posts brought to you by the category “network”
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.
Personally, I'm fond of gluing silica-gel packets to postcards
John Beppu : Apache::AuthenMT.pm
That's pretty clever. I wonder how hard it
would be to hack the package such that membership to a particular
weblog is interpreted as the functional equivalent of Apache's
require group
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Ben Hammersley : Contemporaria
Despite my growing fatigue with the Idea of
Weblog and the uneasy feeling that what Ben's done is going to prompt
another flood of mindless blather about the P2P-ness of our
kitchen sinks
and how once they're RDF-enabled they'll be able to more effectively
exchange P3P data and I will be able to have a giant online
the future's so bright
mind-meld with all of Ben's friends and their friends and the friends
of their friends...despite all of that, I kind of like this.
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Years from now, assuming we're all still alive,
someone will note that the U.N. report on
Iraqi weapons, widely believed to be
the
trigger for an invasion by the United Stat...I mean, the "Coalition of
the Willing"
, was released on the day after the Super Bowl and wonder if that was
just a coincidence.
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The Internet Topic Exchange
Regardless of their actual intent, it sounds enough like this to warm my heart and I've already sent the developer a note about details for writing a Net::ITE Perl module. Meanwhile, speaking of categories, I accidentally lay waste to the entire Aaronland categorization system the other day which is why they've suddenly vanished. I have a backup so they'll be back when I finish rewriting the current codebase to use Class::DBI and start writing everything as static files again. Ultimately, the plan is to effectively blur the lines between data-store of my weblog(s), addressbook, email archive and if I'm ever brave enough to tackle recurring dates a calendar. The relationships are easy enough but the permissions stuff (do any RDBMS have row level grant permissions?) still has me scratching my head. So, I guess I'll just clean up what I've got now and slowly build on that with an eye towards the warm fuzziness.This is the first public implementation of the Ridiculously Easy Group Forming concept. It's a central server to host TrackBack-powered channels. It's designed to let anyone effortlessly create a channel to archive pointers to information on a given topic.
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Bob DuCharme : Automatic Numbering [in XSLT] Part 1
Joe Johnston : Emacs, Perl and SOAP - The New Axis of Evil
On a tangentially related note, is there anyone out there will to test Bloxsom and/or LiveJournal engines for Net::Blogger ?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).
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Joseph Stiglitz : The Roaring Nineties
ur emerging understanding of the 1990s requires that we admit, to ourselves and to the world, that we were engaged in a misguided attempt to achieve growth on the cheap.
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We are still so well off that we may not suffer immediately from this diminution in our wealth, but the consequences are already becoming clear: a loss of confidence not only in markets, and especially the stock market, but in government; a suspicion that the system is rigged to be an insider's game; a blow to America's moral leadership abroad. The attack on American-style globalization may be driven by Luddites and protectionists—but it is fed by a perception of American hypocrisy and the unfairness of the new global regime.
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Me : XML::Handler::NYTimes.pm 0.1
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : zeppster
An avid or devout fan of the band Led Zeppelin.
ex. Wally's a real zeppster.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bong
"really good or nice, "
ex. your friend is really bongsee also : bong dict-ified
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : aristobrat
an aristocrat who acts terribly.
ex. "Sarah-Jane, beware of that aristobrat slouching at the bar. He likes to flash more than his money."
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : cueless
The blank expression on a newsreader's face when the autocue breaks down.
ex. When they cut to camera 5 and for a moment, he looked totally cueless.
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Me : Image::Shoehorn.pm
I mention this in passing since it was
released while I was "away". It is the polished version of the
Apache::ImageViewer
package mentioned in an
earlier post
about slideshows. I am slowly working my way through the rest of the
project. First, there is a
XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2::Base
package which might get finished over the weekend. Then there is
XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2XHTML
which is more interesting than plain vanilla XSLT because it allows
users to define event-based handler and callback widgets first
introduced in
XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2RSS
and now part of the
Base.pm
library. Unlike the original train of thought, which imagined modifying
the XHTML DTD to allow for "inline" meta tags on a per-image basis, I
am thinking of simply wrapping stuff in <div class = "meta">
tags and setting their
display
value to "none" via CSS. The problem with this approach is that it
does't fail very gracefully in text browsers of Netscape 4. Maybe I
will just write another SAX filter...
