posts brought to you by the category “justice”
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.
Mélanie Baillairgé : Calvin
There was a picture of Mussolini greeting veterans from the First World War.
The Connection : A Life of Letters
Me : A better Photo RDF
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.2
Use the $OSNAME, Luke.
Subject: Tell me, how long am I going to have to listen to Daniel Libeskind...
Matt Sergeant : AxKit OpenOffice Provider
The product includes an AxKit plugin, an AxKit provider and DTDs and Stylesheets to make delivering SXW files to the web a trivial matter, and the results are pretty too.
John R. Smith : mt.pl
[is a] a command line client that I wrote which talks to the MT MySQL backend.
Joe Johnston : Emacs, Perl and SOAP - The New Axis of Evil
The strategy I used to create this emacs extension is very simple. Since I don't know lisp (and lisp isn't trivial to pick up), write just enough lisp to scrap data out of emacs and shell out to the perl script for the real work. It's almost as if I'm treating emacs like a web browser (yes I know emacs already has a real web browser and spreadsheet program).
The Darwin Streaming Server is now part of the FreeBSD ports collection
Washington Post : Google Introduces Human-Less News
Uche Ogbuji : Merging XBEL bookmark files
How to hide CSS from buggy browsers
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fantabulanistical
Used to describe something that's fantastic, wonderful, amazing, bringing about many happy warm fuzzy feelings.
ex. Rob is an extremely fantabulanistical person.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : polymath
polymath n : a person of great and varied learning
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : laudable
Laudable \Laud"a*ble\, a. [L. laudabilis: cf. OE. laudable. See {Laud}, v. i.] 1. Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition. 2. (Med.) Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. --Arbuthnot.
web1913
laudable adj : worthy of high praise; "applaudable efforts to save the environment"; "a commendable sense of purpose"; "laudable motives of improving housing conditions"; "a significant and praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence" [syn: {applaudable}, {commendable}, {praiseworthy}]
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Props to the Creative Commons gang on their launch.
Perlmonks : Some Pure-Perl SVG applications
Oh look, I'm in USA Today
A follow-up to yesterday's thoughts about the iPod :
Matt Sergeant : "It's Lego for XML."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : comboable
something that is able to be made into a combo. Used in Pool games.
ex. "That shot looks comboable"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is prink
| source : web1913 | Prink \Prink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prinked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prinking}.] [Probably a nasalized form of prick. See {Prick}, v. t., and cf. {Prig}, {Prank}.] To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank. | source : web1913 | Prink \Prink\, v. t. To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically. ``And prink their hair with daisies.'' --Cowper. | source : wn | prink v 1: dress very carefully and in a finicky manner 2: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive [syn: {dress up}, {fig out}, {fig up}, {deck up}, {gussy up}, {fancy up}, {trick up}, {deck out}, {trick out}, {attire}, {get up}, {rig out}, {tog up}, {tog out}, {overdress}] [ant: {dress down}]
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}]
Design Your Own O'Reilly Book Cover
Enrico Schnepel : html2fo
"I have developed html2fo because I had to create a new server driven printing solution for an client-server-based application. The previous printing solution was using Microsoft Word mailing function for importing data and printing. As everybody knows - Word is not platform independent. But this was the main goal for the new printing solution. We have chosen PDF as platform independent document format and I had to convert about 40 documents with about 100 Sheets altogether. I used StarOffice to convert from .doc to .html because Word is in HTML export not as good as StarOffice. (There are worlds between them...) After using html2fo for converting to xsl:fo, a manual processing and rendering to PDF using FOP from Apache - Now I have a new printing solution."
Jeffrey Rosen : A Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance
"I had gone to Britain to answer a question that seems far more pertinent today than it did early last month: why would a free and flourishing Western democracy wire itself up with so many closed-circuit television cameras that it resembles the set of "The Real World" or "The Truman Show"? ... The promise of cameras as a magic bullet against crime and terrorism inspired one of [John] Major's most successful campaign slogans: "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear.""
