posts brought to you by the category “shoes”
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.
Simon Wistow on Meals Ready to Eat
You could tip the non dairy whitener over flames to make pretty green fireballs - this was obviously not great if you were trying to conceal your position but then you wouldn't be lighting a fire anyway.
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Jim Ley has written a JavaScript RDF parser.
I just spent about four seconds thinking
how to write "your mileage may vary" in RDF and then thought the better
of it...
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Me : Acme::Test::Weather.pm 0.1
It's all Kellan's fault. see also : docsBecause, you know, it may be important to your Perl module that it's raining outside...
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Me : XML::SAXDriver::vCard.pm 0.04
Until the CPAN listings are updated you can
grab a copy
over here
. see also :
docs
and
bug #2115
. And no, there apparently is no version 0.03 - that's just what you
get for fixing bugs before your second of
coffee
.
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Of course, the only logical thing to do next
Christopher DeWolf : Two Months in Montreal
Bryan Boyer : "You can take what you want from Rome
because it loves itself, needs only itself. It's
not that Rome doesn't have time for you, Rome has too much time for you.
You're lost in Rome's bosom: find your own way out."
Personally, I loved Rome which was a surprise
having grown up with stories of how, apparently, terrible is was.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : recombobulate
To repair something that is broken or in some other way discombobulated
ex. Our strategy is completely discombobulated.. it's time we recombobulate.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : lassitude
Lassitude \Las"si*tude\, n. [L. lassitudo, fr. lassus faint, weary; akin to E. late: cf. F. lassitude. See {Late}.] A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness. The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch . . . will soon feel a lassitude. --Barrow. web1913
lassitude n 1: a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) [syn: {lethargy}, {sluggishness}] 2: a feeling of lack of interest or energy [syn: {languor}, {listlessness}] 3: weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy [syn: {inanition}, {lethargy}] wn
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The Internet Dictionary Project
"[Our] goal is to create royalty-free translating
dictionaries through the help of the Internet's citizens. This site
allows individuals from all over the world to visit and assist in the
translation of English words into other languages. The resulting lists of
English words and their translated counterparts are then made available
through this site to anyone, with no restrictions on their use."
Oh boy, this has Perl module written all over
it. I found this while I was looking for a French language dictionary for
a
Dict server
. Does anyone know if such a dictionary exists? Mostly, what I'd like is
something that I can call from the command-line that returns the gender
for a word...
$> sexy-word chaise [feminin] "De chair, she is beautiful." $> sexy-word divan [mascusin] "De couch, he is firm."Such are the things you worry about when you live outside Quebec for seven years. Meanwhile, Jay Kominek has written a Dict server in Perl . A quick glance at the code suggests that writing Apache::SOAP::Dict would consist of little more than calling
Dictionary.pm
. Cool.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : lachrymose
Lachrymose \Lach"ry*mose`\, a. [L. lacrymosus, better lacrimosus, fr. lacrima, lacruma (also badly spelt lachryma) a tear, for older dacrima, akin to E. tear. See {Tear} the secretion.] Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful. You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. --Lamb. -- {Lach"ry*mose`ly}, adv. web1913
lachrymose adj : showing sorrow [syn: {dolorous}, {dolourous}, {tearful}, {weeping}] wn
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A little piece of happiness is knowing you're not completely alone in the world...
use constant PROXY => "http://www.decafbad.com/xrfp/memepool.cgi";
use constant METHOD => "memepool.filterData";
my $text = "this is the network of our disconnect";
my $kw = "aaronland,perl,goofy";
my $xmlrpc = XMLRPC::Lite->new()->proxy(PROXY);
my $res = $xmlrpc->call(METHOD,$text,undef,{keywords=>$kw});
print $res->result()->{data};
Thanks
Les
!
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Damian Conway : ...And Now for Something Completely Similar
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : zaiesque
(adj) Reminiscent of the appearance or character of Dr. Zaius from _Planet of the Apes_.
ex. Her sublime head of red hair was exotically zaiesque.
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Kevin Altis : ""When the app starts up, it automatically grabs the text in the clipboard
and pastes it into the content field."
Anyone want to take bets on how long it will
take before this one hits the
RISKS digest
? via
scripting news
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : exigent
Exigent \Ex`i*gent\, a. [L. exigens, -entis, p. pr. of exigere to drive out or forth, require, exact. See {Exact}.] Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical. ``At this exigent moment.'' --Burke. web1913
exigent adj 1: demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn: {clamant}, {crying}, {insistent}, {instant}] 2: requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation" [syn: {exacting}] wn
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"Marvel Comics today released images drawn by a new artistic find of theirs, Peter Ferguson."
