posts brought to you by the category
“hockey”
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.
Hockey and Sex on the Streets of Calgary
Calgary police have prepared for recent home games by towing all cars parked on 17th Avenue after 4 PM. So apparently the main concern is not a city-wide wardrobe malfunction, but making sure the road is clear for fans to harmlessly drive up and down, hanging (their naked chests?) out of their cars.
It's a world gone mad when:
O-lé o-lé! Olé olé olé!
They're pretty funny, those nutty Bostonians.
Nuts is a padded white room, dotted with puck-sized CH crests, and a video screen that plays an endless loop of a befuddled, incredulous Don Cherry mouthing the words,
Too many men...
“No quit in Montréal”
Meanwhile, all of Montréal asks : Can we force Josie to wear that
toque for the rest of the season?
Norm Walsh laughs at your "sophisticated" weblogging system.
If you go to an old-skool barber, sooner or later you get used to straight-edge razors.
Tim Schockaert : Bathroom in Lokossa (Benin)
Matt Biddulph : "Most popular entries" sidebar
Fun hacks like this make me wish that MT had a license that allowed distribution of modifications to its core. Although the plugin interface is flexible, it's a dead-end in the long run without the ability to dig in and change things under the skin.
Robert Fisk : "How, I ask myself, does one describe this outside the language of a military report?"
How, I ask myself, does one describe this outside the language of a military report, the definition of the colour, the decibels of the explosions? When the cruise missiles came in it sounded as if someone was ripping to pieces huge curtains of silk in the sky and the blast waves became a kind of frightening counterpoint to the flames.
Hey look, the Class::DBI website has been re-invented as a weblog.
Hiroyuki Oyama : DBD::mysqlPP.pm
is aPure
Perl client interface for the MySQL database. This module implements
network protool between server and client of MySQL, thus you
don't need external MySQL client library like libmysqlclient
for this module to work. It means this module enables you to connect to
MySQL server from some operation systems which MySQL is not
ported. How nifty!
Creating a toolbar for [Mozilla]
This tutorial demonstrates how to use XUL and JavaScript to write a toolbar that can interact with a website, and how to add that toolbar to [Mozilla]
In case you needed any more reasons to throw the RSS baby out with the bathwater,
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : scrum
Very good. Sporting.
ex. You got me a present? How scrum of you.
see also : scrum dict-ified
Jonathan Jones : "The world the bomb created is one where a certain image of catastrophe is universally shared
diffused, reproduced - a constant of our visual world, where, in 1995, the US Post Office planned to issue a commemorative stamp with an image of a mushroom cloud, where an image of mass death is recycled without cease."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : torpid
Torpid \Tor"pid\, a. [L. torpidus, fr. torpere to be stiff,
numb, or torpid; of uncertain origin.]
1. Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling;
numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.
Without heat all things would be torpid. --Ray.
2. Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. --Sir M. Hale.
web1913
torpid
adj 1: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish
worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: {inert},
{sluggish}]
2: (biology) in a condition of biological rest or suspended
animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid
frogs" [syn: {dormant}, {hibernating(a)}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : pugnacious
Pugnacious \Pug*na"cious\, a. [L. pugnax, -acis, fr. pugnare to
fight. Cf. {Pugilism}, {Fist}.]
Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome;
fighting. --{Pug*na"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Pug*na"cious*ness},
n.
web1913
pugnacious
adj 1: tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: {hard-bitten},
{hard-boiled}]
2: ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious
spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an
exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were
rough and determined fighting men" [syn: {rough}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : recombobulate
To repair something that is broken or in some other way discombobulated
ex. Our strategy is completely discombobulated.. it's time we recombobulate.
SVG-coders mailing list
"This list aims at providing a discussion place for the more advanced SVG uses dealing with interactivity, animation and server-side SVG applications."
Ben Hammersley : Content Syndication with XML and RSS
"My aim is for the book to cover most of the xml-ish syndication standards, but to concentrate on RSS0.9x and RSS1.0. ... Meanwhile, and over the next few months, I would very much appreciate hearing from anyone with ideas/issues/bugbears/preoccupations/fetishes or any other interest whatsoever in RSS. Are there any issues you feel need strong wording? Any common errors you'd like to see highlighted? Any interesting uses of RSS that you'd like to see in such a book? Any future developments that you would like to get into a book coming out in 6 months or so?"
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : adamant
Adamant
(Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond.
This stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind of hard
steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of
the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard-heartedness against the
truth (Jer. 17:1).
easton
Adamant, VT
Zip code(s): 05640
gazetteer
Adamant \Ad"a*mant\ ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt,
adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis,
the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. +
dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L.
adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet,
as in OF. and LL. See {Diamond}, {Tame}.]
