posts brought to you by the category “frontier”
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.
Mark A. Hershberger : XPath to Elisp
It's a beautiful tissue dispenser so long as your bathroom has no
water or your room no dust.
Sarah Vowell : Trail of Tears
I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven
states to find it.
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.2
Ed Hawco : "We like things small and plentiful, not large and
monolithic."
The Guardian : Anarchists and the fine art of torture
Me : WebService::weblogUpdates.pm 0.35
"I'm screwed and your doomed" or "Go home, Yankee imperialist
running dog"
All your interpreter are belong to us
Karl Dubost : Sémantique, liens et CSS : hreflang
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : tocsin
Tocsin \Toc"sin\, n. [F., fr. OF. toquier to touch, F.
toquer (originally, a dialectic form of F. toucher) + seint (for sein)
a bell, LL. signum, fr. L. signum a sign, signal. See {Touch}, and
{Sign}.] An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of
alarm. The loud tocsin tolled their last alarm. --Campbell.
web1913
tocsin n 1: the sound of an alarm (usually a bell) [syn:
{alarm bell}] 2: a bell used to sound an alarm [syn: {warning bell}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : geezer
A lad, in the purest sense of the word. Usually from
london. Likes women, beer, and football. Tends to be involved in
suspect deals such as "second-hand televisions."
ex. Look at John--he thinks he's a geezer.
see also :
geezer dict-ified
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that replacing
Me : XML::Filter::OTLML::IO.pm
my $outline = "/path/to/io.otlml";
my $output = IO::File->new("+<$outline");
my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new(Output=>$output);
my $filter = XML::Filter::OTLML::IO->new(Handler=>$writer);
my $parser = XML::SAX::ParserFactory->parser(Handler=>$filter);
$parser->parse_uri($outline);
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : kabash
Killed, brought to and end, finished.
ex. The project was finally kabash, and all were
relieved.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : sybarite
Sybarite \Syb"a*rite\, n. [L. Sybarita, Gr. ?, fr. ?, a
city in Italy, noted for the effeminacy and voluptuousness of its
inhabitants; cf. F. Sybarite.] A person devoted to luxury and pleasure;
a voluptuary.
web1913
sybarite n : a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of
the senses [syn: {voluptuary}]
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If David wants bunnies
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : extant
Extant \Ex"tant\, a. [L. extans, -antis, or exstans,
-antis, p. pr. of extare, exstare, to stand out or forth; ex out +
stare to stand: cf. F. extant. See {Stand}.] 1. Standing out or above
any surface; protruded. That part of the teeth which is extant above
the gums. --Ray. A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant.
--Bentley. 2. Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.
Writings that were extant at that time. --Sir M. Hale. The extant
portraits of this great man. --I. Taylor. 3. Publicly known;
conspicuous. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
web1913
extant adj : still in existence; not extinct or destroyed
or lost; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among
extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd [ant: {extinct}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : puerile
Puerile \Pu"er*ile\, a. [L. puerilis, fr. puer a child, a
boy: cf. F. pu['e]ril.] Boyish; childish; trifling; silly. The French
have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation
of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. --De Quincey. Syn:
Youthful; boyish; juvenile; childish; trifling; weak. See {Youthful}.
web1913
puerile adj 1: of or characteristic of a child; "puerile
breathing" 2: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent
insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was
juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: {adolescent}, {jejune}, {juvenile}]
wn
One of the things that hasn't been said about Boingo yet
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."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is gambol
| source : web1913 | Gambol \Gam"bol\ v. i. [imp.
& p. p. {Gamboled}, or {Gambolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gamboling}
or {Gambolling}.] To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to
play in frolic, like boys or lambs. | source : web1913 | Gambol \Gam"bol\
(g[a^]m"b[o^]l), n. [OE. gambolde, gambaulde, F. gambade, gambol, fr. It.
gambata kick, fr. L. gamba leg, akin to F. jambe, OF. also, gambe, fr. L.
gamba, hoof or perh. joint: cf. Gr. kamph` a binding, winding, W., Ir.
& Gael. cam crooked; perh. akin to E. chamber: cf.F. gambiller to
kick about. Cf. {Jamb}, n., {Gammon} ham, {Gambadoes}.] A skipping or
leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. --Dryden. | source : wn
| gambol n : gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or
amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf
threatened to become ugly" [syn: {play}, {frolic}, {romp}, {caper}] v :
play or romp around; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the
gamboling lambs in the meadows" [syn: {frolic}, {lark}, {rollick},
{skylark}, {disport}, {sport}, {cavort}, {frisk}, {romp}, {run around},
{lark about}]
www.yougrowgirl.com
"If gardening really is the new
rock’n’roll, then Yougrowgirl.com is "indie rock"."
