posts brought to you by the category “dude”
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.
Random Personal Picture Finder
During the street fair on the Main, last month, I got a good clear
view of the building on the South-West corner of Sherbrooke.
Me : XML::FOAF::Emailaddress.pm 1.0
I wrote it because I am punch drunk on using the Perl overload
hooks -- which in this case overloads the '' operator to return the
garbled email address -- and because I can never remember how to
actually handle email addresses in FOAF.
brian d. foy : "Think Java programmers writing about Perl and you
get the same thing."
Bill Stilwell : mt.el
;; This packages enables you to create new posts and edit old posts on
;; your Movable Type Weblog. It may be expanded so that any weblog
;; tool that supports the metaWeblog API can be used.
Nathan Torkingon : "There are no clear signs that ... is anything
but hot air."
There are no clear signs that ... is anything but hot air. As one
person described it over beer, "everyone here is trying to find a
bandwagon to get on". That said, everyone tried to get on the
Internet bandwagon and there was a there there. Jon Udell said a deep
thing (one of many) over beers: we're all hoping to see the Next Big
Thing, but we may not see the Next Big Thing in our lifetime.
Movable Thoughts #16-17
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.8.1
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
skanktastic
A girl you know you should stay away from but you can't
help yourself.
ex. I know I shouldn't go out with Betty, but she sure is
skanktastic.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : sweat
1. To like or prefer heavily. 2. To have strong interest in
a person or object.
ex. 1. I sweat the new wu-tang cd. I sweat Carolyn when she
wears anything.
see also :
sweat dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : tacky 'r
us
Where you go to buy very nasty, skanky, or ugly
outfits.
ex. Christina musta got that at Tacky 'R Us. She needs to
find out where Britney shops.
Oh, would that the wunderkinds at Google add a SOAP interface to
their translation tool.
Someone, give this woman a prize!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dibble
"a little bit of something, as in food or
drink"
ex. "How big of a piece of cake do you want?" "Just a
dibble."
see also :
dibble dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : paperwork
to go to the bathroom.
ex. I'll be right back. I have some paperwork to take care
of.
see also :
paperwork dict-ified
DJ Murad : "[E]veryone, French and English, has told me the same
anecdote.
They would be young, watching Bleu Nuit, which is
in French, and they would have the remote control on the last channel so
that when their parents would come in, they would quickly flash to
Saturday Night Live, which is in English. Language doesn’t matter
with porn and with comedy ... There are probably very few phrases in
English or French—and this is also so Montreal—that are as
widely recognized in this city as
Bleu Nuit
."
XBELette
"is a client-server solution for managing your
bookmarks. It uses the XBEL (XML Bookmark Exchange Language) format and
the SOAP protocol." (java)
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : countervail
Countervail \Coun"ter*vail`\ (koun"t?r-v?l`), n. Power or
value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or
value; equivalent; compensation; requital. [Obs.] Surely, the present
pleasure of a sinful act is a poor countervail for the bitterness of
the review. --South.
web1913
countervail v 1: compensate for or counterbalance; "offset
deposits and withdrawals" [syn: {offset}] 2: oppose and mitigate the
effects of by contrary actions; "This will counteract the foolish
actions of my colleagues" [syn: {counteract}, {neutralize},
{counterbalance}]
wn
Cvswrap
"is a program that you install to help manage
multiple CVS repositories. What it does is sit in front of CVS,
determines the CVSROOT and runs a program before running CVS. This allows
one to protect each CVS repository without special groups and setuid
programs."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is autochthonous
| source : web1913 | Autochthonal
\Au*toch"tho*nal\, Authochthonic \Au`thoch*thon"ic\, Autochthonous
\Au*toch"tho*nous\, a. Aboriginal; indigenous; native. | source : wn |
autochthonous adj 1: of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their
constituents were formed [ant: {allochthonous}] 2: originating where it
is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo";
"autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the
Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan" [syn:
{autochthonal}, {autochthonic}, {endemic}, {indigenous}]
WebFX : IE Emu for Mozilla
"When it comes to DHTML Mozilla might be less
powerful than IE4 but when it comes to JavaScript it just kicks ass. The
first time a saw a setter being used with a prototype of the built-in
HTMLElement constructor I was just blown away. One of my first thought at
that time was that this was exactly what I needed to start emulating the
IE DHTML Object Model for Mozilla." via
glish
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is repletion
| source : web1913 | Repletion \Re*ple"tion\
(r?-pl?"sh?n), n. [L. repletio a filling up: cf. F. r['e]pl['e]tion. See
{Replete}.] 1. The state of being replete; superabundant fullness. The
tree had too much repletion, and was oppressed with its own sap. --Bacon.
Repleccioun [overeating] ne made her never sick. --Chaucer. 2. (Med.)
