posts brought to you by the category “webcams”
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.
Is it my imagination or are we having interchange arguments
Me : Image::Shoehorn.pm 1.42
Greg London : Symbol::Table.pm
Symbol::Table allows the user to manipulate Perl's symbol table
while hiding all those nasty eval's and *typeglobs from the user.
Symbol::Table gives the user an object oriented interface to perl's
actual symbol table. The constructor returns a reference to a tied
hash as a Symbol::Table object. The object acts like a reference to a
hash: the keys are the name of the symbols in the symbol table, and
the values are references to the symbol itself. The tied bit of magic
allows changes in the actual symbol table to be reflected as changes
in the tied hash. Tieing also allows assignments to the hash to
translate into assignments into perl's actual symbol table.
http://mah.everybody.org/weblog/archive/80614074
www.crimesofwar.org
The Crimes of War Project is a collaboration of journalists,
lawyers and scholars dedicated to raising public awareness of the
laws of war and their application to situations of conflict. Our goal
is to promote understanding of international humanitarian law among
journalists, policymakers, and the general public, in the belief that
a wider knowledge of the legal framework governing armed conflict
will lead to greater pressure to prevent breaches of the law, and to
punish those who commit them.
Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood 1.1b3
All your interpreter are belong to us
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fiblit
It's a Koosh ball (that colorful ball that looks like
it's made of old rubberbands), but Fiblit is easier to
remember.
ex. Erik, don't throw the fiblit in the living
room.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
giggersnort
Snorting sound, produced by laughing through the nose.
Often derisive laughter.
ex. Haha. That was so funny. (giggersnort)
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : firmament
Firmament from the Vulgate firmamentum, which is used as
the translation of the Hebrew _raki'a_. This word means simply
"expansion." It denotes the space or expanse like an arch appearing
immediately above us. They who rendered _raki'a_ by firmamentum
regarded it as a solid body. The language of Scripture is not
scientific but popular, and hence we read of the sun rising and
setting, and also here the use of this particular word. It is plain
that it was used to denote solidity as well as expansion. It formed a
division between the waters above and the waters below (Gen. 1:7). The
_raki'a_ supported the upper reservoir (Ps. 148:4). It was the support
also of the heavenly bodies (Gen. 1:14), and is spoken of as having
"windows" and "doors" (Gen. 7:11; Isa. 24:18; Mal. 3:10) through which
the rain and snow might descend.
easton
Firmament \Fir"ma*ment\, n. [L. firmamentum, fr. firmare to
make firm: cf. F. firmament. See {Firm}, v. & a.] 1. Fixed
foundation; established basis. [Obs.] Custom is the . . . firmament of
the law. --Jer. Taylor. 2. The region of the air; the sky or heavens.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and
let it divide the waters from the waters. --Gen. i. 6. And God said,
Let there be lights in the firmament. --Gen. i. 14. Note: In Scripture,
the word denotes an expanse, a wide extent; the great arch or expanse
over out heads, in which are placed the atmosphere and the clouds, and
in which the stars appear to be placed, and are really seen. 3. (Old
Astron.) The orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial
spheres.
web1913
firmament n : the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere
on which celestial bodies appear to be projected [syn: {celestial
sphere}, {sphere}, {empyrean}, {heavens}, {vault of heaven}, {welkin}]
wn
Bill Kearney has created a bunch of cool weblog maps
"based on the site URL's IP address."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dilligaff
Short for "Do I look like I care?" When someone tells you
something you are uninterested in, instead of saying I don't care,
just say "dilligaff."
ex. Joe: Nice weather today. Mary:
Dilligaff!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : saturdish
About Saturday.
ex. I'll be home saturdish.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : potable
Potable \Po"ta*ble\, a. [F., fr. L. potabilis, fr. potare
to drink; akin to Gr. po`tos a drinking, po`sis a drink, Skr. p[=a] to
drink, OIr. ibim I drink. Cf. {Poison}, {Bib}, {Imbibe}.] Fit to be
drunk; drinkable. ``Water fresh and potable.'' --Bacon. -- n. A potable
liquid; a beverage. ``Useful in potables.'' --J. Philips.
web1913
potable adj : of alcoholic beverages that are suitable for
drinking; "it's an impudent young wine but I think you will find it
quite potable" n : any liquid suitable for drinking: "may I take your
beverage order?" [syn: {beverage}, {drink}, {drinkable}]
wn
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be
potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even
they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder
known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great
and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all
countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of
substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that
liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be
unscientific -- and without science we are as the snakes and toads.
devils
Reinhard Voglmaier : Web Publishing with Perl Objects
Radio Crankypants #17 : On streaming and security
Chris Nandor : Mac:: modules on MacOS X
Movable Type 1.3
"<snip>Added DBUmask, HTMLUmask,
DirUmask, and UploadUmask settings for the mt.cfg file. These are to be
used to adjust permissions set on files and directories created by MT.
