posts brought to you by the category “rituals”
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.
Dave Pawson : Emacs nxml-mode Q & A
I <heart /> Montréal
Steve Mumford's gone to Baghdad to draw.
Beverley McLachlin : The Civilization of Difference
So a close examination of Canadas past can disclose both a strong
foundation in the ethic of tolerance and inclusion, as well as the
dark side of group belonging in the form of intolerant treatment. I
want to explore both of these aspects of our heritage, in the hopes
of ultimately demonstrating that, as Canada has matured and grown as
a nation, we have embraced and cultivated the first of these
traditions in order to do a better job of confronting the second we
have learned to value and institutionalize the ethic of respect for
difference as a means of combating exclusionary thinking.
Andrew Gilligan : "I want to talk to you about my favourite Saddam
statues."
Me : XML::FOAF::Emailaddress.pm 1.0
I wrote it because I am punch drunk on using the Perl overload
hooks -- which in this case overloads the '' operator to return the
garbled email address -- and because I can never remember how to
actually handle email addresses in FOAF.
The Connection : Drawing the News
In a 24/7 news cycle, the political cartoonist lives on the verge
of constant overload. Artist, news junkie, provocateur, the political
cartoonist digests reams of newspaper column inches and hours of
broadcast news reports in the daily quest for the angles that rankle,
those choice twists of news that best lend themselves to visual
interpretation.
Sam Tregar : Class::XPath.pm
[A]dds XPath-style matching to your object trees.
The first two points on this author's wishlist will never
happen
Matt Biddulph : The Semantic Web, RDF and perl
Maybe someone will write a WSDL file for the Blogger API, now.
Me : ASCOPE::Apache::XSLT.pm 0.2
The Connection : Children's Book Art
From the "Men with Hammers" department :
Scrabble source code
There are many web sites on the net which allow you to play
Scrabble interactively. If that's what you're looking for, go use
Alta Vista or any of the search engines to find them on your own.
There are no downloadable executables here and no interactive web
games. What we have on our archive are only the sources of computer
programs for academic study.
Mozigo
MoziGo is the result of hacking the MOOzilla telnet code so that
it could be used as an Internet Go Server client. It's still in the
alpha stages and as of yet doesn't do much, but it's getting there.
Hopefully I'll have a working version in a few months (if not
more).
bookmarksync
"is a tool used for synchronizing different
bookmark files and types. It preserves current bookmark structures and
sorts in new ones correctly in existing directorys or create new one if
necessary."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bastard
hat
An invisible device that has an overall negative effect
on the wearer, turning her into a bastard.
ex. "What's the matter with them today?" "Dunno, they
must be wearing the Bastard Hat."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : leximaven
Someone who loves words, from "lexi" (word) and "maven"
(knowledgeable about something).
ex. Leximavens beware, pseudodictionary is
addictive.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : wuppie
web yuppie
submitted by alice
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : chary
Chary \Char"y\, a. [AS. cearig careful, fr. cearu care. See
{Care}.] Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift;
saving; frugal. His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame.
--Jeffrey.
web1913
chary adj : characterized by great cautious and wariness;
"a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks
involved"; "a chary investor" [syn: {cagey}, {cagy}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
murderlize
Commonly used in old cartoons. A silly way of telling
someone you are going to beat them up.
ex. Put up yer dukes. Puttemup, puttemup! I'll murderlize
ya!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
trustafarian
"someone who has adopted the style and demeanor of one
who eschews financial success, but with generous help from parents'
trust fund. Often seen sporting thriftstore clothing, dreadlocks and
a brand new vehicle."
ex. ""You used to get real cheap beer here, but all the
trustafarians infiltrated and prices have skyrocketed.""
5000!
Barrie Slaymaker : XML::AutoWriter.pm
Rick Olson : commonWeblogAPI.root
Simon Winstow : WWW::Amazon::Wishlist.pm
"grabs all the details from [an] Amazon
wishlist."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is copse
| source : web1913 | Copse \Copse\, v. t. 1. To
trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
--Halliwell. 2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. --Swift. | source :
web1913 | Copse \Copse\, n. [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small
growth; a thicket of brushwood. See {Coppice}. Near yonder copse where
once the garden smiled. --Goldsmith. | source : wn | copse n : a dense
growth of bushes [syn: {brush}, {brushwood}, {coppice}, {thicket}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is dishabille
| source : web1913 | Dishabille \Dis`ha*bille"\,
n. [See {Deshabille}.] An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.
They breakfast in dishabille. --Smollett. | source : wn | dishabille n :
the state of being carelessly or partially dressed [syn: {deshabille}]
Cynthia Malaran : Watching the Changes
"I had originally started this photo collection
as a tribute to the view out of my bedroom window that I grew up with.
