posts brought to you by the category “photoshop”
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.
During the street fair on the Main, last month, I got a good clear
view of the building on the South-West corner of Sherbrooke.
Just for kicks I Google-ed "representing YAML as RDF"
Movable Thoughts #19 : CGIPath != mod_dir.c
A "trailing slash" redirect is issued when the server receives a
request for a URL http://servername/foo/dirname where dirname is a
directory. Directories require a trailing slash, so mod_dir issues a
redirect to http://servername/foo/dirname/.
We need to cement the consent that we meant?!
Iain Bruce : Le Goat
Paul Graham : "What else can painting teach us about hacking?"
www.wfmu.org
WFMU is an independent freeform radio station broadcasting at 91.1
fm in the New York City area, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, and
live on the web...
Sure enough, if you thought it couldn't get any worse than Artforum
nerds discovering weblogs
You can put code references in @INC ?
The Historical Event Linking and Markup Project
provides a means of coordinating and navigating disparate
historical materials on the internet.
Simon Cozens: Mail::Thread.pm
This module implements something relatively close to Jamie
Zawinski's mail threading algorithm, as described by
http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html. Any deviations from the
algorithm are accidental.
"The trick is to mine the 'iTunes Music Library.xml' file"
www.emacswiki.org
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mallet
approach
"used often in school. If you are unsure of an answer,
you write an incredibly long answer that covers such a wide topic,
you are sure to get the question right."
ex. I used the mallet approach on a social studies paper
and wrote a six page answer.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : immure
Immure \Im*mure"\, n. A wall; an inclosure. [Obs.] --Shak.
web1913
immure v : lock up in jail [syn: {imprison}, {incarcerate},
{lag}, {put behind bars}, {jail}, {jug}, {gaol}, {put away}, {remand}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : wuppie
web yuppie
submitted by alice
And just in case you think it's been all wine and roses,
Me : google2blogger 1.0
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : heebatow
Similar to shushing. A nice, confusing way of telling
someone to be quiet.
ex. In response to someone talking too much. "Excuse me,
would you please heebatow."
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols : The Woes of Web Services
J. David Eisenberg : An SVG Histogram [in Perl]
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : postprandial
Postprandial \Post*pran"di*al\, a. [Pref. post- +
prandial.] Happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as,
postprandial speeches.
web1913
postprandial adj : following a meal (especially dinner);
"his postprandial cigar"; "took a postprandial walk" [ant:
{preprandial}]
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Me : Userland::weblogUpdates.pm 0.3
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redound
| source : web1913 | Redound \Re*dound"\
(r?*dound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Redounded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Redounding}.] [F. redonder, L. redundare; pref. red-, re-, re- + undare
to rise in waves or surges, fr. unda a wave. See {Undulate}, and cf.
{Redundant}.] 1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven
back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to
contribute; to result. The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood
on those From whom it sprung. --Milton. The honor done to our religion
ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. --Rogers. both . . . will
devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from
them to that manufacture. --Addison. 2. To be in excess; to remain over
and above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein
found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. --Spenser. | source :
web1913 | Redound \Re*dound"\, n. 1. The coming back, as of consequence
or effect; result; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without
redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. --Tennyson. 2. Rebound;
reverberation. [R.] --Codrington. | source : wn | redound v 1: be
excessive in quantity 2: be deflected; "His actions redound on his
parents" 3: be added; "Everything he does redounds to himself" 4: have an
affect for good or ill: "Her efforts will redound to the general good"
Me : Apache::XBEL 1.2
Mike J. Brown and Jeni Tennison : Pretty XML Tree Viewer
"produces an HTML document that shows, in the
form of 'ASCII art', the node structure of an XML document. A CSS 1
stylesheet (tree-view.css) helps render the HTML in an appealing style.
There are different ways of representing what's in an XML document. This
particular model is what is used by XSLT and is prescribed by Section 5
of the XPath recommendation." via
eclectic
Ken Simpson : Pyinline
"allows you to put source code from other
programming languages directly "inline" in a Python script or module. The
code is automatically compiled as needed, and then loaded for immediate
access from Python. PyInline is the Python equivalent of Brian Ingerson's
Inline module for Perl"
Brendan Scott : Copyright in a Frictionless World: Toward a
Rhetoric of Responsibility
"In this paper, the author reviews the history
and application of copyright and concludes that, although promoted as
being in the interests of authors, it is designed in such a way as to be
primarily a right which benefits distributors and publishers. The author
identifies a number of difficulties faced by distributors and publishers
in enforcing their rights in an age where the various sources of
"friction" which once limited infringement are being constantly reduced.
