posts brought to you by the category “radio”
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.
Ira Glass : Howard and Me
I'm the host of a show on public radio, and when my listeners tell me they don't care for [Howard] Stern, I always think it reveals a regrettable narrowness of vision. Mostly, they're put off by the naked girls. But Stern has invented a way of being on the air that uses the medium better than nearly anyone. He's more honest, more emotionally present, more interesting, more wide-ranging in his opinions than any host on public radio. Also, he's a fantastic interviewer. He's truly funny. And his staff on the air is cheerfully inclusive of every kind of person: black, white, dwarf, stutterer, drunk and supposed gay. What public radio show has that kind of diversity?
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KCRW runs a fucking station.
My new radio VCR
For Pete : “Wow. I can listen to honest to goodness old-skool hardcore
The Current talks to Maher Arar
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The Connection : Dean.com
Go on, give the gift of love.
I am not at all outraged nor am I upset that this received public funding.
I am haunted, however, imagining whatever the functional equivalent of a bead-stringing / necklace party
would be for this type of endeavour.
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Lin, Yung-Chung : PerlIO::via::Babelfish.pm
You know, in case you needed a reason to upgrade to 5.8
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Leon Brocard : Image::IPTCInfo::TemplateFile.pm
...allows the loading of data from an IPTC template file...
I'm not entirely sure what this is for but Leon Brocard writes cool
stuff and Image::Shoehorn::Gallery
makes heavy use of IPTC data so I'll keep an eye on this one...
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The Gnome/Mozilla browser saves bookmarks as an RSS 1.0 document.
Stick that in yer weblog archive format
and smoke it. I haven't tried to see what happens when you add
<description>
elements, but would someone please add this stuff to the core Mozilla
code-base?
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Peter Hertzmann : Recettes en Français
An essay about translation.
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Wow, I'm not sure I could be any more underwhelmed.
I thought people didn't like the W3C site and were trying to make it better.
I laughed, I cried when I viewed this site in Lynx and was told :
ATTENTION: Your browser is sooo old that you can't display this page properly. Please take a few minutes to upgrade your browser for free:: IE | NSYou can sooo kiss my ass.
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Me : sql-abstract-_recurse_where-order-by.2.diff
Because there's nothing like having Tim Bunce ask you:
And if table has a field named order?
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Andy Wardley : "I finally got around to releasing my XML::Schema module(s)."
Dos Pesos : I dont know what fixt is but I am eksited.
Me : HTML::RSSAutodiscovery.pm 1.1
Added a
locate method which implements an ultra
liberal RSS locator. Why Because you shouldn't need all that white space to
do cool stuff ;-) As always, until the CPAN listings are updated you can grab a
copy over here.
see also : docs
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Claire Harrison : Hypertext Links - Wither Thou Goest and Why
see also : The Big Ugly, of which absolutely no mention is made in this paper. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing.I began to ask myself questions about my intuitions regarding linking. Was this behavior completely idiosyncratic? Or was I making decisions based on principles that I had not articulated? If so, what were these principles and what did their application mean for hypertext authors and users?
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : camarilla
Camarilla \Ca`ma*ril"la\, n. [Sp., a small room.] 1. The private audience chamber of a king. 2. A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique. web1913
camarilla n : a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue [syn: {cabal}, {faction}, {junta}, {junto}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fark
Fuxk, used to bypass email scanners when emailing from the workplace.
ex. Fark this!
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : apostasy
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
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8 out of 10
The story I heard was that, shortly before his death during the filming of Blade Runner, Dick had
a dream where he saw Harrison Ford utter the immortal line "Freeze, or you're a dead android" - which
is why I still have the still of Decker holding his gun in front of the immobile Pris just before she
starts wailing on him. He woke up in a cold sweat and raced down to the studio and had his concerns laid to rest.
via boing boing
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All I have to say is : What is the deal with the nipple-shirt?
Someone, give this woman a prize!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : adamant
Adamant (Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond. This stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind of hard steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard-heartedness against the truth (Jer. 17:1). easton
Adamant, VT Zip code(s): 05640 gazetteer
Adamant \Ad"a*mant\ ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. + dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L. adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet, as in OF. and LL. See {Diamond}, {Tame}.] 1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. --Milton. 2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] ``A great adamant of acquaintance.'' --Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene. web1913
adamant adj : not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendancy" [syn: {adamantine}, {inexorable}, {intransigent}] n : very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: {diamond}] wn
ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold. devils
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bigity-bam
Used to describe something good that happens very quickly and out of the blue. From the movie "Mall Rats".
ex. "I put a dollar into the slot machine, and Bigity-Bam. I won $100."
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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
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : i saw ying
Slang for "a saying." Fig: To see one side of things. A killer.
ex. Don't blame me if you don't understand me!...I saw ying...only.
