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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.
I am (mercifully) not a hardcore email-systems weenie
but I find it hard to believe
that this imaginary company is really going to be able to
break even, never mind make a profit, charging a single
penny per message. It adds up, sure, but the other side of
the equation is that you've got to pay for a lot of
hardware to handle the traffic, the resources necessary not
only to validate a message but also to either sign the ones
that are good or store the ones that aren't. (This is the
part where the lawyers start thinking about cases where
your magic SMTP company manages to flag an important
correspondence as
whereupon it gets sucked into the vortex. Heaven help us
when we teach computers to think like lawyers...) Even if
you only store errant messages for, say, no more than a
week, that's a huge amount of disk space. Mulitplied by
two, three or four depending on your backup strategy. On
top of all of that, your bandwidth charges -- no matter how
sweet a deal you cut with a backbone operator -- are going
to make someone else very very rich. And were that already
not enough, you will have to pay some very real salaries to
the sysadmins that have to watch the whole thing because it
will quickly become every one's favourite target for
hacking or just otherwise poking. It also becomes a single
(or more single) point of failure, a probably uninsurable
liability, a thorn in the side of every accounting
department for any business that does stuff online (you
don't seriously expect them to absorb that cost or the cost
of massaging their email systems, do you?) and an
opportunity for someone to engage in the kinds of
data-mining that no one wants. It would already be a tough
sell to consumers at one cent a message. It would be dead
in the water at anything more.
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It's a beautiful tissue dispenser so long as your bathroom has no water or your room no dust.
It should be noted that we were almost called Borelia
(as in the North Wind to
compliment the Southern one in Australia (ah, Empire...))
but for Queen Victoria's dislike of the name.
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Silver Donald Cameron : "Codswallop. And that's being diplomatic."
Yours is the only country that has ever invaded ours, and it would do so again in a wink if it thought its interests here were seriously threatened.
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Ulf Jasper : "Here's a package for importing simple icalendar events into Emacs diary."
Possible weblog-hack for people who are comfortable with the idea that the chronologically ordered posts are fundamental to the Idea of Weblog. I have always thought that this is a crock and that it is more a function (warning: medium is the message citation ahead) of the technical considerations undertaken by any given tool's developer.Please note that this is a pre-alpha snapshot trial demo test version. It should work correctly on ordinary, i.e. non-recurring, events.
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Happy war to ya!
A rose is a rose, except when you call it XHTML
For a variety of reasons, I've
started baking all the web pages for a few sites. Any bells
and whistles are just that; all the really important stuff
is right there in the source file on the assumption that
sooner or later the magic server tools will bork out. This
means that things like copyright notices need to be updated
by 'hand'. I knew this when I started and today I sat down
to write a little tool to do the heavy lifting for me. This
is, after all, the magic lala-land we call XML/XHTML,
right? I am generally a SAX-guy but decided this was a good
opportunity to introduce myself to the DOM-ishness of
XML::LibXML. You know, something simple like :
my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
my $doc = $parser->parse_html_file("/path/to/file");
my ($span) = $doc->findnodes("/xpath/to/span/with/curyear");
# I happen to know that the first child
# is a text node containing the year
my $oldyear = $span->firstChild();
$oldyear->replaceNode(XML::LibXML::Text->new("2003"));
# Write changes to disk
Simple, right? Keen observers will have already noticed
that I had to read in the document using the
parse_html_file
method. If your root element says "html", regardless of
whether or not the DOCTYPE says XHTML, it is seemingly
impossible to parse a document using the standard
parse_*
methods. Which means that by the time you get around to
writing your DOM to disk you cant do things
like...drumroll...include an XML declaration. And if you
decide to simply write the declaration out by hand, don't
bother trying to call any of the encoding methods. Maybe
there is some deeper magic I have yet to learn but all I
was able to do was make the Perl interpreter dump core.
Still with me? Okay, so we're going to write the
declaration by hand and just assume we know what we're
dealing with when it comes to encodings. Now remember the
bit about being in an HTML context? Logically, the thing to
do is follow the docs, call the
toStringHTML
method and hope for the best. The best in this case is a
terrible journey back to 1998 because all the singletons in
the well-formed documents you've laboured over are suddenly
left open and dangling. And don't bother throwing caution
to wind and just calling
toString
, not if you use the clever C-style comments hack to hide
the <![CDATA[]]> blocks so that your XHTML
can valid and be understood by a web browser. Who the fuck
knows why, but libxml will turn in to this :
<![CDATA[ /* <![CDATA[ */ @import url(some.css) /* ]]> */ ]]>Oh yeah, and it will include an XML declaration for you. So long as you dont mind that it doesn't specify the encoding. Ugh.
