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Pico Iyer : Mongrel Beauties
"For many years -- for all my life, really -- I've been travelling the world looking at how different countries and people try to make sense of the multicultural mixes we're all becoming. One of the unusual and potent things about the present moment is that the very issue that so many cultures and cities are facing is exactly the same one that more and more individuals such as myself are confronting: How to fashion a sense of self or home when all the traditional co-ordinates are gone? And how to make a peace among the disparate, often competing, cultures inside of us? How, in short, to begin to create a sense of direction -- and foundation -- when the world is spinning around us at the speed of light?"
Rocco Lucia : Darwin ports
"As every FreeBSD enthusiast I wanted to see the Ports Collection working on Darwin as soon as I installed Mac OS X on my Powerbook. Here there is a quick and dirty way that will give a start to the magic."
Matt Keranen : jet2sql.py
"Creates ANSI SQL DDL from a MS Jet database file, useful for reverse engineering database designs in E/R tools."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is ignoble
| source : web1913 |
Ignoble \Ig*no"ble\, v. t.
To make ignoble. [Obs.] --Bacon.
| source : web1913 |
Ignoble \Ig*no"ble\, a. [L. ignobilis; pref. in- not + nobilis
noble: cf. F. ignoble. See {In-} not, and {Noble}, a.]
1. Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious;
plebeian; common; humble.
I was not ignoble of descent. --Shak.
Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants. --Shak.
2. Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base.
'T but a base, ignoble mind, That mounts no higher
than a bird can soar. --Shak.
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. --Gray.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain
hawks, as the goshawk.
Syn: Degenerate; degraded; mean; base; dishonorable;
reproachful; disgraceful; shameful; scandalous;
infamous.
| source : wn |
ignoble
adj 1: completely lacking nobility in character or quality or
purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his
attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals
should escape than that the government should play an
ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [ant: {noble}]
2: not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth";
"untitled civilians" [syn: {ungentle}, {untitled}]