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Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. : What the Cultural Sector Can Learn from Enron
"Artistic and cultural products are no longer objects, like books, paintings, sculpture, with the degree of immanence that the physics of the natural world imparts; nor are they discrete, self-contained events in time, like musical performances, dance performances, and so forth. They will not stand alone, but depend on the presence of a network of activities, relationships and contingencies, that must be maintained."
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Perlmonks : SOAP::Lite and Security
"But the fundamental problem is that SOAP is a poorly designed protocol designed with no eye to security, and built largely for the convenience offered because most firewalls will let through http traffic. This was said pointed out a long time ago by Bruce Schneier, but it is amazing how many people have missed the basic point. The point is that firewalls are retroactive protection for security mistakes in applications. If applications seek new ways around firewalls but continue to make the same basic mistakes then you are guaranteed to get into a situation where firewalls need to retroactively filter a more complicated protocol."
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The Monthly Montreal Comix Jam has a website
Most excellent. Props to Salgood Sam for pointing it out.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is mulct
| source : web1913 |
Mulct \Mulct\, n. [L. mulcta, multa.]
1. A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.
2. A blemish or defect. [Obs.]
Syn: Amercement; forfeit; forfeiture; penalty.
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Mulct \Mulct\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mulcted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Mulcting}.] [L. mulctare, multare.]
1. To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine
or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine.
2. Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or
discipline. [Obs.]
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mulct
n : money extracted as a penalty [syn: {fine}, {amercement}]
v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"
[syn: {swindle}, {rook}, {nobble}, {diddle}, {bunco}, {defraud},
{gyp}, {con}]
2: impose a fine on [syn: {fine}]
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Michael Stern : "The atmosphere is strained, but polite.
Perhaps the frequency of every New Yorker's intercourse (in the old-fashioned sense) with members of other ethnic groups helps. That didn't help the Jews in Germany in 1938, or Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, but maybe it helps here."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is moil
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Moil \Moil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moiled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Moiling}.] [OE. moillen to wet, OF. moillier, muillier, F.
mouller, fr. (assumed) LL. molliare, fr. L. mollis soft. See
{Mollify}.]
To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil.
--Spenser.
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Moil \Moil\, v. i. [From {Moil} to daub; prob. from the idea of
struggling through the wet.]
To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful
effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
Moil not too much under ground. --Bacon.
Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
--Dryden.
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Moil \Moil\, n.
A spot; a defilement.
The moil of death upon them. --Mrs.
Browning.
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moil
v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework" [syn:
{labor}, {labour}, {toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge},
{dig}]
2: be agitated; of liquids [syn: {churn}, {boil}, {roil}]
3: moisten or soil: "Her tears moiled the letter"
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I spent some time beating on VRML when I was in college
and then eventually moved on to other things. Being able to VRML-ize regular expressions, though, might just be enough to bring me back...
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Justin Mason : Mail::SpamAssasin.pm
"is a Mail::Audit plugin to identify spam using text
analysis and several internet-based realtime blacklists. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is avatar
| source : web1913 |
Avatar \Av`a*tar"\, n. [Skr. avat[^a]ra descent; ava from + root
t[.r] to cross, pass over.]
1. (Hindoo Myth.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his
incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated
with the incarnations of Vishnu.
2. Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or
admiration.
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avatar
n 1: ny new embodiment of a familiar idea; "the incarnation of
evil"; "the very avatar of cunning" [syn: {embodiment},
{incarnation}]
2: the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in
human or superhuman or animal form; "the Buddha is
considered an avatar of the god Vishnu"
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avatar n. Syn. [in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of a god]
1. Among people working on virtual reality and {cyberspace} interfaces,
an "avatar" is an icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual
reality. The term is sometimes used on {MUD}s. 2. [CMU, Tektronix]
{root}, {superuser}. There are quite a few Unix machines on which
the name of the superuser account is `avatar' rather than `root'.
This quirk was originated by a CMU hacker who found the terms `root'
and `superuser' unimaginative, and thought `avatar' might better impress
people with the responsibility they were accepting.
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avatar
1. <chat, virtual reality> An {image} representing a user in a
multi-user {virtual reality} (or VR-like, in the case of
{Palace}) space.
2. (CMU, Tektronix) {root}, {superuser}. There are quite a
few {Unix} computers on which the name of the superuser
account is "avatar" rather than "root". This quirk was
originated by a {CMU} hacker who disliked the term
"superuser", and was propagated through an ex-CMU hacker at
{Tektronix}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1997-09-14)
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AVATAR
Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator (BBS)
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bucolic
| source : web1913 |
Bucolic \Bu*col"ic\, n. [L. Bucolic[^o]n po["e]ma.]
