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.
Given either a URL or an entry ID (see below), mltfo.pl first builds a list of TrackBack pings for that entry. It then follows those pings back to the site from which they were sent and finds the TrackBack embedded RDF. From this RDF it looks for the MT category name in dc:subject. It then searches for the site's RSS file, trying first to use auto-discovery, then starting back at the base URI and looking for index.rdf at each path segment (for example, http://www.foo.com/index.rdf, http://www.foo.com/bar/index.rdf, etc). It then fetches the RSS feed and scans that for items in the same category as the original item.
Hello, did I also time-travel during my sleep? Because it sure sounds like someone is partying as if it's 1999. Let me clear about something : I still like most of what's being talked about but how can you possibly expect anyone, with half a clue about how these things are actually built, to take you seriously when you say stuff like that? It's like reading sales brochures from the Bubble, all over again. That kind of thing is, not to be too blunt about it, really fucking hard. It's not because people haven't been trying that we haven't arrived and the Semantic Web is no more a magic bullet than XML is. And then there's this :The XML content created by our new client will leverage existing standards like XLink to effectively make every piece of content be crossposted to every relevant group, without any duplication of content or wasted space. In seeing the Semantic Web as the New Usenet, we have to consider that every topic, every organization, every author is a newsgroup, too.
A few points. First, the only thing more annoying than an automated spell-checker is an automated grammar-checker so the author's pretty much already lost me with this analogy. Secondly, I am all for tools that map the "shape" of things but this just sounds like the information equivalent of getting stoned on bad hash and spending hours watching the cool visualizations that your mp3 player creates. That, ten or twenty years in to the information revolution, there is nary a mention of the kind of information overload this wunder-app will create is troubling. When I read about this kind of thing I am less and less convinced that the Semantic Web will save us fromWhile you type, instead of autocomplete fixing your sentences, an agent creates ad-hoc categories and uses a Google service to add relevant links for your perusal or review when the topic is revisited. The results would be as appropriate and on-topic as today's grammar-checkers, probably. Which is to say, frustrating, but still useful at times, and constantly improving. Being able to track all of this information all the time, though, should be one of the most liberating implications of the virtually unlimited storage that we've got in our machines.
the threat of homogeneity and monoculture; it just sounds too much like I can have my car in any colour I want so long as it's black. And the bit about small applications, loosely connected: it's already been done and people hate it. Just ask anyone who's trying to install Perl modules (hi, Bill ;-)
Close to one year after the war against terror was officially flagged off in the ruins of Afghanistan, in country after country freedoms are being curtailed in the name of protecting freedom, civil liberties are being suspended in the name of protecting democracy. All kinds of dissent is being defined as "terrorism". Donald Rumsfeld said that his mission in the war against terror was to persuade the world that Americans must be allowed to continue their way of life. When the maddened king stamps his foot, slaves tremble in their quarters. So, it's hard for me to say this, but the American way of life is simply not sustainable. Because it doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
Apostasy \A*pos"ta*sy\, n.; pl. {Apostasies}. [OE. apostasie, F. apostasie, L. apostasia, fr. Gr. ? a standing off from, a defection, fr. ? to stand off, revolt; ? from + ? to stand. See {Off} and {Stand}.] An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity. web1913
apostasy n 1: the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) [syn: {renunciation}, {defection}] 2: the act of abandoning a party or cause [syn: {tergiversation}] wn
Autodidact \Au"to*di*dact`\, n. [Gr. ? self-taught.] One who is self-taught; an automath. web1913
autodidact n : a person who is self-taught wn
to go to the bathroom.
ex. I'll be right back. I have some paperwork to take care of.see also : paperwork dict-ified
To snog, neck, or make out.
ex. "I shifted Anna at the club last night. Big mistake."see also : shift dict-ified
Levity \Lev"i*ty\ (l[e^]v"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. levitas, fr. levis light in weight; akin to levare to raise. See {Lever}, n.] 1. The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to {gravity}. He gave the form of levity to that which ascended; to that which descended, the form of gravity. --Sir. W. Raleigh. This bubble by reason of its comparative levity to the fluidity that incloses it, would ascend to the top. --Bentley. 2. Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity. `` A spirit of levity and libertinism.'' --Atterbury. He never employed his omnipotence out of levity. --Calamy. 3. Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility. The levity that is fatigued and disgusted with everything of which it is in possession. --Burke. Syn: Inconstancy; thoughtlessness; unsteadiness; inconsideration; volatility; flightiness. Usage: {Levity}, {Volatility}, {Flightiness}. All these words relate to outward conduct. Levity springs from a lightness of mind which produces a disregard of the proprieties of time and place.Volatility is a degree of levity which causes the thoughts to fly from one object to another, without resting on any for a moment. Flightiness is volatility carried to an extreme which often betrays its subject into gross impropriety or weakness. Levity of deportment, of conduct, of remark; volatility of temper, of spirits; flightiness of mind or disposition. web1913
levity n 1: feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness [ant: {gravity}] 2: lightness of manner wn
{word} repeated n times. E.g., really**4 = really, really, really, really.
ex. I really**6 get tired of typing the same thing over and over again. What we really**2 need is some pseudomathematical shorthand to use here.
Coffee, expecially the first cup in the morning.
ex. Ahhh, morning coffee, nectar of the clods.
Voluble \Vol"u*ble\, a. [L. volubilis, fr. volvere, volutum, to roll, to turn round; akin to Gr. ? to infold, to inwrap, ? to roll, G. welle a wave: cf. F. voluble. Cf. F. {Well} of water, {Convolvulus}, {Devolve}, {Involve}, {Revolt}, {Vault} an arch, {Volume}, {Volute}.] 1. Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter. 2. Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue. [Cassio,] a knave very voluble. --Shak. Note: Voluble was used formerly to indicate readiness of speech merely, without any derogatory suggestion. ``A grave and voluble eloquence.'' --Bp. Hacket. 3. Changeable; unstable; fickle. [Obs.] 4. (Bot.) Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants. {Voluble stem} (Bot.), a stem that climbs by winding, or twining, round another body. -- {Vol"u*ble*ness}, n. -- {Vol"u*bly}, adv. web1913
voluble adj : marked by a ready flow of speech; "she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations" [ant: {taciturn}] wn
Exiguous \Ex*ig"u*ous\, a. [L. exiguus.] Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. [R.] ``Exiguous resources.'' --Carlyle. -- {Ex*ig"uous*ness}, n. [R.] web1913
exiguous adj : extremely scanty; "a meager income"; "an exiguous budget" wn
dude, where's my car
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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.
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
it's the software, stupid
