posts brought to you by the category “car people”
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.
William Steig, 1907 - 2003
http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/egg
Simon Wistow : Python::Serialise::Pickle.pm
You could always dump the data structure out as YAML in Python and
then read it back in with YAML in Perl.
William Grimes : On a Clear Day I Can Eat Forever
It's the dawn of a bright new day. But to usher it in, the
government has had to declare shade illegal.
Snow butt
10, 000
Uche Ogbuji : Merging XBEL bookmark files
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cupidity
Cupidity \Cu*pid"i*ty\ (k?-p?d"?-t?), n. [F. cupidite, L.
cupiditas, fr. cupidus longing, desiring, fr. cupere to long for,
desire. See {Covet}.] 1. A passionate desire; love. [Obs.] 2. Eager or
inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice;
covetousness. With the feelings of political distrust were mingled
those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces
of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael.
--Prescott.
web1913
cupidity n : extreme greed for material wealth [syn:
{avarice}, {avariciousness}, {covetousness}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mooch
Moocher. Someone who always takes and never gives
back.
ex. He's the classic mooch. Never buys his own beer or
cigarettes.
see also :
mooch dict-ified
I was telling Michael the other night that I was pretty sure a
Toronto-Ottawa series
"People literally will not cross the street to get coffee."
Chris Nandor : Perl 6 scares me
Damian Conway : ...And Now for Something Completely Similar
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : body nazi
A self-obsessed workout king or queen.
ex. Where's the neck on that body nazi?
That used to be the Wendy's
Me : SCNS.pm 0.1
# Simple
my $method = "examples.getStateName";
print SCNS->new("xmlrpc:http://betty.userland.com/RPC2")->$method(40);
# Less simple
my $service = SCNS->new("xmlrpc:http://betty.userland.com/RPC2");
my $debug = FileHandle->new(">./debug.txt");
# See below
$service->class("examples");
# Default is STDERR
$service->debug(1,*$debug);
my $answer = $service->getStateName(4);
if (! defined($answer)) {
die $service->last_error();
}
print $answer;
return 1;
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : nefarious
Nefarious \Ne*fa"ri*ous\, a. [L. nefarius, fr. nefas crime,
wrong; ne not + fas divine law; akin to fari to speak. See {No}, adv.,
and {Fate}.] Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously
villainous; execrable; detestably vile. Syn: Iniquitous; detestable;
horrible; heinious; atrocious; infamous; impious. See {Iniquitous}. --
{Ne*fa"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ne*fa"ri*ous*ness}, n.
web1913
nefarious adj : extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a
villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: {villainous}]
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Isabel Álvarez and Brent Kilbourn : Mapping the Information Society
Literature
"In spite of the infancy of the Information
Society phenomenon, a large literature has emerged in recent years that
discusses its nature. Not surprisingly, the literature does not present a
uniform view; rather, there are differences of opinion as to the nature
and significance of the Information Society. We argue that the literature
constitutes an educational problem for those teaching and learning about
this complex territory. The discussion visits the complexity by
constructing a comprehensive map that charts 1) topics, 2) perspectives,
and 3) root metaphors."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
lunawebber
someone who is online the most in the evening or
nighttime hours
ex. "My sister, being a lunawebber, keeps me up all night
while I'm trying to sleep."
Rick Olson : [ RFC ] Common XML-RPC API for Weblogs
Ideas : The Bard of Barking
"Singer/songwriter/activist Billy Bragg hails
from Barking, England. Many see him as a new Woody Guthrie or Bob Dylan,
a man who could take on the music industry, Margaret Thatcher, and big
money. But is the bard of today living in a time warp? Darren Boisvert
wonders about the role and relevance of the modern-day troubadour in an
increasingly corporate world."
(real audio)
Simon Cozens : Python::Bytecode.pm
"accepts a string or filehandle contain Python
bytecode and puts it into a format you can manipulate."
