posts brought to you by the category “hack”
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.
Dan Brickley : Identifying things in FOAF
If two different RDF files (eg. FOAF documents) are talking about
the same thing but don't use exactly the same URI when mentioning
that thing, how are our poor stupid computers supposed to be able to
understand? In the real world, we want to write RDF documents (eg.
for FOAF) about things that we've not yet agreed on common
identifiers for. This is one of the core problems we've had to
address in FOAF.
Mark Fowler : Template::Plugin::Textile.pm
I like to think that this is like the CSS version
Really, I am just annoyed that any kind of exception is made for
carbonara prepared with cream
N.Y. Times : How to Boil an Egg.
The Connection : Drawing the News
In a 24/7 news cycle, the political cartoonist lives on the verge
of constant overload. Artist, news junkie, provocateur, the political
cartoonist digests reams of newspaper column inches and hours of
broadcast news reports in the daily quest for the angles that rankle,
those choice twists of news that best lend themselves to visual
interpretation.
The Connection : Duct Tape Nation
From the "Talking to Americans" department:
Me : Log::Dispatch::Jabber.pm 0.3
Michael Schilli : Google-Hupf
Wie in[3] schon einmal im Linux-Magazin erörtert, schreiben sich
SOAP-Anfragen in Perl ganz einfach mit Pavel Kulchenkos
»SOAP::Lite«-Modul. Aber es geht sogar noch billiger: Mit »Net::
Google« liegt von Aaron Straup Cope eine schöne objektorientierte
Abstraktion des Google-Webservice vor, die unter der Haube freilich
SOAP::Lite nutzt.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fark
Fuxk, used to bypass email scanners when emailing from
the workplace.
ex. Fark this!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : ramping like a
hose
Going crazy; over-processing; suffering from too much
work and poor support. At least, that's what we think it
means....
ex. "The (130-nanometer) process is ramping like a hose,"
said Frank Spindler, Vice President of Intel's Mobile Products
Group.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
murderlize
Commonly used in old cartoons. A silly way of telling
someone you are going to beat them up.
ex. Put up yer dukes. Puttemup, puttemup! I'll murderlize
ya!
Me : www.otlml.org
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : singleton
Non gender specific term somewhat akin to "spinster," with
less negative connotations (as popularized by Helen Fielding in
"Bridget Jones's Diary").
ex. "Just because you're a Singleton doesn't mean you can't
lead a normal fulfilling life..."
see also :
singleton dict-ified
W3C : Speech Synthesis Markup Language
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : taciturn
Taciturn \Tac"i*turn\, a. [L. taciturnus: cf. F. taciturne.
See {Tacit}.] Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk
or speak. -- {Tac"i*turn*ly}, adv. Syn: Silent; reserved. Usage:
{Taciturn}, {Silent}. Silent has reference to the act; taciturn, to the
habit. A man may be silent from circumstances; he is taciturn from
disposition. The loquacious man is at times silent; one who is taciturn
may now and then make an effort at conversation.
web1913
taciturn adj : habitually reserved and uncommunicative
[ant: {voluble}]
wn
Sylvain Carle : "Je déteste le mot [blogue.]"
Me : [RFC] wblgml.dtd 0.1
We were driving down Crescent Street watching the funny little
hotel,
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
lunawebber
someone who is online the most in the evening or
nighttime hours
ex. "My sister, being a lunawebber, keeps me up all night
while I'm trying to sleep."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is renege
| source : web1913 | Renege \Re*nege"\ (r?-n?j"
or r?-n?g"), v. t. [LL. renegare. See {Renegade}.] To deny; to disown.
[Obs.] --Shak. All Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) Against the
truth and thee unholy leagued. --Sylvester. | source : web1913 | Renege
\Re*nege"\, v. i. 1. To deny. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. (Card Playing) To revoke.