Mozilla DOM Inspector
"is a tool that can be used to inspect and edit
the live DOM of any web document or XUL application. The DOM hierarchy
can be navigated using a two-paned window that allows for a variety of
different views on the document and all nodes within."
via
scottandrew
Me : xml-rss.js 0.2
David Niergarth : REX.py
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cabal
| source : web1913 | Cabal \Ca*bal"\
(k[.a]*b[a^]l"), n. [F. cabale cabal, cabala, LL. cabala cabala, fr. Heb.
qabb[=a]l[=e]h reception, tradition, mysterious doctrine, fr. q[=a]bal to
take or receive, in Pi["e]l qibbel to adopt (a doctrine).] 1. Tradition;
occult doctrine. See {Cabala} [Obs.] --Hakewill. 2. A secret. [Obs.]
``The measuring of the temple, a cabal found out but lately.'' --B.
Jonson. 3. A number of persons united in some close design, usually to
promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue;
a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto. Note:
It so happend, by a whimsical coincidence, that in 1671 the cabinet
consisted of five persons, the initial letters of whose names made up the
word cabal; Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale.
--Macaulay. 4. The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons
united in a close design; intrigue. By cursed cabals of women. --Dryden.
Syn: Junto; intrigue; plot; combination; conspiracy. Usage: {Cabal},
{Combination}, {Faction}. An association for some purpose considered to
be bad is the idea common to these terms. A combination is an organized
union of individuals for mutual support, in urging their demands or
resisting the claims of others, and may be good or bad according to
circumstances; as, a combiniation of workmen or of employers to effect or
to prevent a change in prices. A cabal is a secret association of a few
individuals who seek by cunning practices to obtain office and power. A
faction is a larger body than a cabal, employed for selfish purposes in
agitating the community and working up an excitement with a view to
change the existing order of things. ``Selfishness, insubordination, and
laxity of morals give rise to combinations, which belong particularly to
the lower orders of society. Restless, jealous, ambitious, and little
minds are ever forming cabals. Factions belong especially to free
governments, and are raised by busy and turbulent spirits for selfish
purposes''. --Crabb. | source : web1913 | Cabal \Ca*bal"\, v. i. [imp.
& p. p. {Caballed} (-b[a^]ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Caballing}].
[Cf. F. cabaler.] To unite in a small party to promote private views and
interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot. Caballing still against it
with the great. --Dryden. | source : wn | cabal n 1: a clique that seeks
power usually through intrigue [syn: {faction}, {junta}, {junto},
{camarilla}] 2: a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act
(especially a political plot) [syn: {conspiracy}] v : enter into a
conspiracy; "They conspired to overthrow the government" [syn:
{conspire}, {complot}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pied-a-terre
| source : wn | pied-a-terre n : lodging for
occasional or secondary use; "they bought a pied-a-terre in London"
Ben Mulroney : "The first time I met Justin Trudeau was in
Montreal,
when his father fell ill, and we sat around one
night and talked about starting our own political party. We decided it
would span the extreme left to the extreme right. As leaders, each of us
would have a crown and a sceptre. We had it worked out so I'd run the
country from Monday to Wednesday and he'd take over from Thursday to
Sunday."
Northern.CA : XSpell
"is an XML-RPC Spell checker. It is inspired by
Sjoerd Visscher's XML-RPC Client for David Adams' XML-RPC Speller
service, however it is different in that it does not involve an active
middleman. The backend XML-RPC service is written in PHP..."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is interlard
| source : web1913 | Interlard \In`ter*lard"\, v.
t. [imp. & p. p. {Interlarded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Interlarding}.]
[F. entrelarder. See {Inter-}, and {Lard}.] 1. To place lard or bacon
amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean. [Obs.] Whose grain doth rise in
flakes, with fatness interlarded. --Drayton. 2. Hence: To insert between;
to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or
irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions. The
English laws . . . [were] mingled and interlarded with many particular
laws of their own. --Sir M. Hale. They interlard their native drinks with
choice Of strongest brandy. --J. Philips. | source : wn | interlard v :
introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions [syn:
{intersperse}]
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 slaver
| source : web1913 | Slabber \Slab"ber\, v. i.
[imp. & p. p. {Slabbered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slabbering}.] [OE.
slaberen; akin to LG. & D. slabbern, G. schlabbern, LG. & D.
slabben, G. schlabben, Icel. slafra. Cf. {Slaver}, {Slobber}, {Slubber}.]