In particular, in the emerging frictionless world the typical targets of
the holder of a copyright monopoly (distributors pirating for profit) are
being overtaken by a new breed of target (individuals with a cost
reduction motive) and it is uneconomical for a holder of a copyright
monopoly to pursue this new breed. The author argues that recent
extensions to copyright monopolies add little to the illegality of the
infringing acts nor any stigma to the performance of those acts. Instead,
they exacerbate one of the main causes of infringement - consumer
cynicism as to the benefits to society of the copyright monopoly. The
author argues further that, rather than driving further cynicism through
more expansive rhetoric relating to rights, holders of a copyright
monopoly should instead seek to mollify consumer sentiment and encourage
compliance by emphasizing a rhetoric of responsibility in the exercise of
those rights."
David C. Druffner : phpTidyHt
"is a PHP script which allows you to filter all
your PHP generated HTML through HTML Tidy before it is sent to the
browser. Thus you have the advantage of automatically fixing most HTML
errors on the fly, presenting a nicely formatted source to the browser,
optionally converting the output to XHTML automatically, and obtaining
useful information for debugging HTML source. "
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fob
| source : web1913 | Fob \Fob\, n. [Cf. Prov. G.
fuppe pocket.] A little pocket for a watch. {Fob chain}, a short watch
chain worn a watch carried in the fob. | source : web1913 | Fob \Fob\,
v.t. [imp. & p. p. {Fobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fobbing}.]
[Cf.Fop.] 1. To beat; to maul. [Obs.] 2. To cheat; to trick; to impose
on. --Shak. {To fob off}, to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to
delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off
the right of the people." --Milton. | source : wn | fob n 1: a pocket in
a man's vest to hold a pocket watch [syn: {watch pocket}] 2: an adornment
that hangs from a watch chain 3: short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket
watch to a man's vest [syn: {watch chain}, {watch guard}] v : pull a fast
one, play a trick on somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that
class would be cancelled next week" [syn: {trick}, {fox}]
Robin Berjon : The AxKit Has Been Drinking
"Cause XML's like a sumo wrestler / Pointy
brackets french roast / And XSL's cool for widgets / With the params of a
form post"
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}]
FreeBSD Diary : Client Authentication with SSL
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is rotund
| source : web1913 | Rotund \Ro*tund"\, a. [L.
rotundus. See {Round}, and cf. {Rotunda}.] 1. Round; circular; spherical.
2. Hence, complete; entire. 3. (Bot.) Orbicular, or nearly so. --Gray. |
source : web1913 | Rotund \Ro*tund"\, n. A rotunda. [Obs.] --Burke. |
source : wn | rotund adj 1: spherical in shape 2: full and rich; "orotund
tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase" [syn: {orotund}, {round}]
3: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: {corpulent}, {obese},
{weighty}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is paterfamilias
| source : web1913 | Paterfamilias
\Pa`ter*fa*mil`i*as\, n.; pl. {Pateresfamilias}. [L., fr. pater father +
familias, gen. of familia family.] (Rom. Law) The head of a family; in a
large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master. |
source : wn | paterfamilias n : the head of family or tribe [syn:
{patriarch}, {head of household}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is rapprochement
| source : web1913 | Rapprochement
\Rap`proche`ment"\, n. [F., fr. rapprocher to cause to approach again.
See {Re-}; {Approach}.] Act or fact of coming or being drawn near or
together; establishment or state of cordial relations. He had witnessed
the gradual rapprochement between the papacy and Austria. --Wilfrid Ward.
| source : wn | rapprochement n : the reestablishing of cordial relations
[syn: {reconciliation}]
I had to walk through the tunnel
Gone & Forgotten
"is a monthly webzine dedicated to the worst, the
lowest, the most ludicrous, the least memorable and the downright
un-funkified of the whole product of the comic book artform and
industry."
Amy Benfer : "Talking to Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez about their
work
is like asking them to describe the women they
love most. The brothers grew up in Oxnard, Calif., with their mother, a
rabid comic book collector who suffered so greatly when her own mother
threw out her comic books that she vowed that her children would have all
the comic books they desired. She even let them read comics at the dinner
table (though she stopped reading "Love and Rockets," says Jaime,
"because it got a little too racy for her.")"
