posts brought to you by the category “buzzword
bingo”
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.
see also : Carol Summers
Nasturtiums, Montréal, September 2003
Me : Mail::Miner::Recogniser::Recipient.pm 1.0
Anil Dash : "I want to be able to query Google's database with a
date filter."
Jo Walsh : Bot::JabberBot.pm
Who ever imagined a time when the most interesting hacks would be
done in AppleScript?
Denis Krylov : "Every one one of us had his own September
11th."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : dubiety
Dubiety \Du*bi"e*ty\, n.; pl. {Dubieties}. [L. dubietas,
fr. dubius. See {Dubious}.] Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt. [R.]
--Lamb. ``The dubiety of his fate.'' --Sir W. Scott.
web1913
dubiety n : the state of being unsure of something [syn:
{doubt}, {uncertainty}, {incertitude}, {doubtfulness}, {dubiousness}]
[ant: {certainty}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : schwoopy
Exceptionally curvy. Designed without a ruler. First
official usage in Boyett's TREKS NOT TAKEN (Harper
Collins).
ex. It's hard to say which is more schwoopy, Betty Page
or a '69 Corvette. If you pour water on something schwoopy, it'll all
run off.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : intractable
Intractable \In*tract"a*ble\, a. [L. intractabilis: cf. F.
intraitable, formerly also intractable. See {In-} not, and
{Tractable}.] Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed;
indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn;
obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child. Syn: Stubborn;
perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable; unruly;
headstrong; violent; ungovernable; unteachable. --
{In*tract"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*tract"a*bly}, adv.
web1913
intractable adj : not tractable; difficult to manage or
mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most
intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal" [ant: {tractable}]
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Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov : Social Roots, Complexity and Never Ending
Process of Interpretation of GPL
"[W]e will try to understand the social base of
each licenses and thier underlying philosophies, as well as introduce the
concept of the metric for license complexity and discuss the role of the
process of interpretation of GPL as an important social process in
free/open developers community. We will view both licenses not as binding
legal documents, but more like "social contracts" that presuppose certain
political philosophy behind them and encompass people that belong to a
certain social stratum. That brings us to the concept of programming
intelligentsia from which we will start our exploration of this topic."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dealy
word used to describe something in which the name is
unknown. describes objects best. the smaller the object, the
better.
ex. while putting together something..."pass me that
little dealy."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
pusillanimous
Pusillanimous \Pu`sil*lan"i*mous\, a. [L. pusillannimis;
pusillus very little (dim. of pusus a little boy; cf. puer a boy, E.
puerile) + animus the mind: cf. F. pusillanime. See {Animosity}.] 1.
Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of
weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons,
as, a pussillanimous prince.
web1913
pusillanimous adj : lacking in courage and manly strength
and resolution; contemptibly fearful [syn: {poor-spirited}, {unmanly}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cosmopolite
| source : web1913 | Cosmopolitan
\Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\
(k?z-m?p"?-l?t), n. [Gr. ???; ko`smos the world + ??? citizen, ??? city:
cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.] One who has no fixed residence, or
who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world. | source : web1913
| Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\, Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\, a. 1.
Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local
attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. In other countries
taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly
too cosmopolite. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. Common everywhere; widely spread;
found in all parts of the world. The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. --R.
Owen. | source : web1913 | Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\ (-m?p"?-l?t), a.
& n. See {Cosmopolitan}. | source : wn | cosmopolite n : a
sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries [syn:
{cosmopolitan}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is enjoin
| source : web1913 | Enjoin \En*join"\, v. t. To
join or unite. [Obs.] --Hooker. | source : web1913 | Enjoin \En*join"\,
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enjoined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Enjoining}.] [F.
enjoindre, L. injungere to join into, charge, enjoin; in + jungere to
join. See {Join}, and cf. {Injunction}.] 1. To lay upon, as an order or
command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to
charge. High matter thou enjoin'st me. --Milton. I am enjoined by oath to
observe three things. --Shak. 2. (Law) To prohibit or restrain by a
judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on. This is a suit to
enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs. --Kent. Note:
Enjoin has the force of pressing admonition with authority; as, a parent
enjoins on his children the duty of obedience. But it has also the sense
of command; as, the duties enjoined by God in the moral law. ``This word
is more authoritative than direct, and less imperious than command.''
--Johnson. | source : wn | enjoin v 1: issue an injunction 2: tell
somebody to do something; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to
do the shopping" [syn: {order}, {tell}, {say}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is acuity
| source : web1913 | Acuity \A*cu"i*ty\, n. [LL.
acuitas: cf. F. acuit['e].] Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit,
etc. | source : wn | acuity n 1: the visual ability to resolve fine
detail [syn: {visual acuity}, {sharp-sightedness}] 2: a quick and
penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired
the keenness of his mind" [syn: {acuteness}, {sharpness}, {keenness}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is debouch
| source : web1913 | Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i.
[imp. & p. p. {Debouched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Debouching}.] [F.
d['e]boucher; pref. d['e]- (L. dis- or de) + boucher to stop up, fr.
bouche mouth, fr. L. bucca the cheek. Cf. {Disembogue}.] To march out
from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
Battalions debouching on the plain. --Prescott. | source : web1913 |
Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i. (Geog.) To issue; -- said of a stream passing
from a gorge out into an open valley or a plain. | source : wn | debouch
v 1: march out (as from a defile) into open ground; "The regiments
debouched from the valley" [syn: {march out}] 2: pass out or emerge; esp.
of rivers: "The tributary debouched into the big river"
Me : Perlblog
Patrick Collins : PerlDAV
"is a Perl library for modifying content on
webservers using the WebDAV protocol. Now you can LOCK, DELETE and PUT
files and much more on a DAV-enabled webserver."