Never did I think I would be speaking of it in the past tense, at least
not under these conditions." via
calamondin
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is vertiginous
| source : web1913 | Vertiginous
\Ver*tig"i*nous\, a. [L. vertiginosus, fr. vertigo a whirling around,
giddiness: cf. F. vertigineux. See {Vertig??}.] 1. Turning round;
whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion. Some vertiginous
whirl of fortune. --De Quincey. 2. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of
heaven. --Jer. Taylor. -- {Ver*tig"i*nous*ly}, adv. --
{Ver*tig"i*nous*ness}, n. | source : wn | vertiginous adj : having or
causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a
dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice";
"feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the
face of the cliff" [syn: {dizzy}, {giddy}, {woozy}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is slake
| source : web1913 | Slake \Slake\, v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Slaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slaking}.] [OE. slaken to
render slack, to slake, AS. sleacian, fr. sleac slack. See {Slack}, v.
& a.] 1. To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
``And slake the heavenly fire.'' --Spenser. It could not slake mine ire
nor ease my heart. --Shak. 2. To mix with water, so that a true chemical
combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime. | source :
web1913 | Slake \Slake\, v. i. 1. To go out; to become extinct. ``His
flame did slake.'' --Sir T. Browne. 2. To abate; to become less decided.
[R.] --Shak. 3. To slacken; to become relaxed. ``When the body's
strongest sinews slake.'' [R.] --Sir J. Davies. 4. To become mixed with
water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime
slakes. {Slake trough}, a trough containing water in which a blacksmith
cools a forging or tool. | source : wn | slake v 1: satisfy (thirst)
[syn: {quench}, {allay}, {assuage}] 2: make less active or intense [syn:
{abate}, {slack}] 3: cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water,
as of lime [syn: {slack}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is exegesis
| source : web1913 | Exegesis \Ex`e*ge"sis\, n.;
pl. {Exegeses}. [NL., fr.Gr. ?,fr. ? to explain, interpret; ? out + ? to
guide, lead, akin, to ? to lead. See {Agent}.] 1. Exposition;
explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of
Scripture. 2. (Math.) The process of finding the roots of an equation.
[Obs.] | source : wn | exegesis n 1: an explanation or critical
interpretation (especially of the Bible) 2: critical interpretation of a
text (especially of the Bible)
What the hell is an Amero-Canadian?
"[O]ur lives stretched before us along paths as
uncertain as the uncharted Canadian land mass that capped the
Amerocentric television weather maps of our youth."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is spry
| source : web1913 | Spry \Spry\, a. [Compar.
{Sprier} or {Spryer}; superl. {Spriest} or {Spryest}.] [Cf. dial. Sw.
sprygg lively, skittish, and E. sprag.] Having great power of leaping or
running; nimble; active. [U.S. & Local Eng.] She is as spry as a
cricket. --S. Judd (Margaret). If I'm not so large as you, You are not so
small as I, And not half so spry. --Emerson. | source : wn | spry adj :
moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as
a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it
was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it" [syn: {agile},
{nimble}, {quick}] | source : gazetteer | Spry, PA (CDP, FIPS 73528)
Location: 39.91250 N, 76.68753 W Population (1990): 4271 (1905 housing
units) Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
R.V. Guha and Tim Bray "There is no useful distinction between data
and metadata.
Every item of information, without exception, is
likely to be regarded by some applications as ancillary and never to be
displayed, and by others as core content that needs to be formatted,
printed, or searched."
I imagine that Scott McCloud would be pleased
to see other people, like the Zope gods, talking
about
the "space in between" content
. "Lately Rael [Dornfest] has been talking about doing P2P for
syndication. P2P could be the kind of transformative breakthrough for DC
and RDF. Without a standard vocabularly across verticals (music, etc.),
P2P will be another thousand islands, which dramatically lowers the
utility. Unlike web pages, which generally wants content to be broadcast
and rendered, P2P wants to content to be exchanged. This model demands
interoperable content."
see also :
Scott McCloud
and
Scott McCloud talking about the space between content
(quicktime) and then
The
XML-Meta Architecture
.
NY Times : Workspaces - Products of a Modern Dreamscape
"Like the old
Good Design
shows,
Workspheres
presents a mythology. It couples the idea of the Next with the belief
that we must collectively work our way toward it. The Next will not
descend from above, without our effort. We must toil to get there. On the
other hand, our travel expenses will be paid, and the work will be
performed with tools that have vast sex appeal. Isn't that a good deal?
... To see the work environment in temporal terms is to experience it as
an event more than a place. This experience may be the most profound idea
at the show. The electronic appliances are tools for creating events out
of relationships in space, time and sensibility. An event may be
hierarchically structured, as in a typical management chart, or its
architecture may be free-floating."
There is a bug in the display mechanism for the archives
I may not get to fixing it
today
, but the links are still valid.
Perlmonks : Parsing and spewing CSS
"So here is my plan: create a default external
style sheet with default settings and then use perl to query a database
for a user's style settings and produce a <STYLE> element
with all the individual customizations at the top of the html page. Is
there an easier way to do this?"
Guido van Rossum
"[S]tarting today, Tim Peters, Barry Warsaw,
Jeremy Hylton, Fred Drake and myself are working for Digital Creations.
We will be spending part of our time on core Python development
(including Jython and Mailman) and part of our time on Python
infrastructure improvements that also benefit Zope." mmmmm....
whitespace.