Me : "RSSBlog.pm is largely a repackaging of code originally
written
by Jonathon Eisenzopf for his
Weblog
tool. I wrote RSSBlog because I wanted to be able to use the
syndication/templating code he wrote via modules in my own programs."
John Gruenenfelder : GutenPalm
"Eventually I decided that I would like to have [
a Palm based PDA ] to use as a sort of eBook clone. I had used AportisDoc
Mobile edition and noticed that (surprise!) it sucks a lot. Much of this
apparent suckiness was due to it being the free version and being
featured limited. I wasn't really looking forward to paying $30 for an
ASCII viewer for the Palm. ... Anyway, all the other viewers used the
"open" DOC format. Open only because somebody had reverse engineered it.
Aportis wasn't very forthcoming. The problem is, DOC is not very good for
storing book length texts. Well... it's not that good for storing much of
anything. It uses, from the code I've seen, a "run length encoding"
scheme to compress the text. If you know what RLE is, then you probably
know that it's not the best thing to use to compress the written word.
What it does have, however, is speed. But, I'm willing to put up with a
20 second decompression time when it means saving about 33% in space over
DOC (more the larger the text is)."
Perlmonks : It's not human
"So it is with some trepidation that I admit to
having registered a second name, hooked Chatbot::Eliza to ZZamboni's
getchat.pl, and put perlbot in the Chatterbox for a number of hours.
Since this was certainly something almost anyone here could have done, I
think an explanation as to what good I thought this would accomplish is
in order."
Naomi Klein : Where do we go from here?
"There is no shortage of principled, radical
organizing taking place, yet it is almost completely disconnected from
the major political voice of the left, the NDP. Listen to the people
excluded from the Liberal mainstream and you hear ideas entirely absent
from the NDP platform: the deep distrust of state powers, immigration
crackdowns, police harassment, punitive welfare offices, and
mismanagement of community affairs. ... By consistently failing to speak
to the hunger for local control, or to the well-deserved skepticism of
centralized power, the NDP has yielded the entire anti-Ottawa vote to the
right. The Alliance is the party that offers Canadians outside Quebec the
opportunity to "send a message to Ottawa" -- even if it is only by
demanding a refund for poor service in the form of a tax cut."
Alastair Burt : XEmacs DTML Mode
CBC : Marc-Boris St. Maurice is running in the downtown Montreal
riding of Laurier-Sainte-Marie against Gilles Duceppe.
"...St-Maurice said one in four Canadians admit
to trying marijuana or hashish at least once. "If all those people voted
for the Marijuana Party, I would be the Prime Minister," he said. Other
parties have mentioned this issue during the campaign. The Canadian
Alliance said it would allow a free vote on decriminalization. But
St-Maurice is skeptical. He said Stockwell Day is trying to look cool by
bringing up the marijuana issue and that's totally unacceptable." Enough
said.
Jeffrey Zeldman
"I worry about the medium, because not enough
designers are working in that vast middle ground between eye candy and
hardcore usability where most of the Web must be built. And there are
fewer and fewer incentives for Web designers to toil in these fields,
since this type of work pleases Web users but wins absolutely no
recognition from the industry, aside from a paycheck. ("My God, it loaded
so quickly and worked so well, even in IE3 on my Dad's old Dell machine."
You know how awards show judges are always saying things like that?
Neither do I.)"
Michael Lucas : Experiments in SMB
Postscript
I went to the clinic to have a tetanus shot this
afternoon. The doctor was kind and professional and couldn't resist
telling me, as he stuck the needle in my arm, that when he was a child
growing up in India he figures he stepped on a rusty nail once every
three weeks. Jack Tripper ... Jack Tripper ... Jack Tripper ...