Removed manual chmod calls.</snip>"
Me : Image::Import.pm
"[slurps] an image as a hashref. In the process,
you may optionally resize the image, converting the image to another
image type, create a thumbnail or any combination thereof."
No one asked, but since I'm already having a bad day
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is gallimaufry
| source : web1913 | Gallimaufry
\Gal`li*mau"fry\, n.; pl. {Gallimaufries}. [F. galimafr['e]e a sort of
ragout or mixed hash of different meats.] 1. A hash of various kinds of
meats, a ragout. Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat.
--King. 2. Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch. The Mahometan religion,
which, being a gallimaufry made up of many, partakes much of the Jewish.
--South.
Alex Russell : netWindows
"has about as much to do with windows as a nail
factory has with a house: one might help you build the other, but it's
mere coincidence that a house got built and not a desk. At it's core,
netWindows is a DHTML framework for component and code reuse. What does
that mean from an applied standpoint? One of neater uses of this
framework is to provide a way to create and use DHTML "widgets". Widgets
need not be "windows" or "menus", but can include almost any part of a
design that calls for reuse, abstraction, or data representation. In this
way, netWindows can function as a display layer for web applications,
letting them act more like applications and less like web pages. ... It's
also modular to a fault, meaning that if you don't need a part of the
system, it doesn't get sent down the wire."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is starveling
| source : web1913 | Starveling \Starve"ling\, n.
[Starve + -ling.] One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or
nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no
starveling. --Shak. | source : web1913 | Starveling \Starve"ling\, a.
Hungry; lean; pining with want. | source : wn | starveling n : someone
who is starving (or being starved)
Walt A. Boring : phpHtmllib
"is a set of PHP classes and library functions to
help facilitate building, debugging, and rendering of HTML and XHTML. It
provides a mechanism to output perfectly indented/readable HTML/XHTML
source, and a programmatic API to generating HTML/XHTML on the fly."
Sean M. Burke : perlpodspec, draft 1
From the "know yer tools" department : Tim Bray on XML::Parser
"The fact that XML::Parser is so much slower than
regexp, when it's based on James Clark's blazingly-fast expat parser, is
silly and wrong."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is oblation
| source : web1913 | Oblation \Ob*la"tion\, n.
[L. oblatio: cf. F. oblation. See {Oblate}.] 1. The act of offering, or
of making an offering. --Locke. 2. Anything offered or presented in
worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice. A peculiar . . .
oblation given to God. --Jer. Taylor. A pin was the usual oblation.
--Sir. W. Scott. 3. A gift or contribution made to a church, as for the
expenses of the eucharist, or for the support of the clergy and the poor.
| source : wn | oblation n 1: the act of contributing to the funds of a
church or charity; "oblations for aid to the poor" [syn: {offering}] 2:
the act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist [syn: {Oblation},
{religious offering}]
If you'll indulge me in a brief One Year Ago Today moment,
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is commodious
| source : web1913 | Commodious \Com*mo"di*ous\,
a. [LL. commodiosus, fr. L. commodum convenience, fr. commodus. See
{Commode}.] Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities;
serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a
commodious house. ``A commodious drab.'' --Shak. ``Commodious gold.''
--Pope. The haven was not commodious to winter in. --Acts xxvii. 12. Syn:
Convenient; suitable; fit; proper; advantageous; serviceable; useful;
spacious; comfortable. | source : wn | commodious adj : large and and
roomy; "a commodious harbor"; "a commodious building suitable for
conventions"; (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) [syn: {convenient}]
[ant: {incommodious}]
Notwithstanding everything else that's happening in Quebec
city,
Bryan Pfaffenberger : Why Open Content Matters
Paolo Marcucci : MS Word 2 OPML
Lincoln Stein : "Who ever heard of holding a conversation
with someone so forgetful that you have to
continually remind them who they're talking to by handing them back a
slip of paper with your name written on it?"
Philippe Jardin : The Power of Abstraction
"A proposition to have a better working Zope
product framework."
Take me to your hot tub, Earthling.
developerWorks : Abstracting the interface
"Using XML to describe parts of a Web app user
interface can make it easy to convert the UI for multiple devices via XSL
style sheets. The article describes using XML data and XSL style sheets
to build the user interface of complex Web applications. A Web calendar
sample application demonstrates the basic techniques and concepts."
Christian Tismer : Python's dictionary algorithm explained
PHP Builder : An ODBC Socket Server
"One machine will have the operating system of
your choice, the web server of your choice and PHP on it. The other
machine will have Windows, MS Access, and ODBC on it. The socketserver on
the Windows machine will look for connections on a TCP/IP port, PHP will
generate XML commands and send them to the socket server. The socket
server will then execute the SQL statements in the commands and pass
another XML document back to PHP. Finally, PHP will parse the XML
document and manipulate the resulting recordset."