1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a
name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme
hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical
signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for
the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample
shield. --Milton.
2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] ``A great adamant of
acquaintance.'' --Bacon.
As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene.
web1913
adamant
adj : not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course;
unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his
refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable;
she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an
intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal
tendancy" [syn: {adamantine}, {inexorable}, {intransigent}]
n : very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: {diamond}]
wn
ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in
solicitate of gold.
devils
Ed Hawco : Manifest Destiny in a cup
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : teotwawki
Absolute disaster--derived from "The End Of The World As We Know It"
ex. Every election year, candidates warn of a teotwawki if their opponents wins.
As yet, though, the world goes on.
LogiLab : VCalSax
"is a simple Python module for managing scheduler data in XML. VCalSax allows to load data from VCalendar files into DOM trees. And to rewrite such trees as VCalendar files."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : tyro
Tyro, KS (city, FIPS 71925)
Location: 37.03670 N, 95.82142 W
Population (1990): 243 (98 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
gazetteer
Tyro \Ty"ro\, n.; pl. {Tyros}. [L. tiro a newlylevied soldier, a
beginner.]
A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any
branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a
subject; a novice. [Written also {tiro}.]
The management of tyros of eighteen Is difficult.
--Cowper.
web1913
tyro
n : someone new to a field or activity [syn: {novice}, {beginner},
{tiro}, {initiate}]
wn
The 24 Hour Plays
"The process begins at 10pm the night before the show, when a group of about fifty writers, directors, actors and designers gather at a theater for the latest round of what has become a highly anticipated ritual. After everyone has been briefed (and Polaroided), the writers are left alone to each compose a ten-minute play. At 7am, the directors return, read the plays, make their bids, and begin casting. The actors arrive at 8am, meet with their respective writer/director teams; rehearsals start promptly at 9am. Tech rehearsal runs from 5 to 7:30pm - doors open at 7:45. At 8pm, ink barely dry, the new plays are performed for a live audience."
Me : My::SOAP::Transport::CGI.pm
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : perforce
Perforce \Per*force"\, v. t.
To force; to compel. [Obs.]
web1913
perforce
adv : by necessity; by force of circumstance
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : myrmidon
Myrmidon \Myr"mi*don\, n. [L. Myrmidones, Gr. ?, pl.]
1. One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles,
their king, to the Trojan war.
2. A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes
cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; --
sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc.
--Thackeray.
With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and
his myrmidons pressed forward. --W. H.
Ainsworth.
web1913
myrmidon
n 1: a follower who carries out orders without question
2: (Greek mythology) a member of the warriors who followed
Achilles on the expedition against Troy [syn: {Myrmidon}]
wn
MYRMIDON, n. A follower of Achilles -- particularly when he didn't
lead.
devils
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is affray
| source : web1913 |
Affray \Af*fray"\, n. [OE. afrai, affrai, OF. esfrei, F. effroi,
fr. OF. esfreer. See {Affray}, v. t.]
1. The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or
attack. [Obs.]
2. Alarm; terror; fright. [Obs.] --Spenser.
3. A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray. ``In the
very midst of the affray.'' --Motley.
4. (Law) The fighting of two or more persons, in a public
place, to the terror of others. --Blackstone.
Note: A fighting in private is not, in a legal sense, an
affray.
Syn: Quarrel; brawl; scuffle; encounter; fight; contest;
feud; tumult; disturbance.
| source : web1913 |
Affray \Af*fray"\, v. t. [p. p. {Affrayed}.] [OE. afraien,
affraien, OF. effreer, esfreer, F. effrayer, orig. to
disquiet, put out of peace, fr. L. ex + OHG. fridu peace
(akin to E. free). Cf. {Afraid}, {Fray}, {Frith} inclosure.]
[Archaic]
1. To startle from quiet; to alarm.
Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed
[affrayed] me out of my sleep. --Chaucer.
2. To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
That voice doth us affray. --Shak.
| source : wn |
affray
n 1: noisy quarrel [syn: {altercation}, {fracas}]
2: a noisy fight [syn: {disturbance}, {fray}, {ruffle}]
Scott Andrew : When I think of JavaScript events, I think of marbles.
"If you can imagine all that without your eyes glazing over, you have a pretty good idea of what KnowNow does, and what Jon Udell is talking about in this article about the Event-Driven Internet."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is empyrean
| source : web1913 |
Empyrean \Em`py*re"an\ (?; 277), n. [See {Empyreal}.]
The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was
supposed by the ancients to subsist.
