posts brought to you by the category “flash”
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.
Joey deVilla : “You know you want to see me in a penguin suit
sport humping this man.”
Yehuda Berlinger : Podindex
Podindex is an attempt to provide an interface to the Perl
documentation which is easier to navigate than the currently
available perldoc or the html pages. ... We have created a module
called Pod::Index which is the indexer and the core interface to the
index. We are using it as the backend to all kinds of user
interfaces.
I can't say that I am much of a deep-thinker when it comes to
micro-payments.
I like to think that this is like the CSS version
William Grimes : On a Clear Day I Can Eat Forever
It's the dawn of a bright new day. But to usher it in, the
government has had to declare shade illegal.
Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood 1.1b4
Moxy Fruvous : Gulf War Song
Philip Kennicott : Fragile Memory
It's a distinction -- nationalism vs. patriotism -- worth
remembering. The country, it seems, is preparing for war at a
significant moment in the formation of cultural memory about Sept.
11: Private grief is beginning to ease, and politicians are
increasingly comfortable with drawing larger, public lessons from
9/11. The temptation to demand nationalist sentiments from people
comfortable only with patriotic ones is a recurring theme in American
history, and it's a temptation greatly increased in times of war.
Movable Thoughts #16-17
Real World Styles : Floating Thumbnails
Simon Waldman : "One of the prime reasons we embarked on the
competition
was to help start the debate about how a
traditional media owner such as ourselves can engage with a movement that
is in many ways the very antithesis of traditional media."
Jon Udell : "The culture of blogspace is evolving in
near-realtime."
This, presumably, is how one learns to become a Libertarian
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
squalorship
The living conditions available to a student who has been
issued a student loan from the Federal or Provincial governments;
also the living conditions available once the collection agencies
start looking for the loans to be paid back.
ex. My OSAP squalorship was just enough to motivate me to
work at the 7-11.
Chris Nandor : "Yes, this is MacPerl running under Classic talking
to a Cocoa app
running under Mac OS X via Apple events with
Mac::Glue."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : unctuous
Unctuous \Unc"tu*ous\ (?; 135), a. [F. onctueux, LL.
unctuosus, fr. L. unctus anointment, fr. ungere, unctum, to anoint. See
{Unguent}.] 1. Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment;
fatty; oily; greasy. ``The unctuous cheese.'' --Longfellow. 2. Having a
smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals. 3. Bland; suave; also,
tender; fervid; as, an unctuous speech; sometimes, insincerely suave or
fervid. -- {Unc"tu*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Unc"tu*ous*ness}, n.
web1913
unctuous adj : unpleasantly and excessively suave or
ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome
introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous
hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep" [syn:
{buttery}, {fulsome}, {oily}, {oleaginous}, {smarmy}]
wn
Nicholas C. Zakas : Creating a Cross-Browser (DOM) Expandable
Tree
Me : WWW::Scrabble.pm 0.1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is putsch
| source : wn | putsch n : a sudden and decisive
change of government illegally or by force [syn: {coup d'etat}, {coup},
{takeover}]
Some thoughts on the "imagination proposition" :
Kevin Lenzo : YAPC.pm
"contains documentation and some support code for
proposing, planning, and executing a technical conference. While the
specifics are relevant to a series of conferences supported by the Yet
Another Society, the content may be informative for any group with an
interest in promoting collaborative efforts and discussion on a focussed
technical topic."
stuntLab : dragscoll.js
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is dishabille
| source : web1913 | Dishabille \Dis`ha*bille"\,
n. [See {Deshabille}.] An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.
They breakfast in dishabille. --Smollett. | source : wn | dishabille n :
the state of being carelessly or partially dressed [syn: {deshabille}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is approbation
| source : web1913 | Approbation
\Ap`pro*ba"tion\, n. [L. approbatio: cf. F. approbation. See {Approve} to
prove.] 1. Proof; attestation. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. The act of approving; an
assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or
satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation. Many . . . joined in a
loud hum of approbation. --Macaulay. The silent approbation of one's own
breast. --Melmoth. Animals . . . love approbation or praise. --Darwin. 3.
Probation or novitiate. [Obs.] This day my sister should the cloister
enter, And there receive her approbation. --Shak. Syn: Approval; liking;
sanction; consent; concurrence. Usage: {Approbation}, {Approval}.