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Leon Brocard talks about Data::Pageset.pm
Autrijus Tang : "PAR is like Java's .jar files
.par files contains a zip-compressed
folder of a typical blib/ directory, and could be put into
@INC, loaded and executed on the fly, as well as turning into
stand-alone scripts or executables (aka Perl2Exe or
PerlApp)."
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : exegete
Exegetist \Ex`e*ge"tist\, n. One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called {exegete}. web1913
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DSTC : JackSVG
"is a Perl application that takes
your presentation contents, written in a simple XML-based
language, and writes out a single self-contained SVG file
that contains your entire presentation."
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : ennui
Ennui \En`nui"\, n. [F., fr. L. in odio in hatred. See {Annoy}.] A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium. --T. Gray. web1913
ennui n : the feeling of being bored by something tedious [syn: {boredom}, {tedium}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : affable
Affable \Af"fa*ble\, a. [F. affable, L. affabilis, fr. affari to speak to; ad + fari to speak. See {Fable}.] 1. Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. --Shak. His manners polite and affable. --Macaulay. 2. Gracious; mild; benign. A serene and affable countenance. --Tatler. Syn: Courteous; civil; complaisant; accessible; mild; benign; condescending. web1913
affable adj : diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host" [syn: {amiable}, {cordial}, {genial}] wn
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Me : Net::Google.pm 0.1
Because I want to be able to do
:
my $google = Net::Google->new(key=>LOCAL_GOOGLE_KEY);
my $search = $google->search();
$search->query(qw(aaron cope));
map { print $_->title()."\n"; } @{$search->results()};
See
docs
for details and caveats.
A note for people arriving from the soapware.org
listings
: the most recent version of Net::Google can be found on
the
CPAN
.
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Radio Crankypants #21: The Unbearable Instantness of Outlines
So, I spent some time this
morning writing a SAX filter to read an OPML file and slurp
"instant outlines". The short version is : you should be
able to do this with exactly one data file and one
parsing/munging widget. As it stands, you need two data
files : the outline and a storage unit -- a table in
Frontier, a Storable file in Perl -- to maintain the list
of subscriptions and (I guess it's a six-of-one thing)
their file size. What is aggravating about this approach is
that all the necessary information for doing instant
outlines can be stored in the outline file itself. The
(unwritten) DTD for an OPML file is:
<!ELEMENT outline (outline?|outline*)>
<!ATTLIST outline text CDATA #REQUIRED
created CDATA #REQUIRED
type (link|foo|bar) #IMPLIED
url CDATA #IMPLIED>
Rewritten to accomodate "inline" instant outlines it would
look like:
<!ELEMENT outline (outline?|outline*)>
<!ATTLIST outline text CDATA #REQUIRED
created CDATA #REQUIRED
modified CDATA #REQUIRED
type (link|subscription|foo|bar) #IMPLIED
url CDATA #IMPLIED>
Which would let you do something neat like:
# @ISA = qw (XML::SAX::Base)
sub start_element {
my $self = shift;
my $data = shift;
if ($data->{Name} ne "outline") {
$self->SUPER::start_element($data);
return 1;
}
# This part of SAX2 really sucks...
if ($data->{Attributes}->{'{}type'}->{Value} ne
"subscription") {
$self->SUPER::start_element($data);
return 1;
}
# mmmm...suckiness
my $uri = $data->{Attributes}->{'{}url'}->{Value};
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET=>$uri);
# I don't think Radio does this; it should.
$ua->max_size(MAX_SIZE);
# The Yeastie Girls wrote a great song called "You Suck"
$request->if_modified_since($data->{Attributes}->{'{}modified'}->{Value});
my $outline = $ua->request($request);
# Not modified. Move along, now.
# Needs to carp unless return code is OK
# or NOT_MODIFIED
if (! $outline->is_success()) {
$self->SUPER::start_element($data);
return 1;
}
# Suck it hard, baby
$data->{Attributes}->{'{}modified'}->{Value} = time;
$self->SUPER::start_element($data);