Me : Magic Aaronland Categories SOAP Interface
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is deracinate
| source : web1913 | Deracinate \De*rac"i*nate\,
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deracinated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Deracinating}.] [F. d['e]raciner; pref. d['e]- (L. dis) + racine root,
fr. an assumed LL. radicina, fr. L. radix, radicis, root.] To pluck up by
the roots; to extirpate. [R.] While that the colter rusts That should
deracinate such savagery. --Shak. | source : wn | deracinate v 1: move
(people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment;
"The war uprooted many people" [syn: {displace}, {uproot}] 2: pull up by
or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the
garden" [syn: {uproot}, {extirpate}, {root out}, {pull up}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is sere
| source : web1913 | Sear \Sear\, Sere \Sere\
(s[=e]r), a. [OE. seer, AS. se['a]r (assumed) fr. se['a]rian to wither;
akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor[=e]n to to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to
parch, to dry, Skr. [,c]ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to
dry. [root]152. Cf. {Austere}, {Sorrel}, a.] Dry; withered; no longer
green; -- applied to leaves. --Milton. I have lived long enough; my way
of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. --Shak. | source :
web1913 | Sere \Sere\, a. Dry; withered. Same as {Sear}. But with its
sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere. --Coleridge. |
source : web1913 | Sere \Sere\, n. [F. serre.] Claw; talon. [Obs.]
--Chapman. | source : wn | sere adj : (used especially of vegetation)
having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with
sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings";
"withered vines" [syn: {dried-up}, {sear}, {shriveled}, {shrivelled},
{withered}]
Saturday Night : "I'm standing on a dock in San Mateo, California,
with a Canadian scientist
who has found an intriguing mathematical
connection between: 1) how the skin cells of a frog decide whether or not
to grow hair; and, 2) how to create a new system of air-traffic control
so that planes can fly closer together. She is interested in the first
question because she believes it will help us find an answer to the
second, which will let us understand air traffic, and prevent accidents
in our increasingly crowded skies." see also :
Claire Tomlin's homepage
.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is chortle
| source : web1913 | Chortle \Chor"tle\, v. t.
& i. [imp. & p. p. {Chortled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chor"tling}.]
A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually
explained as a combination of chuckle and snort. [Humorous] O frabjous
day ! Callooh ! Callay ! He chortled in his joy. --Lewis Carroll. |
source : wn | chortle n : a soft partly suppressed laugh [syn: {chuckle}]
v : laugh quietly or with restraint [syn: {chuckle}, {laugh softly}]
W3C : Common User Agent Problems
"explains some common mistakes in user agents due
to incorrect or incomplete implementation of specifications, and suggests
remedies. It also suggests some "good behavior" where specifications
themselves do not specify any particular behavior (e.g., in the face of
error conditions). This document is not a complete set of guidelines for
good user agent behavior."
Andy Wardley : Building and Managing Web Sites with the Template
Toolkit
"These demonstrate the construction of both
static and dynamic HTML pages using the standard toolkit utilities,
custom CGI scripts and Apache/mod_perl handlers. The use of standard
plugin modules is included to demonstrate integration with CGI [ 2 ], XML
[ 3 ] and DBI [ 4 ], and methods for extending the Template Toolkit by
binding to external data and user-defined code are also covered."
Big thanks to everyone who's sent along birthday wishes.
Last night, we went for dinner at a little
Italian place around the corner. The food was delicious and the decor
looked like it was straight out of the Ikea for Monarchists catalogue.
The funniest part of the evening was reading the guestbook where *every
single* person made a comment, polite or otherwise, about the atrocious
spelling on the menu. Never mind "grilled smallots", what are "wails
stuffed with veal" ?
