posts brought to you by the category “content is
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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.
Paul Ford : A New Website for Harper's Magazine
The best way to think about this is as a remix: the
taxonomy is an automated remix of the narrative content
on the site, except instead of chopping up a ballad to
turn it into house music, we're turning narrative content
into an annotated timeline. The content doesn't change,
just the way it's presented.
I wonder how many anglophones will get the joke.
Norman Walsh : RDF Twig
RDFTwig is a set of XSLT extension functions for
accessing an RDF graph dynamically from XSLT. These
functions make it easy to write stylesheets that process
RDF graphs without having to choose a single, canonical
tree representation for the graph.
Excerpted : "The wonkish waters of RDF mailing
lists"
Subject: [N3] equivalencies
From: Aaron Straup Cope
Date: 22 Jul 2003 15:01:10 +0000
I'm wondering if you can answer a question for me and save me the
trouble and wading in to the wonkish waters of one or more RDF
mailing
lists.
The question is premised on two assumptions :
1) The RDF that describes a thing is *not* public. That is I do not
want
to share it and make it available to some other bot scraping the
network. If that makes a me a bad citizen, I'll live.
All of which means I use URNs to describe things:
@prefix uwh: \
<urn:aaronstraupcope:knows:who:> .
2) At some point, I need to be able to resolve all that gibberish.
I
need be able to tell the processor about something like this:
@prefix awh:
<user:pswd@http://private.aaronstraupcope.com/knows/who/>
Or simpler yet :
@prefix awh: <file:/home/asc/knows/who/> .
Still with me? Here's the question. Does the spec DWIM (Do What I
Mean)
when I say the following:
uwh: = awh: .
That is, will a fully compliant processor be able to figure out
that
when it comes time to merge a bunch of RDF documents will fetch
stuff
from awh: namespace when it encounters things in the uwh:
namespace?
If I feed what I've described to cwm I get the following:
<rdf:Desription
rdf:about="urn:aaronstraupcope:knows:who:">
<equivalentTo
xmlns="yadda/yadda/daml+oil#"
rdf:resource=
"user:pswd@http://private:aaronstraupcope.com/knows/who/" />
</rdf:Description>
So it validates. But do I have to specify an equivalently for each
property (e.g. uwh:asc, uwh:bob) or does the spec just, well, DWIM?
Thanks,
15,000!
Dos Pesos : I dont know what fixt is but I am
eksited.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
abscond
Abscond \Ab*scond"\, v. t. To hide; to conceal.
[Obs.] --Bentley.
web1913
abscond v : run away; usually includes taking
something or somebody along [syn: {bolt}, {absquatulate},
{decamp}, {run off}, {go off}]
wn
ABSCOND, v.i. To "move in a mysterious way,"
commonly with the property of another. Spring beckons! All
things to the call respond; The trees are leaving and
cashiers abscond. Phela Orm
devils
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
friable
Friable \Fri"a*ble\, a. [L. friabilis, fr.
friare to rub, break, or crumble into small pieces, cf.
fricare to rub, E. fray: cf. F. friable.] Easily crumbled,
pulverized, or reduced to powder. ``Friable ground.''
--Evelyn. ``Soft and friable texture.'' --Paley. --
{Fri'a*ble*ness}, n.
web1913
friable adj 1: easily broken into small
fragments or reduced to powder; "friable sandstone";
"friable carcinomatous tissue"; "friable curds formed in
the stomach" 2: (used of soil) loose and large-grained in
consistency; "light sandy soil" [syn: {light}, {sandy}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
indomitable
Indomitable \In*dom"i*ta*ble\, a. [L.
indomitabilis; pref. in- not + domitare, intens. fr. domare
to tame. See {Tame}.] Not to be subdued; untamable;
invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage, animal.
web1913
indomitable adj : impossible to subdue [syn:
{never-say-die}, {unsubduable}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
extol
Extol \Ex*tol"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Extolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extolling}.] [L.
extollere; ex out + tollere to lift, take up, or raise: cf.
OF. extoller. See {Tollerate}, and cf. {Flate}.] 1. To
place on high; to lift up; to elevate. [Obs.] Who extolled
you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster
all the beauties. --Beau.? Fl. 2. To elevate by praise; to
eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to
extol an act or a person. Wherein have I so deserved of
you, That you extol me thus? --Shak. Syn: To praise;
applaud; commend; magnify; celebrate; laud; glorify. See
{Praise}.
web1913
extol v : praise, glorify, or honor: "extol the
virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's
cooking" [syn: {laud}, {exalt}, {glorify}, {proclaim}]
wn
The use.perl journals get a SOAP interface
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
griswald
"a tourist (from the "Vacation" movies, said
dismissively by native Floridians)"
ex. Could those griswalds wear any more
cameras?
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
cheerk
Highly dangerous cross-bred animal with the
head of a shark and the body of a cheetah. (Collective is
"couch.")
ex. Look out! There's a couch of cheerks
coming this way.