A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life,
manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of
Theocritus and Virgil. --Dryden.
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Bucolic \Bu*col"ic\, a. [L. bucolicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? cowherd,
herdsman; ? ox + (perh.) ? race horse; cf. Skr. kal to drive:
cf. F. bucolique. See {Cow} the animal.]
Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd;
pastoral; rustic.
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bucolic
adj 1: used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian
contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in
its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: {arcadian},
{pastoral}, {rustic}]
2: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising
sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral
land"; "a pastoral economy" [syn: {pastoral}]
n 1: a country person [syn: {peasant}, {provincial}]
2: a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life [syn: {eclogue},
{idyll}]
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Christian Stocker : XML_sql2xml
"takes an sql-query, a pear::db_result or an array and gives you back a xml string or object representing the data. You get a more or less decent result with just the basic settings, but it's also highly configurable, so you can almost get what you want. And furthermore, if you have joined queries, this class tries to detect the relationship and gives you back a nested xml out of that. This does not always work right, but you can customize the relationship between the tables, as well. The automatic relationship detection does only work with mysql at the moment. But the class itself can be used with any db supported by the pear database abstraction class." via more like this
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www.handsoffmy.org
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Helena Echlin : Letter from Yale
"Where there is noparaphrasable meaning, dissent is impossible, because there is no threshold for attack." thanks traffic sounds like the ocean girl
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Object by Design : XSLT by Example
"These pages ... shift the focus toward the nitty-gritty details of writing XSLT stylesheets."
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Honour, my arse. It's called data-mining
and just-in-time niche marketing. This is The Man speaking and he is telling you that you are a number : 0.0002 cents, to be precise. "In order to cooperate with governmental requests, to protect our systems and customers, or to ensure the integrity and operation of our business and systems, we may access and disclose any information we consider necessary or appropriate, including, without limitation, user contact details, transaction data, IP addressing and traffic information, usage history, and posted content." see also : Is Amazon's Honor Plan Honorable?
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The revolution is being televised.
"What blogs do is they give a context for chunks, and they arrange them chronologically, which is really simple for people to follow," Mr. Williams said. "That for me is an example of a medium finding something that works and that's unique to the medium." I think the nice Pyra-kids richly deserve most of the press they're getting these days but to hold up one of the chief design flaws in Blogger -- the fact that you can not assign arbitrary positioning to your posts -- as somehow central to the Idea of Weblog is, at best, disingenuous. It is not rocket science, it is simply a "next id" key in the database. I studied painting so if I can do it, surely they can too.
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Web Techniques : Blog Rolling Competitions
"If I were deploying a Weblog on a machine over which I had complete control, I would lean strongly toward using Squishdot for my Weblog. The biggest reason for this is ease of installation and maintenance; both of these are benefits that come with using Zope. Also, Zope is highly extensible, and its separation of content and presentation scales well when you have multiple people customizing the site itself."
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Geoffrey Harder : A Humanists Struggle to Understand Information as a Commodity
"Theories of information evolve in relation to the context of their culture and environment. An individual's ideas, once shared, become information for someone else. The value of information is dependent on one particular concept. Information is of value when controlled by one group and desired by another. This understated reality is a reflection of the current debate surrounding intellectual property rights and the Internet."
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This Hour Has 22 Minutes : "This is not only an exercise in democracy,
this is an exercise in national unity." The CBC is reporting that, as of this morning, the petition to change Stockwell Day's name has 378, 877 signatures. (real evil video)
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Steven Johnson : "In the case of OS X,
I think what has happened is the convergence of three things: a product designed with such attention to detail that the drop-shadows do grow and shrink as you move the windows around; an audience that has so fetishized the product that the shadows actually seem like a big deal to them; and a web of communication that enables people to share their excitement with thousands of other people before that excitement wears off. In some ways, that mix echoes the components that went into other epochal cultural events, and in some ways, it represents an entirely new breed." via slashdot
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Some days, the only thing left to do
is turn the computer off. My only success of the day was finding a suitable diagram - online - for installing a dryer belt, thus saving my friend from "losing all faith in the Internet." I suppose that counts for something.
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It's not as though no one else produces crap.
There's no shortage of it in Canada -- domestic, imported,
exported or otherwise. 