Holy shit! I am no fan of Marvel Comics but
Peter is a friend from the way back "I have measured my life in coffee
spoons" days. Now that he's big and famous I will be able to make him
do my bidding by threatening to release the drawing I did of him with
olives in his nose. Congratulations, Peter. see also
Borderline
#6
(pdf, 9mb) and
UberPete
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : porchclimber
Cheap wine; or any wine that is consumed through the course of an entire evening.
ex. I saw Curtis drinking porchclimber last night, I wonder how he fared today?
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : discursive
Discursive \Dis*cur"sive\, a. [Cf. F. discursif. See {Discourse}, and cf. {Discoursive}.] 1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. ``Discursive notices.'' --De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. --Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. --Carlyle. 2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. --Milton. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ness}, n. web1913
discursive adj 1: (philosophy) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition [syn: {dianoetic}] 2: (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that" [syn: {digressive}, {excursive}, {rambling}] wn
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"The icon looks more like iHam on iWhole iWheat. iSo iSue iMe."
O'Reillynet : IPsec Tunneling Between FreeBSD Hosts
Tony Bowden : Yada::Yada::Yada.pm
"For Perl 6 we've been promised a "yada yada
yada" operator, which makes '...' valid syntax for "I'll fill this bit in
later.", allowing the code to compile, but issue a run-time warning. But,
like many of the other things that may or may not happen in Perl 6, we
can already make this happen in Perl 5."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redoubtable
| source : web1913 | Redoubtable \Re*doubt"a*ble\
(-?*b'l), a. [F. redoutable, formerly also spelt redoubtable.]
Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence,
valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [Written also {redoutable}.]
| source : wn | redoubtable adj 1: inspiring fear; "the formidable
prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary
than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something
unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall" [syn: {formidable},
{unnerving}] 2: having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the
Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family" [syn: {glorious},
{illustrious}, {respected}]
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N.Y. Times : "If Edison had been an existential technologist,
he would have invented the light bulb not to
create light but to give intellectual illumination. In existech, as in
existential philosophy, an inventor builds something, then tries to
figure out what it is." see also :
some classrooms at Bentley
[College] have technology that allows teachers to capture a student's
e-mails or instant messages and display them on a large screen for the
whole class to see.
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Me : Blogger.pm 0.4
Update : Who mentioned paying 40, 000$ for a CMS?
I'm pretty sure
it
wasn't me.
Are we having the same conversation? If you can live with the tradeoffs
that come with whatever piece of software you use for a given task,
more power to you. My point is that CMS' are hardly the panacea you
seem to painting them to be. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but your
argument
for the supereme righteousness of CMS' appears to revolve around the
idea that a CMS is binary manifestation of some fancy-pants idea that
information wants, needs and has to be free. This reminds me of the
story Cree elders visiting the vice-president of Hydro Quebec, after
the first phase of the James Bay hydro-electric project was built. The
rivers around the dams had always contained naturally occurring mercury
but it was never a problem because the metal had always sunk to the
bottom of the riverbed with all the other sediment. With the constant
churning of the waters, though, the mercury was suddenly all over the
river and, before long, began to make it's way into the fish. The Cree
went to Hydro-Quebec and explained the situation and asked what would
be done to rectify the problem. The Cree, afterall, are fishermen. They
eat fish. That's how they'd survived for thousands of years. Do you
know what the executive in Montreal told them?
Don't eat fish.
Again, I'm not suggesting that a database backend is a bad thing. They
do certain things very well, but it stops there. They are not a
cure-all. Manila doesn't have any kinds of privacy/workflow checks and
writes it off as information wanting to be free. Blogger forces you to
arrange your posts chronologically and
writes
it off
as somehow being truer to the idea of weblog as form. Slash forces you
to recompile mod_perl and writes it off as "well, why wouldn't you want
to recompile mod_perl?". Greymatter has cleartext passwords and
world-writable directories. The code I've written is an ugly nightmare,
needs to be rewritten and doesn't let me automagically alias/thread
this post back to the original post. In fairness, Zope comes pretty
close to being able to do everything. However, it is not especially
well-designed for working in tandem with Apache, forces you to worry
about backing up/exporting everything out of a single ODB (point of
failure) and as soon as you scratch the surface becomes as complicated
as fuck. These are all lock-ins. Granted, most --some-- of these
problems are dealable and all of the tools mentioned above support,
with varying degrees of success, an export functionality so there is
always a way out, so to speak. But it all takes time for someone to
suss, to integrate, to actually do the work and then to finally fix all
the stuff that inevitably breaks. Meanwhile, the bloody Exchange server
has crashed again. Further, your whole web-publishing system becomes
beholden to a few small people who've had the time to master the
intricacies that your CMS tool involves. Sound familiar? My point is
that this sort of
CMS good, HTML eeeeeeeee-vil
talk is misguided and short-sighted. I'm sorry if your IT department is
full of goons, but installing a CMS is really only a band-aid
solution.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is carom
| source : web1913 | Carom \Car"om\, n. [Prob.
