posts brought to you by the category “deep thoughts”
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.
MTSETUP 0.1a considered “Oh my god people, how many fucking times do I have to say this?!”
I was then perplexed at [MovableType's] lack of any kind of automated setup script to assist folks who might not be too comfortable with editing even a few lines of a configuration file.
So I decided to create a tool that makes it
shockingly easy for bad people who
are
to do very bad things. see also :
two
words : chmod 0777
,
movable thoughts #9
(this stuff was implemented in MT 1.3),
550 or even just 500
(only tangentially related and, now that I think about it, not
incorrect but not exactly correct either - so it goes...) and
suPHP
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Susheel Daswani : "We have just started a project to integrate Creative Commons licenses into the LimeWire (Gnutella) client."
I have never had any compelling reason to
care about Gnutella but this is pretty cool all the same.
foobar
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www.ilesansfil.org
IleSansFil is a non-profit community group that promotes free public wireless internet access in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We use open source software and inexpensive commercial wifi equipment to share broadband internet connections. ... Besides doing this to provide something to regular members (the fortunate ones that have laptops) of the community, we also plan to use these hotspots to promote more interactions and collaboration between local digital artists and hobby-ists. We're thinking webdesign vernisages, digital comic book jams, linux meetings, online gaming nights, etc.
via
rowboat
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Lars Lundgren : PDF::Reuse::Tutorial
David Rees : "It's Saddam Hussein, for fuck's sake!"
I do have mixed feelings about it. I can't wait for Saddam Hussein to be dead. I would just feel happy. The world would be a better place. But you have to remember that that doesn't excuse just how they fucking botched this entire thing, soup to nut. I feel like I could have gone to the UN with four magic markers and a notepad and convinced the whole world to come with me to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It's Saddam Hussein, for fuck's sake! Who doesn't want to get rid of that bastard?
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Michel Dumais : J'organise un NXNE (North by North East) à Montréal.
Me : Mail::Miner::Recogniser::Recipient.pm 1.0
I'm not sure if this will make it in to the
next
release of Mail::Miner
but here it is, if you're interested. see also :
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Meanwhile the New York Times, in a fit of poetic license,
likens
poets to firefighters
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Me : ASCOPE::IDP.pm 1.1
Me : eatdrinkfeelgood-1.1-to-indexcard-fo.xsl 0.91
www.crimesofwar.org
The Crimes of War Project is a collaboration of journalists, lawyers and scholars dedicated to raising public awareness of the laws of war and their application to situations of conflict. Our goal is to promote understanding of international humanitarian law among journalists, policymakers, and the general public, in the belief that a wider knowledge of the legal framework governing armed conflict will lead to greater pressure to prevent breaches of the law, and to punish those who commit them.
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Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood 1.1
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All your interpreter are belong to us
From the "Do you want to sell suger-water?" department:
Aaron Straup Cope sez:
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>Maybe I will start weblogcrossing.com (see also: bookcrossing.com )
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"I found your weblog stuck underneath my shoe, I have fastened it firmly to a lampost"
jessamyn
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I really don't care what you're reading
So, Amazon has a web-services interface.
Aside from the fact that I don't like Amazon and only buy books from
them as a last resort, I am going to leave it to someone else to write
Net::Amazon
. I simply can not see any compelling uses for the API that Amazon
provides. Sure, some people have made some interesting hacks but
nothing that gets past the gee-whiz stage. Now, I can search the Amazon
database from an application, but the kinds of information it returns
don't do anything to excite me. Apparently, I can also let people add
stuff to a wedding registry -- which are like some kind of twisted
institutional greed ritualized into normalcy, but that's an entirely
other story -- using "web services" but closer inspection reveals that
this just means HTML form. Go figure. The whole thing seems like a
rushed, half-assed job where someone tried to combine a months worth of
discussions in the "blogosphere" (SOAP vs. REST, XSLT services, am I
hot or not style judging of opinion) into a single package. And the
docs suck rocks.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : rapine
Rapine \Rap"ine\, v. t. To plunder. --Sir G. Buck. web1913
rapine n : the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: {rape}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : narkit/fair narkit
Scottish slang. Narkit = angry. Fair narkit = pretty darn angry.
ex. Your wee laddie made me fair narkit.