Stephen Budiansky : The Physics of Gridlock
Wherein, some clever Germans compare the American
highway system to a dozen dogs standing on a waterbed.
Victor Liu See-le : "b. is a Web-based manager for Web
bookmarks.
... b. now supports multi-user environments.
Using basic Web server user authentication (i.e. by password-protecting
the b./ directory), only certain users can have access to b.. Each user
has his/her own bookmarks and optionally can have his/her own theme,
welcome message, etc."
The Slashdot-weenies discuss electronic voting
Simson Cole : The Myth of Fingerprints
"When I first chose to write my dissertation on
how fingerprint examiners achieve credibility as expert witnesses, I
never thought that I would end up an expert witness myself. But there I
sat in the witness box, fidgeting nervously, swearing to tell the truth.
Here was a role reversal worthy of these postmodern times, one that
brought new meaning to the term 'participant observation.'"
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Rhinocerose
YULblog : We've had a long love affair with our mountain
Unfortunately, no mention is made of the most
popular urban legend these days : that, following the one million dollars
spent to install fiber optic lights several years ago, the cross will
turn purple when
the Pope
dies.
Beth Coleman
"At first, I have to ask, why is this art? But I
guess Web art belongs in a unique place. It exists in a space in which
you can't distinguish between what is real and what isn't." The "filter
of art", indeed. see also :
Virtucone
(quicktime)
Cybridputo #3
"We don't have a Web site! Get the fuck off the
Web!" see also :
Courtney
: "How am I supposed to compete with 'Jennicam?' She's funny, she's
gorgeous, she's got better furniture. This really, really sucks."
Chris Hubrick
"Be thankful Netscape is building a /free/ (as in
speech) browser for you at all. And the free software community is very
simple...if you want it done faster... help! (put your money where your
mouth is), or at least show some bloody gratitude already." And if you're
inclined to think this guy is just a stick in the mud, with no sense of
humour,
think again
.
Free Pint : Web resources for handheld computers
The Slashdot Kiddies : What Will the Internet of the Future Be
Like?
Interesting, but I worry that few people are
seeing the forest for the trees. There's another aspect that is troubling
: I'd like to hear what people *want* the future of the Network to be and
it fucking sucks to have to consider that as a separate issue. How lame
is it that we ( and I include myself ) find it so hard to reconcile our
hopes with our expectations? see also :
The trouble with having a recursive imagination
and then
Angela
Gunn : Hoax in the machine
It's nice to know
that the guy who gave the world
Bob
is now running Microsoft.
Indymagazine interviews Dan Clowes
Using a Command-line interface
"Open the Apple menu and choose System
Administration, then choose Terminal." Pray for the tech support people.
see also :
Dan Lyke : Unix Usability
NY Times : Online Journalists Keep Their Eyes on Daily Numbers
"It's like in high school and you've auditioned
for the school play," Offman said. "You look at the cast list and your
eyes just slowly move down."
Le Devoir : Wal-Mart «adopte» 163 écoles
"Je trouve d'une naïveté éhontée les gens qui
oeuvrent dans l'éducation et qui croient que tout cela ne relève que de
la généreuse contribution! Les entreprises ne cherchent que leur intérêt,
rien de plus."
Carfree Times
I found this snooping around after reading about
plans for
Auto-Free Sundays
in Amsterdam. Wonderful!
Janos Starker : A 75th Birthday Celebration
Janos Starker, Mstislav Rostropovich and another
150 cellists performing together. Nice! Live on the Internet, 18h00 PDT.
Todd Gitlin : Disappearing Ink
"The point is to decide, while you're listening,
what matters in the presentation. And while I don't believe that most of
life consists of showing up, education does begin with that -- with
immersing yourself in the activity at hand, listening, thinking, judging,
offering active responses. A download is a poor substitute."
BBC : Timor activists warn of cyber war
Wired : 'Web Seance' Summons Art
" 'In showing the IP numbers of Web participants,
we're stating the authenticity of the piece's interactivity,' says
Sobell. 'And in attributing participants' written contributions to their
IP numbers, the piece comments on the nature of identity, as seen by the
medium.' " Artists, always looking out for your authenticity...
Christie Blachford : This bird won't take flight from the city
"There are always miles of highways temporarily
working as mere roads and crammed with sport-utility vehicles and
four-wheel drives, strip malls full of chain stores, big-box outlet
joints (many of which, mysteriously, have cafes attached, as if you
actually might like to linger there in the middle of the bleak and
soul-destroying nowhere), unimaginably huge churches and spanking new
schools, no sidewalks and, the old chicken-and-egg conundrum here,
nothing worth walking to anyway."
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.