posts brought to you by the category “javascript”
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 will wade in to the Unformedness Wellness of Aggregators debate
only long enough to offer the following :
Yer treading on pretty thin ice there, buddy
Thank you science, for ruining one of life's more colourful sexual
metaphors.
Steve Bell : Drawing Fire
One of the real advantages of being able to draw in this awful
context is that it affords the chance to manipulate a little of this
flood of imagery and turn it back on itself; since I'm certain the
vast bulk of these mega-pictures constitute a campaign of deliberate
obfuscation.
This explains the western media's strange combination of
squeamishness and prurience. They don't want the gory bits, thank you
very much, but they are inexorably drawn towards them nonetheless.
Then they shut their eyes tight at the crucial moment, for isn't such
explicit imagery both tasteless and intrusive? Surely that's the
bloody idea.
"Their real vanishing point is where our incomprehension
meets."
Have you ever felt that SGML and XML are so good that you just want
to sing?
Paul Martin : Why Am I Keeping a Blog?
After all, it's not like I can pretend to be the kind of guy that
spends a lot of time surfing the web. To be honest, until a few weeks
ago, I didn't even know what the hell a blog was - I joked that I
thought it was something that might climb out of a swamp.
via
montreal city
Joseph Stiglitz : The Roaring Nineties
ur emerging understanding of the 1990s requires that we admit, to
ourselves and to the world, that we were engaged in a misguided
attempt to achieve growth on the cheap.
...
We are still so well off that we may not suffer immediately from
this diminution in our wealth, but the consequences are already
becoming clear: a loss of confidence not only in markets, and
especially the stock market, but in government; a suspicion that the
system is rigged to be an insider's game; a blow to America's moral
leadership abroad. The attack on American-style globalization may be
driven by Luddites and protectionists—but it is fed by a
perception of American hypocrisy and the unfairness of the new global
regime.
Bill Turner : Baby boomer tableware
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : sillying
Joking around.
ex. When Franklin called the boy "squirt," he was'nt
being mean--he was just sillying.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
giggersnort
Snorting sound, produced by laughing through the nose.
Often derisive laughter.
ex. Haha. That was so funny. (giggersnort)
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : pellucid
Pellucid \Pel*lu"cid\, a. [L. pellucidus; per (see {Per-})
+ lucidus clear, bright: cf. F. pellucide.] Transparent; clear; limpid;
translucent; not opaque. ``Pellucid crystal.'' --Dr. H. More.
``Pellucid streams.'' --Wordsworth.
web1913
pellucid adj 1: transmitting light; able to be seen through
with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal
clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool";
"lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal" [syn:
{crystalline}, {crystal clear}, {limpid}, {lucid}, {transparent}] 2:
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a
limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton;
"pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous
argument" [syn: {limpid}, {lucid}, {luculent}, {crystal clear},
{perspicuous}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : comport
Comport \Com"port\ (?, formerly ?), n. [Cf. OF. comport.]
Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. [Obs.] I knew them
well, and marked their rude comport. --Dryden.
web1913
comport v 1: behave well or properly; "The children must
learn to behave" [syn: {behave}] [ant: {misbehave}] 2: behave in a
certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with
dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
[syn: {behave}, {acquit}, {bear}, {deport}, {conduct}, {carry}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : {word}**n
{word} repeated n times. E.g., really**4 = really,
really, really, really.
ex. I really**6 get tired of typing the same thing over
and over again. What we really**2 need is some pseudomathematical
shorthand to use here.
PiCoMap
"is a comprehensive program ... to create, share,
and explore concept maps on their Palm OS. This program allows its users
to create a center node and relate multiple nodes to create elaborate
concept maps." via
vacuum
Simon's Journal : CPAN XML-RPC
"In fact, thinking about it, it would be pretty
stupid if two machines in an organization had to download and install the
same module, when they can share the code."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fek
Used to show disgust at something, or to describe something
disgusting.
ex. "this is some really fek food" "that was the fekest
thing i have ever seen"
see also :
fek dict-ified
Radio Crankypants #1: Let it never be said that I have a problem
with aggregating data.