Steve Brown & Geoff Lightfoot : "Users perceived that their
personal standing within the organization
could be enhanced or diminished by the quality of
their electronic communications. E-mails were not seen as ephemeral, like
telephone calls, but as highly durable records which required careful
crafting since they could be archived, forwarded throughout the
organization and retrieved at some future date, to the potential cost of
the sender. E-mail has increased rather than reduced the number of
face-to-face meetings since meetings are now held to resolve disputes
emerging from electronic communication." see also :
Technology, work and surveillance: organisational goals, privacy and
resistance
Scott Gardiner : To be distinct is a balancing act
"There are differences, of course: Quebeckers [
Why can't English people just say Quebecois? ] carried their culture from
France in the 17th century; Alberta borrowed its from Texas, circa 1950.
If Albertans cling more tightly to their Stetsons than do Québécois to
their pure laine toques, it's only because the latter have worn theirs
long enough to have reached a more comfortable fit. And though each may
prefer to focus on the qualities they see as being theirs alone, the rest
of us might wish to take a closer look at what these two cultures have in
common."
It's not online yet
but the latest issue of
The Perl Journal
has an article by Lincoln Stein titled "An IP Telephone in 74 Line of
Perl", in case you needed another reason to subscribe.
Steffan Andrews : Make Your Own Visor Flip Cover
"By combining two inconvenient covers, you can
make ONE ingeniously handy and durable case."
Volker Grassmuck : Into the Muddy Waters of the Turing Galaxy
"Death and metaphoric rebirth of the world in
media and of media in the Universal medium"
Jamie Jaworski : Modern Menus
"I've received many email messages from readers
asking me to cover JavaScript menus. ...with the release of Navigator 6.0
PR1, I decided that it would be worthwhile to develop a menu component
that would work for three incompatible DHTML-capable browsers: Navigator
6.0, Navigator 4.0, and Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0."
Presstube : Heaping Portion
What an elegant way to show les arts plastiques
on the net! After years of bad-mouthing my alma mater, it's really nice
to something like this happening. "I want the code! I want the code!", he
said stomping his feet and banging his fists on the table. (flash)
Apparently, happiness can also be had
masturbating
with Tiger Balm
( and other activities you probably shouldn't try unless you're a trained
professional which would, no doubt, beg the question... ) via
wetlog
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. "
Dave Winer : Design vs. Cheese
From where I sit, this just sounds like the pot
calling the kettle black. Meanwhile, serious students of design-weeniness
will tell you that this argument is hardly new and certainly not reserved
to the arena of weblogs.
developerWorks : Personalizing PDF files
Use Web forms and databases to create custom PDFs
on the fly. via
ed's
weblog
NY Times : Nuclear Anxieties in a New World
I remember very clearly listening to
Ideas
one night during the year that the Berlin Wall came down. The narrator
was reflecting on the fact that suddenly he could imagine living beyond
the short-term; that the possibility of a life fulfilled was real and
possible. This struck me because, much like the speaker, I had spent most
of the 80's listening to loud music, smoking bad hash and waiting for
some butthead to push the button. see also :
Ideas :
Berlin, Memories and Memorials
(real audio)
Piers Brendon : Gospel of Urbanity
"From his reporters he demanded facts, facts,
facts — about skyscraper mail chutes, the fake-fur racket,
"kosher Coca Cola." He employed the kind of
fact-checker said to have "a mind like a steel mousetrap and a
heart like a twelve-minute egg."" I miss The New Yorker of old;
it was the only mainstream magazine that ever seemed to publish articles
or interviews of any real depth. Sure, maybe you didn't care to read 120
pages about penguins or an equally lengthy profile of executive X, but it
was the attention to detail that I valued.
Stephen Kendrick : Zen in the Art of Sherlock Holmes
Vicky Southard
"The Guinness people have been trying for a long
time to find a way to show the world’s biggest breasts on their TV
show. Now that we’ll be making a bra to fit them, Guinness will be
able to show them on TV."
The Annotated Watchmen
Department of Discretionary Data
"Another in our occasional series of fascinating
data that washes up off the Internet."
Thanks to Dave for the mention
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.