corrupted fr. F. carumboler to carom, carambolage a carom, carambole the
red ball in billiards.] (Billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with
the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting
of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called
{cannon}. | source : web1913 | Carom \Car"om\, v. i. (Billiards) To make
a carom. | source : wn | carom n 1: a glancing rebound [syn: {ricochet}]
2: a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and
then the other [syn: {cannon}] v 1: rebound after hitting: "The car
caromed off several lampposts" [syn: {glance}] 2: make a carom, in
billiards
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Mick McFadden : "Since when is the word 'Canadian'
interchangeable with or similar to 'crappy' ?"
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is solicitous
| source : web1913 | Solicitous \So*lic"it*ous\,
a.[L. sollicitus, solicitus. See {Solicit}, v. t.] Disposed to solicit;
eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil;
concerned; anxious; careful. ``Solicitous of my reputation.'' --Dryden.
``He was solicitous for his advice.'' --Calerendon. Enjoy the present,
whatsoever it be, and be not solicitous about the future. --Jer. Taylor.
The colonel had been intent upon other things, and not enough solicitous
to finish the fortifications. --Clarendon. -- {So*lic"it*ous*ly}, adv. --
{So*lic"it*ous*ness}, n. | source : wn | solicitous adj 1: full of
anxiety and concern; "solicitous parents"; "solicitous about the future"
2: showing hovering attentiveness; "solicitous about about her health";
"made solicitous inquiries about our family"
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James Gleick : Inescapably Connected
"We find that people look at their watches four
dozen times a day. And at no time do you realize that more than when you
forget your watch. It's not just that you don't know what time it is; you
feel all out of sorts. The rhythm of your day is all thrown off. So we're
thinking, What other kinds of information can you push into that
peripheral channel? Contacts and schedules and things like that are good.
But what about your stock-market portfolio? Or biometric information
about your loved ones, so you can see how your parents are doing, just to
know whether they're having a good day or a bad day."
You can take this and shove it up your
peripheral channel, you bad bad people, you.
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Steve Dietz : "This is open-source living in the digital age.
It's making a political statement about ownership
and commercialism. It's not just about viewing. Not only can you see in,
but you can use the plans yourself. Net art has always been centered
around the idea of appropriating the institutionalized system for the
artist's own purposes, and that's clearly what they're doing."
This is the arts community busy playing
catch-up...
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Claus Augusti : Forms Extension Framework Documentation
Never mind the squirrels, though, Montreal is set to be overrun
Paul Kinnucan : XML Authoring Environment for Emacs
"is an add-on software package that enables you
to use Emacs and your system's HTML browser to create, transform, and
display XML documents. ... Requires Java and eieio, an object-oriented
Emacs Lisp package."
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Christian Tismer : Python's dictionary algorithm explained
via
daily
python-url
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Morning Becomes Eclectic : Rhinocerose
(real evil g2) see also :
Grim Skunk :
Rhinoceros
(scroll down)
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The London Perl Mongers
see also
Free Pint : Web resources for handheld computers
XML for <SCRIPT>
"is a simple non-validating XML parser written in
JavaScript. This was written partly as an exploration of the issues
involved in coding parsers for XML, and partly to see how useful such a
parser would be for version three and four browsers."
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The nice people who brought Montreal
The Anxiety Building
now bring us
MUTEK
: "In the era of digital tools and new media, MUTEK intends to establish
itself as an annual gathering showcasing emerging forms of electronic
music and the latest trends in sound creation. Its mission is to be on
the cutting edge of innovation and to provide an environment for
discovery. .. These evenings will be webcast live on the Internet. Taking
advantage of the fact that Saint-Laurent Boulevard will be alive with the
rhythm of its summer sidewalk sales, MUTEK will also present a set of
urban happy hours, in complement of its programme." Is an urban happy
hour just Newspeak for free beer? see also
Voir :
Ex-centris, prise 2
.
