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
Matt Sargeant : "This week I released the AxKit NewsMaker
module,
which forms the foundation for the content
management system we use here at Take23. It is a very simple module that
allows you to author news items in a textarea, which then updates an RSS
file full of headlines. It gives you a preview of what has been submitted
and automatically saves when it detects that you didn't make any changes.
It should be flexible enough to be re-purposable to other systems such as
comments (or forums)."
Business Week : "[S]cientists hope to create plants containing tiny
biochip control devices
in their cells capable of receiving and
transmitting signals to a station millions of miles away on Earth. On
command, these Martian wheat stalks or lunar potatoes would be able to
undergo genetic modification."
The Semantic Web weirdos have posted the WordNET lexical
reference
as a series of RDF files.
Andrew Ford : Tie::SentientHash.pm
"provides intelligent objects. The objects are
represented as hashes which: provide read-only elements, provide
'special' elements that are handled by user-supplied functions, disallow
changes to the data as specified by metadata, track changes and call a
'commit changes' function when the object is destroyed."
Itamar Shtull-Trauring : A Developer's Guide to Learning Zope
Ahmed El-Mahmoudy : lynx2links
Lauren Weinstein & Peter Neumann : Sanity in the Election
Process
"We stand at a crossroads where the existence of
fundamental flaws in our election system have finally been exposed to the
public. It is no longer tenable for the powers that be, with a
gentleman's agreement or a nod and a wink, to steamroll over these flaws
-- and the will of voters -- for the sake of convenience and expediency.
We can start down the path toward ensuring genuine fairness and integrity
in the voting process by making sure that the election of last Tuesday is
resolved in a manner that not only serves the candidates, but more
importantly the will of the voters themselves."
National Post on Economy Class Syndrome
"On airplanes, [deep vein thrombosis] can result
when passengers sit for too long without moving, which forces the blood
to fight gravity on its flow back to the heart. Slow blood flow causes a
conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin in the bloodstream, which causes a
clot, or thrombus. Cabin pressure, dehydration and long overseas flights
add to the risk."
developerWorks reviews The Camel Book v3
New Scientist : Tetris-playing amnesiacs reveal why dreams can be
so weird
"By blocking declarative memories and forcing the
system to work with these weak associations, the brain is coerced into
looking for unexpected, novel and potentially highly creative and useful
connections that otherwise we would not notice."
CBC : &34;The study says the chemical, triphenyl
phosphate,
often used as a flame retardant in the plastic of
video monitors, causes allergic reactions in some people, from itching
and nasal congestion to headaches."
InterGuru's E-Mail Address Book Conversions
"This service will convert e-mail address lists
between Eudora alias files, Pine address books, Elm address files,
Pegasus address files ( Europe and USA ) address files, databases and
spreadsheets Compuserve, Spry, Lotus cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, Microsoft
Internet Mail, ldif formatted file, Netscape address books Mac AOL,
T-Online , and Claris Emailer. Other conversions are being developed."
Apache Today : Perchild - Setting Users and Groups per Virtual
Host
"The new MPM is called Perchild, and it is based
on the Dexter MPM. This means that a set number of child processes are
created and each process has a dynamic number of threads. In this MPM it
is possible to specify User and Group IDs for clusters of child process.
Then, each virtual host is assigned to run in a specific cluster of child
processes. If no cluster of child processes is specified, then the
virtual host is run with the default User and Group Ids."
Matt Sergeant : RSSmirror.pl
"The clean-up process, in addition to fixing
"uncuddled &'s", also converts the Latin-1 entities used in RSS
documents into XML characters references to improve portability among
non-validating XML processors."
Remember, those who don't know history
are doomed to repeat it...or something like that.
For those who don't already know
today is the anniversary of the shootings at
l'École polytechnique in Montreal. Ten years ago Marc Lepine,
deliberately targeting women, shot his way in to a engineering class at
the University of Montreal. He ordered all the men out of the room and
then opened fire on the remaining students. Fourteen women were killed,
and thirteen others wounded, before Lepine killed himself.
It's sort of comforting
What is up with
Josey Vogels : Vulva Lickin' Good
"I know it’s tough when, as one frustrated
male friend recently said to me, 'Every one of you is bloody different.'
But think of it as a challenge. I thought guys liked challenges."
PHP: A request from Rasmus
To the post-office! via <a href =
"http://alchemy.openjava.org">internet alchemy</a>.
Apparently, big fish are In.
I had no idea that
NPR on email
eating it, drinking it, hoarding it.
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses
CSS
kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its
contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the
content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it
shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
browser with incomplete
CSS
and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one
browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they
will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some
later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's
just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I
rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old
stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through
the cracks.
See also :
W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.