# Pass $outline->content() off to a secondary filter
# and keep munging. Note to self: hooks to prevent
# recursive instant-ness...
}
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From the "Thinking Out Loud" department : Mail::Audit::Weblog
=pod =head1 SUMMARY use Mail::Audit qw (Weblog) my $mail = Mail::Audit->new(); # use Mail::Audit to figure out # if we're interested in the message # here... $mail->post(); # ? $mail->accept(); return 1; =cut package Mail::Audit::Weblog; use Mail::Audit; return 1; package Mail::Audit; # Maybe Net::Weblog::CommonAPI ? use Net::Weblog; sub post { my $self = shift; $self->tidy(); my $weblog = Net::Weblog->new(...); my $post = $weblog->new_post(); $post->title($self->subject()); $post->author($weblog->from()); $post->body(@{$self->body()}); $post->footnote($self->header()); $post->category("unread"); # Use power of Mail::Audit ($self) # to assign additional categories # here... # ? $post->publish(); # For sheer laziness, we could also # use Mail::XML and a write a SAX::Filter # for handing off to a $weblog->raw (?) # method. So, if we were using $self to # auto-generate categories we would also # do $self->put(category1,$category) before # doing : my $xml = ""; my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new(Output=>\$xml); my $filter = Net::Weblog::Filter::MailToBlog->new(Handler=>$writer); my $parser = XML::SAX::ParseFactory->parser(Handler=>$filter); # Not actually sure Mail::Audit can do this $parser->parse_string($self->to_xml()); # raw ??? Anyway, if you were into that sort of # thing you could forget about creating a $weblog # object altogether (not to mention $writer and $xml) # and just pass your blog credentials to the $filter # object and have it post the message when it # encountered the end_document event... $weblog->raw($xml); # Which doesn't look so lazy anymore... # The upshot, of course, is that you could bundle # the above and use the code outside of your mail # filter. return 1; } return 1;see also : hurl
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Not only have the project7 gang written a VDX -> SVG stylesheet
but they've also written a
JavaScript object for doing
XML-RPC calls from the Adobe SVG viewer
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In passing : The Eraserhead of shoe stores.
Early last week I went out to
pick up a sandwich for lunch. While I waited, I sat down
with a cup of coffee and read one of the local news
weeklies. Flipping through the pages, I stopped on a
photograph of a woman's high heel shoe sitting on the
remains of a building destroyed by fire. Somehow, I had
missed the news that
Karl's shoe store had burned down
. Sure enough, I've walked past the still smoldering rubble
twice in as many days, taking in the smell of burnt
leather. That the store was destroyed by fire almost
doesn't come as news. The store, as such, had long since
been
closed down
by fire inspectors but I'm told the fire actually started a
block over and eventually made its way to the the Main,
where the store fronted. Officially or not, the doors were
always open and, when it was warm, Mr. Karl was always
sitting outside ready to sell you...shoes. Going to Karl's
was alot like watching Eraserhead. It was difficult,
unsatisfying, ultimately left a bad taste in your mouth and
you never wanted to do it again. But somehow it was like a
rite of passage and afterwards you felt that it was
something that every person should experience exactly once.
Who knows where Mr. Karl got his shoes and he was probably
the only one who knew where to find them once they made
their way into the building. I've never met anyone who ever
found a pair of the same shoe sitting side by side. The
metal utility shelves that lined the store were overflowing
with shoes of every size and variety that spilled in to
cardboard boxes already full of shoes, presumably waiting
for their own place on high. Buying a pair of shoes at
Karl's involved two distinct steps. First, you made your
way through the offerings trying to find something that you
liked which was an effort all to itself. But it paled
compared to what followed. If you'd spent 20 minutes
finding a shoe that matched your taste, you were assured of
spending atleast twice as long trying to walk out the door
with the other one. Who knows whether the other shoe just
didn't exist or whether Mr. Karl didn't care to try to find
it. But he would always bring you something in its place.
Back in the days of cheap army surplus Czechoslovakian
basketball shoes, my friends and I would go to Karl's
looking for cheap Converse high tops. The pressure to buy
the pink and green and white combo that would invariably
come out of the backroom is the stuff of legend in
Montreal. We've all seen them, held them and pretended to
consider them and then fought to free our hands of them,
lest there be any confusion about whether or not we wanted
to buy them. It was an amazing experience that left you
equally dazzled and annoyed. And while I doubt anyone has
ever bought more than one pair of shoes, if that, from
Karl's I'm pretty sure it will be a presence sadly
missed.
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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.""
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Jan Sipke van der Veen : Multiple webservers behind one IP address
"This article discusses a network
setup where multiple webservers reside behind one IP address.
