posts brought to you by the category “copyright”
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.
Meanwhile, the street continues to find its own use for
things.
The thing that makes The Habeas Warrant Mark so unique is that it
is written as haiku, an ancient Japanese poetic form. Since our
headers are actual works of art, Habeas can use the powerful legal
tools available for copyright and trademark protection to prosecute
violators. In fact, Habeas has already shut down some spammers in
successful court actions.
Nathan Yergler : mozCC
mozCC is an extension for Mozilla Firebird which scans pages for
RDF, specifically embedded Creative Commons licenses. When a license
is detected, mozCC does two things. First, it scans for license
information pertaining to the current web page and places relevant
icons on the status bar. Second, it enables a button on the toolbar
which allows you to explore the parsed licensing metadata.
It's a good day when
Jo Walsh : RDF::Simple.pm
Me : xml résumé (XSL) formatting extensions 0.1
These stylesheets extend those included with the XML Résumé
Library to add better support for external links and to support a
small number of elements that are not part of the DTD.
Peter Hertzmann : Recettes en Français
An essay about translation.
First Monday : Digitizing Old Photographs for the Web
Some are private photographs, images of family life. Others are
public photographs. Of course, as Roland Barthes (1981) observed in
Camera Lucida, even with public photographs we tend to provide a
private reading: "Does that train still run through our town?" "How
old was I when that happened?" We link images to our own
existence.
Just when you think there are no more Mirror Project pictures left
to take...
Mozigo
MoziGo is the result of hacking the MOOzilla telnet code so that
it could be used as an Internet Go Server client. It's still in the
alpha stages and as of yet doesn't do much, but it's getting there.
Hopefully I'll have a working version in a few months (if not
more).
Michael Kinsey : Deliver Us From Evil
If the subjective basis for terrorists hating America is off
limits for consideration, that would seem to leave the objective
basis: Is it something we did, or didn't do, to them or theirs? But
this violates the ancient conservative taboo (c. 1984, styling by
Jeane Kirkpatrick) against "blaming America first." So, check and
mate: Terrorism is evil, evil, evil—gosh, it's evil—and
there's nothing else to discuss.
Who ever imagined a time when the most interesting hacks would be
done in AppleScript?
From the "No, I'm still not going to give in and install Movable
Type" department :
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : immure
Immure \Im*mure"\, n. A wall; an inclosure. [Obs.] --Shak.
web1913
immure v : lock up in jail [syn: {imprison}, {incarcerate},
{lag}, {put behind bars}, {jail}, {jug}, {gaol}, {put away}, {remand}]
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Daniel Gardner : Apache::Blog.pm
"is a simple handler for online diaries. At the
moment it works on the one-entry-one-page paradigm, but would be easy to
apapt to multiple entries per page if this is prefered. In the future
this will be a configuration option."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : acrid
Acrid \Ac"rid\, a. [L. acer sharp; prob. assimilated in
form to acid. See {Eager}.] 1. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to
the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts. 2. Causing heat and irritation;
corrosive; as, acrid secretions. 3. Caustic; bitter; bitterly
irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing. {Acrid poison}, a poison
which irritates, corrodes, or burns the parts to which it is applied.
web1913
acrid adj 1: strong and sharp; "the acrid smell of burning
rubber" 2: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing
otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid
remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism";
"caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and
medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation" [syn: {acerb}, {acerbic},
{acid}, {bitter}, {blistering}, {caustic}, {sulfurous}, {sulphurous},
{venomous}, {virulent}, {vitriolic}]
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Oh, would that the wunderkinds at Google add a SOAP interface to
their translation tool.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : enervate
Enervate \E*ner"vate\, a. [L. enervatus, p. p.] Weakened;
weak; without strength of force. --Pope.
web1913
enervate v 1: weaken mentally or morally 2: disturb the
composure of [syn: {faze}, {unnerve}, {unsettle}]
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Adobe : Photoshop 7.0 Scripting plug-in
Alex Ulmanu : What about SMS journalism?
"What better use can one get for the old inverted
pyramid? Since journalism students learn that when writing news stories
they have to give as much information as possible in as few words as
possible, SMS seems to be the ultimate expression of journalistic
concision."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : laid-out
To be completely physically out of commission either by
result of a flu-vaccination gone awry or an after school
beating.
submitted by christine
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 : apogee
Apogee \Ap"o*gee\, n. [Gr. ? from the earth; ? from + ?, ?,
earth: cf. F. apog['e]e.] 1. (Astron.) That point in the orbit of the
moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth. Note: Formerly,
on the hypothesis that the earth is in the center of the system, this
name was given to that point in the orbit of the sun, or of a planet,
which was supposed to be at the greatest distance from the earth. 2.
Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination.
web1913
apogee n 1: a final climactic stage; "their achievements
stand as a culmination of centuries of development" [syn:
{culmination}] 2: apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where
a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth [ant: {perigee}]
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The World talks to Dimitri from Paris
Web Application Standard API (for) Bi-directional Information
Interchange
"(wasabii) is an attempt to create a flexible,
yet simple, API, running via XML-RPC, for various web applications
running on heterogeneous platforms to communicate and interact. this
effort is meant to replace the bloggerAPI by providing a non
application-specific set of methods and arguements. in other words,
wasabii is not specifically geared for "weblogs," though it may fit that
model well. ideally, the API will be flexible enough to support other
types of web applications and content managements systems. realistically,
it will not be as simple as the bloggerAPI, but it will provide broader
functionality."
I don't really know if I think the iLamp will be a hit
John Dean : Military Tribunals, A Long and Mostly Honorable
Tradition
Me : Apache::XBEL 1.2
John McCrae : In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Me : DHTML::ypXmlTree.pm 0.1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is serendipity
| source : wn | serendipity n : accidental
sagacity; the faculty of making fortunate discoveries of things you were
not looking for
Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Agent
provides interoperability between RDF based
calendar descriptions on the web, and Personal Information Manager (PIM)
Systems such as Microsoft's Outlook."page."
Although I am usually loathe to say anything about television
Matthew Mirapaul : "There is an undeniable voyeuristic allure to
viewing other desktops,
akin to rummaging through a co- worker's papers
and finding a pay stub, medical bill or an incriminating memo."
Stephen King : "It wouldn’t hurt to remember that the boys
who shot up Columbine High School
planned to finish their day by hijacking a
jetliner and flying it into — yes, that’s right — the
World Trade Center. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris weren’t exactly
rocket scientists, and the guys who did this didn’t have to be
either. All you had to be was willing to die..."
ActiveState : XSLT Cookbook
Brad Marshall : System Authentication using LDAP
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is spooge
| source : foldoc | spooge /spooj/ Inexplicable
or arcane code, or random and probably incorrect output from a computer
program. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-12)
maki: serving XML via Apache and Python
"maki is an attempt to glue together a simple,
flexible framework that allows you to use these technologies together to
serve web pages. It is a mod_python handler for Apache that is intended
to handle requests made to your server for XML files. When maki receives
such a request, it determines the path to the file, then searches through
its configuration to find the first rule that matches that path. Each
rule specifies one or more steps that are then to be executed."
Zeldman : "My feeling about OS X
is that it's the Flash version and OS9 is the
HTML version."
Benoit Marchal : Managing e-zines with JavaMail and XSLT
"demonstrates how to automate e-mail publishing
chores with Java and XML. This concrete application of XML and XSLT
describes an e-mail newsletter (e-zine) publishing application that
outputs both HTML and plain text e-mail messages. Six reusable code
samples include a sample newsletter marked up in DocBook, an XSL style
sheet to convert the DocBook sample to a custom text output, a Java text
formatter (in the form of a SAX ContentHandler), two SAX filters, and the
Java code that puts it all together in a multistepped transformation."
Rocco Lucia : Darwin ports
"As every FreeBSD enthusiast I wanted to see the
Ports Collection working on Darwin as soon as I installed Mac OS X on my
Powerbook. Here there is a quick and dirty way that will give a start to
the magic."
W.J. Gilmore : PHP and the Sablotron Processor
Gisle Aas, Dick Hardt and Paul Everitt : "The Perl for Zope
Project
lets Perl code and Python code run in the same
process, focused on making Perl an alternative scripting language for the
Zope Open Source application server."
David Mertz : On the Pythonic Treatment of XML Documents As
Objects
Stephen E. Sachs : charties.cron
"is a cron script in the gawk language to
frequent the various charity sites affiliated with thehungersite.com.
These sites enable Web users to donate food, health care, and other goods
simply by clicking on a link. The sites generally count one click per IP
address per day; by making this a daily cron job, you can cause thousands
of dollars to be donated to charity each year."
Anne Charlton & Clive Bates : "We argue that the mobile phone
is an effective competitor to cigarettes
in the market for products that offer teenagers
adult style, individuality, sociability, rebellion, peer group bonding,
and adult aspiration. ... To explain the link with declining teenage
smoking, mobile phones are particularly important as they consume
teenagers' available cash, especially the pay-as-you-go cards. If some
teenagers cannot afford to smoke and pay for a mobile phone satisfies the
same needs as smoking, they may decide not to smoke."
Michael Best : "The act of participation
seems to entrap us at once into becoming captive
markets of information economies."
Let the Aaronschlock begin!