The Headless HorseMP3
"is a PHP script designed to be an interface for
playing MP3s (or any other type of file with slight modification) on the
web server. My intended use is to be able to play MP3s from a headless
(no keyboard, mouse, or monitor) old computer which I can stick out of
the way, under a bed or something. However many other uses do come to
mind. One could use it to scare his/her college roommate by making their
computer start playing MP3s from a public lab, or even start a web-cam
like server where the public internet controls what music (out of your
collection, entirely legal of course) he/she listens to."
Steve Rothman : The Publication of [John Hersey's] Hiroshima in the
New Yorker
"TO OUR READERS The New Yorker this week devotes
its entire editorial space to an article on the almost complete
obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb, and what happened to the
people of that city. It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet
comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and
that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications
of its use. The Editors." see also :
Takeharu Terao : A Personal Record of Hiroshima A-bomb Survival
This American Life : Americans in Paris
"Why come to Paris and go to the one place you're
not aloud to smoke?" ( real evil g2 )
Seven 2 Eleven
paintings by Daniel McCleary
XML Hack : RDF from email headers
Rachel Greene : Web Work, A History of Internet Art
I tend to distrust anything with paragraphs that
begin "Not unlike the Surrealists and Situationists...", but I will slog
my way through this anyway. Read it while you can; the URL suggests that
the article will get blasted next month. I guess Artforum is still
learning to walk the walk... Meanwhile. Morning Edition does
a short piece on eToy NYC
. (real audio)
Meanwhile, rumours are afoot
that CBC [television] is set to begin
"de-commercializing" itself
by cutting
14 minutes of advertising per hour
, although seemingly at the expense of local newscasts. "We have to take
risks and we have to return to our roots as a public-service broadcaster.
There is a role for the CBC, and that isn't doing what CTV does. Instead,
we need to complement, not compete with, the private sector, whether
there are 10 channels, 20 channels or 140 channels."
Tangentially related, my friend Alexander
is convinced that there is something in the cups
or the beer --or both-- at the Molson Center that causes the former to
begin dissolving when it comes into contact with the latter. Just in case
you needed another reason
another reason not to drink big corporate beer
. Meanwhile, congratulations to the Canadian Women's Hockey Team for
winning a sixth consecutive World Championship
and demonstrating that, despite Buffalo having won this afternoon, there
is still some small justice in the universe.
Paul Wells
"Ask [Stockwell Day] rude questions about his
moral beliefs and he answers simply and frankly. Ask him simple questions
about the fundamental public-policy issues any grade-school student could
have told him he'd face in Montreal, and he runs like a barnyard
chicken."
Since returning to Montreal
Speaking of packaging
George M. Kraw : Vive La McDomination!
"In fact, an American-based legal system isn't
being imposed on France or any other country. But providers and consumers
of legal services are creating an international legal order that is
largely based on American and common law principles. It is more "market
driven" by consumers than "law driven" by legislative authorities
enacting statutes." Okay, so what exactly is a legal system if it's not
driven by law? The whole concept of law becomes essentially moot if it is
just another service industry.
Le Devoir : La loi 101 est nécessaire, selon Alexa McDonough
"Mme McDonough estime qu'avec la prédominance de
l'anglais en Amérique du Nord, «c'est évident qu'il faut avoir des lois
pour protéger le français». Elle ajoute que la protection de la langue
française est quelque chose de «très important, même pour le Canada».
Elle dit être en accord avec les principes de la loi 101 et n'avoir
aucune réserve sur son contenu actuel."
O'Reilly Sample Chapter
<a href =
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/realbasic/chapter/ch03.html">
REALbasic : Chapter 3 Objects, Classes, and Instances</a>
The Nando Times on the Chair Wars
I had no idea that
Those wacky Frontier people!
Wired : The RSI Generation
Rick Veitch : The Daily Rare Bit Fiends
"I'm about to learn that in Boston, there are a
lot of firestations, but few police." I trust Rick Veitch to make the
Internet a more interseting place than it is now.
The Internet : The Last Battleground of the 20th Century
NY Times : High-Technology Sector Unmoved by Labor's Song
"I never think about unions, because they were
never part of my life." Meanwhile, slashdot has a sysadmin's account of
The High Tech
Sweatshop
: "In exchange for high salaries and large stock options the company owns
you all day and all night, every day and every night. You are 'Mission
critical'. High salaries become an illusion because when it gets down to
it your hourly rate isn't much better than the assistant manager of the
local Pep Boys."
Robert at bump.net
(or <a href =
"http://www.dalai-lama.com/">dalai-lama.com</a>,
depending on what your referrer logs tell you ;-) has some nice things to
say about abhb, and the <a href =
"http://aaronland.net/#sitemap">aaronland
sitemap</a>. That said, credit should go to those who
deserve it : the fancy dhtml code is courtesy of Eric Bosrup's <a
href = "http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib">OverLIB javascript
library</a> and the pointer that said code contains a
"tracking agent" comes by way of <a href =
"http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$8401">Keith
Devens</a>. Thanks to one and all!
Me Mom & Morgentaler
reunion in Montreal at Metropolis! Forget Flag
& Fireworks Day and get thee to
the border
!
More reports of LinuxPPC 5 cd's shipping with the Autostart
infection
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.
