posts brought to you by the category “the mirror project”
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.
The Mirror Project Random Image Widget 1.0 — it lives!
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“I'll take you down scrawny nephew!”
Meanwhile, in the "Whatever you do, play it loud!" department:
boulevard St. Joseph, Montréal, September 2003
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My koigdnm for a way to oirrvdee Prel's bliut-in pnirt finocutn!
Matthias Wandel : Building a megapixel digital camera from a flatbed scanner
I started playing around with my flatbed scanner to see if I could capture images of stuff around it, by holding the scanner in my hand and rotating it as it scanned.
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John E. Simpson, the XML Q&A guy, has some nice things to say about the XML Résumé extensions I wrote.
Michael Accardo : Win32::Wallpaper.pm
Just yesterday, in the throes of hunger I was staring at the default OS X screensaver that displays pictures of planets wondering how hard it would be to write a screensaver that sucked down random pictures from the
NASA site
(s). Windows weenies, go nuts.
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Alexei Sayle : "What we see in George W Bush is a man with the classic untreated addict's profile."
Despite the fact that Salon
covered most of these bases
a couple years ago and this essay is ultimately about Tony Blair's touchy-feely-ness, I really just wanted to point out that John Candy was a Canadian. I'm not sure what that does the author's analogy.
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Graham Klyne : An XML format for mail and other messages (draft)
Moxy Fruvous : Gulf War Song
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Rodrigo Loyola : Subway...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : esurient
Esurient \E*su"ri*ent\, n. One who is hungry or greedy. [R.] An insatiable esurient after riches. --Wood. web1913
esurient adj 1: extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy" [syn: {famished}, {ravenous}, {sharp-set}, {starved}] 2: (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame" [syn: {avid}, {devouring(a)}, {greedy}] 3: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: {edacious}, {rapacious}, {ravening}, {ravenous}, {voracious}, {wolfish}] wn
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Dan Brickley : RDF for mail filtering - FOAF whitelists
"Other folk have been using whitelist based filtering, which is based on the idea that you keep a 'whitelist' of known email addresses, and filter unknown senders into a folder for occasional scrutiny. After a some bad spam weather, I decided to try combining this technique with content-based filtering, so that genuine messages from unknown addresses would also be separated from the most obvious spam. This document is mostly about the use of RDF to exchange whitelist data, so that we minimise false positives in whitelist based filtering."
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Greg Radzykewycz : Setting up a FreeBSD firewall with an IPSec uplink
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : demagogue
Demagogue \Dem"a*gogue\ (?; 115), n. [Gr. dhmagwgo`s a popular leader; commonly in a bad sense, a leader of the mob; dh^mos the people + 'agwgo`s leading, fr. 'a`gein to lead; akin to E. act: cf. F. d['e]magogue.] A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader. web1913
demagogue n : an orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience [syn: {demagog}, {rabble-rouser}] wn
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5000!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : erudite
Erudite \Er"u*dite\ (?; 135), a. [L. eruditus, p. p. of erudire to free from rudeness, to polish, instruct; e out + rudis rude: cf. F. ['e]rudit. See {Rude}.] Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned. ``A most erudite prince.'' --Sir T. More. ``Erudite . . . theology.'' --I. Taylor. -- {Er"u*dite`ly}, adv. -- {Er"u*dite`ness}, n. web1913
erudite adj : having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor" [syn: {learned}] wn
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James Spahr : JSp_weblog
"is the PHP object class the drives the weblogs here at Designweenie. It is not usable as it is because it depends on some functions in my employer's standard PHP library (which is not available right now). However this can be quickly fixed because the only the MySQL access ( a single function query() ) and the caching functions require the library."
I look forward to reading this because, unless those are just clever design elements, it appears that James has gotten around to doing
nested categories
before me.
update
: I got a nice note from James saying they must be pretty design elements because "I'm not that anal (yet)". Does this mean the race is on? :-)
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Me : meta-tools.xsl
<xsl:variable name = "id" select = "generate-id()" /> <xsl:call-template name = "meta:openMeta"> <xsl:with-param name = "id" select = "$id" /> <xsl:param name = "text" select = "'view meta'" /> </xsl:call-template> <xsl:call-template name = "meta:Block"> <xsl:with-param name = "id" select = "$id" /> <xsl:with-param name = "text"> hello <xsl:call-template name = "Username" /> </xsl:with-param> <xsl:with-param name = "close" select = "'1'" /> </xsl:call-template>I'll post something later today
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N.Y. Times : Consuming Rituals of the Suburban Tribe
"I see. For you, soap and stress are connected in some way."
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Simson Garfinkel : The Web's War on Your Privacy
Although I am usually loathe to say anything about television
in this space, I feel it is important to point out to Americans that, despite what their
televisions
may tell them,
Ontario does
not
border Vermont
. If it makes you (Americans) feel any better, I went to visit my high school History teacher, a couple years ago, and he told me his then students were saying that Mexico was directly south of Canada...
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developerWorks : Introducing ssh-agent and keychain
via
hack the planet
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is skulduggery
| source : wn | skulduggery n : verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way [syn: {trickery}, {hocus-pocus}, {slickness}, {hanky panky}, {jiggery-pokery}, {skullduggery}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is vatic
| source : wn | vatic adj : resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: {divinatory}, {mantic}, {sibylline}, {sibyllic}, {vatical}]
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Benoit Beausejour : DBIx::Sequence.pm
"is intended to give easier portability to Perl database application by providing a database independant unique ID generator. This way, an application developer is not bound to use his database's SEQUENCE or auto_increment thus making his application portable on multiple database environnements."
