posts brought to you by the category “first
nations”
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.
Did I mention how much I like Montréal?
Bienville and Rivard, Montréal, September
2003
safesh
The safesh utility automatically creates one DSA key (called an
identity) for each host you connect to, and stores this in a separate
agent for each host. It is also capable of adding keys for other
hosts to this agent, so you can use it for restricted forwarding of
authentication. Because each host uses its own ssh-agent(1), the
hosts you forward authentication to can only get at the
authentication for the hosts you specifically say it should be able
to get at.
document(//a/@href[contains(., '.html')])/html/head/title
Iain Bruce : Le Goat
Karl Dubost : Dépanneurs de Montréal
Kate L. Pugh : OpenGuides
The OpenGuides software provides the framework for a
collaboratively-written city guide. It is similar to a wiki but
provides somewhat more structured data storage allowing you to
annotate wiki pages with information such as category, location, and
much more. It provides searching facilities including "find me
everything within a certain distance of this place". Every page
includes a link to a machine-readable (RDF) version of the page.
Tom Magliozzi : "Are you really planning to chase goats up a
mountain?"
I'm still trying to decide if Karl's photograph of those horrible
pink trees
What they said.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cursory
Cursory \Cur"so*ry\ (k?r"s?-r?), a. [L. cursorius, fr.
cursor. See {Cursor}.] 1. Running about; not stationary. [Obs.] 2.
Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight;
superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a
cursory manner. --Hallam.
web1913
cursory adj : hasty and without attention to detail; not
thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the
house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"
[syn: {casual}, {passing(a)}, {perfunctory}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : waterfall
effect
1. Used to describe how the sound of running water
induces you to pee. 2. May also be used to describe how when a girl
has to go to the bathroom every other girl has to go as
well.
ex. God, that table has all the cute guys. Let’s go
over there and talk about white water rafting. Ramona, you make the
appropriate noises. When they experience the waterfall effect,
we’ll steal the boys.
Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm 0.2
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : chach
"see "chav", a chach is that guy who comes to the club
with a vest and no shirt under it, gold chains, and fake tan. he
thinks he rules and tries to hit on you blatantly. term may have
originated with "Chachi" from Happy Days. "
ex. I can't believe that guy shaves his chest! What a
chach!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mooch
Moocher. Someone who always takes and never gives
back.
ex. He's the classic mooch. Never buys his own beer or
cigarettes.
see also :
mooch dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
elevendy-three
To avoid giving a true number when
questioned.
ex. How old are you mister? Elevendy-three.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mandals
Bulky, strappy, sandals worn by men. European men wear
them with socks.
ex. Phil could walk no further, as his new mandals had
given him a blister. If only he'd worn his socks!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : desuetude
Desuetude \Des"ue*tude\, n. [L. desuetudo, from desuescere,
to grow out of use, disuse; de + suescere to become used or accustomed:
cf. F. d['e]su['e]tude. See {Custom}.] The cessation of use; disuse;
discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion. The desuetude abrogated
the law, which, before, custom had established. --Jer. Taylor.
web1913
desuetude n : a state of inactivity or disuse
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CamelBones
"is a framework that allows many types of Cocoa
programs to be written entirely in Perl. It also provides a high-level
object-oriented wrapper around an embedded Perl interpreter, so that
Cocoa programs written in Objective-C can easily make use of code and
libraries written in Perl." via
use perl
Jason Diamond : Template Languages in XSLT
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : farrago
Farrago \Far*ra"go\, n. [L. farrago, -aginis, mixed fodder
for cattle, mash, medley, fr. far a sort of grain. See {Farina}.] A
mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a
mixture. A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all
the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. --Sheridan.
web1913
farrago n : a motley assortment of things [syn: {odds and
ends}, {oddments}, {melange}, {ragbag}, {hodgepodge}, {mingle-mangle},
{hotchpotch}, {omnium-gatherum}]
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J. David Eisenberg : An SVG Histogram [in Perl]
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : nefarious
Nefarious \Ne*fa"ri*ous\, a. [L. nefarius, fr. nefas crime,
wrong; ne not + fas divine law; akin to fari to speak. See {No}, adv.,
and {Fate}.] Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously
villainous; execrable; detestably vile. Syn: Iniquitous; detestable;
horrible; heinious; atrocious; infamous; impious. See {Iniquitous}. --
{Ne*fa"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ne*fa"ri*ous*ness}, n.
web1913
nefarious adj : extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a
villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: {villainous}]
wn
Now that WWW::UsePerl::Journal.pm supports posting
Radio Crankypants #2: I am so totally ready to believe that Radio
Userland is as easy
Perlmonks : Monitoring upload progress in Net::FTP
Big props to Dave for giving me the push
The GooseWorks.org Toolkit for Topic Map Information
Processing
"is an implementation of the "Topicmaps.net's
Processing Model for XTM" by Steven R. Newcomb and Michel Biezunski,
referred to as PMTM4. It is a toolkit that provides the major building
blocks to assemble topic map applications of various kinds such as
command line tools, CGI applications, web browser plug-ins, and
large-scale editing and processing applications."