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : eschew
Eschew from old French eschever, "to flee from" (Job 1:1, 8; 2:3; 1 Pet. 3:11). easton
Eschew \Es*chew"\ (es*ch[udd]"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eshewed} (-ch[udd]"d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eshewing}.] [OF. eschever, eschiver, eskiver, F. esquiver, fr. OHG. sciuhen, G. scheuen; akin to E. sky. See {Shy}, a.] 1. To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of. They must not only eschew evil, but do good. --Bp. Beveridge. 2. To escape from; to avoid. [Obs.] He who obeys, destruction shall eschew. --Sandys. web1913
eschew v : avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of [syn: {shun}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cosset
Cosset \Cos"set\, v. t. To treat as a pet; to fondle. She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. --O. W. Holmes. web1913
cosset v : treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: {pamper}, {featherbed}, {cocker}, {baby}, {coddle}, {mollycoddle}, {spoil}, {indulge}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : alkisedated
Tto be sedated by alcohol, passed out.
ex. I was alkisedated and woke up in a cow pasture only wearing one shoe.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : quotidian
Quotidian \Quo*tid"i*an\, a. [OE. cotidian, L. quotidianus, fr. quotidie daily; quotus how many + dies day: cf. OF. cotidien, F. quotidien. See {Quota}, {Deity}.] Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever. web1913
quotidian adj : found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: {everyday}, {mundane}, {routine}, {unremarkable}, {workaday}] wn
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"One of our pet peeves here at As It Happens
is the misuse of the apostrophe. We have spoken
with people involved in the righteous struggle to enforce proper
apostrophe usage. Last week we got a glimpse into the lives of those
noble warriors. It came to us in the form of a series of letters between
the members of the American Apostrophe Association, and the lawyer for
the Albertsons grocery store chain."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is malapropos
| source : web1913 | Malapropos \Mal*ap"ro*pos`\,
a. & adv. [F. mal [`a] propos; mal evil + [`a] propos to the
purpose.] Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably. |
source : wn | malapropos adj : of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied
nature [ant: {apropos}] adv : at an inconvenient time; "he arrived
inopportunely just as we sat down for dinner"; "she answered malapropos"
[syn: {inopportunely}] [ant: {opportunely}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is enunciate
| source : web1913 | Enunciate \E*nun"ci*ate\, v.
t. [imp. & p. p. {Enunciated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Enunciating}.]
[L. enuntiatus, -ciatus, p. p. of enuntiare, -ciare. See {Enounce}.] 1.
To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a
truth. The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the
gospel. --Coleridge. 2. To make distinctly audible; to utter
articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly. | source
: web1913 | Enunciate \E*nun"ci*ate\, v. i. To utter words or syllables
articulately. | source : wn | enunciate v 1: speak, pronounce, or utter
in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot
say `zip wire'" [syn: {pronounce}, {articulate}, {enounce}, {say}] 2:
express or state clearly [syn: {articulate}, {vocalize}]
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Apparently Canadians are also unwilling to stand, publicly, behind their opinions.
I suppose I will keep an eye on this one.
Notwithstanding
the
Anonymous
Coward
schtick, it might be hard to keep it up with gems like :
Someone should fix Canada
. Uh huh, really. The parlimentary system? Confederation? Regionalism?
Our willingness to rally around beer commercials? I mean, what, is the
Canadian Shield broken or something? So far, I gather our greatest ill
is the shocking lack of e-commerce sites that ship to Canada. In terms
of sheer goofiness, I think this is only matched by the old
Rhinoceros [sic]
party
promise to give every Canadian a toaster.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is eldritch
| source : web1913 | Eldritch \El"dritch\, a.
Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local, Eng.] | source
: wn | eldritch adj : suggesting the operation of supernatural
influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters";
"stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy;
"an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew
piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: {weird}, {uncanny}, {unearthly}]
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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.
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Rupert Scammell : mysynth.py
"Inspired by this, I wrote a small program that
performs speech synthesis of questionable accuracy on a given input file.
Speech synthesis in 73 lines! ... Output is a series of numbered wav
files (0.wav, 1.wav, etc), along with a playlist file (CR separated
filenames) that you can feed to your favourite media player like Winamp
or XMMS, which will play the files in the correct order."
If this doesn't scream
gratuitous use of Inline::Python in Blogger.pm
, I don't know what does...
via
daily-python
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Me : Blogger.pm 0.5.2
Neils Ferguson : Censorship in action - why I don't publish my HDCP results
Ed, are you flying East
Ladies and gentlemen, cell-phone art...
Marjory S. Blumenthal and David D. Clark : Rethinking the design of the Internet
The end to end arguments vs. the brave new world.
"This paper looks at the Internet and the changing set of requirements
for the Internet that are emerging as it becomes more commercial, more
oriented towards the consumer, and used for a wider set of purposes. We
discuss a set of principles that have guided the design of the Internet,
called the end to end arguments, and we conclude that there is a risk
that the range of new requirements now emerging could have the
consequence of compromising the Internet’s original design
principles. Were this to happen, the Internet might lose some of its key
features, in particular its ability to support new and unanticipated
applications." (pdf)
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This American Life : The Growing Aesthetic of Cringe.