The empyrean rung With hallelujahs. --Milton.
| source : web1913 |
Empyrean \Em`py*re"an\, a.
Empyreal. --Akenside.
| source : wn |
empyrean
adj 1: of or relating to the sky or heavens; "the empyrean sphere"
[syn: {empyreal}]
2: inspiring awe; "well-meaning ineptitude that rises to
empyreal absurdity"- M.S.Dworkin; "empyrean aplomb"-
Hamilton Basso; "the sublime beauty of the night" [syn: {empyreal},
{sublime}]
n : the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which
celestial bodies appear to be projected [syn: {celestial
sphere}, {sphere}, {firmament}, {heavens}, {vault of
heaven}, {welkin}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is troglodyte
| source : web1913 |
Troglodyte \Trog"lo*dyte\, n. [L. troglodytae, pl., Gr. ? one
who creeps into holes; ? a hole, cavern (fr. ? to gnaw) + ?
enter: cf. F. troglodyte.]
1. (Ethnol.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves,
instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of
the primitive races of man were troglodytes.
In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the
hurtful water it beareth called the ``mad lake.''
--Holland.
2. (Zo["o]l.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.
3. (Zo["o]l.) The wren.
| source : wn |
troglodyte
n 1: one who lives in solitude [syn: {hermit}, {recluse}]
2: someone who dwells in a cave [syn: {caveman}, {cave man}, {cave
dweller}]
| source : jargon |
troglodyte n. [Commodore] 1. A hacker who never leaves his
cubicle. The term `gnoll' (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported.
2. A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment.
The combination `ITS troglodyte' was flung around some during the Usenet
and email wringle-wrangle attending the 2.x.x revision of the Jargon
File; at least one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it
with pride.
| source : foldoc |
troglodyte
<jargon> (Commodore) 1. A hacker who never leaves his cubicle.
The term "Gnoll" (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported.
2. A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing
environment. The combination "ITS troglodyte" was flung
around some during the {Usenet} and {e-mail} wringle-wrangle
attending the 2.x.x revision of the {Jargon File}; at least
one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with
pride.
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-01-11)
| source : devils |
TROGLODYTE, n. Specifically, a cave-dweller of the paleolithic
period, after the Tree and before the Flat. A famous community of
troglodytes dwelt with David in the Cave of Adullam. The colony
consisted of "every one that was in distress, and every one that was
in debt, and every one that was discontented" -- in brief, all the
Socialists of Judah.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is eldritch
| source : web1913 |
Eldritch \El"dritch\, a.
Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local,
Eng.]
| source : wn |
eldritch
adj : suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an
eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters";
"stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous
creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing
the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: {weird}, {uncanny}, {unearthly}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is gustatory
| source : web1913 |
Gustatory \Gusta*to*ry\, a.
Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the
gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.
| source : wn |
gustatory
adj : of or relating to gustation [syn: {gustative}, {gustatorial}]
Larry Wall : Apocalypse 3
"Ours is not to question why, ours is but to do (the next one) or die."
Dear Apple : "There are a lot of us perl programmers out here
who'd love to bring our applications to Mac OS X. Rumor has it that Apple can bridge Perl to Cocoa, much like the Java to Cocoa bridge, and were that to become available to us, we'd find it enormously useful.
We realize that adding it as a "supported API" would be a big deal, so we won't even ask for that (although it obviously would be cool). If you could somehow donate the Perl code you have for this to the community, then we already have a group of talented people who'll be happy to maintain it. Mac OS X already has very good Perl support and with a Cocoa to Perl bridge there would be no end of cool applications for X we would make."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is etiolate
| source : web1913 |
Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\ v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Etiolated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Etiolating}.] [F. ['e]tioler to blanch.]
1. To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by
excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
2. (Med.) To become pale through disease or absence of light.
| source : web1913 |
Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\, v. t.
1. To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's
rays.
2. (Med.) To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of
light.
| source : web1913 |
Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\, Etiolated \E"ti*o*la`ted\, a.
Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting
desert regions.
| source : wn |
etiolate
adj : (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by
being deprived of light; "etiolated celery" [syn: {etiolated},
{blanched}]
v 1: make weak by stunting the growth or development of
2: bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant)
by excluding sunlight
3: make pale or sickly; "alcohol etiolates your skin"
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}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is yen
| source : web1913 |
Yen \Yen\, n.
The unit of value and account in Japan. Since Japan's
adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen
has been about 50 cents. The yen is equal to 100 sen.
| source : web1913 |
Ye \Y"["e]\ ([=e]"e), n.; pl. {Y["e]n} ([=e]"en).