Me : WWW::Pseudodictionary.pm 0.1.1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
prink
| source : web1913 | Prink \Prink\,
v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prinked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Prinking}.] [Probably a nasalized form of prick. See
{Prick}, v. t., and cf. {Prig}, {Prank}.] To dress or adjust
one's self for show; to prank. | source : web1913 | Prink
\Prink\, v. t. To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically.
``And prink their hair with daisies.'' --Cowper. | source :
wn | prink v 1: dress very carefully and in a finicky manner
2: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing
and attractive [syn: {dress up}, {fig out}, {fig up}, {deck
up}, {gussy up}, {fancy up}, {trick up}, {deck out}, {trick
out}, {attire}, {get up}, {rig out}, {tog up}, {tog out},
{overdress}] [ant: {dress down}]
Me : Apache::XBEL.pm example redux
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
approbation
| source : web1913 | Approbation
\Ap`pro*ba"tion\, n. [L. approbatio: cf. F. approbation. See
{Approve} to prove.] 1. Proof; attestation. [Obs.] --Shak. 2.
The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a
thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval;
sanction; commendation. Many . . . joined in a loud hum of
approbation. --Macaulay. The silent approbation of one's own
breast. --Melmoth. Animals . . . love approbation or praise.
--Darwin. 3. Probation or novitiate. [Obs.] This day my
sister should the cloister enter, And there receive her
approbation. --Shak. Syn: Approval; liking; sanction;
consent; concurrence. Usage: {Approbation}, {Approval}.
Approbation and approval have the same general meaning,
assenting to or declaring as good, sanction, commendation;
but approbation is stronger and more positive. ``We may be
anxious for the approbation of our friends; but we should be
still more anxious for the approval of our own consciences.''
``He who is desirous to obtain universal approbation will
learn a good lesson from the fable of the old man and his
ass.'' ``The work has been examined by several excellent
judges, who have expressed their unqualified approval of its
plan and execution.'' | source : wn | approbation n 1:
official approval 2: official recognition or approval [ant:
{disapprobation}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
imprecation
| source : web1913 | Imprecation
\Im`pre*ca"tion\, n. [L. imprecatio: cf. F. impr['e]cation.]
The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a
prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.
Men cowered like slaves before such horrid imprecations.
--Motley. Syn: Malediction; curse; execration; anathema. See
{Malediction}. | source : wn | imprecation n : a curse that
invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); "he suffered
the imprecations of the mob" [syn: {malediction}]
In case you thought the Dock, in MacOS X, was little
more
Me : Apache::SOAP::Jabber.pm
Mario A. Torres : Developing Scalable Distributed
Applications
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
juxtaposition
| source : web1913 | Juxtaposition
\Jux`ta*po*si"tion\, n. [L. juxta near + positio position:
cf. F. juxtaposition. See {Just}, v. i., and {Position}.] A
placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by
side; as, a juxtaposition of words. Parts that are united by
a a mere juxtaposition. --Glanvill. Juxtaposition is a very
unsafe criterion of continuity. --Hare. | source : wn |
juxtaposition n : positioning close together (or side by
side)
developerWorks : Style sheets can write style sheets
too
"This article shows how an XSLT style
sheet that performs some particular runtime transformation
can be built from XSLT components."
CBC : "[Rob Anders] admitted that one of the reasons he
refused to back the motion
[bestowing honourary Canadian
citizenship on Nelson Mandela] is because the Liberals
blocked his party's attempt to honour the 50th wedding
anniversary of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.
'It's got to be quid pro quo here.' Anders said."
Sandeep Krishnamurthy : Understanding Online Message
Dissemination
"An Analysis of
"Send-this-story-to-your-friend" Data"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
bailiwick
| source : web1913 | Bailiwick
\Bail"i*wick\, n. [Bailie, bailiff + wick a village.] (Law)
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the
limits of a bailiff's authority.
Lawrence Lessig : Free Code, Free Culture
Ron Savage : CGI::Explorer.pm
"is a support module for CGI scripts.
It manages a tree of data, so that the script can display the
tree, and the user can click on a node in the tree to open or
close that node."
Perl weenies and webloggers take note
v 0.9 of Jonathan Eisenzopf's
XML::RSS.pm
is available on
CPAN
. This version allows you to write syndication files using
the
proposed RSS 1.0
format. Later that same day, half-cocked from too much wine
at dinner and not enough food during the day because he was
too distracted debugging, our hero noticed a PHP [4] class
for generating
old
school RSS files straight outta MySQL
.
XML.com on SMIL
"But before we look at TIME, what is
SMIL?" That's right and when I went to secondary school I
started at FACE and finished at MIND. No, really.
Congratulations go to Macromedia
for making Shockwave 8 the most
annoying plug-in install/upgrade to date. That's quite an
accomplishment after years of Real * installs. What is
especially annoying is that this comes from the same company
that pulled off the elegant and invisible Flash plug-in
upgrade. What gives? Later that same day, our hero was heard
to mutter "I think I hate Lingo almost as much as I hate
JavaScript..."