"There are movies and TV shows and photographs
and books whose whole point is to make us cringe. In fact, it's a growing
aesthetic in America right now. Cringe is the new horror. It shares some
characteristics with horror, but has overtaken it in pop culture. And the
land where cringe is king is the land of Reality TV."
What is a "combustible stranger" ?
(real evil g2 - starts 19m30)
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W3C RDF-Calendaring mailing list
The nay-sayers will doubtless be
unimpressed, but I've already heard someone talking about the need to
daisy-chain clocks "so I can get from yours to mine and back" which, at
the very least, is a pretty sounding phrase. My interest here lies in
the overlap between weblogs and bookmarks and journals and calendars.
The code that drives this site, for example, not only has hooks to post
to the future (or the past) but also to post across date spans. It is a
little used feature because I have never gotten around to sussing out
the logic and UI bugs that occur when you mix date spans and
arbitrarily postioning posts. I suppose it's really just another lookup
table. It would be neat to watch a given post rise and fall in
precedence to other items over the course of its "life".
Anyway...
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Chris Turkel : The Gimp running on Xtools 1.b10 on Mac OS X Final.
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brian d. foy : Creating a Perl Debugger
Andy Wardley : Building and Managing Web Sites with the Template Toolkit
"These demonstrate the construction of both
static and dynamic HTML pages using the standard toolkit utilities,
custom CGI scripts and Apache/mod_perl handlers. The use of standard
plugin modules is included to demonstrate integration with CGI [ 2 ], XML
[ 3 ] and DBI [ 4 ], and methods for extending the Template Toolkit by
binding to external data and user-defined code are also covered."
mmmm... re-writes.
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bk2site
"will transform your Netscape bookmarks file into
a yahoo-like website with slashdot-like news. ... My goal is to enable
the user to establish zero-maintenance high-value (small) websites. I am
now using all the information in the bookmarks file, as well as some
simple recommender system techniques. ... It can also download (http)
other people's channels (RSS files) and display their contents in the
generated web pages." I don't remember whether or not you can manipulate
the bookmarks file with the Netscape Java/JavaScript hooks. If you could,
though, and were running Apache you could hack bk2site into a mod_perl
handler and manage your whole weblog, locally, with bookmarklets.
Interesting.
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Jeff Rowan : Creating a Log Class in Perl
"What did all those spooler daemons do while I
was at lunch?"
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Overheard : "Michael Dukakis said that if Ralph Nader really did cost Al Gore the election,
he would go out and strangle him with his own
hands which is interesting since he wasn't sure what he would do if
someone raped and murdered his wife."
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Carlos Ramirez : Perldoc.com
Soon to come : "perldoc functionality via URLS"
mmmmm .... perldoc
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Alex Shah, Tony Darugar : Creating High Performance Web Applications
"using Perl, Display Templates, XML, and Database
Content" Also of interest, on the same server, are
A Fresh Look at Efficient Perl Sorting
and
FISH, Finally an Interactive Shell
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My mom posted pictures from Laos the other day
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CNN : Will the real katie.com please stand up?
"There's a certain naivete in publishing a book
about the Internet, with a Web address in the title, publicizing the book
online, and making no attempt to buy or secure the logical domain name."
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Harvey Blume : Geek Studies
"[I]f there's one overriding theme to the geek
corpus, it's that tales of the geek will almost always be tales of
science -- of what science is doing to us, what it's turning us into.
Much as God is always a presence, however peripheral, in the Hebrew
Bible, so science rules the expanse of geek studies. That in itself is
one reason geeks are getting so much attention: the impact of science on
our lives is something we're endlessly anxious to understand."
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Richard Martineau
"Une des choses qui a toujours séparé les
Canadiens des Américains, c'est notre foi envers les institutions. Pour
les Américains, le gouvernement est une menace, qui étouffe l'individu;
alors que pour nous, c'est un filet de sécurité, qui protège le citoyen.
Ils conjuguent l'Histoire au «Moi», alors que nous la conjuguons au
«Nous». Vous voulez savoir où nous mène le cynisme envers la politique?
Regardez Charlton Heston dans les yeux. Vous y verrez l'homme revenu à
l'état sauvage. L'homme-singe."
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Salon
"Austin Hill, president of Zero-Knowledge, opened
the conference like a true techno-believer, quoting John Gilmore as
saying, 'I want to guarantee [privacy] with physics and mathematics, not
with laws.' " First of all, if Mr. Hill is going to say dumb things like
this then his company needs to spend a little more on physics and
methematics, instead of an IPO-driven ad campaign, because your product
is slower than molasses. Secondly, if Mr. Hill is going to say dumb
things like this, then I have to seriously question whether he and his
company are more concerned with my privacy than they are with simply
capitalizing on my concerns about privacy.