It's just that the
super-abundance of it in the States is truly staggering and
seemingly unmatched anywhere else in the world. The weekend
provided an opportunity to
visit one of big name monster supermarkets and I was amazed at
the ability to make so many seemingly different products from the
same basic components : plastic, corn syrup and food
colouring. Well, not really surprised, but the shock never seems
to abate. It's like this crap has evolved into a self-preserving
life-form and spawns new progeny -- or atleast new packaging --
right there on the shelf, in front of your eyes. see also : fresh
watermelon
It's just that the
super-abundance of it in the States is truly staggering and
seemingly unmatched anywhere else in the world. The weekend
provided an opportunity to
visit one of big name monster supermarkets and I was amazed at
the ability to make so many seemingly different products from the
same basic components : plastic, corn syrup and food
colouring. Well, not really surprised, but the shock never seems
to abate. It's like this crap has evolved into a self-preserving
life-form and spawns new progeny -- or atleast new packaging --
right there on the shelf, in front of your eyes. see also : fresh
watermelon
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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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Today was brought to you
CBC
"The federal [ Longitudinal Labour Force File ] database that some MPs have called "Big Brother" is being dismantled, according to Human Resources Minister Jane Stewart."
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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
"There's issues of ownership over the human body that bring up issues of colonialism that haven't been resolved. Ultimately, I'm interested not in that we're going to be creating new worlds that we don't understand or have laws for, but that we should slow down the rhetoric and (recognize) that we have not solved old problems. If we don't solve issues of race now, who's to say that hair and skin color don't matter, who's to say something else won't matter?" see also : geneart and The Connection : Intellectual Property on the Internet and in Bio-Technology.
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Happiness is going to the bakery
and being told there are no baguettes only to see them coming out of the oven. Yay! Steamy bread! see also : Molly O'Neill : By Bread Alone.
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I've been known to mistake one object for another.
Often I look out the window and see the moon where there is only a streetlight. Lately, I keep turning around in the kitchen and thinking that the bottle of olive oil on the floor is one of my cats.
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Salon
"The United States foists itself onto its northern neighbor in many areas, from clothing fashions to household items and our megalithic entertainment industry. And now, according to the National Post business magazine, a new cross-cultural market has emerged -- the "jizz biz." By one estimate, Canada now imports $3 million worth of American sperm each year." Meanwhile, the National Post is also reporting that hot helmets induce hockey violence. Seriously, though, who can resist a quote like "A lot of your stress is actually arising from thermoregulatory conflict."
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Here's a thought that someone is welcome to run with
We have all measure of weblog monitors and weblog rankings which are fine and useful. What I'd like to see, though, is all that information spread out on a graph over time. I'd like to see what, if any, patterns emerge. For instance, can anyone really keep up the pace month after month, or do we lay low and let others take the lead in cycles? If I have even a modicum of self-discipline, this won't happen any time soon so if you like the idea, please, go nuts.
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David Keirsey
"There is some social bias toward expressiveness in American social life, but Reserved persons have no reason to feel that there is anything wrong with them, and should be sure to provide adequately for their legitimate desire for quiet time to themselves." Well, that's a relief since I managed to score a perfect 10 for reservedness and a 0 for expressiveness on the Keirsey Character Sorter. via nubbin
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Perlmonth : The DOMinant Technique for Parsing XML
"A DOM parser translates an XML document into an object model that allows a program to randomly access and alter sections of the document.... The containment (not inheritance) hierarchy of the object model corresponds to the hierarchical structure of the document."
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Yusuf Islam
"As I look back at those songs they are an open book. It was a time of learning and growing. When I first embraced Islam I rejected everything. I wanted to make a clean break with the past. But on reflection there are many things in those songs that remain true today. My music still stands as something gentle and meaningful and significant."
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Speaking of objects
Feeling lonely or neglected?
Don't fret about it, just file an IPO.
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PC Week : Compaq to Halt NT on Alpha development
About a year ago, I got to test-drive an Alpha/NT box for a couple months. This was when DEC was trying to woo the Mac crowd with a faster, cheaper graphics machine. Stuff that been ported to Alpha (Painter & Quark) screamed. Everything else ran under an NT emulator. The really impresive thing was that the machine "learned" NT as you used it, re-compiling into native Alpha code. Unfortunately, we could never get QuickTime installed which basically meant it was D.O.A. via slashdot.
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John Maeda on digital art
"Without being able to know how to program, you can't break out of the technology -- just like if you don't know how to use brush and ink, you're limited. ...for people who are seeking the next step, the prepackaged becomes an impossible barrier to break free from." see also : Design by Numbers.
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If I dig a hole through the Earth from Montreal
Geeks In Space : Live from Martha's Vineyard
For a complete multimedia experience, load this flash animation in another browser window while you listen.
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Children's Books You Will Never See
Daddy Drinks Because You Cry
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The End of Violence in Vancouver
Beyerstein said it is easy to place signs in banks or at building entrances to warn people they are under surveillance, but it is much more difficult to inform people when an entire district is covered by CCTV.
The amount of signage required to counter this would be enormous, and would itself leave citizens with the feeling that they have entered the world of The Prisoner.
A bit harsh perhaps but, seriously, you crazy fuckers.