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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.
The morning after #1
Loup de mer, Montréal, September
2003
For a brief, terrible moment I thought she was
describing their bond
Ben Hammersley : "I nearly wet my seething
masses."
This should elevate the standard of weblogs in
general, as it does away with any correlation between
technical skill and artistic merit. We will no longer be
reliant on geeks for top quality weblog reading. It takes
the seething masses and pulls them up to the same
technical level as the best Movable Type tweakers and
hackers.
Meanwhile, William Gibson cites
Dan Farmer and Charles C. Mann : Surveillance
Nation
Political art or brain fart?
Me : Net::ITE.pm 0.02
SkiCal - an extension of iCalendar, draft 06
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
renascent
Renascent \Re*nas"cent\ (-sent), a. [L.
renascens, p. pr. of renasci to be born again; pref. re-
re- + nasci to be born. See {Nascent}.] 1. Springing or
rising again into being; being born again, or reproduced.
2. See {Renaissant}.
web1913
renascent adj : surging or sweeping back again
[syn: {resurgent}]
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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 :
deleterious
Deleterious \Del`e*te"ri*ous\, a. [LL.
deleterius noxious, Gr. dhlhth`rios, fr. dhlei^sqai to
hurt, damage; prob. akin to L. delere to destroy.] Hurtful;
noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant
or quality; a deleterious example. -- {Del`e*te"ri*ous*ly},
adv. -- {Del`e*te"ri*ous*ness}, n.
web1913
deleterious adj : harmful to living things;
"deleterious chemical additives" [syn: {hurtful},
{injurious}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
garrulous
Garrulous \Gar"ru*lous\, a. [L. garrulus, fr.
garrire to chatter, talk; cf. Gr. ? voice, ? to speak,
sing. Cf. {Call}.] 1. Talking much, especially about
commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. The
most garrulous people on earth. --De Quincey. 2. (Zo["o]l.)
Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the
garrulous roller. Syn: {Garrulous}, {Talkative},
{Loquacious}. Usage: A garrulous person indulges in long,
prosy talk, with frequent repetitions and lengthened
details; talkative implies simply a great desire to talk;
and loquacious a great flow of words at command. A child is
talkative; a lively woman is loquacious; an old man in his
dotage is garrulous. -- {Gar"ru*lous*ly}, adv. --
{Gar"ru*lous*ness}, n.
web1913
garrulous adj : full of trivial conversation;
"kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn:
{chatty}, {gabby}, {loquacious}, {talkative}, {talky}]
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Kip Hampton : Multi-Interface Web Services Made
Easy
"There is little doubt that the hype
associated with web services has reached astronomical
proportions. Notably missing from the current flood of
information, however, is a nuts-and-bolts examination of how
to build applications which provide both browser-based access
for human users and programmatic access for automated
clients. ... This is not about the relative merits or
weaknesses of SOAP, XML-RPC, or REST, nor will it attempt
address the reasons why you might choose one and not another.
The goal here is to demonstrate that, with a little
forethought and a few Perl modules, you can easily create
useful Web applications that can accessed from any or all of
these types of clients."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
apposite
Apposite \Ap"po*site\, a. [L. appositus, p. p.
of apponere to set or put to; ad + ponere to put, place.]
Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant;
pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite
to the case. -- {Ap"po*site*ly}, adv. -- {Ap"po*site*ness},
n.
web1913
apposite adj : being of striking
appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter
is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an
apt reply" [syn: {appropriate}, {apt}, {pertinent}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
forlorn
Forlorn \For*lorn"\, n. 1. A lost, forsaken, or
solitary person. Forced to live in Scotland a forlorn.
--Shak. 2. A forlorn hope; a vanguard. [Obs.] Our forlorn
of horse marched within a mile of the enemy. --Oliver
Cromvell.
web1913
forlorn adj 1: pitiable in circumstances
especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing";
"left forlorn" [syn: {desolate}, {godforsaken}, {lorn}] 2:
marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn
attempt"; "a forlorn cause"
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
sunder
Sunder \Sun"der\, v. t. To expose to the sun
and wind. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
web1913
sunder v : break apart or in two, using
violence
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Random [RSS] headlines from Syndic8.com
On guest blogging :
Ron Gilmour : Taxonomic Markup Language
Neil McIntosh : "It's the beginning of the end of free
at Blogger."
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
"is a new museum celebrating the art
of the picture book due to open to the public in 2002.
