posts brought to you by the category “idea of self”
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.
On flattening landscapes.
Simson Garfinkel : I pity the fool
Graph Stylesheets (GSS) in IsaViz
Morbus Iff : "This is a collection of DocBook Lite extensions to BBEdit 7.x"
David Rees : "It's Saddam Hussein, for fuck's sake!"
I do have mixed feelings about it. I can't wait for Saddam Hussein to be dead. I would just feel happy. The world would be a better place. But you have to remember that that doesn't excuse just how they fucking botched this entire thing, soup to nut. I feel like I could have gone to the UN with four magic markers and a notepad and convinced the whole world to come with me to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It's Saddam Hussein, for fuck's sake! Who doesn't want to get rid of that bastard?
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.
Ed is dead!
Net::Google::Cook.pm, anyone?
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
From the "Do you want to sell suger-water?" department:
Create your own memepool post.
Hannes Wallnöfer : Yet another Weblog API proposal
"Maybe the most important design idea in this proposal is the use of structs for some central types of parameters. ... It is also possible that individual applications choose to extend specific struct types by adding members not defined in the spec. For this, I propose a scheme similar to that used in the MIME format in that non-standard struct members must have a name starting with "x-", e.g. "x-someMetaInfo"."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : phillatio
Licking a stamp.
ex. Did you hear about Phil--the guy who performed phillatio on a stamp?
From the "Step away from the computer" department :
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}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : irascible
Irascible \I*ras"ci*ble\, a. [L. irascibilis, fr. irasci to be angry, ira anger: cf. F. irascible. See {Ire}.] Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood. -- {I*ras"ci*ble*ness}, n. -- {I*ras"ci*bly}, adv.
web1913
irascible adj 1: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: {choleric}, {hotheaded}, {hot-tempered}, {quick-tempered}, {short}, {short-tempered}] 2: characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response" [syn: {choleric}]
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Nat Torkington : Jihaddict
"A Skewed View of the War on Terrorism."
Me : render-changes-xml.js
J David Eisenberg : How To Read W3C Specs
A sandwich consists of a lower slice of bread, mustard or mayonnaise; optional lettuce, an optional slice of tomato; two to four slices of either bologna, salami, or ham (in any combination); one or more slices of cheese, and a top slice of bread [translated into Backus Normal Form becomes ]
sandwich ::=
lower_slice
[ mustard | mayonnaise ]
lettuce? tomato?
[ bologna | salami | ham ] {2,4}
cheese+
top_slice
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 dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is vertiginous
| source : web1913 | Vertiginous \Ver*tig"i*nous\, a. [L. vertiginosus, fr. vertigo a whirling around, giddiness: cf. F. vertigineux. See {Vertig??}.] 1. Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion. Some vertiginous whirl of fortune. --De Quincey. 2. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven. --Jer. Taylor. -- {Ver*tig"i*nous*ly}, adv. -- {Ver*tig"i*nous*ness}, n. | source : wn | vertiginous adj : having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" [syn: {dizzy}, {giddy}, {woozy}]
Me : Apache::SOAP::NYTimesParser.pm
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is germane
| source : web1913 | Germane \Ger*mane"\, a. [See {German} akin, nearly related.] Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. --Shak. [An amendment] must be germane. --Barclay (Digest). | source : wn | germane adj : having close kinship and appropriateness; "he asks questions that are germane and central to the issue" [syn: {germane(p)}, {related}]
C'est La Vie talks to Daniel Poliquin.
"For 30 years, demographers have been debating whether francophones outside of Quebec will disappear. It's a politically charged and emotional topic. But Franco-Ontarian author, essayist and translator Daniel Poliquin is trying to humanize the debate. In fact, he says he has met an assimilated francophone who was in perfectly good health!" (real audio)
Cary Tennis : "A drunk hides nothing from another drunk. So when I look at Bush,
I don't see a conservative Republican, a flirter with the Christian right, a Texas oilman, a son of political royalty. I see a guy like me who never wants to quit, who has an infinite thirst and an infinite appetite for whatever you've got and who, if he could, would drink up the whole room and then tear it apart looking for more. I see a guy barely containing a murderous contempt for anyone who doesn't drink like he does; I see a guy who has to pause when answering questions not because there's nothing in his head but because there's too much in his head and most of it is vile and the rest is obscene; no doubt the first thing that pops into his head when asked a question at a press conference is "You have the face of a barnyard animal" or "I'd like to fuck you silly." That apparent blankness, as though his brain is having a rolling blackout, is actually a sign that he's sorting, looking for an answer that's both true and bland, something that won't set off any alarms, something that will satisfy his need to tell the truth yet not give in to the grandiose and contemptuous impulses so familiar to alcoholics far and wide."
