posts brought to you by the category “dav”
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.
Meanwhile, Dubya::BarCodeScan... I mean ::Blogger confuses his
weblog with Free/Busy calendar information.
Jo Walsh : RDF::Simple.pm
Douglas McLennan : "It's not particularly in their interest to cut
us off. I can be their biggest deliverer of traffic."
Meanwhile, Nat Torkington has turned iTunes into Napster.
I'm not releasing the source, though, until I talk with Tim
O'Reilly and Apple and figure out whether I'll be getting my arse
sued off ...
<BlandFish rdf:ID="Scrod" />
Me : print-n-times.xsl 1.0
This stylesheet defines a single template for printing a string
(n) times. An optional separator string may also be defined which, if
present, will be printed (n -1) times.
Me : Net::ITE.pm 0.02
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.8.4
Me : WebService::weblogUpdates.pm 0.33
Quick! Someone lend Jim Holt a book, any book, by William
Gibson.
One reason it's been so quiet around here
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bobcat
A True Bob Dylan Fan! Every body knows this!
ex. All the BobCats gather round on rmd.music.bobdylan and
share boots or thoughts or trivia or opinions but with a love you
cannot find in any other reverent crowd!
see also :
bobcat dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fat coke
opposite of diet coke
submitted by rik
The Connection : Cork Wars
"The cork is under assault. Wineries are using
plastic stoppers, and (yes, it’s true) screw-top caps on top-notch
vino. The plastic lobby says cork’s no good, that it taints the
wine. The cork lobby says it’s being slandered, that conscientious
consumers will choose cork because it’s also
environmentally-correct. No one’s quite ready to embrace the
screw-top, but it’s coming. Is this really a conversation about
what’s best for the wine lover, or what’s best for business?"
"People literally will not cross the street to get coffee."
Yesterday : The second day of Not Winter
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : obloquy
Obloquy \Ob"lo*quy\ ([o^]b"l[-o]*kw[y^]), n. [L. obloquium,
fr. obloqui. See {Oblocutor}.] 1. Censorious speech; defamatory
language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame;
reprehension. Shall names that made your city the glory of the earth be
mentioned with obloquy and detraction? --Addison. 2. Cause of reproach;
disgrace. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: Reproach; odium; censure; contumely;
gainsaying; reviling; calumny; slander; detraction.
web1913
obloquy n 1: the state of disgrace resulting from public
abuse [syn: {opprobrium}] 2: a malicious attack [syn: {defamation},
{calumny}, {traducement}, {hatchet job}]
wn
N.Y. Times : One night a waiter spotted a man putting one in his
napkin.
"So what I did was, I put it on the bill," Ms.
Daguin said. "And when they saw the bill, they decided to return the
knife. That's how we dealt with it."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dmy
Short for "Don't Mess Yourself". Used when someone
overreacts
ex. ""DMY, Rich. It was an accident.""
Radio Crankypants #13-15
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
a-dollar-three-eighty
ex. Question: How much is it? Answer:
A-dollar-three-eighty.
submitted by george Kelly
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is foundling
| source : web1913 | Foundling \Found"ling\, n.
[OE. foundling, fundling; finden to find + -ling; cf. f["u]ndling,
findling. See {Find}, v. t., and {-ling}.] A deserted or exposed infant;
a child found without a parent or owner. {Foundling hospital}, a hospital
for foundlings. | source : wn | foundling n : a child who has been
abandoned and whose parents are unknown [syn: {abandoned infant}]
N.Y. Times : "Last winter Louis Rastelli, a struggling Montreal
publisher, found himself suddenly in need of a brand-new distribution
method.
Canada’s major bookstore chain decided that
stocking the literary zines and chapbooks that Rastelli publishes had
become too much of a hassle, and he was increasingly unable to get his
product into the hands of its intended audience. Rastelli’s
solution: buy some surplus cigarette machines – the Canadian
government had recently restricted them in restaurants, and so they were
in plentiful supply – and retrofit them into coin-operated delivery
devices for art, literature and music. The
‘‘Distroboto’’ was born." see also :
The Book
Drop
and
The
Poetry Dispenser
(thanks to
ed
and
jessamyn
, respectively)
I'm hunting wabbits
Simson Garfinkel : The Web's War on Your Privacy
N.Y. Times : Interview with Stefan Fatsis,
author of "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph,
Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players."
(real evil g2)
Jish : "God dammit, I'm Canadian."
Le Devoir : Internet donne un second souffle à l'espéranto
"L'anglais de base est facile, sa phonétique ne
l'est pas. On entend très bien les accents des gens quand ils parlent
anglais, pas en espéranto. Et ce n'est pas une langue neutre: elle est le
symbole d'une identité, d'une culture, et elle marque une supériorité.
Pensez-vous que vous discutez d'égal à égal dans un congrès international
où se trouvent des Britanniques ou des Américains? L'anglais est la
deuxième langue de tous les autres qui doivent, eux, faire des efforts,
se concentrer. Avec l'espéranto, tout le monde est logé à la même
enseigne: tous doivent l'apprendre. C'est la langue de l'égalité, qui ne
nuit à aucune langue nationale."
I confess I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do
Robin Berjon : The AxKit Has Been Drinking
"Cause XML's like a sumo wrestler / Pointy
brackets french roast / And XSL's cool for widgets / With the params of a
form post"
I'm not sure that this interface is either simple or intuitive
Marc Lindahl's Audio Product for Zope
Stas Bekman : [T]aking mod_perl to the commercial world
I would like to know who the jackass is
Tijger Tsou : The LegoPalm
"...no glue was used in the creation of this
device." via
the toast man
Teledynamics : HTML2DB...the Holy Grail of DocBook Converters?