[R.] | source : wn | renege n : the mistake of not following suit when
able to do so [syn: {revoke}] v : fail to fulfill a promise or
obligation; "She backed out of her promise" [syn: {renege on}, {renegue
on}, {go back on}]
Jon Udell : The Event -Driven Internet
"If you and I happen to be monitoring that topic
in our browsers, the paragraph element will change interactively. But
nothing says that the parties interested in that topic are always, or
only, people running browsers. Of more general interest is the notion of
a computing fabric in which processes subscribe to events, are notified
of changes, and then take appropriate actions."
Matt Sergeant on the differences between PHP and XSP (AxKit)
Movable Thoughts #9
Props to the Movable Type gang for a new release
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
extemporaneous
| source : web1913 | Extemporaneous
\Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, a. [See {Extempore}.] Composed, performed, or
uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study;
unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous
address or production. -- {Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly}, adv. --
{Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness},n. | source : wn | extemporaneous adj : with
little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib comments showed poor
judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture";
"an extempore skit"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to sound offhanded and
reassuring"; "an off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments" [syn:
{ad-lib}, {extemporary}, {extempore}, {offhand}, {offhanded},
{off-the-cuff}, {unrehearsed}]
Ronan Oger : SVG.pm
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is etiolate
| source : web1913 | Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\ v. i.
[imp. & p. p. {Etiolated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Etiolating}.] [F.
['e]tioler to blanch.] 1. To become white or whiter; to be whitened or
blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants. 2. (Med.) To
become pale through disease or absence of light. | source : web1913 |
Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\, v. t. 1. To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by
depriving of the sun's rays. 2. (Med.) To cause to grow pale by disease
or absence of light. | source : web1913 | Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\,
Etiolated \E"ti*o*la`ted\, a. Having a blanched or faded appearance, as
birds inhabiting desert regions. | source : wn | etiolate adj :
(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of
light; "etiolated celery" [syn: {etiolated}, {blanched}] v 1: make weak
by stunting the growth or development of 2: bleach and alter the natural
development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight 3: make pale or
sickly; "alcohol etiolates your skin"
RISKS : E-Divorce banned in Singapore
"...the Syariah Court and the Registry of Muslim
Marriages are "unanimous in their view that divorce through SMS is
unacceptable..."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is blackguard
| source : web1913 | Blackguard \Black"guard`\,
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blackguarded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Blackguarding}.] To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. --Southey. |
source : web1913 | Blackguard \Black"guard\, a. Scurrilous; abusive; low;
worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language. | source : web1913 |
Blackguard \Black"guard\, n. [Black + guard.] 1. The scullions and lower
menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from
one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being
smutted by them, were jocularly called the ``black guard''; also, the
servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode
with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping
pans. --Webster (1612). 2. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a
town or community, collectively. [Obs.] 3. A person of stained or low
character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with
foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. A man whose manners and sentiments are
decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard.
--Macaulay. 4. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [Obs.] | source : wn |
blackguard n : someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog"
[syn: {cad}, {bounder}, {dog}, {hound}, {heel}] v 1: subject to laughter
or ridicule: "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house";
"The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" [syn: {ridicule},
{guy}, {laugh at}, {jest at}, {rib}, {make fun}, {poke fun}] 2: use foul
or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave
her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher" [syn:
{abuse}, {clapperclaw}, {shout}] | source : devils | BLACKGUARD, n. A man
whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market
-- the fine ones on top -- have been opened on the wrong side. An
inverted gentleman.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is stripling
| source : web1913 | Stripling \Strip"ling\, n.
[Dim. of strip; as if a small strip from the main stock or steam.] A
youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to
manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. --1 Sam. xvii.