Such a situation may arise when you need a specific webserver
for one task and a different webserver for another task,
running different operating systems or webserver software.
With only one IP address available from the Internet, you
could simply use Network Address Translation (NAT) with port
forwarding. However, this forces you to give each webserver
an ugly URL with a non-standard port number. Luckily, there
is a better way. In the setup described in this article, each
webserver can be reached via its own fully qualified
domainname on the standard HTTP port (80)."
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Rick Olson : commonWeblogAPI.root
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : comboable
something that is able to be made into a combo. Used in Pool games.
ex. "That shot looks comboable"
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is autochthonous
| source : web1913 | Autochthonal
\Au*toch"tho*nal\, Authochthonic \Au`thoch*thon"ic\,
Autochthonous \Au*toch"tho*nous\, a. Aboriginal; indigenous;
native. | source : wn | autochthonous adj 1: of rocks,
deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were
formed [ant: {allochthonous}] 2: originating where it is
found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the
kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales";
"endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the
northernmost islands of Japan" [syn: {autochthonal},
{autochthonic}, {endemic}, {indigenous}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is demur
| source : web1913 | Demur \De*mur"\,
v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Demurred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Demurring}.] [OF. demurer, demorer, demourer, to linger,
stay, F. demeurer, fr. L. demorari; de- + morari to delay,
tarry, stay, mora delay; prob. originally, time for thinking,
reflection, and akin to memor mindful. See {Memory}.] 1. To
linger; to stay; to tarry. [Obs.] Yet durst not demur nor
abide upon the camp. --Nicols. 2. To delay; to pause; to
suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or
difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or
conclusion of an affair. Upon this rub, the English
embassadors thought fit to demur. --Hayward. 3. To scruple or
object; to take exception; as, I demur to that statement. 4.
(Law) To interpose a demurrer. See {Demurrer}, 2. | source :
web1913 | Demur \De*mur"\, v. t. 1. To suspend judgment
concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about. [Obs.] The latter
I demur, for in their looks Much reason, and in their
actions, oft appears. --Milton. 2. To cause delay to; to put
off. [Obs.] He demands a fee, And then demurs me with a vain
delay. --Quarles. | source : web1913 | Demur \De*mur"\, n.
[OF. demor, demore, stay, delay. See {Demur}, v. i.] Stop;
pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or
action; scruple. All my demurs but double his attacks; At
last he whispers, ``Do; and we go snacks.'' --Pope. | source
: wn | demur n : (law) a formal objection to an opponent's
pleadings [syn: {demurral}, {demurrer}] v : take exception to
[syn: {except}]
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Steve Ball : The XSLT Standard Library 1.0
"provides the XSLT developer with a
set of XSLT templates for commonly used functions. These are
implemented purely in XSLT, that is they do not use any
extensions."
I didn't know that there were
DocBook Extensions For XSLT Stylesheet Documentation
. How cool is that? <!-- tags, begone! -->
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is venerate
| source : web1913 | Venerate
\Ven"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Venerated}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Venerating}.] [L. veneratus, p. p. of venerari
to venerate; akin to Venus Venus, Skr. van to like, to wish,
and E. winsome. See {Winsome}.] To regard with reverential
respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence;
to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders. And seemed to
venerate the sacred shade. --Dryden. I do not know a man more
to be venerated for uprightness of heart and loftiness of
genius. --Sir W. Scott. Syn: To reverence; revere; adore;
respect. | source : wn | venerate v : be in awe of; "Fear God
as your father" [syn: {reverence}, {fear}, {revere}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is potentate
| source : web1913 | Potentate
\Po"ten*tate\, n. [LL. potentatus, fr. potentare to exercise
power: cf. F. potentat. See {Potent}, a.] One who is potent;
one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign,
or monarch. The blessed and only potentate. --1 Tim. vi. 15.
Cherub and seraph, potentates and thrones. --Milton. | source
: wn | potentate n : someone who rules unconstrained by law
[syn: {dictator}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is suasion
| source : web1913 | Suasion
\Sua"sion\, n. [L. suasio, fr. suadere, suasum, to advise,
persuade, fr. suadus persuading, persuasive; akin to suavis
sweet: cf. OF. suasion. See {Suave}, and cf. {Dissuade},
{Persuade}.] The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral
suasion. | source : wn | suasion n : the act of persuading
(or attempting to persuade) [syn: {persuasion}]
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Eric van der Vlist : RTFOutputHandler
is an output method 4xt that
serializes a XML tree following a RTF syntax."
