posts brought to you by the category “radio
userland”
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.
I am a sucker for buildings with curved facades.
Yer treading on pretty thin ice there, buddy
Me : xml résumé (XSL) formatting extensions 0.3
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Be Good Tanyas
Ed Hawco : "We like things small and plentiful, not large and
monolithic."
www.svg.org
Amphetathoughts #1: Use the %ENV, Luke.
Me : Log::Dispatch::Jabber.pm 0.3
Meanwhile, still in the "While I Slept" department
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : deleterious
Deleterious \Del`e*te"ri*ous\, a. [LL. deleterius noxious,
Gr. dhlhth`rios, fr. dhlei^sqai to hurt, damage; prob. akin to L.
delere to destroy.] Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a
deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example. --
{Del`e*te"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Del`e*te"ri*ous*ness}, n.
web1913
deleterious adj : harmful to living things; "deleterious
chemical additives" [syn: {hurtful}, {injurious}]
wn
Mike Boone : "We loved Ronaldo scoring two goal,
the second a classic. We love Brazil's deadly
striker so much that we might even get our hair cut that way - if we were
dead."
"Everything had to move and retract"
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : smackdown
Said when someone is attempting to pick up someone
else.
ex. Look at Sean laying the smackdown on
Sally.
From the "Thinking out loud department" : Subscriptions and
APIs
LogiLab : VCalSax
"is a simple Python module for managing scheduler
data in XML. VCalSax allows to load data from VCalendar files into DOM
trees. And to rewrite such trees as VCalendar files."
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."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : craveable
Being able to be craved.
ex. The sandwich was very craveable.
Ron Gilmour : Taxonomic Markup Language
Dick Snyder : "Years ago I had brunch with a fabulous, very stylin'
woman.
Afterward, my suggestion was that we go check out
a few design-y stores and art galleries. Maybe she just didn't like me,
but her preference was to go jogging. I mean, this woman had a jogging
date set up after brunch. . My feeling was that pretty much sums a person
up. On a Sunday afternoon, you can go shopping with a guy as cool as me,
or you can go jogging."
Duke Law School : Conference on the Public Domain
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is disport
| source : web1913 | Disport \Dis*port"\, n. [OF.
desport, deport. See {Disport}, v. i., and cf. {Sport}.] Play; sport;
pastime; diversion; playfulness. --Milton. | source : web1913 | Disport
\Dis*port"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Disported}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Disporting}.] [OF. se desporter; pref. des- (L. dis-) + F. porter to
carry; orig. therefore, to carry one's self away from work, to go to
amuse one's self. See {Port} demeanor, and cf. {Sport}.] To play; to
wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to
amuse one's self. Where light disports in ever mingling dyes. --Pope.
Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any
other fly. --Byron. | source : web1913 | Disport \Dis*port"\, v. t. [OF.
desporter. See {Disport}, v. i.] 1. To divert or amuse; to make merry.
They could disport themselves. --Buckle. 2. To remove from a port; to
carry away. --Prynne. | source : wn | disport v 1: occupy in an
agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies"
[syn: {amuse}, {divert}] 2: play or romp around; "The children frolicked
in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows" [syn: {frolic},
{lark}, {rollick}, {skylark}, {sport}, {cavort}, {gambol}, {frisk},
{romp}, {run around}, {lark about}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is amicable
| source : web1913 | Amicable \Am"i*ca*ble\, a.
[L. amicabilis, fr. amicus friend, fr. amare to love. See {Amiable}.]
Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner
of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. That
which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner
in which it was managed. --Prideoux. {Amicable action} (Law.), an action
commenced and prosecuted by amicable consent of the parties, for the
purpose of obtaining a decision of the court on some matter of law
involved in it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {Amicable numbers} (Math.), two
numbers, each of which is equal to the sum of all the aliquot parts of
the other. Syn: Friendly; peaceable; kind; harmonious. Usage: {Amicable},
{Friendly}. Neither of these words denotes any great warmth of affection,
since friendly has by no means the same strength as its noun friendship.
It does, however, imply something of real cordiality; while amicable
supposes very little more than that the parties referred to are not
disposed to quarrel. Hence, we speak of amicable relations between two
countries, an amicable adjustment of difficulties. ``Those who entertain
friendly feelings toward each other can live amicably together.'' |
source : wn | amicable adj : characterized by friendship and good will
[ant: {hostile}]
First, there was the laundromat-cafe.
Ken Williams : Image::Timeline.pm
"creates bar-format timelines using the GD.pm
module."
Me : Apache::SOAP::Jabber.pm
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."
Damian Conway : Life, the Universe and Everything
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Aterciopelados
O'Reilly : Charting the Linux Anatomy [poster]
Salon : The gleeful contrarian
"Now Dutton [ publisher of
Arts &
Letters Daily
, the weblog we'd all like to be ] has struck again, founding the online
publishing house Cybereditions, dedicated to making available worthwhile
scholarly books that had fallen out of print. Cybereditions offers them
up as e-books, HTML downloads and print-on-demand paperbacks."