56. | source : wn | stripling n : a juvenile between the onset of puberty
and maturity [syn: {adolescent}, {teenager}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hobbledehoy
| source : web1913 | Hobbledehoy
\Hob"ble*de*hoy`\, Hobbletehoy \Hob"ble*te*hoy`\, n. [Written also
{hobbetyhoy}, {hobbarddehoy}, {hobbedehoy}, {hobdehoy}.] [ Cf. Prob. E.
hobbledygee with a limping movement; also F. hobereau, a country squire,
E. hobby, and OF. hoi to-day; perh. the orig. sense was, an upstart of
to-day.] A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow .
[Colloq.] All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm.
--Dickens. . | source : wn | hobbledehoy n : an awkward bad-mannered
adolescent boy
Jason McIntosh : The Comics Markup Language Resource Page
"In a nutshell, ComicsML attempts to give online
comics a way to describe their own content, and in so doing expand their
visibility, flexibility, and accessibility in a number of ways."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is potboiler
| source : web1913 | Potboiler \Pot"boil`er\, n.
A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a
painting, done simply for money and the means of living. [Cant] | source
: wn | potboiler n : a literary composition of poor quality that was
written quickly to make money (to boil the pot)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is insuperable
| source : web1913 | Insuperable
\In*su"per*a*ble\, a. [L. insuperabilis: cf. OF. insuperable. See {In-}
not, and {Superable}.] Incapable of being passed over or surmounted;
insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties. And middle natures, how
they long to join, Yet never pass the insuperable line? --Pope. The
difficulty is enhanced, or is . . . insuperable. --I. Taylor. Syn:
Impassable; insurmountable; unconquerable. -- {In*su"per*a*ble*ness}, n.
-- {In*su"per*a*bly}, adv. | source : wn | insuperable adj 1: impossible
to surmount [syn: {insurmountable}] 2: incapable of being surmounted or
excelled; "insuperable odds"; "insuperable heroes" [syn: {unconquerable}]
NY Times : Beyond Hypertext - Novels With Interactive
Animation
"It's a chance to explore not only the message of
the particular work but the form in which it's created. You're
interacting with the story as a maker of the world."
Passively resist this, motherfucker.
The Society of Robotic Combat
Jonathan Eisenzopf has updated his Weblog suite.
"Weblog 1.6 includes several bug fixes,
simplified installation procedures, better RSS 1.0 support, and better
documentation."
Storing RDF in relational databases
"This page summarizes some current approaches to
storing RDF in a relational database. ... To goal is to come up with the
best way of storing RDF in a relational database, or identify a set of
solutions that are suitable for particular needs."
Sarah Musgrave : How the New Economy Turned Me Into an Old
Capitalist
"I can only imagine some ending like that of the
first Star Trek movie, where the computers of the space-wrecked Voyager
ship spend years searching for their creators and that’s why they
keep hassling the Enterprise when it passes through their solar system.
This harassment comes in the form of a bald chick in a short skirt, not a
bad result of a computer geek’s wet dream."
Chip Salzenberg
"I've got to say that this is the longest
distance I've ever seen anyone go to avoid typing one keyword."
I had no idea
that you could actually get a job as a
professional
Web Surfer
. Apparently, "little creativity is required."
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Groove Armada
Everyschool.org : Harvey
"is software that makes it easy for groups of
peope to communicate by posting web pages, pictures, news, and threaded
discussions to a shared server." see also :
Lloyd Tabb : The Harvey Background Story
This looks very very elegant ( even if there appears to be no
documentation on *where* there data is actually stored ) and it's hard
not to admire the spirit behind the project. The bunny is pretty cool too
but I get weird around bunnies in general.
I hacked
Perl Month : MacPerl and XML
February 24 is a Day Without Brad, Evan or Dave
Computer Currents : Profiling Worse Than Subliminal
"While online profiling is in its infancy, it
could become far more insidious than subliminal advertising - a practice
that was never really proven to work, [Jason] Catlett said. "If
advertisers took a graphic of your newly born daughter and started using
it to sell you baby clothes," that would be far worse than inserting
hidden ad messages between movie frames, Catlett contended."
