posts brought to you by the category “rugrats”
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.
Susheel Daswani : "We have just started a project to integrate
Creative Commons licenses into the LimeWire (Gnutella) client."
Know you know : The only thing more fun that riding your bike up
the mountain in the rain
Mark Fowler : "It's all about my latest crazy crazy idea which is
XML::Filter::TT."
The Animal Internet-o-pedia
Sure enough, if you thought it couldn't get any worse than Artforum
nerds discovering weblogs
Joseph J. Esposito : The Processed Book
This is painful to behold for someone who prayed earnestly that
Isabel Archer would not return to Osmond, but words are symbols and
are ideally suited for the manipulations of the symbolic logic of
computers. The processed book takes Isabel Archer and shows her to be
the collection of words that she is. She then can be processed.
perl -e 'use strict; use Cwd; my $dir = getcwd; my $i = -1; map {
$i += $_ eq "/" } (split("",$dir)); print $i,"\n";'
Eat Poop You Cat
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
insectclopedia
Insect encyclopedia.
ex. I am researching the insectclopedia.
Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm 0.2
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : aohater
One who hates users of the America Online internet
service provider.
ex. You guys are all aohaters. Leave use AOL users
alone.
N.Y. Times 7#34;Something magical occurs when the pastry hits the
hot oil.
The creamy white vegetable shortening filling
liquefies, impregnating the sponge cake with its luscious vanilla flavor
(sure, it's imitation, but nevertheless potent). The cake itself softens
and warms, nearly melting, contrasting with the crisp, deep-fried crust
in a buttery and suave way."
To my ever-lasting shame, I will admit to having read a book by
Michael "rhymes with frighten" Creighton.
N.Y. Times : The Brave New Kitchen (No Room for Cooking)
"I studied [the design] a long time before
saying: "It's beautiful. But where do we put the ugly stuff?" There was
no place in this clever kitchen for a trash can. And yet cooking is all
about garbage. Garbage for a good cause, but garbage nonetheless. Our
hired genius wound up designing a clever slot under a counter alongside
the stove, the perfect solution in a kitchen that still feels perfect 10
years later. Still, I think of that oversight whenever I hear the words
"architect" and "food" in a single sentence."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : varicolored
varicolored adj 1: having a variety of colors [syn:
{varicoloured}, {variegated}] 2: having sections or patches colored
differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the
painted desert,"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied
daisies" [syn: {motley}, {multicolor}, {culticolour}, {multicolored},
{multicoloured}, {painted}, {particolored}, {particoloured}, {piebald},
{pied}, {varicoloured}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : evanescent
Evanescent \Ev`a*nes"cent\, a. [L. evanescens, -entis, p.
pr. of evanescere.] 1. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor;
vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the
fashions of the world in these particulars. --Hawthorne. 2. Vanishing
from notice; imperceptible. The difference between right and wrong, is
some petty cases, is almost evanescent. --Wollaston.
web1913
evanescent adj : tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent
beauty"
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I wrote an AxPoint DTD
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
jackfucker
Someone whose action indicate she possesses the heinous
attributes of both a jackass and a motherfucker.
ex. You're directly behind a woman in line at a fast food
drive-through who is sorting through her purse, letting other people
get in front of her, and drastically increasing your wait. She then
drives off without ordering. "Jackfucker!"
Chris Russell : "And being asked to swallow a frozen cube of
onion
in green apple juice so you'd burp and be ready
for the next course was a little much."
Nat Torkington : Jihaddict
"A Skewed View of the War on Terrorism."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is transmute
| source : web1913 | Transmute \Trans*mute"\, v.
t. [imp. & p. p. {Transmuted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Transmuting}.]
[L. transmutare, transmutatum; trans across + mutare to change. See
{Mutable}, and cf. {Transmew}.] To change from one nature, form, or
substance, into another; to transform. The caresses of parents and the
blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. --Buckminster.
Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy. --H. Smith. | source
: wn | transmute v 1: change in outward structure or looks; "He
transformed into a monster" [syn: {transform}] 2: change or alter in
form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her
completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture" [syn:
{transform}] 3: alter in nature; of chemical elements in alchemy
Professional XML Web Services : SOAP Basics
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is dictum
| source : web1913 | Dictum \Dic"tum\, n.; pl. L.
{Dicta}, E. {Dictums}. [L., neuter of dictus, p. p. of dicere to say. See
{Diction}, and cf. {Ditto}.] 1. An authoritative statement; a dogmatic
saying; an apothegm. A class of critical dicta everywhere current. --M.
Arnold. 2. (Law) (a) A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points
that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
(b) (French Law) The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who
has given it. --Bouvier. (c) An arbitrament or award. | source : wn |
dictum n 1: an authoritative declaration [syn: {pronouncement}, {say-so}]
2: an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on
the case in question and therefore not binding [syn: {obiter dictum}]
Robert Scoble : "We must change their memes. How do we do
that?
