posts brought to you by the category “letters”
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.
James Spahr : “I don't know if I can do that.”
Leo Lapworth : SVG::TT::Graph.pm
Why I'm doing this 3 days before my wedding is anyones guess!
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Karl Dubost : La balise object sert à insérer des objets, n'importe-quel type d'objet.
La balise object sert à insérer des objets, n'importe-quel type d'objet. Vous savez lorsque vous développez en informatique et que vous voulez insérer du code HTML ou du code perl ou python. Vous avez toujours la nécessité d'échapper les séquences qui pourraient être interprêtées comme du code HTML. Si vous utilisez la balise object, vous devez préciser le type mime de l'objet que vous envoyez. Le type mime que vous précisez peut-être celui de l'objet même par exemple une image jpeg que j'envoie avec type="image/jpeg" ou alors un autre type mime qui est celui avec lequel vous désirez afficher le fichier. Par exemple, vous pouvez vouloir afficher un fichier HTML ou un programme perl avec le type mime du texte seul de façon à afficher le code.
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devedge: Inner-Browsing - Extending Web Browsing the Navigation Paradigm [sic]
Or "How to build an RSS aggregator in
JavaScript".
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Is it just now finally warm enough for people to wear their facial piercings outdoors
(it must suck to have a metal ring in wo
bowwom wip when it's -40) or are have we already finshed with the
retro-80's stuff and are now moving onto retro-modern-primitives? I
don't really care one way or the other about facial piercings but they
always conjure up images of stringing together their hosts like those
prison-camp rope contraptions that people fit kindergarten age children
into anytime they go outside...
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I know there is a pretty serious spelling mistake in that last post
and that one would be hard pressed to
search for underground water or minerals
using a chi-chi bathroom faucet. I'm leaving it there because it serves
as a clever segway to mention that, last night, I managed to pick up
the one pound of butter
covered in
black mold
. Somewhere, some clever grad student actually knows how long it takes
for refrigerated butter to grow mold...
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Anthony Swafford : Sorry for all the shit talk.
Sorry for all the shit talk. But the sand and the stink and the shit are on my mind. Those poor kids, those poor fuckers. Oh, America, you break my heart. You beast, you nurse, you lover. Great conflicted bloody mess.
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Why is an anglophone's head square?
So that [he] can't flush it down the toilet. Gary Shteyngart, please get a fucking clue. The guy never even bothered to learn how to speak French...But Richler certainly had a compassion and understanding for French Canadians; many of the most honest, exemplary characters in his fiction are Francophones. I remember the cabdriver in Barney's Version who complains to Barney about the excitement of the Canadiens playing for the Stanley Cup. " 'Mon blood pressure est sky-high,' said the driver. 'C'est le stress.' "
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Me : Acme::Test::Weather.pm 0.2
Jake and Sarah : A Cat of Many Colors (sic)
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.04
"I'm screwed and your doomed" or "Go home, Yankee imperialist running dog"
But seriously, the conversation was
basically:
me : huh? why can't I have multiple language elements in the channel?
him : because you can't
me : that's kind of dumb. some of us speak, and blog, in more than one language
him : add a language element to you item element
me : but the point is a) to be able to identify all the languages that
the document uses and b) you can already do this is in rss 0.91
(though I'll be damned if I can find the webpage(s) where this was
discussed now)
him : you're screwed then
I am feeling pretty prickly today so I am having trouble deciding if
this is just staggeringly arrogant or myopic. Because, you know, it
would fuck up all the description frameworks to have more than one
shade of grey. I think, tonight, I will redirect every single RSS feed
involved with aaronland
over here
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perl.com : Embedding webservers
Did I mention that I was going to Cambodia for three weeks, today?
If my mother has a USB port on her computer
(I never thought to ask) I will post pictures from time to time. Ciao,
you!
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : federal abuse
Abuse of a sibling
ex. My sister was tickling me, and I screamed FEDERAL ABUSE!
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : inchoate
Inchoate \In"cho*ate\, a. [L. inchoatus, better incohatus, p. p. of incohare to begin.] Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- {In"cho*ate*ly}, adv. Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. --Raleigh. web1913
inchoate adj : only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" [syn: {incipient}] wn
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I will update the long neglected xml-rss.js library, accordingly
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.3
Fixed a bunch of bugs and added a Makefile.
I will upload this to the CPAN shortly.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : varicolored
varicolored adj 1: having a variety of colors [syn: {varicoloured}, {variegated}] 2: having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert,"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: {motley}, {multicolor}, {culticolour}, {multicolored}, {multicoloured}, {painted}, {particolored}, {particoloured}, {piebald}, {pied}, {varicoloured}] wn
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"However, you may download material from The New York Times
on the Web (one machine readable copy and one
print copy per page) for your personal, noncommercial use only."