This has actually been available for a while, but
I had the samples shipped to the States so I had no idea what they looked
like until now. There's more to come too...
Yes, that's right :
suricate
"brings the meerkat open wire service into the
realm of handheld devices, wireless email appliances, and interactive
pagers. I wrote suricate to address the needs of people that have email
provided on their hand held devices but no web access. suricate will push
the wire service content to the user."
Ira Glass fans
Many of todays links
have gone on my "
reading pile
". I think that if we were all forced to keep one of these and be
brutally honest about what we'd actually read versus what we thought
sounded neat, we might get a better handle on the depth, or penetration,
of any given meme.
John Dizard : You came, you sang, you conquered
"Think of a hospital -- washed with
disinfectants, its residents shot full of antibiotics. Most pathogens
die, but the ones that live are supergerms, capable of breeding in pure
Clorox and lunching on ampicillin. The Canadian cultural scene is not
dissimilar. Any living forms are drenched with the disinfectant of
government grants and bombarded with radiation from CBC talk shows. For
original thinking to survive that selection process, it must be hardy
indeed. In the States, by way of contrast, creative types are treated
like free-range chickens, roaming where they please -- all the while
carefully kept away from exposure to poisonous civil-service positions
and protected from film-industry tax deals. The result: a class of
pencil-necked culturati, unable to compete with red-blooded invaders from
the North. Even Hollywood starlets are threatened. Think of poor Denise
Richards in Wild Things; mere alligator food to the likes of Neve
Campbell."
Robert Jorin : Baking Light and Flaky Croissants
CBLDF : Censorship of Comics Bibliography
Kenneth Tibbetts : Writing Friendly Code
"Call it my Millennium Resolution, I'm gonna quit
writing crappy code. I don't like writing it, I don't like seeing it on
the Web, and most of all I don't like going back and tinkering,
endlessly, with code that was too darn specific to start with." Truer
last words were never spoken more famously.
Callaw : To Protect and to Serve -- but It'll Cost You
"The next sound you hear is that of Dragnet 's
dour-faced Sgt. Joe Friday flashing his old badge and telling some crime
witness, 'Just the copyrighted facts, ma'am.' "
The Bendypig speaks
"You will never see a Moon like this again, even
if the world does not end seven days later."
Yusuf Islam
"As I look back at those songs they are an open
book. It was a time of learning and growing. When I first embraced Islam
I rejected everything. I wanted to make a clean break with the past. But
on reflection there are many things in those songs that remain true
today. My music still stands as something gentle and meaningful and
significant."
sendmail.net : Q&A with Paul Vixie
"...it's safe to say that the original design of
virtually all Internet technology took no account of human nature -
because the subset of humanity who used the early Internet had been
preselected by their employers and schools and research labs and whatnot
to weed out rudeness." Meanwhile,
via slashdot
come news that Hotmail (of all people)
will implement the MAPS Realtime Blackhole List
.
Le Devoir : Wal-Mart «adopte» 163 écoles
"Je trouve d'une naïveté éhontée les gens qui
oeuvrent dans l'éducation et qui croient que tout cela ne relève que de
la généreuse contribution! Les entreprises ne cherchent que leur intérêt,
rien de plus."
Andrei Codrescu on Idiot Guides
"I am working on an Idiot's Guide to Myself."
real audio
In a fit of stunning unoriginality
the 9th grade SPH (I don't know either) has
decided to call their website
aaronland.com
. I am already enough of a
misanthrope
as it is, without having to confront sub-morons and
greedheads
like this.
Le Devoir : Les étudiants bloquent le pont Jacques-Cartier
«Tout le monde fait la grève, résumait un élève.
D'autres étudiants l'ont faite. Les infirmières l'ont faite cet été.
Pourquoi pas nous autres?»
Wired : The RSI Generation
We (work) got our new bumperstickers
back from the printer this morning! I snagged
some of each, so if you'd like one
drop me a line
with your postal address.
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.
perl.com has redesigned their website
It's very blue and the type is very small (in
that Mac-ish sort of way) but it does seem to make more sense than it
used to. They also have a cool <a href =
"http://www.perl.com/pub/universal/pcb/solution.html">Recipe of
the Day</a> feature. mmmmm....perl.
David Bornstein : Reshaping Society Through People Power
"What is different today, however, is not only
the increasing number of these groups worldwide, but also the view that
they are a distinct sector, one that, like government, serves essential
social functions, but that has many of the entrepreneurial qualities of
business. The profit, in this case, is primarily social progress." This
is intriguing but I think it's important to remember that you can't, and
shouldn't, abstract people into concepts like a bottom-line. It would
make everyone's life *infinitely* easier it we could. Seriously. As long
as you were on the right side of the line.
Alistair Cooke : Letters From America
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.
I feel dirty.