posts brought to you by the category “nationalism”
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.
Overheard, game seven :
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I might be able to root for the Ducks if they actually came out
and played the V-formation.
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It was worth hearing the New Jersey fans boo Giguere to also
hear them boo the Weasel.
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Ah, come on! L'hockey c'est pas une game de famille!
Emily Eveleth loves jelly donuts:
Robert Fisk : Baghdad, the day after
One can hardly be moralistic about the spoils of Saddam's henchmen
but how is the government of America's so-called "New Iraq" supposed
to operate now that the state's property has been so comprehensively
looted?
Joseph J. Esposito : The Processed Book
This is painful to behold for someone who prayed earnestly that
Isabel Archer would not return to Osmond, but words are symbols and
are ideally suited for the manipulations of the symbolic logic of
computers. The processed book takes Isabel Archer and shows her to be
the collection of words that she is. She then can be processed.
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.60_01
Me : ASCOPE::Class::Null.pm 1.0
Your mileage may return undef.
The APXL (Apple Keynote) Schema
For those of you keeping track, NetSol is apparently called Netsol
again.
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.03
Diego Golberg : Time
On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual:
we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment, the arrow of time
passing by.
via
laura holder
What the hell is a "bunny-hugger" ?
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : off the hizzi
fa schizzi
(His-e for sh-is-e) It means that something is really
"hot" or "cool". It can also mean that someone is being
serious.
ex. His new car is off the hizzi fa schizzi. Or "She said
that you lied." " No I didn't lie. I'm off the hizzi fa
schizzi."
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.7
Petr Cimprich : XML::Directory.pm 0.95
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : demagogue
Demagogue \Dem"a*gogue\ (?; 115), n. [Gr. dhmagwgo`s a
popular leader; commonly in a bad sense, a leader of the mob; dh^mos
the people + 'agwgo`s leading, fr. 'a`gein to lead; akin to E. act: cf.
F. d['e]magogue.] A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control
the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and
factious mob orator or political leader.
web1913
demagogue n : an orator who appeals to the passions and
prejudices of his audience [syn: {demagog}, {rabble-rouser}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : friable
Friable \Fri"a*ble\, a. [L. friabilis, fr. friare to rub,
break, or crumble into small pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray: cf.
F. friable.] Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
``Friable ground.'' --Evelyn. ``Soft and friable texture.'' --Paley. --
{Fri'a*ble*ness}, n.
web1913
friable adj 1: easily broken into small fragments or
reduced to powder; "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue";
"friable curds formed in the stomach" 2: (used of soil) loose and
large-grained in consistency; "light sandy soil" [syn: {light},
{sandy}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : raconteur
Raconteur \Ra`con`teur"\, n. [F.] A relater; a storyteller.
web1913
raconteur n : a person skilled in telling anecdotes [syn:
{anecdotist}]
wn
"The icon looks more like iHam on iWhole iWheat. iSo iSue
iMe."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is malapropism
| source : web1913 | Malapropism
\Mal"a*prop*ism\, n. [From Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Sheridan's
drama, `` The Rivals,'' who makes amusing blunders in her use of words.
See {Malapropos}.] A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used. | source
: wn | malapropism n : the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion
with one that sounds similar [syn: {malaprop}]
Like many people, I am eager to see what Moveabletype is like,
Marc Ferro : "Il y a bien sûr une convergence entre les deux:
le terrorisme a pour but d'instituer une terreur,
mais la Terreur, c'est un régime. Certes, à propos du Comité de salut
public, on parlait effectivement de «terroristes», mais il s'agissait de
tout autre chose. La Terreur vient d'en haut, c'est une pratique d'Etat,
une forme de contrôle sur la société, alors que le terrorisme vient d'en
bas, de la société. Evidemment, ce n'est pas toujours clair: quand
Staline fait assassiner Trotski, c'est de la terreur ou du terrorisme?"
Me : Blogger.pm 0.2
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is machination
| source : web1913 | Machination
\Mach`i*na"tion\, n. [L. machinatio: cf. F. machination.] 1. The act of
machinating. --Shak. 2. That which is devised; a device; a hostile or
treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot. Devilish machinations come
to naught. --Milton. His ingenious machinations had failed. --Macaulay. |
source : wn | machination n : covert and involved plotting to achieve
your ends [syn: {intrigue}] | source : devils | MACHINATION, n. The
method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable
efforts to do the right thing. So plain the advantages of machination It
constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with
loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers
still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart.