What's interesting about this is that the
Times marks up the content of their webpages with handy-dandy
<nyt_foobar> tags (yay for content management systems!) Which,
now that I think about it, ultimately begs the question of why I've been
using HTML::Parser and not a XSL stylesheet, all this time. Oh, the
duh-ness -- it hurts! ...
update : Oh my god, it's like I've become duh-ness given form :
duh
... Alas, maybe I'll post the code later today. Unfortunately bug fixes
and such have made it on to my "step away from the computer" list, but it
works... see also :
Apache::SOAP::NYTimesParser.pm
(this might be out of sync with the current formatting) and
A bit of
unsolicited advice to all those who are keen on billing for online
content
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Karl Dubost : Show me Permalink (id)
"Ceci m'a fait penser à une bookmarket qui serait
très efficace et qui permettrait tous les id d'une page contenu dans des
"p". Voici c'est fait, si vous cliquez sur le lien Show me id. Vous
devriez voir apparaître au dessus du paragraphe concerné le nom du lien à
établir."
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Kevin Burton : Syndication of javascript: urls as a security window?
The mod_perl Developer's Cookbook : Apache::TaintRequest.pm
"overrides the print mechanism in the mod_perl
Apache module. The new print method tests each chunk of text for
taintedness. If it is tainted we assume the worst and html-escape it
before printing." see also :
I hate squirrels
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Radio Crankypants #16 : Radio BloggerLand
"By changing the radio.weblog.post () function to
blogger.newPost (), you can use Radio as a Blogger -> anything that
supports the Blogger API tool. Neat, huh?"
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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 random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : aws
ex. All the hot Craver chicks are totally aws.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is discrete
| source : web1913 | Discrete \Dis*crete"\, a.
[L. discretus, p. p. of discernere. See {Discreet}.] 1. Separate;
distinct; disjunct. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Disjunctive; containing a
disjunctive or discretive clause; as, ``I resign my life, but not my
honor,'' is a discrete proposition. 3. (Bot.) Separate; not coalescent;
-- said of things usually coalescent. {Discrete movement}. See {Concrete
movement of the voice}, under {Concrete}, a. {Discrete proportion},
proportion where the ratio of the means is different from that of either
couplet; as, 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6 as 8 does to
16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or
{continual proportion}; as, 3:6::12:24. {Discrete quantity}, that which
must be divided into units, as number, and is opposed to {continued
quantity}, as duration, or extension. | source : web1913 | Discrete
\Dis*crete"\, v. t. To separate. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | source : wn |
discrete adj : constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with
three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions" [syn: {distinct}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is acerbic
| source : web1913 | Acerbic \A*cerb"ic\, a. Sour
or severe. | source : wn | acerbic adj 1: sour or bitter in taste [syn:
{acerb}, {astringent}, {sharp}] 2: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an
acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid
comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words";
"blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination,
talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation" [syn:
{acerb}, {acid}, {acrid}, {bitter}, {blistering}, {caustic}, {sulfurous},
{sulphurous}, {venomous}, {virulent}, {vitriolic}]
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I'm hunting wabbits
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is indigence
| source : web1913 | Indigence \In"di*gence\, n.
[L. indigentia: cf. F. indigence. See {Indigent}.] The condition of being
indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury;
poverty; as, helpless, indigence. --Cowper. Syn: Poverty; penury;
destitution; want; need; privation; lack. See {Poverty}. | source : wn |
indigence n : a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" [syn:
{need}, {penury}, {pauperism}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is effrontery
| source : web1913 | Effrontery \Ef*front"er*y\,
n.; pl. {Effronteries}. [F. effronterie, fr. effront['e] shameless, fr.
L. effrons, -ontis, putting forth the forehead, i. e., barefaced,
shameless; ex + frons the forehead. See {Front}.] Impudence or boldness
in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum;
insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. --Bancroft. Syn: Impudence;
sauciness. See {Impudence}. | source : wn | effrontery n : impudent
aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery
to question my honesty" [syn: {boldness}, {nerve}, {brass}, {face},
{cheek}]
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As It Happens : Existential Bee Gees Missing Lyrics Contest
N.Y. Times : The Art World Starts to Pay Attention to Video Games
www.waxonwaxoff.org
"Wax::On Wax::Off is about teaching of computer
programming though the metapors inspired by kung fu movies. This isn't as
mad as it at first may seem...or actually it is, but that doesn't mean it
isn't useful."
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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}]
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Bryan Pfaffenberger : Why Open Content Matters
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is effete
| source : web1913 | Effete \Ef*fete"\, a. [L.
effetus that has brought forth, exhausted; ex + fetus that has brought
forth. See {Fetus}.] No longer capable of producing young, as an animal,
or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy;
incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.
Effete results from virile efforts. --Mrs. Browning If they find the old
governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new ones. --Burke. |
source : wn | effete adj : marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral
decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of
responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals" [syn:
{decadent}]
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Jon Udell : SSL Proxing
"It decrypts that traffic, so you can see it in
the log window, and then re-encrypts it to the destination server. Coming
back the other way, it decrypts the server's responses, so you can see
them in the log window, then re-encrypts them to complete the secure loop
back to the browser. It's really quite amazing, and amazingly useful.