I guess with two ways. First, we kill their women
and children. Why? Well, these are future hosts of their memes. And, we
must get their memes to understand that if we get attacked, we will make
their other meme holders pay and pay big. ... They are killing my memes.
Until they stop killing my memes, and start talking on the Internet with
me, my memes will want to wack them, and wack them hard."
Me : rss2blogger 1.1
Steven L. Telleen : Intranet Organization - Strategies for managing
change
"Talking to companies that have implemented
Intranets, the toughest issues are not the technology but the people
issues. What is missing entirely is a book that takes a thoughtful look
at how an organization might transition to all these wonderful benefits,
what it means in terms of organizational needs, role requirements and
reskilling people and how the organizational strategy relates to the
technology decisions. In other words, the critical stuff that links
strategy and technology."
I guess it happens all the time
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is penury
| source : web1913 | Penury \Pen"u*ry\, n. [L.
penuria; cf. Gr. ? hunger, ? poverty, need, ? one who works for his daily
bread, a poor man, ? to work for one's daily bread, to be poor: cf. F.
p['e]nurie.] 1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme
poverty; destitution. ``A penury of military forces.'' --Bacon. They were
exposed to hardship and penury. --Sprat. It arises in neither from penury
of thought. --Landor. 2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] --Jer.
Taylor. | source : wn | penury n : a state of extreme poverty or
destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need
exists among the homeless" [syn: {indigence}, {need}, {pauperism}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is egress
| source : web1913 | Egress \E"gress\, n. [L.
egressus, fr. egredi to go out; e out + gradi to go. See {Grade}.] 1. The
act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure. Embarred
from all egress and regress. --Holland. Gates of burning adamant, Barred
over us, prohibit all egress. --Milton. 2. (Astron.) The passing off from
the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit. | source : web1913 |
Egress \E*gress"\, v. i. To go out; to depart; to leave. | source : wn |
egress n 1: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the
emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins" [syn:
{emergence}, {issue}] 2: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming
apparent [syn: {egression}, {emergence}] 3: (astronomy) the reappearance
of a celestial body after an eclipse [syn: {emersion}]
Thomas A. Phelps : "The Multivalent Document Model
extensively opens to enhancement all aspects of a
digital document system. Document content is constructed from layers of
often heterogeneous type, each with specialized purpose, all semantically
aligned. All user-visible document functionality is constructed from
stylized program components called behaviors. Document system operations,
such as drawing a representation of the document on the screen and saving
an edited version, derive from the fundamental operation found to some
degree in every digital document system, newly codified as extensible
programmatic protocols. This diverse open content, open functionality,
and open operation are woven together by numerous mechanisms to produce a
final composition that appears built from the ground up as a unified
whole."
Philip Greenspun talks about "Content Management"
Hats off to Sally Ann
The Recipe Markup Language
I'm not much for pop-up windows
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is flaneur
| source : web1913 | Flaneur \Fla`neur"\, n. [F.,
fr. fl[^a]ner to stroll.] One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a
loafer.
Honour, my arse. It's called data-mining
"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?
Overheard : When asked what she thought of U.S. election/recount,
singer K.D. Lang replied
"I think [George Bush] is hiding ballots in his
boil."
Kip Hampton : Simple XML Validation with Perl
"Now what does Test.pm have to do with validating
an XML document? The answer lies in its combination with the XML::XPath
module. The XPath language provides a simple, powerful syntax for
navigating the logical structure of an XML document. XML::XPath allows us
to take advantage of that power from within Perl."
PHPBuilder : Sending MIME email in PHP
Damian Conway : Switch.pm
In case you were really tired of typing elsif all
the time.
All basements are not created equal.
I found these photos while preparing for The Big
Move 2.0. With six and half foot high stucco ceilings and (dark) fake
wood panelling, this is the place that I have measured all the others
against. Just West of Little Italy, we lived three to the basement with
another three "apartments" in the house. Above the kitchen lived a woman
our age, affectionately dubbed The Screamer. Somewhere above my
make-shift room, lived the single mother whose son was taken away from
her by the police on an April morning; not soon enough to prevent her
from beating the shit out of him too many times. We never saw the people
on the second floor but they got more mail than the rest of us combined.
This is where I quit smoking, rediscovered computers and
made these
paintings
.
Vodka espresso?
"It is worth noting that good argument does not guarantee good
action" [sic]
I was going through my stuff this morning, in
anticipation of The Big Move 2.0, and I came across my notes from a
philosophy class I took during my last semester at school. It was one of
a series called "Philosopical Issues for Artists", and this one was
titled "Being reasonable: What's right and what's art?" but I quickly
renamed it "Teaching Artists to be Reasonable." On the first day of
class, I drew
this
drawing
on my course outline. I wonder what I was thinking about.