Leah McLaren : Growing up on therapy
"Today, in my 20s, I've noticed that
most of my friends my age have been in therapy at one point
or another. Some of us were coerced; others went willingly,
even eagerly. ... If therapy is a language for the baby
boomers, it has become a way of life for many of their
children, millions of whom were passed from child
psychologists to adolescent specialists to university mental
health clinics throughout the 1980s and 1990s." I went around
the time I was seven or eight, posessed by a young child's
fury at the injustice of being born of parents too dumb --in
my mind-- to see the obvious and perfect logic in simply
getting remarried. I don't want to knock the good work that
many therapists do but I was pretty disappointed when I
realized the guy I was seeing had *no* idea I was just saying
what he wanted to hear. I wonder if that was the point of the
exercise...
Web Review : Flash and QuickTime Integration
The Electrohippies Collective
Friedensreich Hundertwasser : 1928 - 2000
"His mission, as he saw it, was to
"improve the world and make it more beautiful." He despised
the geometrical, disdained symmetry and defined the straight
line as "the tool of the devil." see also
hundertwasser.com
James Fallows : Inside the Leviathan
If there is something you love or
hate about Microsoft programs, don't thank or blame Bill
Gates; some specific member of the Microsoft team decided to
"own" that feature and include it in a program. There is even
a person who created the "It looks like you're writing a
letter" auto-annoyance feature in Word. I had to sign a
separate confidentiality clause promising not to name him.
Indymagazine interviews Dan Clowes
It was only a matter of time
before someone decided to try and
beat
adbusters
at their own game...
Le Devoir : Le débat référendaire envahit Internet
"De ce lieu d'échanges émerge
soudainement une information inédite, une troublante primeur.
L'on nous informe qu'Ottawa se propose de refaire le coup des
mesures de guerre de 1970. De son centre de crise installé
dans la capitale fédérale, le gouvernement Chrétien
prétexterait la menace du bogue de l'an 2000 pour proclamer
l'application de la Loi des mesures d'urgence et dépêcher 12
000 soldats sur le territoire québécois."
Salon : Same old worm in the Apple
"So how could Time have been proved
wrong so fast? The answer is that, increasingly, in a time of
skyrocketing market indicators, company heads have become
celebrities, and are marketed as vigorously as any of their
products. ... The details hardly matter."
Lincoln Stein : The Web Is Not TV
"In this uncertain environment, how
comforting it is to pretend that the Web is just a
super-duper form of television, that ISPs are equivalent to
the broadcast networks, and that Web sites and portals are
equivalent to the TV studios that create sitcoms!"
I finally got the hardware
to build my own
FreeBSD
box. Let's hope this isn't too humbling an experience.
United States v. Baugh
"A federal appeals court overturned
70 protesters' convictions for demonstrating without a permit
Wednesday, saying the government can't make free speech
conditional on a promise not to trespass."
It's election time in Saskatchewan
and
the NDP is talking about free university tuition
. "The idea of free tuition has raised a few eyebrows,"
[Janice MacKinnon] said. "Everybody's talking about it
because it's innovative. But people are talking about how
important education is for the new economy in the new
millennium. We thought it's time to stop talking and to just
do something." It's an election, but Canada got
universal health-care
from the Saskatchewan NDP, so maybe there's hope yet.
Douglas Coupland : 32 Thoughts about 32 Short
Films
"When I was 22, I bought a Glenn
Gould cassette, knowing nothing of Gould's tendency to hum
during recordings. I thought there was a defect in the tape
and tried to return it." The "snap-shot" style of
story-telling is something of a hit and miss affair. One of
the best examples I've read was an essay in The New Yorker on
David Salle titled "37 False Starts". Their
website
really begs the question, so just go to your local library
(author? date? sorry.)
I had no idea that Montreal's Olympic Stadium
<a href =
"http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/~yliu/work/fengshui.html">got
The Good Feng Shui Seal of Approval</a>. The
Big O cost $1 billion, remains unfinished and the ocassional
50-ton concrete panel has been known to fall off the side of
the building. About the only good reason I can think of for
it being built at all is that <a href =
"http://www.grimskunk.com">Grim
Skunk</a> got to do a New Year's Eve show in
the bar at the top of the <a href =
"http://www.rio.gouv.qc.ca/images/imgall/pict1big.gif">tower</a>
a few years ago.
It's Bastille Day
Try This Non-Wash, No-Iron Cyberfuture For Size
I'm not sure what I find more
interesting: the article, or the fact that it was written by
someone whose title is "European Consumer Goods
Correspondent".
Roberta Smith on The Un-Private House
"Riley's first premise is that the
best, most adventurous architecture of the last decade has
been domestic. ... His second is that this vitality stems
from the way the house is being reshaped on every side,
rendered porous and permeable -- "un-private" -- in many
ways."
nextmonet.com
"Research then confirmed that Claude
Monet is the most recognized artist in the world – his
name synonymous with "art" even to a novice." I'm going to
reserve judgement on this one for a while.
Sutton vs. United Airlines
[U.S.] Supreme Court Decision
Library Juice: ALA Is Like the Former Soviet Union
"A somewhat facetious manifesto" (
ALA is an acronym for American Library Association. )
NetBSD 1.4 PPC port
This is good because if the rumours
of Disney buying Apple are true, I'll be looking for a new
operating system. MickeyOS, GoOS, PocanhotOS...scary.
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.
