posts brought to you by the category “film”
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.
Why Wordnet is Cool
Dick Gordon : I Was Priveleged To Be There
The privilege of working in a war zone is witnessing the
extraordinary dignity in the manner that other, innocent people
choose to respond.
Me : xml résumé (XSL) formatting extensions 0.2
Tim Bray : Why XML doesn't suck
If I had to pick the biggest contribution XML has made to the
world, this would be it - forcing people to learn the issues and
start doing the right thing.
inkdroid : "[T]he Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
is an protocol (XML over HTTP) for sharing and
harvesting metadata. The protocol is actually quite elegant, and provides
a framework for making all sorts of metadata formats available.
Essentially it allows organizations to share their metadata in such a way
that it can be harvested periodically by service providers. Kind of like
RSS syndication, but for metadata."
Why is it that 5, 000 people protesting a World Bank/IMF meeting in
Washington
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : renascent
Renascent \Re*nas"cent\ (-sent), a. [L. renascens, p. pr.
of renasci to be born again; pref. re- re- + nasci to be born. See
{Nascent}.] 1. Springing or rising again into being; being born again,
or reproduced. 2. See {Renaissant}.
web1913
renascent adj : surging or sweeping back again [syn:
{resurgent}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : bumptious
Bumptious \Bump"tious\, a. Self-conceited; forward;
pushing. [Colloq.] --Halliwell.
web1913
bumptious adj : offensively self-assertive [syn:
{self-assertive}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : chagrin
Chagrin \Cha*grin"\, a. Chagrined. --Dryden.
web1913
chagrin n : strong feelings of embarrassment [syn:
{humiliation}, {mortification}] v : lower in esteem; hurt the pride of
[syn: {humiliate}, {mortify}, {humble}, {abase}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
photoshopped
"an image that has been touched up or modified using an
image editing program, esp. Adobe Photoshop"
ex. Her 8x10 glossy looked much better after we
photoshopped it.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : abjure
Abjure \Ab*jure"\, v. i. To renounce on oath. --Bp. Burnet.
web1913
abjure v : reject; "He retracted his earlier statements
about his beliefs" [syn: {recant}, {forswear}, {retract}]
wn
Some guy named Matteo : "localpop.php"
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."
Larry Wall : Apocalypse 4
"The basic underlying question is 'What exactly
do those curlies mean?'"
Dan Brickley : RDF Hacking, Understanding the Striped RDF/XML
Syntax
John Kricfalusi : "[The hippies] questioned everything that was
good about progress and technology, and destroyed Western
civilization,
as far as I'm concerned. Culture is dead, and has
been since the mid-'60s, when the dirty hippies took over. And now
corporate thought--you'd think corporations would be a purely American
product of progress and capitalism, but they're not. Not any more. Now
corporations are run by ex-hippies, people who go to retreats and beat
drums in the woods and bury themselves up to their necks and have Indians
piss on them. Can you believe all this crazy stuff? They've taken over
everything! It's creative people, and scientists, philosophers and
inventors that move the world. Those are the people that you
need--everyone else is a follower. But they've stopped that. All those
human endeavours that used to perpetuate themselves and drag the world
along with them, they're all run by corporations now--which are run by
ex-hippies. They stop creativity, they don't allow it to happen."
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Me : rss-parser.js 0.1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is recherche
| source : web1913 | Recherch'e
\Re*cher`ch['e]"\, a. [F.] Sought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare
quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind. |
source : wn | recherche adj : lavishly elegant and refined [syn:
{exquisite}]
Dave Winer : "It would not surprise me if we dropped the first
nukes
since WWII on Iraq this week. ... it will send a
message to our so-called allies that the "with us or against us" position
has teeth."
The shit is going to hit the fan
Rupert Scammell : mysynth.py
"Inspired by this, I wrote a small program that
performs speech synthesis of questionable accuracy on a given input file.
