posts brought to you by the category “theatre”
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.
Nicholas Clark : When Perl is not quite fast enough
TODO : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm
# Use
F:F:R:MMagic
for finding images
# doesn't always work (let when you
# deleted all those pending images who
# didn't return image/* )
# Use
F:F:Rule
->directory() for breadcrumbs
# Use
XML::Filter::TT
for templates
# templates => { image => "image.tt",
# index => "index.tt" };
# pass the following args:
# %iptc_info
# %exif_info
# next / previous image
# next / previous directory
# id
# scales
# static (huh?)
# ?
# How to eval
PhotoRDF in
EXIF comments
?
# Fix railing slash on directories
# Use
File::Rsync
to reconcile old/new files
# write to temp dir then call rsync --delete to remove
# old or out of date files
# this would allow 'directory' to be a
# remote URI
Matthias Wandel : Building a megapixel digital camera from a
flatbed scanner
I started playing around with my flatbed scanner to see if I could
capture images of stuff around it, by holding the scanner in my hand
and rotating it as it scanned.
Ponie is a version of Perl 5 that will run on Parrot.
Tomer Hanuka has some fine lines.
Donate your bookmarks to science
Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) are a new paradigm modelled after
the human immune system. Here at the University of Bradford, we
believe that they could be developed into an extremely powerful tool
to extract information from a database. In order to confirm this
conjecture, we decided to experiment with the task of extracting
useful information from a database of Internet addresses.
Wow, I'm not sure I could be any more underwhelmed.
Subject: Tell me, how long am I going to have to listen to Daniel
Libeskind...
That picture of the escalator could be from any metro station in
the city.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dhinchak
Adjective used when you see really weird clothing on nice
people.
ex. Remember Smita's dhinchak tiger skirt?
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
superextable
It's a compression of super extra double. It's used when
you really mean it.
ex. That was a superextable job on that test!
100%.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : cueless
The blank expression on a newsreader's face when the
autocue breaks down.
ex. When they cut to camera 5 and for a moment, he looked
totally cueless.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : button
box
The infra red remote control for any one of many
different types of electrical home entertainment
appliances.
ex. Pass the button box so I can see what's on the other
channels.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : off the hizzi
fa schizzi
(His-e for sh-is-e) It means that something is really
"hot" or "cool". It can also mean that someone is being
serious.
ex. His new car is off the hizzi fa schizzi. Or "She said
that you lied." " No I didn't lie. I'm off the hizzi fa
schizzi."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : beholden
Beholden \Be*hold"en\, p. a. [Old p. p. of behold, used in
the primitive sense of the simple verb hold.] Obliged; bound in
gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. --Tennyson.
web1913
beholden adj : under a moral obligation to someone [syn:
{beholden(p)}]
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Donald A. Norman : Just because it's funny doesn't mean it isn't
real
"The New 7 series BMW no longer has all those
knobs and buttons that clutter up the dashboard - you know, where each
knob does one thing that you can count on. Instead, it has a single
controller located on the center console that "functions similarly to a
computer mouse." It drives a display in the center of the dashboard. It
is called the iDrive: i for "intuitive") (Don't get me started on
intuitive. You know what's intuitive? Fear of heights. Everything else we
call intuitive, such as walking or using a pencil took years of practice.
Is that what we want? A control that takes years of practice?)"
Yuuichi Teranishi : eldav.el
"provides an interface to the WebDAV servers for
Emacs. ... [note that] SSL is not supported (because `nd' does not handle
it.)"
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : forkster
The act of placing ones fork into the toaster in an
attempt to get your now charcoalled toast out.
ex. "Xavier! How many times have I told you not to
forkster? You could get electrocuted!"
The nice people at ActiveState have added a PHP Cookbook
Mark Hershberger : Myblogger.el
"is based on Simon Kittle's blogger.el, but where
his code calls a Perl program, this code uses xml-rpc.el. As of this
writing, my mods to xml-rpc.el are needed to add support for boolean
types."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : philomath
Philomath, GA Zip code(s): 30660 Philomath, OR (city, FIPS
57450) Location: 44.54050 N, 123.35708 W Population (1990): 2983 (1145
housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s):
97370
gazetteer
Philomath \Phil"o*math\, n. [Gr. ?; fi`los loving, a friend
+ ma`qh learning, fr. ?, ?, to learn.] A lover of learning; a scholar.