Founded by Eric Carle and his wife, Barbara, the Museum will
be for visitors of all ages: children and families, teachers
and librarians, scholars, and everyone interested in the art
of the picture book." via
randomwalks
The 'canadian', features a helmet of fine bacon
and a chin-strap of sausage links."
via
mesh
While mulling over YA-Project
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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Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood perl-tools 0.1
How To Use the AbiWord [Perl] Bindings
Professional XML Web Services : SOAP Basics
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
dictum
| source : web1913 | Dictum
\Dic"tum\, n.; pl. L. {Dicta}, E. {Dictums}. [L., neuter of
dictus, p. p. of dicere to say. See {Diction}, and cf.
{Ditto}.] 1. An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying;
an apothegm. A class of critical dicta everywhere current.
--M. Arnold. 2. (Law) (a) A judicial opinion expressed by
judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case,
and are not involved in it. (b) (French Law) The report of a
judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
--Bouvier. (c) An arbitrament or award. | source : wn |
dictum n 1: an authoritative declaration [syn:
{pronouncement}, {say-so}] 2: an opinion voiced by a judge on
a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question
and therefore not binding [syn: {obiter dictum}]
Artforum has a weblog.
Albert-László Barabási : The Physics of the Web
Teledynamics : HTML2DB...the Holy Grail of DocBook
Converters?
"Don't get too excited: Asking a
robot to convert HTML to DocBook is like asking a machine to
take a truckload of bricks and build you a house. Still, a
robot can get you part of the way there; this package
contains a shell script and a DSL file which take a first
stab at converting well-formed HTML into quasi-DocBook-like
markup. It's not the philosopher's stone, it can't possibly
pass the NSGMLS test, but it might save you some work
translating old HTML docs to DocBook."
Jon Udell : SSL Proxing
"It decrypts that traffic, so you can
see it in the log window, and then re-encrypts it to the
destination server. Coming back the other way, it decrypts
the server's responses, so you can see them in the log
window, then re-encrypts them to complete the secure loop
back to the browser. It's really quite amazing, and amazingly
useful. Automation tasks that used to look like more trouble
than they were worth -- for example, driving a HotMail or
E*Trade account from a script -- suddenly look easy."
PHP Builder : Graphing with Flash
Sightings : Icy boulder
Thomas Frank 7#34;A lot of business thinkers thought
they had happened onto a kind of Golden Age,
onto a new world. There's a business
magazine out there calling itself Business 2.0, as if all of,
all of history was, like, version 1.3, 1.4, that sort of
thing — and then now we've turned this Grand Corner,
and market populism is kind of the expression of that
feeling, of business at its most righteous, and at its most
self-confident, and most willing to take on its enemies and,
and shout them down if you will. Basically, market populism
understands corporations and the workings of the market as
more LEGITIMATE than government, as closer to the people, as
something the people understand — and that's why they,
according to market populism, even C.E.O.'s as wealthy as
Bill Gates are men of the people in a way that someone like
Al Gore, because he spent his life in government, can never
be."
John R. MacArthur : I'll take print over e-info
anyday
"It must be that holding paper in
your hands satisfies a fundamental human need for permanence
-- a record of existence, if you will. So when I hear such
luminaries as Jacob Weisberg -- a senior-editor salesman for
Microsoft-owned Slate Magazine -- prattle on about how
infantile it is to cling to wood pulp, I detect an assault on
history and psychological continuity itself, a gratuitous
upsetting of the apple cart that is deeply childish in its
own right. (The sterile Bauhaus school of architecture
militated much the same way for minimalist design against
traditional ornament.) Indeed, with its phony promise of
limitless, easily acquired knowledge, the Internet appeals to
the child's fantasy of omnipotence -- the world at your
fingertips, unmediated, unsupervised by adults."
This snow was shamelessly pilfered
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."