Fullness of blood; plethora. | source : wn | repletion n 1: the state of
being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more [syn: {satiety},
{satiation}] 2: eating until excessively full [syn: {surfeit}]
IETF : Whois Export and Exchange Format
Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood perl-tools 0.1
DevShed : XLink Basics
"It's important to note at this point that XLinks
are not expressed as elements, but as element attributes (from the XLink
namespace) which can be attached to any XML element; the most important
of these is the XLink "type" attribute, which specifies the type of link
being defined. The example above uses this attribute to define four types
of links: extended links, resources, locators and arcs (more on these
later). By allowing any XML element to become an XLink, the XLink
specification substantially improves on HTML's current linking mechanism,
which only allows the anchor tag to define links. In the example above,
the "item", "link" and "arc" XML elements have been converted to XLinks
by the addition of specific attributes from the XLink namespace."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is forcible
| source : web1913 | Forcible \For"ci*ble\, a.
[Cf. OF. forcible forcible, forceable that may be forced.] 1. Possessing
force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful;
efficacious; impressive; influential. How forcible are right words!
--Job. vi. 2?. Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when
broken. --Bacon. But I have reasons strong and forcible. --Shak. That
punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin. --Hooker. He
is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented. --Lowth (Transl.
) 2. Violent; impetuous. Like mingled streams, more forcible when joined.
--Prior. 3. Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by
compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction. In
embraces of King James . . . forcible and unjust. --Swift. {Forcible
entry and detainer} (Law), the entering upon and taking and withholding
of land and tenements by actual force and violence, and with a strong
hand, to the hindrance of the person having the right to enter. Syn:
Violent; powerful; strong; energetic; mighty; potent; weighty;
impressive; cogent; influential. | source : wn | forcible adj : impelled
by physical force especially against resistance; "forcible entry"; "a
real cop would get physical"; "strong-arm tactics" [syn: {physical},
{strong-arm}]
Justin Mason : Mail::SpamAssasin.pm
"is a Mail::Audit plugin to identify spam using
text analysis and several internet-based realtime blacklists. Using its
rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and
body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial
email."
Perlmonks : Restoring deleted files under Linux
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is suasion
| source : web1913 | Suasion \Sua"sion\, n. [L.
suasio, fr. suadere, suasum, to advise, persuade, fr. suadus persuading,
persuasive; akin to suavis sweet: cf. OF. suasion. See {Suave}, and cf.
{Dissuade}, {Persuade}.] The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral
suasion. | source : wn | suasion n : the act of persuading (or attempting
to persuade) [syn: {persuasion}]
Ladies and gentlemen, cell-phone art...
Watch what happens when I poke my eye in!
Julia Hayden : The Daily Decision
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is limpid
| source : web1913 | Limpid \Lim"pid\ (-p[i^]d),
a. [L. limpidus; akin to Gr. la`mpein to shine: cf. F. limpide. Cf.
{Lamp}.] Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid
stream. Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid. --Woodward. Syn:
Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal; translucent; bright.
| source : wn | limpid adj 1: clear and bright; "the liquid air of a
spring morning"; "eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes"
[syn: {liquid}] 2: transmitting light; able to be seen through with
clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear
skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid
air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal" [syn: {crystalline},
{crystal clear}, {lucid}, {pellucid}, {transparent}] 3: (of language)
transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style";
"lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid
prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn:
{lucid}, {luculent}, {pellucid}, {crystal clear}, {perspicuous}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is chortle
| source : web1913 | Chortle \Chor"tle\, v. t.
& i. [imp. & p. p. {Chortled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chor"tling}.]
A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually
explained as a combination of chuckle and snort. [Humorous] O frabjous
day ! Callooh ! Callay ! He chortled in his joy. --Lewis Carroll. |
source : wn | chortle n : a soft partly suppressed laugh [syn: {chuckle}]
v : laugh quietly or with restraint [syn: {chuckle}, {laugh softly}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fillip
| source : web1913 | Fillip \Fil"lip\, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Filliped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filliping}.] [For
filp, flip. Cf. {Flippant}.] 1. To strike with the nail of the finger,
first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position
with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. ``You filip me o' the
head.'' --Shak. 2. To snap; to project quickly. The use of the elastic
switch to fillip small missiles with. --Tylor. | source : web1913 |
Fillip \Fil"lip\, n. 1. A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the
thumb; a smart blow. 2. Something serving to rouse or excite. I take a
glass of grog for a filip. --Dickens. | source : wn | fillip n : anything
that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added fillip" [syn: {bonus}]
Laura Bush : "I hung up five times yesterday
when he called to ask what was for dinner. I
thought it was a wrong number when the guy kept asking for Stretch."
December 06 is also the anniversary of the Halifax Explosion
Rex Jakobovits : WIRM, A Perl-Based Application Server
"Perhaps the people who make application servers
consider Perl's lack of strict type-checking a liability for large
applications. Perl is "just a scripting language," they say, best used
for quick-and-dirty programming. But experience shows that Web
information systems are best built using such small, freestanding
components, each of which encapsulates a limited chunk of user
interaction. Clearly, Perl fits the bill in this regard." Meanwhile,
Randal Schwartz has
rewritten png2html in Perl
which is cool since I could never get
the
original C program
to do anything but dump core....