Automation tasks that used to look like more trouble than they were worth
-- for example, driving a HotMail or E*Trade account from a script --
suddenly look easy."
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Jose Joao Dias de Almeida : XML::DT.pm
is "a package for down translation of XML to
strings." Also of interest is Matt Sergeant's
Pod::XML module
. mmmmm.... plain old documentation.
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Jon Ippolito : "I would say that the graffiti artists of today are working online,
where some home-spun HTML and easily obtained
plug-ins can reach a broad audience with minimal investment. Graffiti
artists sprayed onto the subway infrastructure to get their work into the
public eye, while online artists spray their work onto the infrastructure
of the Internet." Why is it that supposedly hot-shit, cutting edge
symposia on digital art and Internet can't find it in themselves to hire
someone with enough sense to put anything besides directions to the
conference hall on their websites? If they have such mind-blowing ideas,
maybe they'd like to share them with the rest of us...
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Cowboys demand their pay!
John R. MacArthur : French Toast
"In the United States, capitalism has become the
raison d'être 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."
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Seven 2 Eleven
paintings by Daniel McCleary
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DevShed : Loading JavaScript Arrays with MySQL Data
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Well, the new code is up and I will spend the
next day(s) watching the error logs. Courtesy the More-Art-Less-Words
Department, you can now display listings by
individual entry
, by
day
, by
category
as well as several in
popular European translations
. I am also thinking that I would like to create a
Gutenbook
version but that may just be a reaction to all the blather about the
popularity of The Scary One's recent ebook. Like you, I asked myself --
at three o'clock in the morning -- what the hell the point of all this
goofy stuff is ( I added hooks for a spell-checker, no less ) and the
best answer I came up with was
hack value
. Then I started thinking you could do an interesting sociology /
anthropology class on the subject of hack value but I finally went to
bed. Anyway, as I write this I've already found a bug with the display
mechanism for older entries. I expect the week will be a bit bumpy, but
please let me know
if and when stuff breaks. Thanks. Note : the various XML syndication
files should be ready in a day or two and it will surely take longer to
populate all the many
category entries
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It's as if you have to wait for the dough to rise
Dr. Stickgold said. And we all know what happens
to bread dough once it's risen...
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Cook's Companion 1.0
"is a handy, quick reference guide for common
measurement, temperature and ingredient equivalents and substitutions.
It's free, reasonably complete and auto-bookmarked for easy navigation."
Just wait until *you* have to figure out how many packets of dry yeast
make up half a compressed cube. (PalmOS)
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser : 1928 - 2000
"His mission, as he saw it, was to "improve the
world and make it more beautiful." He despised the geometrical, disdained
symmetry and defined the straight line as "the tool of the devil." see
also
hundertwasser.com
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Le Glossaire Québécois
"Tu peux câlisser ton P'tit Larousse dans la
rivière!" via <a href =
"http://altern.org/groov3/yahoo/med.html">Youhou!</a>
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I had occasion to watch TV
for the first time in about 18 months last night.
I was aware of all the Dotcom Koolaid people are being fed, but it still
came as a bit of shock. Meanwhile, I've decided to build a media empire
devoted to showing all those scenes they leave out of TV shows. I'll be
like the CSPAN meets Andy Warhol of television dramas.
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Montreal Gazette : Hello, Y2K blues line ?
"This year it's like if you're not celebrating
with a lot of people there's something wrong, which is going to make a
lot of people feel intensely alone."
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If you're looking for something to do
this evening, perhaps you should try
caring for a Gary Coleman tamagotchi
"keeping him alive through dialysis and cheering him up".
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I'd like to offer this as one of many
possible replacements for the Microsoft
Freedom to Innovate Network
logo. Why does Microsoft *always* have such lame icons? via
camworld
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Choking Pear : Poke Figbash to learn your fate
People like to be entertained
and whatever else you want to say about Steve
Jobs,
he
gets that better than most
. via
macintouch
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Apocalypse Countdown Clocks!
requires java.
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Eye : Sex and disability
"Whose job should it be to help disabled people
make love?"
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The Dr. Seuss Purity Test
It's hard to know whether you want to pass or
fail...
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Lauren Weinstein on Bright Light
Bright Light is a free, POP-based
spam-filtering
service
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Institute for Higher Education Policy : What's the Difference
"A Review of Contemporary Research on the
Effectiveness of Distance Learning in Higher Education -- The report
finds that the overall quality of the research is questionable and
thereby renders many of the findings inconclusive. Numerous gaps in the
research require more investigation and information. These gaps include
the fact that the research: emphasizes student outcomes for individual
courses rather than for a total academic program; does not adequately
explain why the dropout rates of distance learners are higher; does not
address the quality of digital “libraries”; and does not take
into account differences among students in how they learn." pdf file.
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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