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Postscript
I went to the clinic to have a tetanus shot this
afternoon. The doctor was kind and professional and couldn't resist
telling me, as he stuck the needle in my arm, that when he was a child
growing up in India he figures he stepped on a rusty nail once every
three weeks. Jack Tripper ... Jack Tripper ... Jack Tripper ...
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MacOS Rumors on QuickTime 5
"QuickTime VR will be enhanced with true
three-dimensional "sphere" VR rather than today's "circular" QTVR
environment." mmmmmm...
spheres
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Your door is ajar. Your door is ajar. Your door is ajar.
My door is a jar? see also :
the frigid
little "boop" [that] replaced the sensual, gears-meshing "cha-ching"
.
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Post-meta
Well, the new code is up and I will spend the
next day(s) watching the error logs. Courtesy the More-Art-Less-Words
Department, you can now display listings by
individual entry
, by
day
, by
category
as well as several in
popular European translations
. I am also thinking that I would like to create a
Gutenbook
version but that may just be a reaction to all the blather about the
popularity of The Scary One's recent ebook. Like you, I asked myself --
at three o'clock in the morning -- what the hell the point of all this
goofy stuff is ( I added hooks for a spell-checker, no less ) and the
best answer I came up with was
hack value
. Then I started thinking you could do an interesting sociology /
anthropology class on the subject of hack value but I finally went to
bed. Anyway, as I write this I've already found a bug with the display
mechanism for older entries. I expect the week will be a bit bumpy, but
please let me know
if and when stuff breaks. Thanks. Note : the various XML syndication
files should be ready in a day or two and it will surely take longer to
populate all the many
category entries
.
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Web PDF Viewer
Spits out HTML or PalmOS Doc files. Sweet!
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Mother of Perl : Mac Daemons in Perl
"Speaks the currently running processes at 15
second intervals." The best part about example code is dreaming up ways
to use it in more interesting pranks.
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LA Weekly : LAPD tries to muzzle street cops on the Web
"No one is saying so, but the dispute [ over the
lapd.org
website ] is clearly linked to the city's recent efforts to cash in on
the LAPD's notoriety. The Police Commission in mid-November voted to
trademark the LAPD name as a prelude to lucrative licensing agreements
with Hollywood producers, T-shirt manufacturers and the like. The city
attorney's cease-and-desist letter went out days later."
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Words & Pictures Exhibit : Elektra Assassin
Still beautiful. This was one of those works that
changed everything for me.
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Seattle Times : Free-speech rights vs. protest ban
"If the mayor used his emergency powers to close
downtown to everybody without WTO credentials or a job downtown, it might
be legal, some experts said. If it was closed only to those who wanted to
protest, most agreed, it would not be legal." Meanwhile, accountant
Mike Ferguson
supports the protestors but is bummed that their actions have led
Starbucks to close all its Seattle branches because "I've had to look
everywhere for a cup of good coffee."
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The Electrohippies : WTO Virtual Sit-in
"This page has been developed from a similar
facility - The Zapatista Tactical FloodNet. This page is a less flashy
but equally functional alternative. The purpose of this page is simple.
By accessing the WTO's websites using the Javascript-based pages you are
in effect accessing repeatedly - as if you were pressing the 'reload'
button on your browser every few seconds." via
slashdot
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via Slashdot comes good news
that
Monsanto won't
sell their, so-called, Terminator seeds
. see also : Monsanto CEO Robert B. Shapiro's
open letter
to Rockefeller Foundation President Gordon Conway.
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Patrice Garant : L'élément le plus novateur de l'arrêt: l'obligation de négocier
"La Cour peut être considérée comme ayant tout
fait pour maximiser les chances d'un arrangement négocié et pacifique, et
éviter les risques de désordre social qui pourraient accompagner une
déclaration unilatérale de souveraineté. Elle a, à juste titre, reconnu
une légitimité certaine aux aspirations des Québécois, si celles-ci
s'expriment selon les règles démocratiques et sans ambiguïtés. [...]"
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
streaming mp3 feed
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If you liked the round mouse
Reuters
"Television personality Hugh Downs plans to join
iNEXTV Corp., a newly formed Internet video network, to develop online
television shows, making him the latest high-profile TV newsman to
embrace the new medium."
Who's the little teeny man, poppy?
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Art at the Edge, panel discussion
"An argument about contemporary art and its
disappointed public." In art school, popular opinion holds that people
just need to be "educated". real audio
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Office porn cases raising issues of privacy, protection
'' 'To me, the biggest issue in the Harvard case
is why the technicians were not disciplined for disclosing the content of
the computer files,' said Alan Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard. "
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wtf?
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dude, where's my car
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See also : W3C::LogValidator.pm
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