NY Times : How Small-Town Standards Can Block a Big City Class
"Michael Cherry, technical systems administrator
for the Hory County schools, is the main arbiter of what is allowed or
not allowed on the Internet in the county's schools. Mr. Cherry described
his community as 'deep in the Bible Belt,' and said he tried to use that
standard as his guide. ... 'I can sit anywhere in the world, if I can get
on the Internet, and I can see where anyone has been.' Mr. Cherry said."
Eye : There's a lot of money in dick
JJ Charlesworth on the Sensation Generation
"But amateurism's real lack of ambition isn't
simply its rejection of the limited notion of technical specialism.
Rather, the adoption of the amateur idiom is a declaration that the
artist cannot offer a vision of experience which is any more valid or
insightful than anyone else. In much the same way as politicians, lacking
any credibility with the public, prefer to endlessly seek out the
public's opinion rather than set the agenda themselves, so recent artists
content themselves with insisting that they are no different, and no more
extraordinary than the rest of us ... As part of that process of
minimisation, amateurist art, represents a further retreat from the risk
of failure; By lowering the stakes, it becomes impossible to lose."
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
"We believe in two official languages and in a
pluralist society not merely as a political necessity but as an
enrichment....Such a country will be more interesting, more stimulating
and, in many ways, richer than it has ever been."
I am one with my error messages.
I think I'll make my first million
setting up an online bazaar where people can buy,
sell and track the
value of human organs
. It could have reduced commission fees for persons in war-zones. It
could have a draft-round system for nations who rank low on the Annual UN
Good Times & Good Living list. And penalties for anyone who
floods the market, although we'd want to make sure we weren't
unnecessarily stiffling this new emerging economy. To the winner go the
spoils!
Francesco Sylos Labini on the Universe
"My contention is that it is clumpy on all the
scales so far explored. In fact, studies we have done show that the
distribution of matter is fractal, just like a tree or a cloud." Clumpy,
huh? Not quite as sexy as the
grid
metaphor
we all grew up with, but okay.
It's election time in Saskatchewan
and
the NDP
is talking about free university tuition
. "The idea of free tuition has raised a few eyebrows," [Janice
MacKinnon] said. "Everybody's talking about it because it's innovative.
But people are talking about how important education is for the new
economy in the new millennium. We thought it's time to stop talking and
to just do something." It's an election, but Canada got
universal health-care
from the Saskatchewan NDP, so maybe there's hope yet.
The Skydiggers : Live from the Archive
Among my many accomplishments in life, I can
count having talked at the Skydigger's bassist for two or three hours
solid, drunk one night at The Biftek (poor guy.) real audio.
Why does it matter
M.J. Milloy on the St.Jean parade
"After that it dissolved into nothing more
exciting than acres and acres of marchers holding up the clean logos of
corporations: Vidéotron, Hydro-Québec, la Caisse de Depôt.... The
organizers, having stripped the parade of its more overt nationalist and
separatist emblems, had replaced them with the symbols of Quebec?s
corporate elite." It's fascinating and scary how this stuff works. In
<a href = "http://www.commonreader.com/2/2159.html
">Faust's Metropolis</a>, Alexandra Ritchie notes
that, many Germans following World War II, translated their national
identity from one of cultural heritage into one of money making.
Jill Cunniff on women in rock
Discussing the way the image of women musicians
has changed, she cited Salt'N'Pepa. They could appear in a video in just
bras and shorts, Cunniff pointed out, but they certainly didn't come
across as a couple of babes in their undies. "They have," Cunniff said,
"transcended their bras."
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!
Bloc Pot
"«On ne veut pas convaincre les gens de fumer un
joint, précise le chef du Bloc Pot, ce n'est pas de nos affaires, mais on
veut les convaincre que le traitement actuel du cannabis n'est pas le
bon.»"
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.
http://example.com/food#egg. I know that. You know that. Computers are too stupid to figure it out without a high degree of hand-holding .