Elliotte Rusty Harold : XML Protocols, XML-RPC and SOAP
"For most of this book, my examples are going to focus on XML protocols. These are XML applications used for machine-to-machine exchange of information exchange across the Internet over HTTP. In this chapter I'll show you how such documents move from one machine to another... However, since this is not a book about network programming, I'm going to be careful to keep all the details of network transport separate from the generation and processing of XML documents. When you work with an XML document, you don't care whether it came from a file, a network socket, a string, or something else."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is gadabout
| source : web1913 | Gadabout \Gad"a*bout`\, n. A gadder [Colloq.] | source : wn | gadabout n : a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship
Apache::DnsZone.pm
"[is a mod_perl handler that] implements a web based interface for managing zones with a nameserver running BIND. It uses the features of RFC2136 (Dynamic Updates) to maintain the zones in a nameserver running BIND. This means that it does not need to have anything running on the actual nameserver other than BIND itself."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is wag
| source : web1913 | Wag \Wag\, v. i. 1. To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate. The resty sieve wagged ne'er the more. --Dryden. 2. To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir. [Colloq.] ``Thus we may see,'' quoth he, ``how the world wags.'' --Shak. 3. To go; to depart; to pack oft. [R.] I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag. --Shak. | source : web1913 | Wag \Wag\, n. [From {Wag}, v.] 1. The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head. [Colloq.] 2. [Perhaps shortened from wag-halter a rogue.] A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker. We wink at wags when they offend. --Dryden. A counselor never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse. --Addison. | source : web1913 | Wag \Wag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wagging}.] [OE. waggen; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vagga to rock a cradle, vagga cradle, Icel. vagga, Dan. vugge; akin to AS. wagian to move, wag, wegan to bear, carry, G. & D. bewegen to move, and E. weigh. [root]136. See {Weigh}.] To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head. No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure. --Shak. Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. --Jer. xviii. 16. Note: Wag expresses specifically the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport, and mockery. | source : wn | wag n 1: (informal) a witty amusing person who makes jokes [syn: {wit}, {card}] 2: causing to move repeatedly from side to side [syn: {waggle}, {shake}] v : move from side to side, as of fingers and tails; "The happy dog wagged his tail" [syn: {waggle}]
Jeff Sasmor : "Blark is a product for the Zope CMF.
It provides portal members with a flexible weblog [private] or newslog [public]. The member who creates a Blark has control over the following properties, among others..."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is appellation
| source : web1913 | Appellation \Ap`pel*la"tion\, n. [L. appellatio, fr. appellare: cf. F. appellation. See {Appeal}.] 1. The act of appealing; appeal. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. The act of calling by a name. 3. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. --Hume. Syn: See {Name}. | source : wn | appellation n : identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others [syn: {denomination}, {designation}, {appellative}]
Jouke Visser : My Way
So, apparently, while I've been busy geeking out,
Dr. Mary T. Baker : "None of these suits will ultimately survive.
In 500 years, there will be the Mona Lisa. But there will not be an Apollo spacesuit."
Make Lego not war
"A user is able to give high-level commands through the PC, such as "make three cars", and see a sequence of actions and operations automatically unfold in the LEGO factory." Does this mean Lego is the enemy within? Eat your heart out
Bill Joy
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John R. MacArthur : French Toast
"In the United States, capitalism has become the raison d'ętre of the elites; in France, it seems to be only a means to an end -- living better than the competition and maybe converting a few foreigners to their way of life."
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Groove Armada
Lamar Smith (R-Texas) : Plugging our porous border
"If Canadians want more liberal immigration and drug policies, that is their decision. And if Americans want to act on security concerns, that is our decision." I can hardly wait for the punch-line after a lead-in like that.
Do you hate this website?
The desire to see geography die is a powerful one. And the stuff of folly.