"Don't get too excited: Asking a robot to convert
HTML to DocBook is like asking a machine to take a truckload of bricks
and build you a house. Still, a robot can get you part of the way there;
this package contains a shell script and a DSL file which take a first
stab at converting well-formed HTML into quasi-DocBook-like markup. It's
not the philosopher's stone, it can't possibly pass the NSGMLS test, but
it might save you some work translating old HTML docs to DocBook."
Chris Gibbs on installing a Dict server
Never mind the squirrels, though, Montreal is set to be
overrun
Sightings : Dany Laferriere
Dr. Bruno : Evaluating content management for Bell Media
There is a bug in the display mechanism for the archives
I may not get to fixing it
today
, but the links are still valid.
www.routergod.com
Featuring celebrity interviews including Gillian
Anderson on LAN switching and Mr. Rogers on the RS 232.
Jerrad Pierce : English::Reference.pm
"Provides the ability to use: ARRAY $arrayref en
lieu of @$arrayref" I can't decide if this is laziness or hubris...
A note to industrial designers
and persons thinking about buying a Visor: Why
the f*ck can't I put the protective cover back on my Visor when there is
a module in the fancy magic koolaid module slot we all got excited
about?!?! Either redesign the cover or make modules that take the
dumb-ass finger hook thingy into account. I think I am going to start
marketing myself as a high-tech bullshit detector because companies would
do themselves a favour if they didn't release products with such idiotic
and
brain-dead mistakes
.
Don MacPhearson : Je me souviens
"Like Richard, the [Sun Life] building was a
symbol, in its case of English domination of Montreal, a bastion like the
one it physically resembles. In Richard's day, it also happened to house
the offices of the National Hockey League, when that league was still
dominated by English Canadians. So it was from the building that in 1955,
the league's English-speaking president, Clarence Campbell, handed down
the suspension that, perhaps even more than Richard's feats on the ice,
earned him his place in Quebec history." The funny thing about history
and Canadians is that one solitude knows too much and other too little...
Mark A. Hershberger : Image::Grab.pm
"was born from a script. The script was born when
a certain Comics Syndicate stopped having a static (or even predictable)
url for their comics. I generalized the code for a friend when he needed
to do something similar." It does everything : regex, passwords, cookies
and referers. Cool!
Jack Todd
"In their most critical game of the season, the
Canadiens could not score on young Ottawa goalie Patrick Lalime until it
was too late. When it was over, Lalime himself had to show an unpleasant
Montreal crowd how to handle it with class: Lalime pointed to the
Canadiens bench and applauded, and those who hadn't already stampeded for
the exits followed his example and gave the Canadiens a long ovation."
Anthony Westell reads between the lines
Robert Jorin : Baking Light and Flaky Croissants
Seattle Times : Free-speech rights vs. protest ban
"If the mayor used his emergency powers to close
downtown to everybody without WTO credentials or a job downtown, it might
be legal, some experts said. If it was closed only to those who wanted to
protest, most agreed, it would not be legal." Meanwhile, accountant
Mike Ferguson
supports the protestors but is bummed that their actions have led
Starbucks to close all its Seattle branches because "I've had to look
everywhere for a cup of good coffee."
Salon talks to the NY Times Style Czar
Canadian World Domination Headquarters
"This website is a half an hour later in
Newfoundland." ( thanks
judith
! )
O'Reilly Sample Chapter
<a href =
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/realbasic/chapter/ch03.html">
REALbasic : Chapter 3 Objects, Classes, and Instances</a>
Road Stories for the Flesh Eating Future
"We are the first citizens of a society that has
actually been eaten by technology. A culture that has disappeared into
the dark vortex of the electronic frontier"
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!"
The slashdot kiddies ask : What is art?
"After all if everyone could do it, it wouldn't
be art, would it? It would be just another craft. And if everyone could
appreciate good code the way I appreciate the Impressionists then it
would be 'Classical' (read 'Dead') Art." Stick to writing code, buddy.
You don't want to touch the arts vs. craft debate with a ten foot pole.
NY Times : Big Business Experiments With Web Art
Le Monde on transporters
"Il y a deux ans, l'Autrichien Anton Zeilinger et
son équipe ont réussi à faire ce que Charles Bennett avait imaginé. A
quelques mètres de distance, le jumeau d'un photon a été recréé à
l'identique. Mais, et tant pis pour les inconditionnels de Star Trek, le
photon original a, comme le prévoyait la théorie, disparu dans
l'opération, comme si à chaque téléportation à bord de l'Enterprise, le
capitaine Kirk disparaissait à jamais et laissait la place à un double."
This is Not CNN
(unusually large) flash animations
Vincenzo Natali
"Listen to this: It's the world's first Luddite
slasher film, where the Bell employee's actually a mad anti-technologist,
stabbing at computer circuit boards using primitive implements." Natali,
who directed the incredibly creepy film
Cube
, was musing on the recent
phone
meltdown in Toronto
.
Gregory Baum : Nationalisme et mouvements sociaux contre
l'hégémonie du marché
"Les gens qui participent à ce mouvement, en
grande partie de façon gratuite, ne regardent pas leur travail comme une
oeuvre de charité, privée de sens politique, mais plutôt comme une forme
de militantisme appuyée par la vision d'une société alternative."
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...
New Lucious Jackson
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.