Janice Stein : The Cult of Efficiency
"These lectures are about post-industrial society
in the making. There is a growing emphasis on efficiency in this era of
globalization, and the language of efficiency shapes the way citizens
think about their most important shared values. But hidden in the
polemics about efficiency are, I believe, much more important and
enduring conversations about accountability and choice in post-industrial
societies. To discover how these arguments live in practice, to move
beyond the fixed positions of our political warriors, I wanted to look at
what we as citizens are saying about public schools and hospitals. It is
here that citizens engage in the most immediate and practical ways with
the arguments of our times. I think by listening to these very local
debates we can explore the dilemmas of democratic processes in a global
age, where waste is a sin but the public trust remains sacred.
Surprisingly, I find that citizens want to see both less and more of the
state. Although citizens in post-industrial society are less deferential,
more distrustful of authority, and more confident of their capacity to
make the important choices, the escape from the state is more apparent
than real." (real audio)
Bob DuCharme : Controlling Whitespace [ in XSLT ], Part 1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is quagmire
| source : web1913 | Quagmire \Quag"mire`\, n.
[Quake + mire.] Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the
feet. ``A spot surrounded by quagmires, which rendered it difficult of
access.'' --Palfrey. Syn: Morass; marsh; bog; swamp; fen; slough. |
source : wn | quagmire n : a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks
underfoot [syn: {mire}, {morass}]
Damian Conway : Hook::LexWrap.pm
"allows you to install a pre- or post-wrapper (or
both) around an existing subroutine. Unlike other modules that provide
this capacity (e.g. Hook::PreAndPost and Hook::WrapSub), Hook::LexWrap
implements wrappers in such a way that the standard caller function works
correctly within the wrapped subroutine.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is plaintive
| source : web1913 | Plaintive \Plain"tive\, a.
[F. plaintif. See {Plaintiff}, n.] 1. Repining; complaining; lamenting.
--Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. ``The
most plaintive ditty.'' --Landor. -- {Plain"tive*ly}, adv. --
{Plain"tive*ness}, n. | source : wn | plaintive adj : expressing sorrow
[syn: {mournful}]
C'est La Vie talks to Daniel Poliquin.
"For 30 years, demographers have been debating
whether francophones outside of Quebec will disappear. It's a politically
charged and emotional topic. But Franco-Ontarian author, essayist and
translator Daniel Poliquin is trying to humanize the debate. In fact, he
says he has met an assimilated francophone who was in perfectly good
health!" (real audio)
Far be it from me to slag one of the three virtues of Perl
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is vatic
| source : wn | vatic adj : resembling or
characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory
pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and
infallible answers to questions" [syn: {divinatory}, {mantic},
{sibylline}, {sibyllic}, {vatical}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is brackish
| source : web1913 | Brackish \Brack"ish\, a.
[See {Brack} salt water.] Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water
in saline soil. Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though
they be. --Byron. | source : wn | brackish adj : slightly salty; "a
brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep" [syn: {briny}]
I'm not sure that this interface is either simple or intuitive
Jeffrey Pinyan : Sex, Eger!
"or Reverse Regular Expressions."
Bryan Pfaffenberger : Why Open Content Matters
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}]
Beta chapter : The Python Standard Library on file munging
Sandra Hamilton : Canadianisms and Their Treatment in
Dictionaries
On buggy-rolling : "When your nose is less than 10 cm from the
ground, at 60 or 70 km/h,
the speed sensation is boosted. pedestrian are
giant! 17 time higher. Dogs are monster. Pavement are crevasses. if the
floor is bumpy, you are shaked in every sens, you must be full
concentrated on your trajectory, seem to touch the floor every five
meters."
National Post : The Inert-net for cyber-sloths
"The chair allows users to log on to the Web
through a keyboard that is built into a folding tray-table in the left
arm. The keyboard connects to the receiver through wireless technology,
and the chair's arm also features a 120-volt outlet with surge
protection. The chair also has a port for cable Internet connections, as
well as the ability to connect through standard phone lines."
David Rakoff : Christmas Freud.
First broadcast in 1996, (I only just heard it
for the first time this afternoon) it is a story that deserves to be
added to the canon and retold every year to children and adults alike.
(real evil g2)
William F. Birdsall : The Digital Divide in the Liberal State, A
Canadian Perspective
"The "digital divide" has emerged as a public
policy challenge. This paper examines universal access public policy
development in Canada within a North American context and its
implications for addressing the digital divide. It concludes that the
digital divide will not be eliminated either through public policy or the
market due to the liberal public philosophy that is unique to and so
strong in North America. The concept of the digital divide represents the
dual structure characteristic of North American liberal social welfare
policy."
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)
Jeff Hawkins, Handspring
"The Springboard slot was really designed for
wireless communications. And you will see a cell phone module available
before the end of the year." From the
complain and you shall receive
department.
