ford's Gucci ads and Steven Meisel's Versace ads. Glamour was once
regarded as a superficial aesthetic, but now it's a powerful aesthetic.
Almost 35 years ago, the French theorist Guy Debord described our age as
the 'society of the spectacle.' Now spectacles have become the art of our
society."
This snow was shamelessly pilfered
PHP Builder : An ODBC Socket Server
"One machine will have the operating system of
your choice, the web server of your choice and PHP on it. The other
machine will have Windows, MS Access, and ODBC on it. The socketserver on
the Windows machine will look for connections on a TCP/IP port, PHP will
generate XML commands and send them to the socket server. The socket
server will then execute the SQL statements in the commands and pass
another XML document back to PHP. Finally, PHP will parse the XML
document and manipulate the resulting recordset."
Geoffrey Harder : A Humanists Struggle to Understand Information as
a Commodity
"Theories of information evolve in relation to
the context of their culture and environment. An individual's ideas, once
shared, become information for someone else. The value of information is
dependent on one particular concept. Information is of value when
controlled by one group and desired by another. This understated reality
is a reflection of the current debate surrounding intellectual property
rights and the Internet."
uncontrol
"is an interactive exercise that explores the
themes of anthropomorphism and kinetics. Using Macromedia Flash, I
developed experiments that express these themes using only basic forms:
lines, splines, rectangles, and circles." mmmmmm.... pretty. via
metafilter
Do androids dream of renting electric sheep?
You crazy fuckers.
I think websites
SANS Flash Advisory
"You are vulnerable to total compromise simply by
previewing or reading an email (without opening any attachments) if you
have one of the affected operating systems and have the following
installed: Microsoft Access 97 or 2000 [or] Internet Explorer 4.0 or
higher." I guess that's the diplomatic way of saying "You risk getting
fucked if you use Windows."
Complain and you shall receive*
The
eyebeam
application converts eyemodule files to firepad (nee image viewer) files.
The
imgvtopgm
tool converts firepad files to pgm files at which point there is the
trusty
convert
program for making web images. Now I just need to figure out how to mail
firepad images as attachments... *When I was a small boy I used to get
mad some fierce when I was playing with my Lego and building a
complicated model. I would need to find that one tiny connector without
which the whole effort was moot. It didn't take long before I was
smashing the few unfortunate pieces I could see and screaming blue murder
for the guily party to stop hiding and show itself right now! Eventually
I found it because, well, it was right there. Still, I never really let
go of the idea that it was my screaming that had made it appear.
NY Times : A Case of Letting the Gene Out of the Bottle
"In the future, when someone's susceptibility to,
say, breast cancer is cured with a patented gene therapy, Mr. Magnus
said, the patient is not patentable nor are her children. But the
repaired genes are the scientist's patented genes, he said. Noting that
it would be a "public relations disaster," Mr. Magnus nonetheless noted
that 'it may be legally possible for the scientist to restrict your right
to have children and pass on the patented genes, without his permission.'
"
Naomi Klein : How to radicalize a generation
"Is Chief Fantino inadvertently running a
recruitment drive for the young anarchists of Toronto? Maybe. After all,
the reason Reclaim the Streets hasn't taken off in Canada like it has in
Britain is that Canada's youth didn't wake up one morning to learn they
had been reclassified as dangerous criminals. Until now, that is."
Slate Diary : Adrian Tomine
I've never really let go of the idea of writing
and drawing comics. Adrian Tomine is one of those people whose work make
those nagging thoughts come rushing back in...
Morning Becomes Eclectic
What is up with
This American Life comic book
Beautifully illustrated by
Jessica Abel
. Someone remind me why I work with computers all day...
The Comics Journal
is back online.
Darren Hick writes
: "...one of our many mandates was to resurrect the long-since
(seemingly) abandoned TCJ Online. Insert phoenix metaphor here. Although
it is still a work in progress (catch-phrase: "under construction"),
there should be enough to hold your interest as we approach full capacity
in the coming weeks." At least you can access the archives again.
I AM TRACKING DOWN A BUG
so stuff is lliable to be broken
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.