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CBC : A woman from Tampa, Fla
"wrote, asking Orkin to buy her a new television
set. She broke hers when she tried to kill the roach by throwing a
motorcycle helmet at it."
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NY Times : For Museums, Internet Art Is a Tricky Fit
"Alas, she discovered that the art in the room
was silent for the moment. The noise she had heard was just the gallery's
computer being restarted -- again." The strangest part though is the
following : "But an RTMark member said the address was changed on the
Whitney site, from rtmark.com to www.rtmark.com, so that the
reprogramming was defeated and the group's standard site was displayed
instead.", which suggests someone needs to read the
apache
docs.
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National Post : Canada is cyberterror hotbed: U.S.
"They see Canada as a conduit they don't have
control over and that's what unnerves them. We're further increasing the
integration of our economies and at the same time they do not control how
we approach security issues."
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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."
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Desmond Tutu
"Our country chose a middle way of individual
amnesty for truth. Some would say, what about justice? And we say
retributive justice is not the only kind of justice. There is also
restorative justice, because we believe in Ubuntu -- the essence of being
human, that idea that we are all caught up in a delicate network of
interdependence. We say, "A person is a person through other persons." I
need you in order to be me and you need me in order to be you."
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Macintouch : Jorg Brown on MacWorld SF 2000
"Then Steve talked a bit about the foundation of
OS X being BSD Unix, very similar to the foundation of Linux. This
produced a few chuckles from the crowd... it's a bit like saying that the
PalmPilot has similar foundation to the original Mac, based on its use of
the 68K processor, and a programming trick known as A-Traps. The reality
is that the BSD foundation is well hidden (as it should be) from users of
Mac OS X. And in any case, anyone who has ever used Unix/Linux knows that
it's the antithesis of the Mac experience - extraordinarily difficult to
set up and learn, command-line driven at its heart, runs best when it's
set up as a server and stuffed in a closet. Sure, there are movements
afoot to change this - UIs with poor names like KDE allow Linux to look
like Unix stuffed into Windows. It's ugly and non-standard. So why
mention the similarity of OS X's underpinnings to Linux? One has to
wonder. Perhaps to drive up Apple's stock price? "Internet! Linux!
Internet! Linux!"
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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."
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I was originally planning
on going to Pless Mountain for the new year to
sit in a hot tub and smoke cheap cigars. I don't think it's going to
happen anymore, so maybe I'll try making
timpano
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William Thorsell : Beware the fallacy of the newspaper dinosaur
He makes an interesting argument, although it
often sounds as though he is waxing poetic at the prospect of living
20
seconds in the future
. (Thorsell was the editor of Toronto's National Newspaper for many
years.)
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TidBITS is 500 this week
Congratulations!
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Bill Clennett
"Puis, j'ai convoqué la GRC et la presse locale à un restaurant. En recevant le chèque, j'ai mentionné que j'étais pour le retourner à Jean Chrétien à ma façon. J'ai pris le chèque, je suis allé au journal Le Droit, j'ai endossé le chèque et j'ai demandé à acheter 560 $ de publicité pour notre groupe! La publicité intitulée "On est déjà pris à la gorge, ce qu'il nous faut, c'est des emplois." Je préférais perdre les 560 $. Je dirais même que ce sont les meilleurs 560 $ que j'aie jamais perdus de ma vie!"
Mr. Clennett and Prime Minister Jean
Chretien are seen here celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Canadian
flag :
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NY Times : Two Views on How to Get Johnny to Read and Think
Put the television away. Acquire lots of books;
leave them around the house and don't censor what your kids read. My
mother couldn't find any good reason not to let me read
The World
According to Garp
when I was ten, and if I only sort of liked books before that point I was
in love with them afterwards.
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Rick Salutin : Is there a fin-de-siecle media style?
"Those who grew up before the nineties still have
some sense of a world which can be interpreted by super-personal schemas:
communism, social democracy, fascism, Catholicism, surrealism, whatever."
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The other day
Jeff sent me some kind words about the
aaronland
site (thanks!) He commented that it had a "nice anti-technology" feel to
it. I guess I can understand why, but I would like state publicly that I
am not anti-technology. Witness the bicycle. What I do have a problem
with is the idea that technology (these days it's The Network) somehow
springs springs forth from our brow, fully formed, ushering us to greater
and greater salvation. If the old saw goes: "Technology doesn't kill
people, people with technology kill people", then I want to know why so
often we let ourselves be led blindly by it and are so eager to erase the
past lest it offer some good reason to tread lightly. I do not accept
that it is without consequences we may regret, nor that simple blind
enthusiasm will see us through whatever Utopian blunder we dream up next.
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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
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N5 won't be backwards compatible
with it's own Document Object Model (DOM). The
good news is that it will fully support the
w3c
DOM. Maybe this will finally teach them to do it right the first time.
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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