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Richard Martineau : "Malheureusement, ce sont justement les écrits de ce vieux monsieur nostalgique
qui font autorité à l'extérieur du
Québec. Des textes sur l'importance de s'ouvrir au monde,
écrits par un homme qui ne pouvait même pas comprendre la
langue de ses voisins."
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Diane Hillman : Using Dublin Core
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Manu Chao
(real evil g2)
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is internecine
| source : web1913 | Internecine
\In`ter*ne"cine\, a. [L. internecinus deadly, murderous, fr.
internecare to kill, to slaughter; inter between + necare to
kill; akin to Gr. ? dead. See {Necromancy}.] Involving, or
accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive.
Internecine quarrels, horrible tumults, stain the streets
with blood. --Motley. | source : wn | internecine adj 1: (of
conflict) within a group or organization; "an internecine
feud among proxy holders" 2: characterized by bloodshed and
carnage for both sides; "internecine war" [syn: {mutually
ruinous}]
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Marcel Bresink : Integrating Mac OS X in an NIS environment
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Daniel Solin : Introduction to socket programming in PHP
The diagrams in this article
are amazing and beautiful! Bring on the comic-book nutshell
books.
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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."
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The Semantic Web weirdos have posted the WordNET lexical reference
Spencer Kimball : "It's almost like it's our duty
to create cool things for the world."
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Perlmonks : "I need to write a program to compare two HTML documents
to determine if they are similar
enough to be considered 'the same'."
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Here's me,
looking for god in all these fucking
details...
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Morning Edition : Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing
"Madeleine Brand talks with Abram
Shalom Himelstein and Jamie Schweser, co-authors of Tales of
a Punk Rock Nothing. Both writers lived in Washington, D.C.
in the early 1990's, when punk rock ruled the city's
alternative rock scene. Their experiences are the basis for
their self-published book, which follows the exploits of a
Jewish kid who leaves his small, southern town to live in a
house full of punk rock activists." (real audio)
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Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day
"Let's be honest, sometimes we don't
know our System Administrators as well as they know us.
Remember this is one day to recognize your System
Administrator for their workplace contributions and to
promote professional excellence. Thank them for all the
things they do for you and your business." Buy them one of
these
. Speaking of sysadmins, I got a big kick out of
quoting Essential SysAdmin
in an art project, but I digress... via
camworld
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Gareth Rees : DBO.pm
"is designed to be flexibly
extensible in a number of directions - adding new operations
on the database, adding new kinds of tables or columns, and
applying to new database systems. All extensions can be
carriedout by creating new classes that inherit from the
classes DBO defines, and by defining new multimethod
instances for those classes."
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www.toiletology.com
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Brendan Bernhard : It's Bobo Time
"All I can say is, it must be nice to
feel that good about yourself, to know that every time you
sweep into a neighborhood, driving up the rents, trailing
Restoration Hardware stores and overpriced bakeries in your
wake, things will be improved for everyone — at least
for those who can afford to stay."
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The nice people at Strata
have
released
version three of Strata3D (nee StudioPro) for free
; MacOS and Windows versions available.
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Brad Wieners
"Now, I'm not saying there aren't
some certifiable militia-ready technolibertarian assholes out
there among my peers -- there may be some who even claim
Charlton Heston as their prez. But too many of the swing
votes, the ones that could really turn technolibertarianism
into an epidemic, are my sort of "make the world a better
place for all" guilty yuppie bohos. We weren't actually born
with silver spoons in our mouths, and we'll come around." The
sooner the better. I swear to god, I may have punch the next
internet-weenie I see spouting benevolent fatalist dom.com
marketing gospel to anyone who will listen.
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NY Times : Newspaper prints codes that link readers to the Web
This has "Hey everyone! Come on over
for our Y2K retro party tonight!" written all over it.
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Happiness is being forced to dismantle all your computer equipment
on a beautiful, sunny day and get a
haircut after four months of procrastinating and finding a
nice place to go for coffee in Old Montreal even if it is
full of Beautiful People, True Believers and other new media
whores and...well I don't remember what the third thing was.
Still, I had a grand time Friday.
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mmmm....Wozzle
James Boyle
"In the Microsoft case, indeed in
almost all of the digital monopoly cases, the dominant
company will have to build its strategies around the contours
of the original state monopoly we call intellectual property.