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The Reefknot project
"has decided to take a "toolkit" approach to developing iCalendar-compliant software [in Perl]. That is, we hope to develop a set of tools and libraries which make it easy for people to develop iCalendar software. We hope that this will help rapidly multiply the number of calendaring tools and systems available, giving users even greater choice and letting us further reap the benefits outlined above."
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Jamie Jaworski : Error handling in JavaScript 1.5
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Chris Turkel : The Gimp running on Xtools 1.b10 on Mac OS X Final.
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NY Times : "The big question, as Mr. Spiegelman put it, is
"How did `Peanuts' consistently depict genuine pain and loss and still keep everything so warm and fuzzy?"
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Andy Wardley : Apache::Template.pm
"provides a simple interface to the Template Toolkit from Apache/mod_perl."
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mmmm...the POD Object Model
Meanwhile, in other Perl news it's been officially announced that, June 13 - 15,
YAPC::NA 2001 will be held on the campus of McGill University, located in the heart of downtown Montréal, Québec, Canada
. Yip-eeeeee!
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Sightings :
Last night, I tried to do the Right Thing
and went to bed early hoping to prevent an itchy throat from becoming a cold. Unfortunately, the condo-weirdos across the street decided that it was 80's revival dance party night. Bic lighters, shiny dresses and Solid Gold dancing on the balcony. In their determination to party like it was 1999, one of the revelers was heard to say that they were just going to keep at it until someone called the police. If you think that one man trying to act and sing like Annie Lennox is bad, let me assure you that four is decidedly worse. Don't believe the hype. The 80's were bad bad years.
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I never found the source, but apparently 80% of the budget that the federal government allocates for Canada Day celebrations goes to Quebec. This on a weekend where upwards of 80,000 families in Montreal alone are moving apartments. This from a Minister of Heritage who blew 50 million bucks to give every Canadian a flag and who went to the States and held up
The Rant
as a shining example of Canadian culture. So, if your country is in need of a Minister of Patriotism, we'd be happy to sell you Sheila Copps.meta
The nice people who brought Montreal
The Anxiety Building
now bring us
MUTEK
: "In the era of digital tools and new media, MUTEK intends to establish itself as an annual gathering showcasing emerging forms of electronic music and the latest trends in sound creation. Its mission is to be on the cutting edge of innovation and to provide an environment for discovery. .. These evenings will be webcast live on the Internet. Taking advantage of the fact that Saint-Laurent Boulevard will be alive with the rhythm of its summer sidewalk sales, MUTEK will also present a set of urban happy hours, in complement of its programme." Is an urban happy hour just Newspeak for free beer? see also
Voir : Ex-centris, prise 2
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Because I've always wanted one of these shiny happy weirdos staring out of my website like it was a Skinner box and they were the rats; I've just been
too cheap to pay for them
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The invisible hand of the marketplace
Jessamyn West
"While violence and scary terrorists may make good stories and sell a lot of papers, I think the real story here is how a couple thousand people, standing up for what they believe in, could bring a city to its knees, non-violently. You do not need to fear anarchists for the reasons you think you do."
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Stressmonkey recommends cowboy poker
to ease the tension after a hard day on the job. real audio (starts 23:29)
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The Internet Stress Reduction Tool
Why does Amazon.com show up as the number one listing for
Internet stress
on Google?
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I like the Internet as much the next person
but it still doesn't cut it for some things. On Sundays, I like to go to a local coffee shop with friends to sit and read the paper for most of the morning. I like that I can come home and post links to some the interesting things that I have read, but I will be sad if the day comes when everything we do "together" is done in isolation on some flavour of "personal information device". I speak from experience : for many years, [U.S.] Thanksgiving in my family found five or six people sitting around the table playing Solitaire. That was already strange enough, but then the laptop craze hit and I would come down to the kitchen in the afternoon and see a table surrounded by grown adults all playing "card games" on their portable computers.
On that note, I leave you today with the Wisdom of Bendypig (passed along by mapgirl ), which says : "Try drinking coffee through a bendy straw, you can never take yourself too seriously doing that."
On that note, I leave you today with the Wisdom of Bendypig (passed along by mapgirl ), which says : "Try drinking coffee through a bendy straw, you can never take yourself too seriously doing that."
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Susan L. Lukesh : Email and the Potential Loss to Future Archives and Scholarship
C'est La Vie : Word of the Week
What *are* those wacky French-Canadians saying, anyway?
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NY Times : Big Business Experiments With Web Art
Jared Spool
"Now it doesn't matter if the actually thing that they are looking for is one click away or six clicks away, as long as they are able to follow the scent to get to the content, they will be very happy users. And the good sites get users to follow the scent."
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Wired on Genetically modified trees
"The Michigan team figured out a solution by engineering aspen trees with 45 percent less lignin content. At the same time, the loss in strengthening materials is compensated for with a 15 percent increase in cellulose." Apparently, these trees are also
pink
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Few updates on Friday or Saturday
for the next few weeks while I work at
Morning Glory Farm
(I ran the herb garden, during the summers, while I was in school.)
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Senate Votes to Cut U.S. Contributions to United Nations
"By U.N. calculations, that leaves the United States $1.69 billion in arrears, nearly 60 percent of the total debt owed to the 185-nation organization."
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The Holden Caufield Fan Club
real audio