phone.sourceforge.net
"I assign you numbers for each URL
you enter. With this number, you can issue, via TellMe, an
HTTP GET call, and hence running that script. This is very
useful for unix administration, clearing logs, or other
processes. Please be nice ;)" mmmmm.... phone blogging
Justin Trudeau
"So I clamboured over the snowbank,
was boosted up to the window, rubbed my sleeve against the
frosty glass to see inside and as my eyes adjusted to the
gloom, I saw a figure, hunched over one of many worktables
that seemed very cluttered. He was wearing a red suit with
that furry white trim. And that's when I understood just how
powerful and wonderful my father was." (real video)
Boston
Everywhere is the sound of cell
phones/Veal flattening pen with no walls/Plane bellies brush
my hair
The London Perl Mongers
National Post on theburglar.com
"Officially the site does not deal
with burglars but only "finders" who want to verify whether
an item they have found has been stolen. However, Jan
Petersen, who runs the site, says it will be attractive to
criminals and he encourages them to use it in order to help
their victims. 'I think there's a great moral in this site,'
he said from Copenhagen. 'Of course it's not right to sell
stolen goods, but then again a lot of people being addicted
to stuff have to do it in order to survive. So this is a
problem you cannot kill.' "
WebReference : Registering and publishing with RSS
A.P. : AOL to offer free service to schools
I'm not sure that Steve Case could be
any more disingenuous when he says "We don't think of this as
a business opportunity." In exchange for free bandwidth, the
world's largest media company has been given license to
track, record and and analyze the surfing patterns of
students over a multi-year timespan. Oh yeah, students will
be "blocked" from offensive material, which presumably means
anyone not owned by AOL. It doesn't get any better than this
when it comes to data-mining and product development.
Rex Murphy : Drawing a line in the suds
"Imagine if you would that, in this
context, Export A were to slip a commercial on network
television during a playoff game, say, that showed a cool kid
in front of our dear Maple Leaf flag sucking back a long
lungful while he tried to make us all fuzzy and warm about
being Canadian."
Chat Circles
[U.S.] Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
"Physically invasive inspection is
simply more intrusive than purely visual inspection. [A
passenger in Mr. Bond's position] does not expect that other
passengers or bus employees will, as a matter of course, feel
the bag in an exploratory manner."
CBC : Cyanide spill spreads to Danube river
"So far, about 300 tonnes of dead
fish have been removed from rivers in three countries, and
boatloads continue to be brought to shore." I especially like
that this happened *last* month.
I will be truly surprised
if I find any website that is as lame
and annoying as
the Bell Canada
site
between now and
The Big Move
. All I wanted was to order a second phone line and find
definitions or descriptions for the list of inane and
ambiguous product "names". Instead I got trapped in a
Cube-like
maze of frames, useless (not to mention vanishing) navigation
menus, non-existent text-links and excessive numbers of
graphics ( particularly of smiling jackasses. ) Oh, that
those too too solid roll-overs would melt! What should have
taken five minutes took over an hour! Anyway,
speaking of
cubes...
Superpants : Wak-a-Nixon!
Joyce Carol Oates on The Fallacy of the Round
Number
"An anthropologist from another
planet might wonder at our American obsession with a magic
numeral, 2000, as the "end" of something (precisely what?)
and the "beginning" of something else. Assuming that angels
(in which, according to opinion polls, most Americans
believe) will rescue us from a computer apocalypse, why all
the concern?"
NY Times : Whitney Plans to Include Internet Art in
Biennial
Web Review : Cross Browser Events for Dynamic HTML
"As I mentioned earlier, using events
to perform functions on your web site sounds great in theory.
But in reality, I've discovered only nine unique events that
work equally well with both Netscape and IE." see also :
<a href =
"http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1999/02/junk/">Generalized
Event Handling in JavaScript </a>
My friend Bill
The Vineyard is only now
implementing a much needed
public
transportation system
. It's still in it's infancy, but has improved by an order of
magintude in the last year. I kicked myself, the other day,
when I thought back to when the only options were
car-bike-hitching and realized I had missed the perfect
opportunity for a little bit of art making. It would have
been a beautiful moment to wake up one morning and see the
Island dotted with bus stops, maps and schedules for a 100%
imaginary transit system!
Janet Maslin : Who Needs Originality When You Have
Synergy?
"We're much too used to serving as
walking billboards and, when it comes to pop-cultural
synergy, sitting ducks." I had a teacher in
CEGEP
who used to tear out all the embroidered logos and
brand-names from all his clothing. Not surprisingly, he
taught a class called "Propaganda".
Yaro's Colori
Nice DHTML tool for generating
hex-codes.
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."
Spider Robinson : Stop Listening to the Future
People
"The technoweenies honestly believe
what you want, and will pay a fortune to acquire, is a home
in which every single thing you own behaves as reliably as
your Web browser does."
Professor Rusi Taleyarkhan
"I've always been a huge fan of Star
Trek and wanted to see if the knowledge I have of energy
systems could make a gun that a police officer could set to
stun, just like Captain Kirk does."
Thomas Friedman : Was Kosovo World War III?
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
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On the other hand, if something is down-right
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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.