R.S.K.
Larry Wall : State of the Onion 2001
Le Monde : Le dictionnaire intime de Milan Kundera
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is ossify
| source : web1913 | Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Ossified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ossifying}.] [L. os,
ossis, bone + -fy: cf. F. ossifier. See {Osseous}.] 1. (Physiol.) To form
into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the
deposition of lime salts. 2. Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.
--Ruskin. | source : web1913 | Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. i. (Physiol.) To
become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue. | source
: wn | ossify v : become bony; "The tissue ossified"
brian d. foy : Profiling in Perl
Jeffrey William Baker : Application Performance using DBI and
mod_perl
"We demand that the government of Canada
force Stockwell Day to change his name to Doris."
Remember kids, all we need is 350, 000 signatures!
David Sweet : A Perl of a Site Map
"I hope I have inspired you to sneak into your
boss's office and throw away all the photocopies of your site."
NY Times : A Happy, Scary New Day for Design
"Environmentalists use the term ecotone to
describe the area where two adjacent ecosystems — a wetland and a
forest, say — overlap. The ecotone has an ecology of its own. It
can support forms of life not found in either of the adjacent systems.
Today there exists the cultural equivalent of an ecotone between the old
and new economies, between the culture of industrial production and that
of informational exchange. Design today is flourishing in this region.
Its symbol is the veil, a graphic device that conveys the conflicting
desire to conceal and reveal."
James Spahr : LogTools
I am not much for OpArt, but there's just
something about logfiles...
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."
Bill Evans : boycott-riaa.com
"The RIAA is a professional lobby organization of
recording labels of which five labels control 90%of the music distributed
in the US. In 1999 these so called "protectors" of the music industry and
musicains released only 2600 cds. In the first 4 months of 2000 Napster
signed up 17,000 new artists. I have no idea how many are on MP3.Com
Excellent artists are being ignored, and discouraged by the music
industry. In short, I'm forced to use MP3.Com and Napster if I want to
hear new music, or artists. My comment to the "Big 5" is you made your
bed, now lie in it." Meanwhile, in other Napster news, if you've been
itching to download MP3s from your IRC client,
napyrc
is the answer to your dreams.
Jamie Jawinski : Gronk!
"I looked around at other jukebox programs, and
none of them really did exactly what I wanted. Either they had user
interfaces that I didn't like, or they were far too complicated to
install. Among other things, they all seem to rely heavily on MySQL.
Sorry, but the fact is that when you're only dealing with ten or twenty
thousand items, a database is overkill. Especially since these items
change infrequently (how many CDs do you buy a week?) So Gronk is built
almost entirely around static HTML pages: it goes through the MP3 files
and the CDDB data, and constructs HTML representing all of the discs.
When you add a new set of CDs, regenerate the pages. Even with my huge
collection this only takes a few minutes." Neat, but heavy on the frames.
Evil, evil frames.
The Honeypot Project : The Motives and Psychology of the Black-hat
Community
sub main { my $mt = Net::Blogger->new(engine=>"movabletype"); $mt->Proxy("http://yaddayadda.com/mt-xmlrpc.cgi"); $mt->Username("asc"); $mt->Password("*****"); $mt->BlogId(123); $mt->newPost(postbody=>\&fortune(),publish=>1) || croak $mt->LastError(); my $id = $mt->metaWeblog()->newPost(title=>"test:".time, description=>&fortune(), publish=>1) || croak $mt->LastError(); my $categories = $mt->mt()->getCategoryList() || croak $mt->LastError(); my $cid = $categories->[0]->{categoryId}; $mt->mt()->setPostCategories(postid=>$id, categories=>[{categoryId=>$cid}]) || croak $mt->LastError(); print &Dumper($mt->mt()->getPostCategories(postid=>$id)); return 1; } sub fortune { local $/; undef $/; system ("fortune > /home/asc/tmp/fortune"); open F, "</home/asc/tmp/fortune"; my $fortune = <F>; close F; return $fortune; }We will get a common API, one of these days, by hook or by crook...