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Me : nyt-tools 0.1
The "tools" are pair of programs, and associate libraries, namedThis software is unfinished. It works for me but I can't guarantee the same for you.
The plan has been to rebundle stuff in a WWW::News package, so that many of the same functions can be used with "pluggable" newsource parsers. That hasn't happened yet. I have no idea when it will.
This software is meant for personal use only, in accordance with the New York Times terms of usage . Play nicely.
Bugs, or just plain mistakes, that you may encounter in your travels include...
nyt-maker
for munging the day's paper into a DocBook file and
nyt2pdf
for munging the DocBook file into a PostScript/PDF file.
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Bill Humphries : BlogML and the Semantic Web
"It would be a mitzvah if, when I read something
and wanted to comment on it, that content becomes an entry in my weblog,
and the original weblog could syndicate the responses into their weblog."
This, notwithstanding issues surrounding
performance and maintaining a "local" copy, could be done with
XPointer
and XSLT
. see also : d-log's proposed
BlogML DTD
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Bob DuCharme : Reading Multiple Input Documents [in XSLT]
In passing : The Eraserhead of shoe stores.
Early last week I went out to pick up a
sandwich for lunch. While I waited, I sat down with a cup of coffee and
read one of the local news weeklies. Flipping through the pages, I
stopped on a photograph of a woman's high heel shoe sitting on the
remains of a building destroyed by fire. Somehow, I had missed the news
that
Karl's shoe store had burned down
. Sure enough, I've walked past the still smoldering rubble twice in as
many days, taking in the smell of burnt leather. That the store was
destroyed by fire almost doesn't come as news. The store, as such, had
long since been
closed
down
by fire inspectors but I'm told the fire actually started a block over
and eventually made its way to the the Main, where the store fronted.
Officially or not, the doors were always open and, when it was warm,
Mr. Karl was always sitting outside ready to sell you...shoes. Going to
Karl's was alot like watching Eraserhead. It was difficult,
unsatisfying, ultimately left a bad taste in your mouth and you never
wanted to do it again. But somehow it was like a rite of passage and
afterwards you felt that it was something that every person should
experience exactly once. Who knows where Mr. Karl got his shoes and he
was probably the only one who knew where to find them once they made
their way into the building. I've never met anyone who ever found a
pair of the same shoe sitting side by side. The metal utility shelves
that lined the store were overflowing with shoes of every size and
variety that spilled in to cardboard boxes already full of shoes,
presumably waiting for their own place on high. Buying a pair of shoes
at Karl's involved two distinct steps. First, you made your way through
the offerings trying to find something that you liked which was an
effort all to itself. But it paled compared to what followed. If you'd
spent 20 minutes finding a shoe that matched your taste, you were
assured of spending atleast twice as long trying to walk out the door
with the other one. Who knows whether the other shoe just didn't exist
or whether Mr. Karl didn't care to try to find it. But he would always
bring you something in its place. Back in the days of cheap army
surplus Czechoslovakian basketball shoes, my friends and I would go to
Karl's looking for cheap Converse high tops. The pressure to buy the
pink and green and white combo that would invariably come out of the
backroom is the stuff of legend in Montreal. We've all seen them, held
them and pretended to consider them and then fought to free our hands
of them, lest there be any confusion about whether or not we wanted to
buy them. It was an amazing experience that left you equally dazzled
and annoyed. And while I doubt anyone has ever bought more than one
pair of shoes, if that, from Karl's I'm pretty sure it will be a
presence sadly missed.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dealy
word used to describe something in which the name is unknown. describes objects best. the smaller the object, the better.
ex. while putting together something..."pass me that little dealy."