Expand those rights, and the monopolies form quicker, grow
larger. The New Yorker was right about the power of
standards. Design the rights more carefully in the first
place and the Justice Department may never need to get
involved. ... Across the board, intellectual property rights
are being dramatically expanded in the belief that this is
somehow required by the dynamics of the information age.
Viewed from this perspective, Jackson's sweeping factual
conclusions, his attempts to armor his decision against
appellate review, seem almost quaint. On the other side of
town, the intellectual property machine chugs on, granting
the guild privileges of the information age."
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I'll spare you the details
and just say that if it breaks, it's
broken.
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Michael Boyle : True Facts about Montreal
"You can't rent a room at Hotel de
Ville no matter how tired you are. And Rue Hotel de Ville is
nowhere near it, really." It is hard to explain just how
happy I am to be back. Every ten years or so, any given
Montrealer will wig out and scream blue murder about how the
city sucks and how everyone is too pessimistic. Some will
even move somewhere else for a little while. The thing is,
though, that Montrealers are rarely if ever happy anywhere
but home now matter how many nice people they meet or
excellent opportunities they are presented with. I am guilty
on all counts.
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Bill Joy
"How much money do you need to be
able to tell the truth? It seems that the more money you
have, the less courage you have, which is weird, and sad."
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Boston Globe
"Thanks to what may be an
unprecedented agreement between the Kennedy Library
Foundation and toymaker Hasbro Inc., consumers willing to pay
$30 may be able to buy an action figure of JFK in PT-109
fatigues this fall. ... The JFK figure ''will be the first of
a number of Kennedy products'' On Martha's Vineyard, some
Islanders used to celebrate the Annual Ted Kennedy Swim
Classic, swimming
the channel between Edgartown and Chappy
. At every event there would be t-shirts with a new motto
like "Not even Teddy swam it twice" and "If Ted can have a
fifth, so can we."
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Students Against University [MP3] Censorship
"So the issue at hand is censorship.
Should public universities such as Indiana University be
allowed to censor what the students and faculty obtain on the
internet? The university is publicly funded as well as alive
due to the fact that the students themselves pay tuition,
therefore, the students should have a voice in how their
Internet service shall run." I have never understood why
university students think that the "school as a service
industry" argument won't eventually come back to haunt them.
via
hit or
miss
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They say that packaging is everything
see also :
The Tobacco Act : A History of labelling
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Yeah yeah yeah
whatever. I want an OS that is
stable, networked, can play with all the cool Unix toys and
*builds* on everything that is good about the Mac.
Throbbing dialogue buttons and goofy email attachments were
not exactly what I had in mind.
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Nuala O'Faolain on spending Christmas alone
real evil g2 (starts 29:49)
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This Morning : Whose Country Is It?
A forum on law, politics and Indian
rights.
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Choking Pear : Poke Figbash to learn your fate
NY Times : Two Views on How to Get Johnny to Read and Think
Put the television away. Acquire lots
of books; leave them around the house and don't censor what
your kids read. My mother couldn't find any good reason not
to let me read
The World According to Garp
when I was ten, and if I only sort of liked books before that
point I was in love with them afterwards.
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Apparently, I only have a 17% Humanity Quotient.
BBC : Timor activists warn of cyber war
It's always nice to see
Nobel
Peace Prize Laureates
wax poetic about bringing down the banking industry.
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Fun mail
from
postcardgirl
! "...reminds me of that old joke: 'I'm sure there's a pony
in here *somewhere*!'" -
anita
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Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque wants to
give 200-year-old streets newfangled
high-tech monikers like "pixel."
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Deconstructing Ira
"He appears to be normal."
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While you were sleeping
a dozen or so galaxies got together
and merged. Just part of what one scientist calls "the
generation after generation never ending story."
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Liberals to promote 'Canada' as a brand
"In a postreferendum environment --
and some say prereferendum as well -- the Maple Leaf and the
word Canada have combined to become Ottawa's favourite
communications tool. It is a brand, and the government is
selling it. " I was part of the hardcore scene in high
school. Like all good scenesters, I had a leather jacket on
which I painted band names and logos. One night I met a guy
from London who had painted the Coke logo across the
shoulders of his jacket. He told me it was in reaction to the
common habit in the U.K. of putting your preferred beer logo
on your jacket. Thusly inspired, I went home and painted
Canada's national logo
across the top of my jacket. Go figure.
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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".