To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child
or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also {slaver}, and {slobber}.]
| source : web1913 | Slaver \Slav"er\, n. Saliva driveling from the
mouth. Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver
kills, and not the bite. --Pope. | source : web1913 | Slaver \Slav"er\,
n. 1. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship. 2. A person
engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave
trader. The slaver's hand was on the latch, He seemed in haste to go.
--Longfellow. | source : web1913 | Slaver \Slav"er\, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. {Slavered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slavering}.] [Cf. Icel. slafra. See
{Slabber}.] 1. To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth. 2. To be
besmeared with saliva. --Shak. | source : web1913 | Slaver \Slav"er\, v.
t. To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to
slabber. | source : wn | slaver n 1: a person engaged in slave trade
[syn: {slave dealer}, {slave trader}] 2: someone who owns slaves [syn:
{slaveholder}] v : let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled"
[syn: {drivel}, {drool}, {slabber}, {slobber}, {dribble}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is ossify
| source : web1913 | Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Ossified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ossifying}.] [L. os,
ossis, bone + -fy: cf. F. ossifier. See {Osseous}.] 1. (Physiol.) To form
into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the
deposition of lime salts. 2. Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.
--Ruskin. | source : web1913 | Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. i. (Physiol.) To
become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue. | source
: wn | ossify v : become bony; "The tissue ossified"
We took my friend's truck to the market yesterday.
Damian Conway : "The NEXT pseudoclass solves this problem,
because a call to $self->NEXT::AUTOLOAD(@args)
means "continue with the original look-up search that caused the current
method to be selected". By continuing the original look-up, rather than
starting a new one that's restricted to the current package's ancestrals
(as $self->SUPER::AUTOLOAD(@args) does), NEXT allows for the
possibility of backtracking to classes on other branches of the
inheritance tree if necessary."
Frans de Waal : "The question whether animals have culture
is a bit like whether chickens can fly. Compared
to an albatross or falcon, perhaps not, but chickens do have wings, they
do flap them, and they do get up in the trees."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is effete
| source : web1913 | Effete \Ef*fete"\, a. [L.
effetus that has brought forth, exhausted; ex + fetus that has brought
forth. See {Fetus}.] No longer capable of producing young, as an animal,
or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy;
incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.
Effete results from virile efforts. --Mrs. Browning If they find the old
governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new ones. --Burke. |
source : wn | effete adj : marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral
decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of
responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals" [syn:
{decadent}]
W.J. Gilmore : PHP and the Sablotron Processor
I almost never remember dreams, but last night
I dreamt I went to the beach in San Francisco. I
have only ever been to the city once, when I was a small boy, so it all
looked strangely New England-ish. I stood at the edge of the water trying
to wrap my mind around the idea that the Atlantic ocean was behind me
wondering why the beach was overrun with dwarf squirrels.
Most of what I've had to say today
The 2000 Massey Lecture : The Rights Revolution
"In Canada, rights have become the trump card in
every argument from family life to Parliament Hill. But the notorious
fights for aboriginal rights and for the linguistic heritage of
French-speaking Canadians have steered Canada into a full-blown rights
revolution. This revolution is not only deeply controversial here, but is
being watched around the world. Are group rights — to land and
language — jeopardizing individual rights? Has the Charter of
Rights empowered ordinary Canadians or just enriched constitutional
lawyers? When everyone asserts their rights, what happens to
responsibilities? Michael Ignatieff confronts these questions head-on in
The Rights Revolution, defending the supposed individualism of rights
language against all comers." Live 20h30 EST and re-broadcast next week.
(real evil g2)
National Post : Moby -- Birth of a salesman
"The whole reason I've spent my entire life
playing music is (a) I love music but (b) I want people to hear it. I
hate the idea of creating culture in a vacuum. Being involved in the
hardcore punk scene in the late '80s and being involved in the
underground dance scene, I realized there was a lot of wonderful music
being made that no one ever heard. And that just seemed like such a waste
-- especially when there's so much terrible music that everybody hears.
Why not try and make wonderful music and present it in such a way that
people will actually hear it?"
PHPBuilder : Browser Detection and Appropriate CSS Generation
"Whoever said CSS would solve all your
cross-platform browser display issues needs to lay off the pipe a
little."
Christie Blanchford quotes Wilson Lee
"F--k, I feel like a Korean guy at a
Reform/Alliance convention." Pause. "I am. lt's always a little
unsettling to realize that a national party is so racially homogeneous."