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : chank
(adj) Derogatory term, applied to situations where you feel cheated or left out.
ex. Christ, we missed the bus. That's chank!see also : chank dict-ified
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : temerarious
Temerarious \Tem`er*a"ri*ous\, a. [L. temerarius. See {Temerity}.] Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless. -- {Tem`er*a"ri*ous*ly}, adv. I spake against temerarious judgment. --Latimer. web1913
temerarious adj : presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff" [syn: {brash}, {daredevil}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hommie hopper
Girl or woman who sleeps with a lot of guys for no reason.
ex. Karen is the class's worst hommie hopper.
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Radio Crankypants #11 : for category in aaronland.getCategories()
Jorge Godoy : CVS and DocBook Validation
"Writing a document and putting it under revision
control is not an easy task. One might want to make that document into a
printable format and face several markup errors. One way to prevent that
is to ensure that only correct DocBook documents are available to
everybody and authors don't put problematic or with an incomplete
structure at the repository. ... CVS allows the use of triggers in some
stages. By using commit triggers we can start a validation proccess (in
our case using onsgmls, from [[WWW]] OpenJade) that will either accept
the document as valid SGML or refuse it."
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Simon Cozens : Python::Bytecode.pm
"accepts a string or filehandle contain Python
bytecode and puts it into a format you can manipulate."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is punctilious
| source : web1913 | Punctilious \Punc*til"ious\
(-y[u^]s), a. [Cf. It. puntiglioso, Sp. puntilloso.] Attentive to
punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or
mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars. ``A
punctilious observance of divine laws.'' --Rogers. ``Very punctilious
copies of any letters.'' --The Nation. Punctilious in the simple and
intelligible instances of common life. --I. Taylor. --
{Punc*til"ious*ly}, adv. -- {Punc*til"ious*ness}, n. | source : wn |
punctilious adj : marked by precise accordance with details; "was
worryingly meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his
attention to rules of etiquette" [syn: {meticulous}]
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Me : Hello world
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is flummery
| source : web1913 | Sowens \Sow"ens\ (? or ?),
n. pl. [Scottish; cf. AS. se['a]w juice, glue, paste.] A nutritious
article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by
a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called
{flummery} in England. [Written also {sowans}, and {sowins}.] | source :
web1913 | Flummery \Flum"mer*y\, n. [W. llumru, or llumruwd, a kind of
food made of oatmeal steeped in water until it has turned sour, fr.
llumrig harsh, raw, crude, fr. llum sharp, severe.] 1. A light kind of
food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. Milk and flummery
are very fit for children. --Locke. 2. Something insipid, or not worth
having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing. The
flummery of modern criticism. --J. Morley. | source : wn | flummery n 1:
a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal 2: meaningless
ceremonies and flattery [syn: {mummery}]
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Can someone please tell me what "persistent partial attention" is?
I'm going to guess that, if nothing else,
it isn't "very complete". Looks like someone is selling sugar-water,
again...
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Linda Greenhouse : The Clamor of a Free People
"Even war as a metaphor — the war on drugs,
for example — can have a dramatic, and unequal, effect on civil
liberties, as shown by the recent revelations of how widespread racial
profiling had become before the public even had a name for the practice.
"You fly the metaphor of war, and constitutional protections all cut in
one direction," said Dennis J. Hutchinson, a law professor and historian
at the University of Chicago. He said the "deconstitutionalization of the
automobile" — the ever wider discretion for police searches for
drugs — "is the most obvious recent example of panic moving the
terms of discourse." " see also :
Stallman,
Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties?
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Poppy::UncleDick : "I would hope the American people would,
in effect, stick their thumb in the eye of the
terrorists and say they've got great confidence in the country, great
confidence in our economy, and not let what's happened here in any way
throw off their normal level of economic activity."
Perhaps the reason they've been hiding Uncle
Dick for so long is that he is an even worse public speaker than Dubya...
see also :
Questions for the Citizen-Shareholder
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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..."