LA Weekly : Better Living Through Electro-Politics
"If I’m elected, and if they ever repair
City Hall, there will be a Webcam in my office whenever I’m working
... [we] need a drastic change from total behind-the-curtain to total
open-the-curtain. I don’t think there’s a middle ground on
this one. If a contractor is in my office negotiating a bid, he’s
not negotiating with me, but with the citizens of Los Angeles. And he has
to be prepared to tell those citizens what he’s doing."
Hrvoje Niksic : htmlize.el
"To use, just switch to a buffer you want
HTML-ized, and type `M-x htmlize-buffer'. After that, you should find
yourself in an HTML buffer, which you can save. Alternatively, `M-x
htmlize-file' will find a file, font-lockify the buffer, and save the
HTML version, all before you blink. Even more alternatively, `M-x
htmlize-many-files' will prompt you for a slew of files to undergo the
same treatment. `M-x htmlize-many-files-dired' will do the same for the
files marked by dired." If I could be any computer program, I think I'd
like to be emacs.
Morning Becomes Eclectic : DJ Cheb I Sabbah
A quick shout-out to Luke
for finding the correct URL for the
MP3::Napster
Perl module and for being good enough to pass it on!
Sarah has a life outside school
Anthony Westell reads between the lines
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
.
Paul Callahan : Almost nothing to do with grapefruit
"Cheese, by contrast, encompasses the entire
range of human experience: birth and sexuality, the fecundity of nature
from the sweetness of a wildflower meadow to the musk of a doe in estrus
to the wriggling of mosquito larvae in a stagnant pool, death, decay,
vomit, oozing pustules, mystic visions, war atrocities. Well, maybe it's
not the whole range of experience. For example, I cannot think of a
cheese that makes me feel the way I felt when I first saw the proof that
a certain length of rope, hung in a certain way, takes the shape of the
very same catenary arc, regardless of its weight. No, if cheese is unlike
grapefruit, it is far far less like mathematics. Mathematics and cheese
are in a very precise, dare I say mathematical sense, antonyms. And as
you can see, cheese is a bit biased toward one side of the spectrum of
experience, particularly when you get to what I think of as the
"advanced" cheeses. As for me, I'm a rank beginner, but I have a theory
about cheese."
The nice Python people
ACLU : Echelonwatch
I saw Three Kings tonight
When the Gulf War started, I had the luxury of
spending my days and nights painting and drawing. The day after the
bombing began I went down to the U.S. consulate, in Montreal, to sketch
the protesters chant things like "Peace, not war" (duh) until someone
spray-painted a peace symbol on the building and the riot squad moved in.
I went home, and banged out
a
series of drawings
which I photocopied and papered the city with. I don't know if they made
a difference, but atleast I felt like I had done something in a situation
where most people I knew felt stripped of their voice and their ability
to do anything.
My friend Bill
Speaking of objects
I'm up to my
eyeballs
in them right now.
David McFarlane : A few tips on the care, feeding and shooing-away
of artists
"Those 'I always keep a notebook beside the bed
for my dreams' types. Those 'the creative process is a mystery I don't
like to tamper with' types. They can all take a long walk off a short
pier, as far as I'm concerned, and maybe they wouldn't mind taking a few
'absolutely riveted' critics with them." A little shrill perhaps, but not
far from the truth.
Salon : Plato not Prozac
The New Scientist : Unusual Suspects
More on the dark heart of Flipper.
It's August 1
which probably doesn't mean anything to most
people, but on the Vineyard it's the turnover day for summer rentals. To
mark the occasion, I'd like to direct your attention to
a local zine called Martha's Minions
(don't get me started on the url.) Written by and about the people who
work here year-round, each issue tackles one sector of the Island
economy, offering a tiny voice to those who labour to make this place "so
special". So far, there's only a dead-tree version (with no ordering
info), but I bet if you asked, you could find out how to get a copy :
Martha's Minions / POB 1044 / Oak Bluffs MA 02557 / maria @ vineyard.net
Le Monde : Internet, le déstabilisateur incertain des médias
"Au moment où les nouvelles technologies de la
communication bouleversent l'univers des médias, n'est-il pas nécessaire
de penser les moyens permettant de freiner les dérives ou, au moins, de
tempérer les effets pervers des plus récentes «révolutions de
l'information» ?"
Roberta Smith on The Un-Private House
"Riley's first premise is that the best, most
adventurous architecture of the last decade has been domestic. ... His
second is that this vitality stems from the way the house is being
reshaped on every side, rendered porous and permeable -- "un-private" --
in many ways."
The consumer incarnation of Microsoftiness
"The Microsoft world is all about sushi-ginger
stationery. It's synonymous with miniature Japanese rock gardens, aroma
therapy kits and velvet pillows stuffed with buckwheat hulls." Does
anyone remember Steve Jobs saying that the one thing Apple still had,
even when it had hit bottom a couple years ago, was a brand name (read:
kool-aid) ? via
jjg.net
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.