An eye. [Obs.]
From his y["e]n ran the water down. --Chaucer.
| source : wn |
yen
n 1: a yearning for something or to do something [syn: {hankering}]
2: the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen
v : have a yen for [syn: {long}, {ache}, {yearn}, {pine}, {languish}]
The Mirror Project also publishes an RSS file,
Apache::XBEL.pm
"is an Apache mod_perl handler that uses XSLT to transform XML Bookmarks Exchange Language (XBEL) files into exciting and foofy dynamic HTML documents. Documents are rendered as collapsible outlines and individual nodes may be viewed and bookmarked as unique pages, so you don't have to click through a gazillion nested leaves to find what you're looking for."
Jason the Marten'taur : The Velveeta Rabbit
The Pseudodictionary, Dict-ified
mmmmm...recursive web applications.
Oreillynet : IrDA HotSynching for Older Palms and Visors
"I can toss the cradle and sync wirelessly. And I'm not just talking about IrDA for those lucky sods who have Palm OS 3.5 with necessary libraries built-in. Fortunately, even if you have an older Palm or Visor with OS 3.1, you too can impress your friends and coworkers by HotSyncing via the IrDA port. Here's how."
The Globe and Mail on "Renaissance Man" Paul Greenlaugh
Mr. Greenlaugh is the new president of the
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, although the article seems to spend more time reliving the glory days of Garry Kennedy. Some items not mentioned in the article : During the last "official" president's tenure it was as much the students as the faculty that drove her away. Whether this was a good thing or not is another story; one thing is sure, she had *no* idea how to talk to twenty year old art students full of piss and vinegar. Eric Fischl is still hated and generously slagged by the painting faculty. The story goes that Garry Kennedy managed to secure the current location after making a very convincing argument that the school should, in fact, be housed on an old aircraft carrier that was then anchored in the harbour. The guy who ran the print shop and printed the "I will not make any boring art" print now does
now does all his work on the web and is one of the best teachers I've ever had. He is also the guy who saved
this print when, after a almost two months of work and a second all-nighter of etching, I discovered that I hadn't grained the biggest stone in the department evenly.
Bibliotech : Net::FTPServer.pm
Of particular interest is the "virtual filesystem [which] allows the FTP server to serve files from a SQL database."
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.
Terrance Brannon : Array::Reform.pm
"Ever had a list of things you needed to neetly format into a set of HTML table rows? Well, look no further my friend. For the low, low price of 0.00 you too can reform you data into a neat set of lists and produce tables from it."
For those outside the States
Patrick Combs' 95 000$ Adventure
This guy definitely deserves to win some kind of Shit Disturber of the Year Award. This is a great story. via
hyperbole
e.e. commerce, Poet Laureate of the Internet
"For Galt, and millions of others, there is no greater example of this than commerce's e-ishness unflowering. Not unlike the sweet courtship and inevitable consummation of youth, the poem depicts an online buyer's first moments of innocent hesitation, which in Internet time quickly becomes commitment and, at last, the naked, breathless sale." via
strange brew
CBC : In America's Web
"To my mind, Canadian content is a story, a product that's produced here in Canada that's consumed potentially by Canadians but it's an exportable product that people around the world are interested in. The fact of the matter is we live north of the most successful cultural exporter on the planet and that's not going to change. And everything else about our economies is moving closer together...The argument that I have always had with people about this, do we have to put a moose, a beaver and some guy in a Mountie suit in the thing and then call it Canadian which in that case it's just a trapping." Well, not since the Mounties sold their licensing rights to Disney, anyway. The problem I have have with this kind of drivel is that culture is equal parts history and history is not just some catalogue of past content to add value and a tie-in to this week's spin-cycle.
Unless, of course, you're the victor...
Tigert Labs : Gimp Tutorials
I'm starting to feel bad.
Hunter S. Thompson : He Was a Crook
"I have had my own bloody relationship with Nixon for many years, but I am not worried about it landing me in hell with him. I have already been there with that bastard, and I am a better person for it."
Fly Monitoring and Approaches to Fly Management
(from the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture.)
BBC : World's biggest flower blooms
"Last Monday, delighted botanists discovered that it had developed a 106 cm flower bud. On Wednesday, when the specimen was put on display to the
public, the bud had reached a height of 125 cm, and it is still growing." see also :
Fairchild Tropical Gardens for more pictures (beautiful!) and this page from
the Botanischer Gardens that will need to be bablefish-ed if you don't read German.
Doonesbury
"Who's the teeny little man, poppy?" Cookies, registration & other games until next week. Compliments of the No Fun police.
The Words & Pictures Museum