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Java xsl-FO to Rtf
"converts XML documents conforming to the XSL-FO
specification to RTF format, the goal being to use the same XSL-FO
documents (as often generated using XSLT transforms) to generate PDF
(using FOP or similar) and RTF (using jfor) documents. Through an
intermediate transformation to XSL-FO, jfor can be used to convert any
raw or XML data to RTF format."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is agon
| source : web1913 | Agon \Ag"on\, n.; pl.
{Agones}. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to lead.] (Gr. Antiq.) A contest for a prize at
the public games.
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Cary Tennis : "A drunk hides nothing from another drunk. So when I look at Bush,
I don't see a conservative Republican, a flirter
with the Christian right, a Texas oilman, a son of political royalty. I
see a guy like me who never wants to quit, who has an infinite thirst and
an infinite appetite for whatever you've got and who, if he could, would
drink up the whole room and then tear it apart looking for more. I see a
guy barely containing a murderous contempt for anyone who doesn't drink
like he does; I see a guy who has to pause when answering questions not
because there's nothing in his head but because there's too much in his
head and most of it is vile and the rest is obscene; no doubt the first
thing that pops into his head when asked a question at a press conference
is "You have the face of a barnyard animal" or "I'd like to fuck you
silly." That apparent blankness, as though his brain is having a rolling
blackout, is actually a sign that he's sorting, looking for an answer
that's both true and bland, something that won't set off any alarms,
something that will satisfy his need to tell the truth yet not give in to
the grandiose and contemptuous impulses so familiar to alcoholics far and
wide."
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Eileen Myles
reports that :
In the way
that Bill Clinton was our first black president, Spielberg has given us
our first butch lesbian hero.
Truly, nothing is what it seems anymore.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is obstreperous
| source : web1913 | Obstreperous
\Ob*strep"er*ous\, a. [L. obstreperus, from obstrepere to make a noise
at; ob (see {Ob-}) + strepere to make a noise.] Attended by, or making, a
loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous. ``The
obstreperous city.'' --Wordsworth. ``Obstreperous approbation.''
--Addison. Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. --B. Jonson. --
{Ob*strep"er*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ob*strep"er*ous*ness}, n. | source : wn |
obstreperous adj 1: noisily and stubbornly defiant; "obstreperous boys"
2: boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an obstreperous clamor"
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is comely
| source : web1913 | Comely \Come"ly\
(k[u^]m"l[y^]), a. [Compar. {Comelier}; superl. {Comeliest}.] [OE.
comeliche, AS. cyml[=i]c; cyme suitable (fr. cuman to come, become) +
l[=i]c like.] 1. Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned;
good-looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely
was very beautiful when he was young. --South. Not once perceive their
foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before.
--Milton. 2. Suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable. This is a happier
and more comely time Than when these fellows ran about the streets,
Crying confusion. --Shak. It is good to sing praises unto our God; for it
is pleasant; and praise is comely. --Ps. cxlvii. 1. | source : web1913 |
Comely \Come"ly\, adv. In a becoming manner. --Ascham. | source : wn |
comely adj 1: according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty";
"comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be
constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior" [syn:
{becoming}, {comme il faut}, {decent}, {decorous}, {seemly}] 2: very
pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a
comely face"; "young fair maidens" [syn: {bonny}, {bonnie}, {fair}]
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freebsdzine : Virtual Servers Behind Cable/DSL
Pierre Audet : "Canada is a cow where the milk of democracy leaks,
and we must admit that it's in Quebec where we
find the cream of freedom of expression."
There is a provincial bi-election in
my riding
next month and Mr. Audet is the Bloc Pot candidate. Montreal's current
mayor ran on a platform of little more than pledging to plant lots of
flowers -- we got the flowers but we also got bi-laws legislating the
size of our garbage bags -- so it is little surprise that Mr. Audet would
offer up a plan to build lots of rooftop greenhouses so that "Montreal
will look like a garden from the sky." On the other hand, he claims to
want to cut funding for public-transportation in half which pretty much
guarantees he won't get my vote and make me think he's been smoking some
pretty skanky bud. Meanwhile, will someone please buy the
Mirror
a proper CMS or atleast tell the web-weenies to start giving the pages on
their website unique addresses. You know, something simple like a
uniform
resource identifier
. "news7.html", indeed...
