posts brought to you by the category “jedi mind
fuck”
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.
Dave Pawson : Emacs nxml-mode Q & A
Sean M. Burke : I18N::LangTags.pm
super_languages("fr-CA-joual") is ("fr-CA", "fr")
Irony is hard, let's go shopping!
Ian Davis demonstrates why John Poindexter, and the TIA weirdos,
are so keen on XML.
Tim Bray : I want to have my idiomatic regexp cake and eat my
well-formed XML goodness too.
From the "Talking to Americans" department:
Apparently, the Internet is just a giant piece of installation
art
Leon Brocard talks about Data::Pageset.pm
Page numbering is boring.
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa : Template::Plugin::HTML::Template.pm
cwest : IO::Language.pm
"I wrote a quick module because I wanted a
translator."
Me : XML::Filter::Glossary.pm 0.2
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : evince
Evince \E*vince"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evinced}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Evincing}.] [L. evincere vanquish completely,
prevail, succeed in proving; e out + vincere to vanquish. See {Victor},
and cf. {Evict}.] 1. To conquer; to subdue. [Obs.] Error by his own
arms is best evinced. --Milton. 2. To show in a clear manner; to prove
beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to
light; to evidence. Common sense and experience must and will evince
the truth of this. --South.
web1913
evince v : give expression to; "She showed her
disappointment" [syn: {express}, {show}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
shortspeak
Spoken language that omits articles and unnecessary
elements, as in shorthand
ex. She said, "Kiss, fool" instead of "Kiss me, you fool"
and I knew she was the one for me because I prefer shortspeak over
monologue any day.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : rubicund
Rubicund \Ru"bi*cund\, a. [L. rubicundus, fr. rubere to be
red, akin to ruber red. See {Red}.] Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.
``His rubicund face.'' --Longfellow.
web1913
rubicund adj : inclined to a healthy reddish color often
associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund
cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion" [syn: {ruddy}, {sanguine}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fridge
Same as brick: an outlandishly large cell phone. Used
mainly by European teenagers.
ex. My mom bought me a new phone. It was a fridge.
Embarrassing.
see also :
fridge dict-ified
Petr Cimprich : XML::Directory.pm 0.96
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : got dandruff.
some of itches.
non-vulgar explitive that kinda resembles a vulgar
explitive
ex. "When you stub your toe and you are letting it out,
but notice two 4 year olds staring at you. You then yell, "Got
dandruff! Some of it itches!""
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}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fussass
pronounced as fuss-arse. means that someone is
particularly fussy in their behaviours and work habits.
ex. Cathy is a fussass, because she likes to maintain a
high standard of work.
Using XML-Topic Map on a PDA
"Palm Navigator is a shareware program that is
designed to help import an XML/Topic-Map onto a PDA (Personal Digital
Assistant), and to enable navigation, jumping from one topic to another
as easily as Web surfing. Palm Navigator is fully compliant with the ISO
Topic Maps standard (ISO/IEC 13250) which enables exchanges between Web
sites."
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."
A List Apart looks at Web Services from 30, 000 feet.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : spurp
When a person tries to speak, but burps
instead.
ex. The crowd was amused by her spurp.
Aaron Boodman : ypXmlTree
"is a general-purpose expandable/collapsable tree
in the style of Microsoft Windows Explorer, Apple Macintosh Finder, or
the navigations of many popular websites. It is highly customizable,
feature rich, and degrades gracefully in older browsers or when
javascript/css is unavailable."
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."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is clerisy
| source : web1913 | Clerisy \Cler"i*sy\, n. [LL.
clericia. See {Clergy}.] 1. The literati, or well educated class. 2. The
clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity. | source : wn |
clerisy n : an educated and intellectual elite [syn: {intelligentsia}]
Danny Goodman : Supporting Three Event Models at Once
From the Soundtrack Effect department :
The mere declaration of "natural frontiers", however, did not
imply that French arms would be confined within them. On the contrary, as
long as they were threatened by coalitions of kings, or (as the
propaganda decree now authorized) as long as they were summoned by
peoples groaning under the yoke of despotism, the French would feel free
to take the fight to the enemy, wherever he was. Nor did the means of
this offensive have to remain orthodox. The
ci-devant
Marquis de Bry offered to found what was, in effect, the first
organization of international terrorism, the Tyrannicides -- twelve
hundred committed freedom fighters despatched [sic] to assassinate kings
and commanders of foreign armies wherever they could be nailed down. It
was, indeed, as Goethe warned, a new moment in the history of the
world.
--
Simon Schama
, Citizens.
Computer World : "If you are willing to donate IT goods or
services
to help in the wake of the tragedy in New York,
please enter the information below. If your donation will be needed, you
will be contacted in the coming days."
Like almost everyone else, I thought Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend
in a Coma
Me : Blogger.pm 0.4
www.freshports.org
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}]
NY Times : We have outsourced our brains.
D.J. Adams : Net::Jabber::XMLRPC.pm
"The general idea is that you have an XMLRPC
server which has various method handlers to service the XMLRPC-based
calls, wrapped within a Jabber component (old name: transport) which is
connected to a Jabber server. You also have an XMLRPC client which
connects as a standard Jabber client to a Jabber server, and sends the
XMLRPC method call payload to the XMLRPC server, which processes the call
and sends back a response."