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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.
Lungotevere Ripa, Roma, August 2003
see also :
The Little
James House I
and
The Little
James House II
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Yer treading on pretty thin ice there, buddy
unless you call
bread-donuts
bagels. see also :
A Bagel
by Any Other Name
, which interestingly was co-authored by
Yvan Huneault
who many Montrealers might remember as the host of the weirdest
late-night news program on television. These days, aside from doing web
design (web design?!) he seems to be filling in on the
Radio One early-morning weekend show
, and every Saturday and Sunday for the last month I've woken up to
Thomas Dolby (
?
) singing
My Brain is Like a Sieve
...
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Me : xml résumé (XSL) formatting extensions 0.3
Bug fixes and a stylesheet for pruning
selected elements from the source XML document (in case you want to
make the source document public but don't want to include references or
your address.) see also
docs
and
changes
.
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Morning Becomes Eclectic : Be Good Tanyas
Ed Hawco : "We like things small and plentiful, not large and monolithic."
As much as I agree with Ed's sentiment, he
is just wrong. One has only to look at the Big O from the corner of
Parc and Mont Royal, or Holy Joe's from the 40, to appreciate how truly
gigati-fucking-normous they are. Granted there are no 80 foot iron
Jesus' watching over the city, but we do have a giant cross on the
mountain that not only lights up at night (and will reportedly turn
purple when the Pope dies) but replaced the big wooden one that Buddy
Wing-nut lugged up there all the way from Old Montreal in sixteen
something-or-other. We've got plans on the books to flood a piece of
land the size of France! No, for good (rarely) and bad (mostly) we
love
this stuff. Club Med World was, admittedly, a particularly bad go of it
not because it was big but because it was so half-assed. Which made the
shagging of the Loews all the more painful; I still remember walking
past one night when it had been completely gutted and all that was left
were the shadow stains of the mouldings and the chandelier on the back
wall. Perhaps I am just bitter that the rumours of Club Med buying the
Olympic Stadium and turning it in to a massive indoor resort never came
to pass...
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www.svg.org
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Amphetathoughts #1: Use the %ENV, Luke.
Hello, my name is Aaron and I like the
command-line. So, despite my general dislike for aggregators I've got a
copy of Amphetadesk installed on the laptop and I've been periodically
running it on localhost. Long story short is that waiting for the web
server and the pages to reload when adding feeds is just too long for me.
So, my first thought was just to muck with the 'myChannels' file by hand
(read:XML::LibXML) and be done with it. But I figured all these clever
people had gone to the trouble of writing the damn thing so there must be
perfectly good methods for doing the same thing. This is what I've found
out so far:
- AmphetaDesk/Utilities.pm needs to be taught not to try and load GUI libraries when called from the command-line
- Amphetadesk/Settings.pm needs to be taught to check for something
like an AMPHETAROOT environment variable rather than relying on
Find::Bin (I'm certainly not going to
cdinto my amphetadesk directory everytime I want to do something.) - The actual code that gets launched by Amphetadesk.pl needs to be taught to check the 'myChannels' file every (n) seconds and reload it once it changed. AmphetaDesk/MyChannels.pm loads channels into a private %CHANNELS hash, so any changes I make now won't be noticed until the app itself is restarted.
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Me : Log::Dispatch::Jabber.pm 0.3
Added hooks to optionally check a user's
presence before sending a message; sorta-kinda fixed the bug that
prevented messages from being sent to multiple recipients. The CPAN
listings haven't been updated so you can grab a copy
over here
. see also :
docs
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Meanwhile, still in the "While I Slept" department
we got
the first snow of the winter
last night.
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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
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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."
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"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.
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From the "Thinking out loud department" : Subscriptions and APIs
Every few days, I peek at the front page
for the
O'Reilly website
. I used to do it largely because I couldn't remember the URL for the
beta chapters page. The beta chapters are gone, but I still make a
habit of looking anyway. Today I noticed a new push for their online
book widget, Safari. I'm not a big fan of online books so I'm not about
to sign up anytime soon. But, out of curiousity, I did a
search
on
umask perl
just to see what came back. And that got me thinking that I might pay
money if there were a framework and an API such that I could build some
sort of interactive
man
widget to query the Safari servers. Something along the lines of...
$> safari perl umask Your query returned [2] options: [1] Programming Perl, yadda yadda yadda [2] Perl in a Nutshell, yadda yadda yadda Please choose one: 1 [ and so on and so on... ]...which presumably have support for open-ended queries like this .
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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."
refers to
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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 : craveable
Being able to be craved.
ex. The sandwich was very craveable.
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Ron Gilmour : Taxonomic Markup Language
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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."
Dissing Toronto is something of a sport in
Montreal. It is often unfair and sometimes even unjustified. But it's
just so hard when you read stuff like this. Consumer courtship?
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Duke Law School : Conference on the Public Domain
You can also slurp all of the papers
delivered during the conference as a
single PDF
file
.
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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}]
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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}]
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First, there was the laundromat-cafe.
Then, there was the bookstore-cafe.
Recently, some brave --highly deluded-- soul pioneered the
disco-bowling-alley. Yesterday, I saw the hair-salon-computer-store.
Who knew?
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Ken Williams : Image::Timeline.pm
"creates bar-format timelines using the GD.pm
module."
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Me : Apache::SOAP::Jabber.pm
This is a quick and dirty mod_perl/SOAP
handler that acts as a gateway for sending IM messages via a Jabber
server. I wrote it after reading the
following
... Needless to say, someone else is already
providing the service
. This is proof of concept stuff, folks. It works but there are
bugs.
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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."
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Damian Conway : Life, the Universe and Everything
(mp3)
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Morning Becomes Eclectic : Aterciopelados
(real evil g2)
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O'Reilly : Charting the Linux Anatomy [poster]
Frankly, I find the tone of the article
just a bit too saccharine for my taste ( "Oh, Tim! He's so-ooooo
dreamy!" ) but the poster is still pretty neat.
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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."
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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?"
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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. )
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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...
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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.
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Ariel Bosch : Data::JavaScript.pm
"dump[s] perl structures to JavaScript code."
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I wish I wish I wish
that
The Joy of Cooking
would be released as a Visor module.
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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
.)
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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. "
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I love the randomcam.
In case you needed another reason
to throw away your television.
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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."
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As It Happens interviews the little red-haired girl
real evil g2
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Bendypig : just another day at the panopticon
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Tom Wolfe : Digibabble, Fairy Dust, Human Anthill
"Our guests today are a group of American artists
from the Manual Age."
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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."
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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
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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.
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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".
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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
.
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Aubrey Keel 1902-1999
Morning Edition on the last of the Associated
Press telegraph operators. real audio
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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