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O'Reilly : Charting the Linux Anatomy [poster]
Frankly, I find the tone of the article
just a bit too saccharine for my taste ( "Oh, Tim! He's so-ooooo
dreamy!" ) but the poster is still pretty neat.
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A.P. : "Data taken from the [body] scans
will be stored on password-protected sites on the
Web and can be used by consumers to help make purchases at affiliated
companies." One word : mischief.
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So, I decided to do a Google search on my name too
Apropos of nothing :
I fixed an aaronland bug that prevented people
using IE (Win) from seeing pictures using the nifty
show tool
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Mac weenies take note :
The nice people at Panic have released a free
control
strip module for Audion
.
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Edd Dumbill : Putting RDF to Work
"So began my dream of integrating all my
metadata. Somewhere there would be a large database into which my e-mail,
web browser, file system, and so on would enter metadata. I'd then be
able to, with relative ease, query the database to make connections
between data items on my computer. On top of that database, graphical
clients could be written to maintain and annotate it, and hooks written
back into the browser, file manager, and e-mail client to allow the use
of this extra information."
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Steve Rothman : The Publication of [John Hersey's] Hiroshima in the New Yorker
"TO OUR READERS The New Yorker this week devotes
its entire editorial space to an article on the almost complete
obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb, and what happened to the
people of that city. It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet
comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and
that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications
of its use. The Editors." see also :
Takeharu Terao : A Personal Record of Hiroshima A-bomb Survival
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CBC : Scientists break speed of light
"It [a light pulse] raced so fast the pulse
exited a specially-prepared chamber before it even finished entering it.
... The key to the experiment was that the pulse reformed before it could
have gotten there by simply travelling through empty space. This means
that, when the waves of the light distorted, the pulse traveled forward
in time. " My head hurts.
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LEAPs (LibwEb APplications)
"is a suite of community web site applications
built by using a Perl toolkit called LibWeb. Currently it has a
file-manager and possibly more in the future as developers write more web
applications based on the interfaces and frameworks defined in LibWeb ...
This makes LEAPs plug-and-play web applications." The problem with saying
that is that it has to pass the 30 second test which I've never ever seen
happen on a Unix machine. I'll be curious. Meanwhile, as more news about
the Perl 6 re-write comes out, I am happy to see that
the system call will stop returning false on success
. mmmmm .... return 1;
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XML for <SCRIPT>
"is a simple non-validating XML parser written in
JavaScript. This was written partly as an exploration of the issues
involved in coding parsers for XML, and partly to see how useful such a
parser would be for version three and four browsers."
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Ira Glass fans
will be interested to know that he is speaking on
the "Producer of the Future" at tomorrow's
PRI Affiliates Meeting
in Orlando. The event will be broadcast
live on the
Internet
, from 11h00 - 13h00 EDT.
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Sean Conner : mod_litbook
"The primary article that relates to mod_litbook
is using the URL as UI; in that the URL should aid in the navigation of
the website. The primay point of Jakob Nielson's article is that the URL
should help visualize the structure of the website but I mis-remembered
the article in thinking that the URL should also provide an easy way to
retrieve the information requested."
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Alan Herrell
"We have turned the web into an enabler for
Electronic Rapists."
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I Love You
The only remarkable thing about all this is how
effective the social engineering was. See also
Julia
McKinnell : What does it say about you if you opened it?
"I was even feeling sorry for Malvolio because he got tossed into the
dark house -- the mad house -- on account of his self-delusion, but now,
I'm more feeling sorry for myself. What does it all mean?" Meanwhile, I
don't know squat about Microsoft email servers but isn't there a config
file where you can tell it delete messages with attachments named
foo.bar? I know you can hack Unix systems to that effect and it does a
pretty good job of preventing, or atleast slowing down, the kind of death
spiral that happened yesterday.