Managing Knowledge using a Semantic-Network
Presstube : Heaping Portion
What an elegant way to show les arts plastiques
on the net! After years of bad-mouthing my alma mater, it's really nice
to something like this happening. "I want the code! I want the code!", he
said stomping his feet and banging his fists on the table. (flash)
A philosopher's café is not a philosophy lecture
"[T]he philosopher presides only as a moderator,
to maintain the conversation on a philosophical footing. The discussion
is thoughtful but nontechnical. You will be challenged to defend your
beliefs or opinions, but you will not be asked to refer to a list of
philosophy books in order to support your views. In fact, the opposite is
usually true: Instead of showing off your erudition by referring to great
works you may have studied, you will be obliged to think for yourself, to
give your own reasons for the views you hold." via
ed's
weblog
NY Times : Gallery Accused of Cheating Prominent Artist
"The papers paint a complex picture of how the
suit alleges the gallery took control of the most minute aspects of
[Francis] Bacon's financial and personal life -- to the point of paying
his laundry bills and handing him spending money -- and then used this
grip to deprive him of the true value of his work. According to the
lawsuit, the Marlborough connection continued after his death, when a
director of Marlborough's London gallery was named an executor of his
estate and ran it to the detriment of Bacon's sole heir, John Edwards..."
It's the last bit that makes me wonder; the rest of it, if you believe
all the other stories about Bacon, sounds like it would have been much to
his liking. If you ever have the opportunity to see
this
painting
, even if it is the only Bacon in a group show, go go go. I first saw it
at the
Hirshhorn's
Bacon retrospective. I came around the side of a baffle wall and the
painting was hung in such a way that it occupied my entire field of
vision. The colours and the forms are gripping enough but then there's
the bit on the left of the center panel...well,
just go
see it
.
Le Devoir : De Québec.inc. à Québec.com
"Pour expliquer ce que sera la nouvelle économie
de demain, Michel Cartier utilise la métaphore du gâteau à étages: les
entreprises qui produiront les contenus et les services et le
développement des applications et des passerelles formeront la pâte de ce
gâteau. Elles s'intégreront dans une nouvelle chaîne de
production-diffusion qui aura pour tâche de réduire et d'harmoniser les
prix. Les entreprises de télécommunications et de transmission de données
(telco, câblo, micro-ondes, satellites, etc.) intégreront, comme une
garniture entre les étages, tous les niveaux de communications en un
réseau de réseaux dont l'élément principal sera Internet. L'industrie des
contenus formera le glaçage de cette pièce montée, une industrie dont les
principaux moteurs seront le divertissement et le commerce électronique."
Tod Maffin : 15 megabytes of fame
Every six months or so, the Internet bestows fame
with the spontaneous randomness of a tornado. It's as if a secretive
awards ceremony is held underground somewhere –Moose Jaw, I
figure– and word is sent throughout the land: '[bleep] is The
Chosen One. Tell all.' "
Bendypig : just another day at the panopticon
I saw Being John Malkovitch this evening
and thought it curious that, despite the multiple
levels of head-tripping already going on, the film makers still relied on
an eye-shaped mask as a device to let you know one character was "inside"
the head of another. I'd also like to know how many film theory mid-terms
have been written about The Lazy Boom.
The Times : Salon at the cutting edge
"Each computer is networked so that you can play
with up to six other people in the salon. Stylists have learnt to adapt
to your movements as you try to escape from alien creatures. Driving
games are ruled out, though - swaying from side-to-side may just be too
much." This has got regret written all over it.
JJ Charlesworth on the Sensation Generation
"But amateurism's real lack of ambition isn't
simply its rejection of the limited notion of technical specialism.
Rather, the adoption of the amateur idiom is a declaration that the
artist cannot offer a vision of experience which is any more valid or
insightful than anyone else. In much the same way as politicians, lacking
any credibility with the public, prefer to endlessly seek out the
public's opinion rather than set the agenda themselves, so recent artists
content themselves with insisting that they are no different, and no more
extraordinary than the rest of us ... As part of that process of
minimisation, amateurist art, represents a further retreat from the risk
of failure; By lowering the stakes, it becomes impossible to lose."
CBC : Hollywood vs. Hollywood North
"Those Canadians don't give a damn about
Westerns!" After beating the global economy drum for a decade, America
suddenly wakes up to the idea that it's just another entree on the buffet
table. real audio (starts 05:50)
Geeks In Space : Live from Martha's Vineyard
For a complete multimedia experience, load this
flash animation
in another browser window while you listen.
The World on Djelem
"Bienvenue a Montreal." real audio.
Jean-Louis Gassée : Câble contre DSL
"Pour donner une dimension du grouillement,
pardon, du potentiel de cette nouvelle vague d’accès au réseau, une
des mauvaises langues de la Vallée explique qu’ISDN (Numéris)
c’est le socialisme et que les nouvelles connexions à large bande,
DSL et le câble, c’est le capitalisme chevauché par les
entrepreneurs."
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
Use the source, Luke.