So the CRAP party elected Stockwell Day last night. Stockwell Day is a
prudish, intolerant, Bible-thumping bigot -- not to mention a slash and
burn fiscal conservative -- but I am also convinced that he must be a
backroom weasel of a caliber never seen before in Canada. This is the
only conceivable way he can escape the political ire and backroom
weaseling of people like Brian Mulroney and manage to court the Big Money
in this country. Any way you slice it, it is bad. Very very bad.
The nice people at Strata
Wired
"[I]f every wired household will need to hire a
network security consultant to keep their smart TV and intelligent
toasters safe from viruses, implementing the "always connected" future
will present some practical problems." Let's just hope that, as a
society, we can be a bit more mature about this than children in a candy
store. Personally, I loathe the idea of ever using a modem again, but I
would manage. This is all cool stuff but if "network security" means
giving up some of the fundementals that we rely on ( read: take for
granted ) then I think we need to take a long hard look before we do
anything. see also :
People for Internet
Responsibility
and
John Jannotti : Network Services in an Uncooperative Internet
.
The purpose of SmartWorker
"is not to provide another means of generating
HTML pages on-the-fly from databases. There are plenty of ways to do this
already. SW applications are not Web sites, but true applications that
happen to be served over the Web. In fact, it is possible (when the
renderers are written!) to access SW apps via non-Web interfaces, such as
handheld devices and PCS phones."
Wired interviews Richard Stallman
This Morning talks to Robert Rabinovitch
president of the CBC, about the future of "The
Corporation". (real audio)
Cook's Companion 1.0
"is a handy, quick reference guide for common
measurement, temperature and ingredient equivalents and substitutions.
It's free, reasonably complete and auto-bookmarked for easy navigation."
Just wait until *you* have to figure out how many packets of dry yeast
make up half a compressed cube. (PalmOS)
e.e. commerce, Poet Laureate of the Internet
"For Galt, and millions of others, there is no
greater example of this than commerce's e-ishness unflowering. Not unlike
the sweet courtship and inevitable consummation of youth, the poem
depicts an online buyer's first moments of innocent hesitation, which in
Internet time quickly becomes commitment and, at last, the naked,
breathless sale." via
strange brew
Dave Cooper : Tonguey-thing
Boston Globe
"Thanks to what may be an unprecedented agreement
between the Kennedy Library Foundation and toymaker Hasbro Inc.,
consumers willing to pay $30 may be able to buy an action figure of JFK
in PT-109 fatigues this fall. ... The JFK figure ''will be the first of a
number of Kennedy products'' On Martha's Vineyard, some Islanders used to
celebrate the Annual Ted Kennedy Swim Classic, swimming
the
channel between Edgartown and Chappy
. At every event there would be t-shirts with a new motto like "Not even
Teddy swam it twice" and "If Ted can have a fifth, so can we."
The nice people at O'Reilly
The NORAD Tracks Santa Claus Website
It's nice to see the peace dividend hard at work.
(shockwave)
David Megginson : XML::Writer
"XML::Writer is a helper module for Perl programs
that write an XML document. The module handles all escaping for attribute
values and character data and constructs different types of markup, such
as tags, comments, and processing instructions."
Tom Wolfe : Digibabble, Fairy Dust, Human Anthill
"Our guests today are a group of American artists
from the Manual Age."
Are you a film-maker?
Bruce Sterling : Future Schlock
"There were 16 major political parties now,
divided into warrior blocs and ceaseless internecine purges, defections,
and counterpurges. There were privately owned cities with millions of
"clients" where the standard rule of law was cordially ignored. There
were price-fixing mafias, money laundries, outlaw stock markets. There
were black, gray, and green superbarter Nets. There were health
maintenance organizations staffed by crazed organ-sharing cliques, where
advanced medical techniques were in the grip of any quack able to
download a surgery program. Wiretapping Net-militias flourished, freed of
any physical locale. There were breakaway counties in the American West
where whole towns had sold out to tribes of nomads, and simply dropped
off the map."
Salon : Plato not Prozac
Matthew Mirapaul
Art as a Games, Games as Art
Chris Crawford on hypertext
"Let me explain that last sentence in real
English. Your branchpoints are all treated equally; there is never any
bias based on context. You cannot set up a branchpoint that is likely to
veer left if the reader has shown a sense of humor, or right if the
reader has demonstrated gravitas. Your work cannot truly react to the
user." Charles Taylor, in
The
Malaise of Modernity
(real audio), also discusses this idea but in the context of contemporary
culture and philosophy. via
camworld
.
Alistair Cooke : Letters From America
Rick Salutin
"Maybe things will start to get interesting again
after the stupid millennium."
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.