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Robert Crumb
"In my own spaced-out, inarticulate way, I tried
to draw the images I saw in my mind when I heard modern pop music on LSD
... clownish fools boppin' and jivin' in the garbage heap they were
making out of the Earth. ... I was fooled by my own drawings. Other
people thought they were happy images of relaxed cartoon characters just
havin' a good ol' time ... so I did too! I forgot what they really were.
Photographs of the dance of death! ... I guess I don't like to see people
having a good time."
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Harrumph : Pictures from the 5 à 7
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Thomas Friedman quotes Michael Sandel
"Now business is growing to global dimensions,
but governments are still national -- so government is again struggling
to keep pace. In a world without walls, we are going to have to come up
with new ways for government to rein in the power of global corporations,
and prevent them from buying up democracy. Instead of just being dazzled
by these mega-mergers, there should be a nagging voice in us all asking:
Is democracy going to be bought up too?"
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It's nice to know
Stéphane Baillargeon : Le baroque en 3D
"Dans le fond, le baroque, c'est l'émergence de
la ville moderne, avec l'hôpital, l'orphelinat, la caserne, le palais du
gouvernement, résume Guy Cogeval. Le baroque, c'est l'intrusion du
mouvement dans la ville..."
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Morning Edition : Sodas in Schools
Didn't someone famous once say "We may not be
able to control you, but we can control your children." (real audio)
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Mr. Bill on federalism
It's difficult, after reading something like this
not to feel sad. Maybe [he] accomplished more in his eight years than
meets the eye, but it often just seems like he dropped the ball. Reagan
was a puppet and Bush was a company man and Mr. Bill might just have had
a clue but we'll never know. While he was in Canada, Mr.Bill also
celebrated the opening of
Battleship America
and recalled fond memories of
visiting
France
.
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XHTML 1.0 has been making the rounds
on the weblogs again. After Web Review did
a
feature on it
in July, I ran off, half-cocked, and XHTML-ed the aaronland site. I
mention this only because if you're using javascript on your site,
XHTML will
probably break it
.
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Scott McGregor on covering your ceiling in Linoleum
The American Bankers Association has written a Y2K Sermon
My Messy Bedroom
Josey Vogels quotes, at length, from "The Penis
Book".
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Jean Drapeau : 1916 - 1999
"Mr. Drapeau was a democratically-elected mayor
but he governed as an emperor, bluntly declaring himself in favour of
"disciplined democracy." ... Montrealers apparently agreed with him or
didn't care. Montreal was, to most of them at least, the jewel among
Canadian cities and it was Mr. Drapeau who made it so." - <a href
=
"http://globeandmail.com/gam/National/19990813/UDRAPM.html">g&m</a>
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Wired : Big Blue Reinvents Internships
"If the most popular kids at summer camp are
those who can do the fanciest dives into the lake, at Extreme Blue the
attendees who garner the most respect are those who work the longest
hours." I saw a similar attitude in the hardcore scene. The focus was
drugs but the goal was still to be "hardcore-er than thou." The idea was
to get as *fucked* up as possible, and I often saw people I knew on acid
and mescaline at the same time, sometimes with a liberal dose of cocaine
thrown in for kicks. That didn't include the obligatory quarter-ounze of
pot, and a couple of 24's. Most of those people are junkies now, which
led another friend to muse that they are just hanging on (doing smack)
until the first first person OD's. That way, they can quit and say they
were more hardcore than heroin.
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The Patron Saint of the Internet
"But we are not permitted to believe whatever we
choose, nor to choose whatever someone else has believed."
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Today is St. Jean Baptiste Day!
St. Jean Baptiste Day is the national holiday in
Quebec. For some people it's a heavy-duty day of deeply-political
nationalism. For most people, though, it's a day to
celebrate
what a cool and funky place Quebec is
and that summer it finally here!
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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