posts brought to you by the category “kill your television”
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.
“I am sorry that anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction”
rue Clark, Montréal, January 2004
Former BBC correspondent Martin Bell, on “24-hour rolling-news” television
Gavin Estey : “Then I felt creative and wrote a script to work out who I've emailed recently and make sure that they're in my [SpamAssassin] whitelist.”
Excerpted : Is that a database in your pants?
Friday June 13 2003
Montreal
The other day I finished importing five years of email into a database
so I could do full text searches on it.
Because I have a potty-mouth, I discovered that out of a possible 32,
000 messages fewer than 400 contain both the words "fuck" and "shit".
<snip />
Part of my struggle ... was trying to remember how to set the auto-increment
counter for a field in one of the database tables.
Would that I were able to find what I needed in the docs, but I knew
that the answer was buried somewhere in an old email message. So I
typed...
$> findmail -date 2002 -term '(auto increment)'
...and, lo, there it was!
Some day, I'll make paintings about all this crap. You'll see...
Joshua Stein : Replacing WEP with IPsec
The Sunday Edition : What It Means To Be a Liberal
a panel discussion with Michael Ignatieff and Charles Taylor
(real audio)
Libby Miller : Examples of marking up geographical information in RDF
Dave Rolsky on Module::Build.pm
All of this prompts the question of "why not just use Perl itself for all of this?" That's exactly the question that Ken Williams answered with Module::Build. The goal of Module::Build is to do everything useful that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does, but to do this all with pure Perl wherever possible.
Amphetathoughts #2 : It will be a cold day in Hell before it ships with XML::LibXML
Me: eatdrinkfeelgood-1.1-to-indexcard-fo.xsl 0.92
Piers Harding : Jabber::mod_perl
"is an embedded Perl interpreter in the jabberd2 sm ( session manager )."
Susan Sontag : Real Battles and Empty Metaphors
I do not question that we have a vicious, abhorrent enemy that opposes most of what I cherish — including democracy, pluralism, secularism, the equality of the sexes, beardless men, dancing (all kinds), skimpy clothing and, well, fun. And not for a moment do I question the obligation of the American government to protect the lives of its citizens. What I do question is the pseudo-declaration of pseudo-war. These necessary actions should not be called a "war." There are no endless wars; but there are declarations of the extension of power by a state that believes it cannot be challenged.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : insensate
Insensate \In*sen"sate\, a. [L. insensatus. See {In-} not, and {Sensate}.] Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. --Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. --Buckle. -- {In*sen"sate*ly}, adv. -- {In*sen"sate*ness}, n.
web1913
insensate adj 1: devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone" [syn: {insentient}] [ant: {sentient}] 2: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: {cold}, {cold-blooded}, {inhuman}]
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Elliotte Rusty Harold : Using XInclude
"XInclude is an emerging W3C specification for building large XML documents out of multiple well-formed XML documents, independently of validation. Each piece can be a complete XML document, a fragmentary XML document, or a non-XML text document like a Java program or an e-mail message."
Matt Kingston : Homebrew TrackBack Tutorial
W3C : IsaViz
IsaViz is a visual environment for browsing and authoring RDF models represented as graphs.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : quiztory
the recording of a quiz night victory
ex. WOW,What a win by table number 8, this will surely go down in quiztory as the greatest win ever
Me : Blogger.pm 0.6.1
Why couldn't we have just had The Cry-baby start in nets
Me : googlenews2rss 1.0
I've added the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup to the Perlblog
Mark Hershberger : Myblogger.el
"is based on Simon Kittle's blogger.el, but where his code calls a Perl program, this code uses xml-rpc.el. As of this writing, my mods to xml-rpc.el are needed to add support for boolean types."
Me : WWW::Pseudodictionary.pm 0.1.1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is agitprop
| source : wn | agitprop n : a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government [syn: {propagandist}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is dulcet
| source : web1913 | Dulcet \Dul"cet\, a. [OF. doucet, dim. of dous sweet, F. doux, L. dulcis; akin to Gr. ? . Cf. {Doucet}.] 1. Sweet to the taste; luscious. [Obs.] She tempers dulcet creams. --Milton. 2. Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious. Their dainty lays and dulcet melody. --Spenser. | source : wn | dulcet adj 1: extremely pleasant in a gentle way; "the most dulcet swimming on the most beautiful and remote beaches" 2: pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: {honeyed}, {mellifluous}, {mellisonant}, {sweet}]
How To Use the AbiWord [Perl] Bindings
N.Y. Times : "If Edison had been an existential technologist,
he would have invented the light bulb not to create light but to give intellectual illumination. In existech, as in existential philosophy, an inventor builds something, then tries to figure out what it is." see also :
some classrooms at Bentley
[College] have technology that allows teachers to capture a student's e-mails or instant messages and display them on a large screen for the whole class to see.
Leah McClaren : "But what else could Bush say?
What else could people do but pray? The frustration the young New Yorker felt was not with the President's sentiment, but with the cheap, canned feeling of déjà vu it evoked. The sense that we had been here many times before when, in fact, we had not."
From the "know yer tools" department : Tim Bray on XML::Parser
"The fact that XML::Parser is so much slower than regexp, when it's based on James Clark's blazingly-fast expat parser, is silly and wrong."
William Gibson : "Understanding otaku -hood,
I think, is one of the keys to understanding the culture of the web. There is something profoundly post-national about it, extra-geographic. We are all curators, in the post-modern world, whether we want to be or not."