Me : "Following up on the 'smell the flowers' post
Apparently Canadians are also unwilling to stand, publicly, behind
their opinions.
LGF : "One of the cool things about freedom of speech
is that it allows the idiots to show us who they
are."
Salman Rushdie : "The restoration of religion to the sphere of the
personal,
its depoliticization, is the nettle that all ...
societies must grasp in order to become modern. The only aspect of
modernity interesting to the terrorists is technology, which they see as
a weapon that can be turned on its makers. If terrorism is to be
defeated, the world of ... must take on board the secularist-humanist
principles on which the modern is based, and without which ... countries'
freedom will remain a distant dream."
Nigel Witters : Apache::Emulator.pm
"I work in a firm that uses Netscape as its
front-line webserver, but I prefer to code my Perl using mod_perl rather
than CGI. I also have an account on an internal Apache server running
mod_perl, but I don't have admin rights to restart the webserver while
I'm developing code [nor am I allowed to run my own copy of Apache]. I
also like to develop web applications that *will* run on a CGI platform,
but will run *very fast* on a mod_perl platform. The solution? Emulate
mod_perl within the CGI environment. It's slower than traditional CGI,
but you can develop for both platforms and deploy to mod_perl once your
code is finished."
Me : I'd like a sidebar with that thought, please.
A couple of years ago, I painted buildings.
FreeBSD Diary : "NetSaint is a network monitor.
You can use it to keep close tabs on your
routers, printers, computers, and services. NetSaint can watch monitor
various services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP) to make sure they keep running. It
can ping boxes to make sure they are still up. ... If also allows you to
create your own plugins if you so wish."
Northern.CA : XSpell
"is an XML-RPC Spell checker. It is inspired by
Sjoerd Visscher's XML-RPC Client for David Adams' XML-RPC Speller
service, however it is different in that it does not involve an active
middleman. The backend XML-RPC service is written in PHP..."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is senescence
| source : web1913 | Senescence \Se*nes"cence\,
n. [See {Senescent}.] The state of growing old; decay by time. | source :
wn | senescence n : the property characteristic of old age [syn:
{agedness}]
Mordecai Richler 1931 - 2001
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redolent
| source : web1913 | Redolent \Red"o*lent\
(-lent), a. [L. redolens, -entis, p. pr. of redolere to emit a scent,
diffuse an odor; pref. red-, re-, re- + olere to emit a smell. See
{Odor}.] Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented;
odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of. ``Honey redolent of
spring.'' --Dryden. -- {Red"o*lent*ly}, adv. Gales . . . redolent of joy
and youth. --Gray. | source : wn | redolent adj 1: serving to bring to
mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder
Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics" [syn: {evocative},
{redolent of(p)}, {remindful}, {reminiscent}, {reminiscent of(p)}] 2:
(used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous; "the hall was redolent of
floor wax"; "air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey" [syn:
{redolent(p)}, {smelling(p)}] 3: having a strong distinctive fragrance;
"the pine woods were more redolent"- Jean Stafford [syn: {aromatic}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is perorate
| source : web1913 | Perorate \Per"o*rate\, v. i.
[See {Peroration}.] To make a peroration; to harangue. [Colloq.] | source
: wn | perorate v : deliver an oration in grandiloquent style
Norman Walsh : A URN Namespace for Public Identifiers
"Unfortunately, public identifiers do not fit
neatly into the existing web architecture because they are not legal
URIs. Many new specifications (XSLT, XML Schema, etc.) have the implicit
or explicit requirement that all external identifiers be URIs. The
purpose of this namespace is to allow public identifiers to be encoded in
URNs in a reliable, comparable way." see also
Norman Walsh on XML Catalogs
and
Why
URLs are good URIs, and why they are not
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Manu Chao