I realize that Mozilla is supposed to be the future;
an application development environment that will
replace the operating systems of yore and all that. But it's a bad sign
sign when the
latest
Netscape 6 release
takes longer to install than, well, my operating system. Even if it
didn't, the fact that I feel like I am working on an old teletype machine
as I write this is almost enough to make me want to type : rm -rf
/netscape. Later that day, our hero took note of
Cameron's
comment that "Mozilla is not Netscape" and downloaded
Mozilla M17
only to come to the conclusion that this was not unlike saying :
"Margarine is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter." True, but it does not
change the fact that neither is butter.
This American Life : Americans in Paris
"Why come to Paris and go to the one place you're
not aloud to smoke?" ( real evil g2 )
MozillaZine : Creating a Mozilla Skin, Pt. 2 - The Menubar
Buster H.
"With dot-coms, I used to lose sleep worrying
about bad earnings reports. Dot-orgs may earn nothing, but when you've
lost as much money as I have, nothing starts to look like something."
If this
is what
getting the
web
means, can there possibly be any hope for the rest of us?
Dan Brian : Lingua::Wordnet
"impersonates the basic Wordnet API functions for
searching and retrieving data, as well as adding, editing, and deleting
synsets. Lingua::Wordnet::Analysis brings the interface up a level,
allowing commands like "is 'yellow' an attribute of any 'birds'", and
taking care of the recursive analysis." Looks like
my prayers
have been answered, but what is a
synset
? see also :
WordNet::Query
Shut the fuck up bullets
Susan Musgrave
will give a poetry reading in Montreal at
Dawson College
, room 5B16 at 17h30.
Please do not adjust your sets
... foofy design decisions are presently
underway. If you don't like the current look and feel, you're not alone.
It is a temporary measure while I finish debugging the backend. I look
forward to making the design a little more subtle.
Keith Dawson : Life, liberty, and Net anonymity
"Let's get two things straight. First, anonymity
is not a thorny problem, it's a basic American Constitutional right.
Second, the methods used by the unknown DoS perpetrators to cover their
tracks had very little to do with anonymity."
GoogleBSD
A word about Amazon
I have so far refrained from signing any of
the
growing number of boycott Amazon petitions
circulating on the net. Not because I like Amazon, but rather because I
have *never* liked Amazon and make a point of only buying stuff from them
when there is no other alternative. Adding my name to the list of former
customers would be sort of moot. I have never thought that that Amazon
was looking out for anyone but themselves. I find their software and
data-mining invasive and the friendly spam they've sent me annoying and
saccharine. To those who are suddenly surprised that Amazon is acting
like a big greedy company, I can can only say this : Duh. Meanwhile, the
Public Radio Music Source
finally has an (not very elegant) online ordering system in place.
Crosswords
"is a single- or multi-player crossword puzzle
game for the Palm Pilot family of "connected organizers." It is played by
the same rules as Hasbro's "Scrabble"(tm) game, but is not affiliated
with nor endorsed by Hasbro in any way." Yes! Who knew that
ictic
is actually a word. Clever computer.
Richard Stallman : GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.0
"The GFDL is not yet finished, but the current
draft shows what I am trying to do; what remains is to get the details
right. Comments are welcome."
Joel Degerman : Time is now an object
Oooh! I want one changes as you pass over [your]
mouse over the different timezones on a map! via
girlhacker
.
Michel Venne : Groupes communautaires, entre l'État et
l'individu
"Ce mouvement constitue un rempart contre la
réduction de la société québécoise à un simple espace de marché, ajoute
le théologien. Il contribue à resserrer les liens de solidarité et ainsi
à raffermir la conscience que nous formons une nation."
Saturday Night : The Hole Truth
"It has its own lingo, its own legends, its own
cultural legacy. Tim Hortons occupies a central place in Canadian life.
But what does it say about us that our only truly national institution is
a donut shop?" This doesn't hold so much for Quebec, but is certainly
true in the rest of the country. When I went tree-planting, the cultural
and social epicenter of
Fort Frances
was the Robin's Donut shop. Meanwhile, the NY Times has re-printed the
first chapter of
Uncommon Grounds : The History of Coffee and How It Transformed our
World
.
NY Times : The Éminence of Excess
Isn't is fitting that on the craziest weekend in
recent memory, here on the Vineyard, the Times runs a feature on Mickey
-The Gapman- Drexler's architect. (Drexler recently built an enormous
boat-shaped trophy house, up-Island, complete with 5000$ bathroom
fixtures.)
Chaos theory can help with crowd control
"The principle behind the software is that, by
using chaos theory, the way large groups of people move is both
predictable and open to subtle steering." I don't know about you, but
I've felt a real lack of 'subtle steering' in my life lately.
Children's Books You Will Never See
Daddy Drinks Because You Cry
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.