Luis Argerich : Using XML-RPC from PHP
Philippe Breton : "Quand on analyse les discours des fondamentalistes du "tout-Internet",
qui sont d'ailleurs proches d'une certaine religiosité, on voit qu'un certain nombre de valeurs sont attaquées, en particulier la question de la loi. Avec Internet, on pourrait construire un monde dans lequel il n'y aurait plus de loi; un monde dans lequel la communication indirecte serait plus importante que la parole directe; un monde où la personne humaine ne serait plus une valeur fondamentale, puisque l'on pourrait, grâce à Internet, collectiviser les esprits. La loi, la parole et la personne sont pourtant trois valeurs fondatrices de l'humanité, et de l'humanisme."
Politics of Culture : E-Books: On Paper or in the Hand?
It says something, I think,
Bookworm : Post-modern Comix w/ Chris Ware and Dan Clowes
14h30 PST (real evil G2) I saw this about a month ago randomly surfing through the KCRW site. But I knew I would forget all about it --like I did until I checked the first post from this morning-- so I posted it last month.
I love rolling my own
.
My friend Christine
is going to be doing readings of her book, Last Chance Texaco, in Montreal next month : "The dates are as follows: McGill - (don't have a room # as of yet, but am reading for Sue Elmslie's
contemporary women's fiction
class and the general public) Fri, Dec 1st, 11:30 am.
Paragraphe Bookstore
- Tues, Dec 5th, 7 pm.
Doublehook Bookstore
- Thurs, Dec 7th, 7:30 pm." Funny, and I thought all my friends were lawyers.
Ahmed El-Mahmoudy : lynx2links
The Memory Project : Veteran's Stories Archive
Hour : It's not the internet, stupid
"Here's a look at the net-savvy parts of each platforms, focussing on the Red Book of futureman Jean Chrétien's Liberals."
Jiri Jirat : XSL Tracer
"[displays the] name of the currently processed XML element or attribute, full XPath of the currently processed XML element or attribute, values of parameters and variables, all nodes of node-set which is matched by select expression in xsl:apply-templates or xsl:for-each, value returned by xsl:value-of" (javascript)
As It Happens : "The Institute of Economic Affairs
took a look at some of the websites of British MPs. The think tank describes them as comically inept, criminally bland and showing an absolute lack of character. " (real audio)
New Scientist : Tetris-playing amnesiacs reveal why dreams can be so weird
"By blocking declarative memories and forcing the system to work with these weak associations, the brain is coerced into looking for unexpected, novel and potentially highly creative and useful connections that otherwise we would not notice."
Les Entartistes : Éthique de la tarte
"Pratiquez une politique d'entartement universel. Entartez les chefs de tout acabit et ceux qui occupent les positions d'autorité, mais d'une façon non-partisane. Silvousplait, pas de tarte séparatiste, fédéraliste, communiste, sexiste, raciste, etc. Nous sommes contre TOUT pouvoir, qu'il soit économique, politique ou médiatique, mais sommes définitivement en faveurs des humains, libres." see also :
Le manifeste de 'Internationale pâtissière
"Entartons, entartons les pompeux cornichons !"
Talk of the Nation : [The] End of Nationhood
"A discussion with the French Ambassador to the European Union [ Jean Marie Guehenno, author of
The End of the Nation State
] about changes to the traditional notion of the nation-state. With the advent of the global village and changing alliances world wide, the ways we think about nations and their individual sovereignty are changing." (real evil g2)
Joust
"lets you create really, really spiffy JavaScript index menus that function just like Windows Explorer (or Mac Finder) folder hierarchies." via
more like this
Snort bargle blap
Can someone explain why art stores are so loathe to sell pencils with erasers on the ends?
Michael Schwern : Sex.pm
"Given two (or more, I'm a liberal guy) packages, Sex.pm will recombine their symbols at random recombining them into the new module thus providing a cross-section of its functions and global variables."
Can someone tell me
where all the clocks that used to be in
the métro
have gone?
I had no idea that
Eye : Build your own toboggan
"Our sensible friend Julia points out that a toboggan's front must be curved, or else it will dig into the snow and flip its passengers head over heels. Ouch. She's right. Luckily, I have the fluted lid on a big plastic garbage pail, hanging around our kitchen unused. A few pieces of duct tape later, and the toboggan has a curved front." mmmmm...
duct tape
.
I had no idea that
Thomas Friedman : Little Brother
"...people suffer from the illusion that however cyberspace is right now is how it must always be. It can't be changed. It's a place to be discovered, not shaped. But cyberspace was not handed down by God."
Flatfishnight
I think I'm going to iScream
NY Times : E-mail, E-commerce and Now E-buildings
"It's starting with the technologies -- who can offer better reception or faster, cheaper speeds," he said. "Later, the competition may focus on content" -- who can provide better-quality, lower-cost information; who has the smarter, more thoroughly wired "information concierge." For a complete discussion, see William Mitchell's
City of Bits : Space, place & the Infobahn
.
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.
Today is St. Jean Baptiste Day!
St. Jean Baptiste Day is the national holiday in Quebec. For some people it's a heavy-duty day of deeply-political nationalism. For most people, though, it's a day to
celebrate what a cool and funky place Quebec is
and that summer it finally here!
Mozilla M7 is out
The screen refresh sucks and it keeps crashing when I try to set preferences, but it's still pretty exciting. mmmmm...standards.
That Void In Cyberspace Looks a Lot Like Kansas
"The simulation has a way of going blank -- while underneath it lies not a void but human flesh, raw and insistent. Much as the characters try to live in a mental world, evidence of their organs keep poking clownishly into the picture. "