Speech synthesis in 73 lines! ... Output is a series of numbered wav
files (0.wav, 1.wav, etc), along with a playlist file (CR separated
filenames) that you can feed to your favourite media player like Winamp
or XMMS, which will play the files in the correct order."
via
daily-python
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."
Websign: hyperlinks from a physical location to the web
"By using a simple form of augmented reality, the
system allows users to visualize services related to physical objects of
interest. The websign system provides infrastructure not just for
detecting websigns but also for creating and deploying them. In this
paper we present the concept, an overview of the prototype and the
algorithms used in the implementation."
(pdf)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is mephitic
| source : web1913 | Mephitic \Me*phit"ic\,
Mephitical \Me*phit"ic*al\, a. [L. mephiticus, fr. mephitis mephitis: cf.
F. m['e]phitique.] 1. Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as,
mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions. 2. Offensive to the smell; as,
mephitic odors. {Mephitic air} (Chem.), carbon dioxide; -- so called
because of its deadly suffocating power. See {Carbonic acid}, under
{Carbonic}. | source : wn | mephitic adj : of noxious stench from
atmospheric pollution [syn: {miasmic}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is spooge
| source : foldoc | spooge /spooj/ Inexplicable
or arcane code, or random and probably incorrect output from a computer
program. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-12)
Simon Fell : MS Word 2 SOAP
Dennis E. Hamilton : Software Engineering for Everyone
"Nowadays I incorporate documentation as an
inseparable part of the design of programs. Assuring that a program is
explicable is my primary test for conceptual economy of the software
itself. Even when I am not building software for anyone else to use, I
preserve the hard-won habit of documenting what I am doing as if it is
intended for others to be able to use without having written it
themselves. Truthfully, I don't ever think otherwise, because that
someone else is often my forgetful future self."
Alain Dubuc : "The result is a Canadian identity that is extremely
vulnerable,
because the soul of the people comes to depend
not on the citizens, or values, but instead on government programs, civil
servants and budgets. A budget crisis -- or even relatively innocuous
acts such as closing a railway link or shutting down a regional radio
station -- become nation-destroying gestures. ... Another much more
disquieting perverse effect is the development in Canada of an
ideological orthodoxy. In Quebec, there are pressures that discourage
intellectuals from straying from sovereigntist dogma without running the
risk of exclusion and mistrust. I know something about this. The same
process is at work in the rest of Canada, through the Canadian social
model. It is difficult to be a true Canadian without espousing the
centre-left values that underlie our welfare state."
pseudodictionary.com
"is the place where all of your made up words,
slang, webspeak and colloquialisms become part of the dictionary as well.
we take the words you use every day, but aren't in the dictionary, and
put them into ours." see also :
wanted
words
Michel Rodrigues : Simple XML Transformation with Perl
Gisle Aas, Dick Hardt and Paul Everitt : "The Perl for Zope
Project
lets Perl code and Python code run in the same
process, focused on making Perl an alternative scripting language for the
Zope Open Source application server."
Mark H. Levine : A Layman's Guide to the Supreme Court Decision in
Bush v. Gore
Stephen Budiansky : The Physics of Gridlock
Wherein, some clever Germans compare the American
highway system to a dozen dogs standing on a waterbed.
Storing RDF in relational databases
"This page summarizes some current approaches to
storing RDF in a relational database. ... To goal is to come up with the
best way of storing RDF in a relational database, or identify a set of
solutions that are suitable for particular needs."
Why are Americans so fond of putting everything
Jonathan G. S. Koppell
"Thinking of the Internet as a place certainly
makes it seem more intriguing. The idea of logging on and entering
another space is suggestive in all sorts of ways. It raises issues of
consciousness, allows us to think of ourselves as disembodied cybernauts,
and sets us apart not just from our primitive ancestors but also from our
recent ones. Not incidentally, representing the home computer and AOL
membership as a gateway to another dimension helps to sell home computers
and AOL memberships."