National Post : Moby -- Birth of a salesman
"The whole reason I've spent my entire life
playing music is (a) I love music but (b) I want people to hear it. I
hate the idea of creating culture in a vacuum. Being involved in the
hardcore punk scene in the late '80s and being involved in the
underground dance scene, I realized there was a lot of wonderful music
being made that no one ever heard. And that just seemed like such a waste
-- especially when there's so much terrible music that everybody hears.
Why not try and make wonderful music and present it in such a way that
people will actually hear it?"
Shu Lea Cheang
"Pornography is a common language, and technology
is what you make of it. My own sense of technology is always about
cracking the codes and accessing the means which are apparent in my
approach to the art forms - be it the '80s camcorder movement or the
so-called digital revolution of the moment. I claim the body as hard
drive, and the pussy as matrix. The beautiful techno-future that I dream
of is not plug in and off, jerk in and off but simply, I am the system.'
I generate the orgasmic power to advance into a new generation. I am my
own portal." see also :
IKU
( glorified screenshots. )
Scott McCloud : 10 Suggestions for first-time webcomics
artists
The fervour with which McCloud has taken to the
web makes these comix seem a bit like those little Jesus-freak comic
books that were all the rage in the 80s. On the other hand, it was Alan
Moore who said that if the army could use comix to get their message
across, so could he...
Towards the end of the trip
I realized what it is about Italy, in the cities
atleast, that can be so intimidating. Everyone wears closes that are
fitted, regardless of whether they are dressing up or dressing down.
People may just be bumming around town but their t-shirts are square with
their shoulders. I'm told that there is a dark side to this "simple
elegance" but it's hard -- even if you are perfectly secure in your
self-image and don't give a lick about fashion -- not to feel like a bit
of a boob and a slob standing next to it.
Ariel Bosch : Data::JavaScript.pm
"dump[s] perl structures to JavaScript code."
I wish I wish I wish
Claude Lalumiere : A Short History of American Comic Books
I haven't seen or spoken to Claude in years, but
he used to run one of the very best comix shops ever and for that he is
The Man (not to be confused with
the man
.)
Builder.com on the Open Source Flash player
"By placing particular emphasis on the SWF file
format, the compressed end product optimized for Web playback, Macromedia
has downplayed the importance of its still very proprietary FLA format.
FLA is essentially the true Flash format because it includes all the
important structural details, such as scenes and layers, as well as the
uncompressed audio and bitmap source objects and the symbol library. "
I love the randomcam.
In case you needed another reason
to throw away your television.
Dave Winer
"To people who say that W2K isn't a great server
OS, let's show them what people can do, without a degree in rocket
science."
As It Happens interviews the little red-haired girl
Bendypig : just another day at the panopticon
Tom Wolfe : Digibabble, Fairy Dust, Human Anthill
"Our guests today are a group of American artists
from the Manual Age."
Susan L. Lukesh : Email and the Potential Loss to Future Archives
and Scholarship
Les objets du siècle : la carte postale
"Pourquoi avoir inventé la carte postale? Parce
que le 1er juillet suivant (1870), la Prusse entre en guerre contre la
France et que les soldats montent à l'assaut avec des cartes postales
plein la musette."
Nardwuar : The Human Serviette
How many lonely nights did I spend in the studio
listening to this freak? Possibly the only person to ever
faze
Courtney Love
. via
saturn
Francesco Sylos Labini on the Universe
"My contention is that it is clumpy on all the
scales so far explored. In fact, studies we have done show that the
distribution of matter is fractal, just like a tree or a cloud." Clumpy,
huh? Not quite as sexy as the
grid
metaphor
we all grew up with, but okay.
Eye on Toronto's Graffiti Transformation Project
I re-read John Dvorak's iBook commentary
this morning. Perhaps he was just trying to be
funny, but it reminds me of the day, in eighth grade, when I was dragged
in to the vice-principal's office because I had been wearing make-up to
school. Quite a lot of it, actually : bad Dali-like things, done in
liner, falling from my eyes. The vice-principal and I had a grudging
respect for one another, but by the end of our meeting he had lost most
of mine. The school had students spanning grades K - 11 and the
vice-principal was concerned for the younger kids because they "saw the
world in black and white." Boys wore pants and no makeup, while girls
wore dresses and makeup. I was "confusing them".
I finally got my copy of Yeska's "Skafrocubanjazz"
It's Bastille Day
Yes, it took them a while to get it right (the
No-fun police took over and decided that women weren't really equal after
all) and the guillotine was invented in the name of charity. You should
still read
La Declaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen
.
Aubrey Keel 1902-1999
Morning Edition on the last of the Associated
Press telegraph operators. real audio
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.