Daniel Richler : Stolen Tunes
"There are many indications that a similar change
is in the works for all forms of replicable art: novels, pictures,
movies, and any futuristic form of creative expression you can think of -
weather arranging, say, or teledildonics. It won't be the end of the
world, and it won't happen overnight, but it does appear to signal the
end of the intellectual copyright system upon which so many people's
livelihoods depend today. ... Under people like Edgar Bronfman, Jr.,
movie and record companies are morphing into armies of lawyers, even
threatening to sue their artists' fans. Geddy Lee of Rush knows musicians
who've actually proposed encrypting their CDs with hostile viruses. Now
there's a scenario I'd like to share with William Gibson: in the
twenty-first century the relationship between musician and fan will be
one of war." Interestingly, this article will only be archived for three
months. I'll leave it to the audience to decide if this merely
demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of the Net on the part of the
publisher, a piss-poor attempt at copyright protection or both.
Perl Golf Apocalypse
"will have 10 teams, each comprised of up to 3
Perl hackers. Each team will be given its own computer to use and will to
try to solve a set of simple problems by writing a short piece of Perl
code. Each team must submit its code, which will then be tested and
compared to the answers from the other teams. Each problem (or hole as we
call them) will be given to all the teams at the same time and will have
a time limit (about 5-7 minutes, depending on the hole). There will be 9
holes in all and after 4 of them the 5 lowest scoring teams will be cut
(just like in real golf tournaments)."
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
"There's issues of ownership over the human body
that bring up issues of colonialism that haven't been resolved.
Ultimately, I'm interested not in that we're going to be creating new
worlds that we don't understand or have laws for, but that we should slow
down the rhetoric and (recognize) that we have not solved old problems.
If we don't solve issues of race now, who's to say that hair and skin
color don't matter, who's to say something else won't matter?" see also :
geneart
and
The
Connection : Intellectual Property on the Internet and in
Bio-Technology
.
John Hardin : Enhancing E-Mail Security With Procmail
I just pulled the foil off
a new bottle of wine only to discover a URL
printed on the top of the cork. This upsets me.
NY Times : Nuclear Anxieties in a New World
I remember very clearly listening to
Ideas
one night during the year that the Berlin Wall came down. The narrator
was reflecting on the fact that suddenly he could imagine living beyond
the short-term; that the possibility of a life fulfilled was real and
possible. This struck me because, much like the speaker, I had spent most
of the 80's listening to loud music, smoking bad hash and waiting for
some butthead to push the button. see also :
Ideas :
Berlin, Memories and Memorials
(real audio)
Stéphane Baillargeon : L'industrie contre l'art
Who needs another legacy programmer
Brig
is partial to the
poop-o-nizer
but I rather fancy
this
one
as a screen saver. What delicious line work!
Yaro's Colori
Nice DHTML tool for generating hex-codes.
Jean Paré : A trap for journalists
"The issue raises grave questions for young
apprentice journalists to ponder. Should journalists attend executions?
Should they visit concentration or extermination camps, in Kosovo or
elsewhere? Should they do so only by stealth, or even if invited?...This
was legal, of course, but if torture were legal, would reporters attend
the session to describe it on TV at supper time?"
Jon Katz on "Geek Unions"
"Aaron says he was watching the movie "Dune" one
light last week 'It occurred to me that what is true of my school is also
true of other organizations, from small businesses to the federal
government. Just like the Freemen in the movie stopped the universe by
stopping the export of Spice, if computer geeks stopped working en masse,
the whole country, and even the world, would grind to a halt.' " Power
corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, even if your name is Aaron.
Daniel Jacques : Des «conditions gagnantes» aux «conditions
signifiantes»
"Compte tenu de l'état d'esprit qui prédomine
dans notre société, j'estime préférable de suivre les enseignements de
Rousseau. Il ne s'agit pas tant de parvenir à réunir «les conditions
gagnantes» qui nous permettraient de nous assurer collectivement de la
maîtrise de l'avenir, mais plutôt d'examiner sous quelles conditions
cette prise de contrôle - en admettant qu'elle puisse être acquise -
pourrait avoir sens et légitimité de manière à favoriser la concorde
entre tous les citoyens du futur État."
WebOS
Wow. It even has a dhtml web browser! Requires
IE4 (windows) and a T-1. via <a href =
"http://www.camworld.com/list/">camlist</a>.
No updates on Monday
I want to make sure the code does the right thing
if nothing happens for a day (or more.)
With Liberty & Prayer For All
Claiming to champion the right for prayer in
school classrooms, it seems more like a call for replacing the State with
the Church: "The state does not grant us our rights. These are endowed in
us from depths far beyond the powers of mere states to effect.
Unbelievers may not give to these depths the same name that believers do.
Yet it will not hurt us, believers and nonbelievers, to take part in the
same brief rituals that direct our eyes to these depths. " I'm not sure
whether I am more stunned or angered that people beleive this kind of
nonsense. His Disney-fied solution for 'inclusive' prayer not only
strikes me as a slippery slope, but also sounds like the many bad
religious studies classes already being taught!
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.