--Chesterfield.
web1913
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : gelid
Gelid \Gel"id\, a. [L. gelidus, fr. gelun frost, cold. See
{Cold}, and cf. {Congeal}, {Gelatin}, {Jelly}.] Cold; very cold;
frozen. ``Gelid founts.'' --Thompson.
web1913
gelid adj : extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "let's get
inside; I'm freezing"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North
Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn:
{arctic}, {freezing}, {frigid}, {glacial}, {icy}, {polar}]
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Jorge Godoy : CVS and DocBook Validation
"Writing a document and putting it under revision
control is not an easy task. One might want to make that document into a
printable format and face several markup errors. One way to prevent that
is to ensure that only correct DocBook documents are available to
everybody and authors don't put problematic or with an incomplete
structure at the repository. ... CVS allows the use of triggers in some
stages. By using commit triggers we can start a validation proccess (in
our case using onsgmls, from [[WWW]] OpenJade) that will either accept
the document as valid SGML or refuse it."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is acerbic
| source : web1913 | Acerbic \A*cerb"ic\, a. Sour
or severe. | source : wn | acerbic adj 1: sour or bitter in taste [syn:
{acerb}, {astringent}, {sharp}] 2: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an
acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid
comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words";
"blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination,
talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation" [syn:
{acerb}, {acid}, {acrid}, {bitter}, {blistering}, {caustic}, {sulfurous},
{sulphurous}, {venomous}, {virulent}, {vitriolic}]
DevShed : The Fundamentals of DTD Design
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redact
| source : web1913 | Redact \Re*dact"\
(r?*d?kt"), v. t. [L. redactus, p. p. of redigere; pref. red-, re-,
again, back + agere to put in motion, to drive.] To reduce to form, as
literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to
edit. | source : wn | redact v 1: formulate in a particular style or
language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very
polite language" [syn: {frame}, {cast}, {put}, {couch}] 2: make editorial
changes (in a text) [syn: {edit}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is caterwaul
| source : web1913 | Caterwaul \Cat"er*waul\, v.
i. [imp. & p. p. {Caterwauled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caterwauling}.]
[Cat + waul, wawl, to cry as a cat.] To cry as cats in rutting time; to
make a harsh, offensive noise. --Coleridge. | source : web1913 |
Caterwaul \Cat"er*waul\, n. A caterwauling. | source : wn | caterwaul n :
the yowling sound made by a cat in heat v : utter shrieks, as of cats
[syn: {yowl}]
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 rotund
| source : web1913 | Rotund \Ro*tund"\, a. [L.
rotundus. See {Round}, and cf. {Rotunda}.] 1. Round; circular; spherical.
2. Hence, complete; entire. 3. (Bot.) Orbicular, or nearly so. --Gray. |
source : web1913 | Rotund \Ro*tund"\, n. A rotunda. [Obs.] --Burke. |
source : wn | rotund adj 1: spherical in shape 2: full and rich; "orotund
tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase" [syn: {orotund}, {round}]
3: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: {corpulent}, {obese},
{weighty}]
Lauren Weinstein & Peter Neumann : Sanity in the Election
Process
"We stand at a crossroads where the existence of
fundamental flaws in our election system have finally been exposed to the
public. It is no longer tenable for the powers that be, with a
gentleman's agreement or a nod and a wink, to steamroll over these flaws
-- and the will of voters -- for the sake of convenience and expediency.
We can start down the path toward ensuring genuine fairness and integrity
in the voting process by making sure that the election of last Tuesday is
resolved in a manner that not only serves the candidates, but more
importantly the will of the voters themselves."
CBC : Marc-Boris St. Maurice is running in the downtown Montreal
riding of Laurier-Sainte-Marie against Gilles Duceppe.
"...St-Maurice said one in four Canadians admit
to trying marijuana or hashish at least once. "If all those people voted
for the Marijuana Party, I would be the Prime Minister," he said. Other
parties have mentioned this issue during the campaign. The Canadian
Alliance said it would allow a free vote on decriminalization. But
St-Maurice is skeptical. He said Stockwell Day is trying to look cool by
bringing up the marijuana issue and that's totally unacceptable." Enough
said.
Montreal Gazette : "The Toronto-area Undeliverable Mail Office
of Canada Post processes more than 6.2 million
pieces of mail annually - not counting the 55,000 sets of keys (car,
house, hotel) and more than 50,000 pictures." see also :
Mailboxes
were different then
.
PHPBuilder : Browser Detection and Appropriate CSS Generation
"Whoever said CSS would solve all your
cross-platform browser display issues needs to lay off the pipe a
little."
Looking for a change?
Maybe you should try a
Cheese Choc-Dog
for lunch. How could you resist a recipe that requires you : "carefully
drill each hot dog lengthwise" and then "fill the cavaties with aerosol
cheese product." Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my chin...
Laurent Burgbacher : Progect Manager
"is a project management tool [ for the PalmOS ].
Why a "g" in Progect? Because in french, "g" has the same pronounciation
as "j", and it's a GPL application." Those wacky Open Source kids, always
thinking.
PHPBuilder : Sending MIME email in PHP
Kudos to A List Apart
for
raising
a little
hell
this week, even if it is mostly just ill-conceived, childish drivel :
"The lone coder, hunched over his keyboard at 3 A.M., echoes the monks of
the Middle Ages who painstakingly translated and copied the Bible by
hand. The zeal of the early online pioneers recalls the disciples
spreading the word. And the corporate jackals are the Pharisees and false
prophets, intruding and crowing that the Web is theirs, stomping over
anyone who dares to oppose their "authority" - the very authority we were
trying to escape from." I think that you need to get a little more sleep,
Buddy. see also :
Zeldman
, "Next week I will publish a useful article on designing with the DOM.