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is frangible
| source : web1913 | Frangible \Fran"gi*ble\, a. [Cf. F. frangible.] Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken. | source : wn | frangible adj : capable of being broken; "the museum stored all frangible articles in locked showcases"
Me : Blogger.pm 0.4
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cavort
| source : web1913 | Cavort \Ca*vort"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cavorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cavorting}.] To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider. [Local slang, U. S.] | source : wn | cavort v : play or romp around; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows" [syn: {frolic}, {lark}, {rollick}, {skylark}, {disport}, {sport}, {gambol}, {frisk}, {romp}, {run around}, {lark about}]
CBC : "[Rob Anders] admitted that one of the reasons he refused to back the motion
[bestowing honourary Canadian citizenship on Nelson Mandela] is because the Liberals blocked his party's attempt to honour the 50th wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. 'It's got to be quid pro quo here.' Anders said."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is abattoir
| source : web1913 | Abattoir \A`bat`toir"\ ([.a]`b[.a]t`tw[aum]r"), n.; pl. {Abattoirs} (-tw[aum]rz"). [F., fr. abattre to beat down. See {Abate}.] A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. | source : wn | abattoir n : a building where animals are butchered [syn: {butchery}, {shambles}, {slaughterhouse}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is egress
| source : web1913 | Egress \E"gress\, n. [L. egressus, fr. egredi to go out; e out + gradi to go. See {Grade}.] 1. The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure. Embarred from all egress and regress. --Holland. Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress. --Milton. 2. (Astron.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit. | source : web1913 | Egress \E*gress"\, v. i. To go out; to depart; to leave. | source : wn | egress n 1: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins" [syn: {emergence}, {issue}] 2: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent [syn: {egression}, {emergence}] 3: (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse [syn: {emersion}]
Libby Miller : Generate RDF from your Palm Datebook file
"The idea of this demo is that you can upload your palm datebook files to an RDF database to be merged with other calendar files, without syncing your palm or changing any of the data. Private files will not be uploaded. This demo generates rdf descriptions of any events in the Palm datebook which happen today." see also :
JavaScript RDF calendar
I'm not much for pop-up windows
Dan O'Connor : The FreeBSD Cheat Sheets
"are notes that I have made to myself, so that I could re-create what I have done in the event of a catastrophic failure of either the hardware or me. I have made no attempt to explain the 'why' behind the actions, or to take into account all the possible configuration options, as there are other sources available which cover such topics in-depth."
The Ubergeeks : "Code is an expressive language,
just as are mathematical formulae, music scores and dance choreography. ... That code is literary also is illustrated by the many devotees of Perl poetry, or, on the other side of the coin, by the International Obfuscated C Code Contest which seeks to illustrate through the irony of functional but poorly written code (deliberately so, for the purpose of the contest) the importance of good writing style."
My friend John is directing a live webcast
from Halifax today at 13h00 (Atlantic.) "A Splendid Torch, A Nova Scotia Youth Arts Showcase is being produced to celebrate the artistic drive and excellence of young Nova Scotian artists."
Jonathon Eisenzopf : RSA Encryption in Perl
"using the Crypt::RC4 module."
I got my hair cut the other day.
It is shorter than I planned but my only real concern during the summer is that [it] not stick to my forehead when it gets hot. As expected, I've started getting comments from people that I look an awful lot like Stockwell Day, leader and idiot-savant of the CRAP party and general all-around tool of The Man. Seeing as how some guy in B.C. managed to register
stockwelldaysucks.com
before me, I'm thinking of using my new found disguise to travel the province of Quebec
pretending to be the Holy Word of CRAP
, quoting liberally from the works of Pierre Trudeau and Diane Francis wherever I go.