Matt Sergeant : " So I created an AxKit provider module, which sent
accesses to URLs to our COM object.
The XML returned simply got returned via AxKit,
and potentially styled by a stylesheet. We could even apply a "SOAPify"
stylesheet to it to return the body as a SOAP response. Nice. And it
performs damn well too. At least 3 times faster than the SOAP::Lite
server (though that may be an unfair test, but who cares about fairness
:-)"
Maybe it's just me, but I find it sort of telling
Ben Mulroney : "The first time I met Justin Trudeau was in
Montreal,
when his father fell ill, and we sat around one
night and talked about starting our own political party. We decided it
would span the extreme left to the extreme right. As leaders, each of us
would have a crown and a sceptre. We had it worked out so I'd run the
country from Monday to Wednesday and he'd take over from Thursday to
Sunday."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is inkhorn
| source : web1913 | Inkhorn \Ink"horn`\, n. [Ink
+ horn; cf. F. cornet [`a] encre, G. dintenhorn.] A small bottle of horn
or other material formerly used for holding ink; an inkstand; a portable
case for writing materials. ``With a writer's inkhorn by his side.''
--Ezek. ix. 2. From his pocket the notary drew his papers and inkhorn.
--Longfellow. | source : web1913 | Inkhorn \Ink"horn"\, a. Learned;
pedantic; affected. [Obs.] ``Inkhorn terms.'' --Bale. | source : easton |
Inkhorn The Hebrew word so rendered means simply a round vessel or cup
for containing ink, which was generally worn by writers in the girdle
(Ezek. 9:2, 3,11). The word "inkhorn" was used by the translators,
because in former times in this country horns were used for containing
ink.
maki: serving XML via Apache and Python
"maki is an attempt to glue together a simple,
flexible framework that allows you to use these technologies together to
serve web pages. It is a mod_python handler for Apache that is intended
to handle requests made to your server for XML files. When maki receives
such a request, it determines the path to the file, then searches through
its configuration to find the first rule that matches that path. Each
rule specifies one or more steps that are then to be executed."
Sandra Hamilton : Canadianisms and Their Treatment in
Dictionaries
Scott Andrews : The Cross-browser DHTML API Reading Room
"The idea here is to gather the toolkits together
so you can pick one that best suits your task, or glean ideas for your
own development." via
zeldman
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."
What E.T. merchandising?
Ivan Kohler : Net::SSH.pm
Mac weenies take note :
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...
suricate
"brings the meerkat open wire service into the
realm of handheld devices, wireless email appliances, and interactive
pagers. I wrote suricate to address the needs of people that have email
provided on their hand held devices but no web access. suricate will push
the wire service content to the user."
philski : plogger
PHP/MySQL suite for weblogging and iplogging
(clever) : "a comprehensive counter and logging functions. .. It stores
not only the time of the hit and the IP, but also the reversed IP (the
hostname) and the page.
This American Life considers the practice of character
assination
in American politics. I've always wanted to do a
cable-access / net-show called "5 Second Character Assination" which is
more commonly refered to, in polite society, as "people watching". (real
evil g2)
Andy Oram looks at Gnutella and Freenet
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Yo-Yo Ma
L0pht : BeamCrack
"is a simple application that will set or reset
the bit in each application's database header which tells the launcher
that it should or shouldn't be beamable, thus bypassing the PalmPilot's
infantile copy-protection. Useful for PalmOS >= 3.0 which support
beaming via the PalmPilot infrared port. "
Avril Benoit talks to Catherine Annau
Some people
Jason Kottke : Silkscreen
"I'm a big fan of small, bitmappy fonts. I've
been using a font called Sevenet (derived from Joe Gillespie's excellent
Mini7) for a while now, but I didn't quite like the look of it...too
wide. I wanted a font that was narrower and included a bold version."
mmmmm...fonts.
Warren Beatty & Bob McKenzie in 2000!
"And where the future President Beatty is a
recovering ladies' man--perhaps the only man alive who has loved more
than President Clinton and who is now happily raising a family in a
successful marriage--I, on the other hand, can bring a great deal of
knowledge and experience to the debate on Internet pornography."
Norman Spinrad : Too high the moon
"You think you can trick the Pentagon into
financing the infrastructure for a major manned civilian space programme
out of the military budget?"
The Times : The New American Gold Rush
Oh great, it's the eighties all over again.
Happy, happy. Joy, joy.
It's America Day
and I'm reading Benjamin Barber's
Jihad vs. McWorld
. "Yet Jihad and McWorld have this in common: they both make war on the
sovereign nation-state and thus undermine the nation'state's democratic
institutions. Their common thread is indifference to civil liberty. Jihad
forges communities of blood rooted in exclusion and hatred, communities
that slight democracy in favor of tyrannical paternalism or consensual
tribalism. McWorld forges global markets rooted in consumption and
profit, leaving to an untrustworthy, if not altogther fictitious hand
issues of public interest and common good that once might have been
nurtured by democratic citizenries and their watchful governments."
Something to think about on the day when a country that has given so much
to the world, in spirit if not action, celebrates it's beginnings.
Flash 4
supports streaming MP3's. This is cool, very
cool. Now I can write a streaming MP3 player for my Mac (instead of a
<a href = "http://aaronland.net/toys/jukebox">half-assed
swa player</a>.)
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.