Approbation and approval have the same general meaning, assenting to or
declaring as good, sanction, commendation; but approbation is stronger
and more positive. ``We may be anxious for the approbation of our
friends; but we should be still more anxious for the approval of our own
consciences.'' ``He who is desirous to obtain universal approbation will
learn a good lesson from the fable of the old man and his ass.'' ``The
work has been examined by several excellent judges, who have expressed
their unqualified approval of its plan and execution.'' | source : wn |
approbation n 1: official approval 2: official recognition or approval
[ant: {disapprobation}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is grandiloquent
| source : web1913 | Grandiloquent
\Gran*dil"o*quent\, a. [L. grandis grand + logui to speak.] Speaking in a
lofty style; pompous; bombastic. | source : wn | grandiloquent adj 1:
lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really
realizes what he is saying" [syn: {magniloquent}, {tall}] 2: puffed up
with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory";
"a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical
hooey"- Newsweek [syn: {overblown}, {pompous}, {pontifical},
{portentous}]
Michael De La Rue : Schedule::SoftTime.pm
"is a class to implement an `I'll get round to
you when I can be bothered' scheduler. It's based on the queue system in
our banks shops and some doctors I've been to. You turn up any time you
want, but then you have to wait till everyone else who was there before
you has been dealt with. The idea is to let the items being scheduled do
so at any free time they wish and then worry about resource requirements
later. If we can't handle some items when they were scheduled, they just
queue until they can be handled."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is discomfit
| source : web1913 | Discomfit \Dis*com"fit\, v.
t. [imp. & p. p. {Discomfited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discomfiting}.]
[OF. desconfit, p. p. of desconfire, F. d['e]confire; fr. L. dis- +
conficere to make ready, prepare, bring about. See {Comfit}, {Fact}.] 1.
To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat. And his proud foes
discomfit in victorious field. --Spenser. 2. To break up and frustrate
the plans of; to balk? to throw into perplexity and dejection; to
disconcert. Well, go with me and be not so discomfited. --Shak. Syn: To
defeat; overthrow; overpower; vanquish; conquer; baffle; frustrate;
confound; discourage. | source : web1913 | Discomfit \Dis*com"fit\, a.
Discomfited; overthrown. [Obs.] | source : web1913 | Discomfit
\Dis*com"fit\, n. Rout; overthrow; discomfiture. Such as discomfort as
shall quite despoil him. --Milton. | source : wn | discomfit n : a defeat
in battle [syn: {rout}, {discomfiture}] v : cause to lose one's composure
[syn: {upset}, {discompose}, {untune}, {disconcert}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is propitiate
| source : web1913 | Propitiate \Pro*pi"ti*ate\,
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Propitiated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Propitiating}.] [L. propitiatus, p. p. of propitiare to propitiate, fr.
propitius favorable. See {Propitious}.] To appease to render favorable;
to make propitious; to conciliate. Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his
rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage. --Pope. | source :
web1913 | Propitiate \Pro*pi"ti*ate\, v. i. To make propitiation; to
atone. | source : wn | propitiate v : make peace with [syn: {appease}]
Jeffery M. Griffith : newsic.py
"is a program that creates a streaming gateway to
the alt.binaries newsgroups. ... The biggest advantage is a newsic server
is offering songs that aren't stored on a local filesystem. This means
there is no need to worry about diskspace and the music selection
couldn't be better =) If you wanted to listen to hiphop but you had no
idea what was new, you could just stream random songs from
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.rap-hiphop
skipping the ones that didn't suit your taste.
The revolution is being televised.
"What blogs do is they give a context for chunks,
and they arrange them chronologically, which is really simple for people
to follow," Mr. Williams said. "That for me is an example of a medium
finding something that works and that's unique to the medium."
Florida Supreme Court : "But to allow the Secretary to summarily
disenfranchise innocent electors
in an effort to punish dilatory Board members, as
she proposes in the present case, misses the constitutional mark. The
constitution eschews punishment by proxy." (pdf) Meanwhile, W. accuses
the justices of cloaking
its ruling in legalistic language
and conveniently forgets -- or is flat out ignorant of the fact -- that
the judiciary is a fundemental part of the American system of government
and that it, in fact, *does* interpret the law under the U.S.
Constitution. These people are truly as evil as they are stupid, or
stupid as they are evil. I can't tell which anymore.
YULblog : New research centre puts Montreal on leading edge of art
and technology
MaxSQL
"is a MySQL distribution compiled with Sleepycat
software's BerkeleyDB support for transactions. MaxSQL will be released
under the GNU GPL licence as soon as BerkelyDB transactional tables are
sufficiently stable and functional to pass our test suite. The release is
scheduled to the end of August."