Last night, I went down to the Jazz Fest
with someone from the States. As we entered the festival area we saw a guy getting his bag patted down. I commented that there was no free beer here, only four dollar
piss-water in plastic cups
. My friend looked at me and said: "Beer? I thought they were checking for guns." In other news, we caught the tail end of
Alex Pangman
's set and discovered that
Yeska
are doing outdoor shows on the 3rd and 4th. Yippeee! For those of you unable to come to Montreal, the U of M student radio station has donated their airwaves to something called
Radio-Jazz Bell
"qui vous fera vibrer au son du Festival." (real evil g2) I feel obliged to mention that the Jazz Fest has a
website
but it is Shockwave nightmare that makes up for its lack of streaming feeds and webcams with popup windows. You've been warned.
Jon Katz : Universal Access
Universal access [ to the Network ] is an important idea but this kind of blind-faith the ends justify the means celebration terrifies me. What are the terms of use for these things and what are the guarantees that an employee's behaviour outside of work won't be monitored and subject to review by The Corporation? Universal -- not to mention fair and equitable -- access is a big problem and big problems are usually not solved by simply making the trains run on time.
Meanwhile,
Speaking of Python
LA Times : Software Makers Aim to Dilute Consumer Rights
"There's a consensus that something needs to be changed, said Rick Miller, a Microsoft spokesman. There is a desire, as we work across the country, to have some uniformity in software laws." Yeah yeah yeah. Global positioning, world markets, new competitors. It spells greed and, frankly, it's pretty fucking dis-heartening.
Words & Pictures Exhibit : Elektra Assassin
Still beautiful. This was one of those works that changed everything for me.
Never mind aaronland t-shirts
Zai, etoy agent
"We have a lot of sites of people who are totally pissed off about this. They are about to start electronic riots. They are thinking about starting illegal actions. We are not really happy about it, but what can we do? Now a lot of people turn into terrorists if this goes on. They don't see any chance of our getting our rights. That's when riots start, when people feel powerless and nobody listens to arguments, only money matters."
Simson Garfinkel
"It used to be that the best way to protect yourself from being spammed was to be cagey with your e-mail address. ... At the Spam Roundtable, I learned that more and more spammers are resorting to dictionary attacks, where they send e-mail to any address that's likely to be valid. If the message gets through, that's great for the spammer. If the message bounces, the spammer doesn't care."
Mark-Jason Dominus : The Sins of Perl Revisted
Would that I have my wits about me
Everything was fine when I woke; it was only when I got to work that the hangover set in. What more do you need in life than a little
grappa
and a little
Scrabble
? (In the tiny victories department, we managed three 7-letter words in ten minutes.)
As It Happens talks to Leonard Kleinrock
about the upcoming anniversary of the birth of the Internet and beyond. real audio (starts 35:20)
NY Times : Silicon Valley Work Ethic Crosses the Atlantic
Is it a work ethic, or just anxiety? If all you do is work then all you know is work; eventually, all you're good for is work. Go figure.
A web-based pdf2html service
What a clever hack; I'd love to see the code! I'm curious, though, why they've built their business around using Layers when Netscape has said publicly that they are going to scrap them.
What is Monk?
"Monk is the epic saga of two men who quit their jobs and sold everything they owned and hit the road with their cats, Nurse and Nurse's Aide, and for eleven and a half years argued across America, publishing the world's only mobile magazine."
Forget the sailors
they've managed for centuries without a GPS, it's the
citizens of Tokyo
we need to be worried about.
Tiananmen Square, 1989 : The Declassified Documents
Alicia Neumann : The Overtime Stigma
"The start-up culture has taught many to think of work as a hierarchy-free team effort with distributed ownership -- even if most employees hold a tiny fraction of the shares held by the company's founders and investors." I want to believe. via
bump
.
When it, hanging by the inside of the door to the shop owner's private , was mentioned afterwards the shapes I had noticed in my peripheral vision on my way out started to make sense.
It was the first and last shop we went to in Deruta. All the others that we saw, save for one that was selling garish Picasso -esque splatter comedies, continue to produce the same ornate and intricate decorative pieces that the town is famous for.