If any of you are still ALA readers, you will learn some cool and useful
design programming techniques."
The Cuckoo Egg Project
"is essentially a monkey wrench in the machinery
of online piracy. The method is relatively simple - by creating an mp3
and renaming it to whatever your devious mind desires you can subvert the
machinery. It's that easy - Napster users trust that what they see is
what they get but we have the power to change what they get." via
slashdot
St. Laurent and Guilbault
"I've never seen someone that stupid man...
You've locked my bike with yours. Page me at 444 at least when it's
unlocked. Please. Sincerement, je suis désolé et tellement distrait.
Toutes mes excuses." Apparently it's Bike Week in Montreal. My experience
of Bike Week is that it's the one time of the year that the police
enforce bicycle laws. Years ago, I got stopped for not having reflectors
on my bike. I got a warning, was told to buy reflectors and to come down
to the station and show the nice police officers. I did the first but not
the second and a couple years later when I finally got my drivers license
I was told that it couldn't be issued since it had already since it had
already been revoked. Pity the poor souls who have to push this kind of
red tape. My tiny bicycle infraction had mushroomed into a couple hundred
dollars worth of fines (one for each wheel, no less.) Pity the poor soul
who had to find the original ticket when I went to pay it.
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."
From the Newspeak department
Today is my birthday!
The World on United Future Organization
"We want to unsquare the squares." (real evil g2)
Jessamyn West
"While violence and scary terrorists may make
good stories and sell a lot of papers, I think the real story here is how
a couple thousand people, standing up for what they believe in, could
bring a city to its knees, non-violently. You do not need to fear
anarchists for the reasons you think you do."
Today, I am thankful
that my family celebrates [U.S.] Thanksgiving on
Friday and that there is atleast one more day until
Consumer Season
begins in earnest.
Randal Schwartz : Have You Ever Meta-Index Like This?
I had the opportunity of attending the Boston
Perl Conference in April and one of the best parts was watching Randal
Schwartz heckle Lincoln Stein from the back of the room.
Danny Goodman : Getting Ready for the W3C DOM
Rafe Colburn
I hate JavaScript. It's the bane of my existence. Mainly, I hate
it because it's implemented differently in every browser, and
debugging the scripts is absolute torture. What makes it worse is
that many people don't follow the most basic best practices that have
been established over time. To help eliminate this problem, I will
link to the article
Object detection, not browser detection
. If you program in JavaScript, read it.
Have you never really believed
that Canadians are the funniest people on the
planet?
Leah McLaren feels your pain
: "This, after all, is a country where a governing body once refused to
let the rock band Barenaked Ladies play a benefit concert on the grounds
that their name objectified women. It's the same place that recently
refused to retail a full-bodied French chardonnay named Fat Bastard on
the grounds it might be offensive to fat bastards."
The American Bankers Association has written a Y2K Sermon
NY Times : On the Internet, Balancing the Free Flow of Data and
Profits
"I have to say I'm sympathetic to the plight of a
movie producer who sees the product distributed digitally without any
payment. But we are reaching the point where we're creating serious
complications for the kind of data flow you need for democracy and
scientific inquiry to work. People are commercializing everything and
selling it. I'm worried that we are going to patent facts." See also :
Collections of Information Antipiracy Act
and
Consumer and Investors Access to Information Act
.
Jared Spool
"Now it doesn't matter if the actually thing that
they are looking for is one click away or six clicks away, as long as
they are able to follow the scent to get to the content, they will be
very happy users. And the good sites get users to follow the scent."
Dimanche magazine
"Le fumeur et la cigarette sont-ils en train de
devenir les boucs émissaires de toutes les intolérances? C'est la
question que soulève le film Cigarette, une récente production de
l'Office national du film du Canada réalisée par Monique LeBlanc. Ginette
Lamarche, animatrice de Dimanche magazine, discute du propos du film avec
le comédien et co-scénariste Yvan Vanhecke." Cigarette was awarded the
prize for Best Documentary at the 1998
Atlantic Film
Festival
. real audio
Philip Greenspun on the $100B mark
"Maybe this will convince my students they
shouldn't work so hard to become rich. Because they're probably not going
to be richer than Bill Gates, so they might as well do something
interesting and valuable to society instead."
Radio Free Martha's Vineyard
Cool. Maybe they can do Clinton-traffic reports
while the big guy is here. There are only a half dozen main roads on the
Island, and everyone has stories of spending an extra two hours getting
home at night, waiting for the Presidential motorcade to pass by. Maybe
they'll play
this
song
(mp3), too. Meanwhile, the good staff at KPFA
stick it
to The Man
any which way they can.
Right here, right now
I've found a fairly significant bug in the code
that generates the xml for the
my userland
channel
, so it may be updated sporadically. :-(
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.