NY Times : Gulf War Led Cheney to the Oil Boardroom
After reading this article, it occured to me that
Dick Cheney might have a very specific function in the election : that
his presence is designed to make people think that, in the world of
realpolitik, he is the guy best able to screw the oil producers into
lowering gasoline prices. I'm not saying it would actually happen, only
that it is a seed being planted meant to germinate in the that part of
people's minds where the "doing the right thing" gives way to voting with
their pocket book. see also :
The Gulf
War
and
Car
People
.
Patrick Hess : class.tree.php3
"gives you an easy way to create expandable tree
lists." mmmmm ..... easy. The clever lad also wrote a php class for
generating
overLib dialogue
boxes
( warning : very very broken in IE5 Mac. ) Clever lad.
WebNap
is "a web-based Napster-compatible client in
PHP." How cool is that?
Python for the PalmOS
Cool! Watch as Perl weenies, the world over,
gnash their teeth in silent simmering respect. via
inessential
Things to do on Canada Day :
It's nice to see websites acting like cigarette companies
and re-designing their packaging for seemingly no
other reason than to garner attention and increaseco-called mindshare.
All I know is I can't read anything because I keep getting distracted by
all those foofy dots ( I struggle on in a war of attrition with one of my
employers over the use of bullets ) and triangles and those lines. What
is up with those lines? see also
MetaFilter / Zeldman : I smell cubicle
. Update : via
haughey
comes
plain vanilla
Salon
, just the way we like it.
NY Times on Freenet
and "near prefect anarchy".
If this
is what
getting the
web
means, can there possibly be any hope for the rest of us?
mmmm....Wozzle
Meanwhile, since we're on the subject of neat
Perl toys :
pod2pdf
.
It doesn't get much cooler than ApachePDA
National Post : Canada is cyberterror hotbed: U.S.
"They see Canada as a conduit they don't have
control over and that's what unnerves them. We're further increasing the
integration of our economies and at the same time they do not control how
we approach security issues."
Weblog Nation
SAGE : Perl Practicum
"From 1993 to 1997, ;login: published a series of
articles "intended to demystify some of the more occult aspects of Perl
programming" (to quote from the introduction to the first article,
published in August 1993). We are pleased to present the entire
collection here."
In memory
Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau,
Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Maria
Klucznick Widajewicz, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie
Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie
Turcotte.
Webmonkey has redesigned their website
complete with little <a href =
"http://saturn.org">Jack Saturn pictures</a>. I like
this *much* better than the last site, and it even looks good in
<a href = "http://icab.de">iCab</a> (kudos!)
I finally got the hardware
to build my own
FreeBSD
box. Let's hope this isn't too humbling an experience.
George Lucas
"We are moving into a different era in terms of
cinematic experience. I liken it more to the move from painting frescos
in the mid-15th century - when you had to finish that piece of plaster
that day otherwise you couldn't go on. Now we've moved into the era of
oil paintings, which gave the artist more control and more time to think
about what they're doing." I think that it was Han Solo who commented
that Lucas would make a film without human actors if the CGI technology
was good enough. It's interesting that while many in the [plastic] arts
are heralding the end of the artist as individual, replaced instead by
the collaborative, much the opposite is happening in film. via
hack the
planet
.
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.
It's Bastille Day
Yes, it took them a while to get it right (the
No-fun police took over and decided that women weren't really equal after
all) and the guillotine was invented in the name of charity. You should
still read
La Declaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen
.
Michael Kimmelman : How Photography Makes Celebrity So
Irresistible
"The show's unspoken question is whether
something that has become so commonplace is still meaningful, beyond its
value as a commodity." Tangentially, consider also the conflicts that
arise when trying to assign value or excellence to a thing or person in a
world that genuinely strives to include everyone and give equal merit to
their contributions.
It's Canada Day :
and
everyone is talking about child pornography.
" 'Making it an offence to possess expressive material, when that
material may have been created without abusing children and may never be
published, distributed or sold, constitutes an extreme invasion of the
values of liberty, autonomy and privacy,' Madam Justice Anne Rowles
wrote." (I'm still looking for the text of the court decision.)
David Bunnell on boring crap
"Asked by UpsideToday.com to provide
documentation that the above chargse are true, the BoringCrap.com
founders declared that it 'doesn't matter if it's true, what matters is
that kids will believe it's true.'"
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.
