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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.
Heather Champ : The Kelp Forest
Me : Lingua::Lexicon::IDP.pm 1.0
on a massive scale / so that / we've accomplished much /
further destruction / america stands
committed to / <scream> / human dignity | saddam hussein / and
/ persistent poverty / must never again / be / without / violent
ambitions / <laugh> / <drumroll> | we created / the
united states / but not / the world / <crowd boo> / innocent
lives / are / just / deceitful dictators / shared by all.
see also :
Naming Names, or Not
refers to
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Subject: the unbearable twingularity of it all
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:06:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Straup Cope To: Ben Hammersley Subject: the unbearable twingularity of it all >From the thinking out loud department : You might be able to rig something using Mail::Audit and the BBDB (written by Mr. Intertwingle himself.) All of which will inevitably necessitate some sort of intersecting of the BBDB and FOAF... http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/ http://search.cpan.org/author/LAXEN/BBDB-1.34/ http://search.cpan.org/author/SIMON/Mail-Audit-2.1/Audit.pm See also : http://aaronland.info/weblog/category/email/recent http://aaronland.info/weblog/archive/4058 # This part is easy and implemented in a gazillion different # ways already. I include it only for thoroughness : http://perl.aaronland.net/rss/ Cheers,
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One reason it's been so quiet around here
is that I've been working a package for
generating slideshows / galleries that do the right thing from a
directory of nothing but image files. The package uses
XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2XHTML
and
Image::Shoehorn
to scale all the images per configuration data (e.g.
thumb=>"75x50",small=>"25%"
) and generate all the necessary static HTML files, complete with
next|prev links that know which size of the image you're looking at and
links to the other scaled versions of the image. The design is
purposefully simple since eventually the idea is to have the internals
use
XML::SAX::Machines
so that you can filter the output of individual files to your hearts
content. First though, I'd like to add support for
XML::Filter::Sort
on the front-end. Anyway, all the meta-data for an image is read from
IPTC
and
EXIF
tags. The former can be edited in Photoshop and the latter are written
automagically by many cameras. Sadly, the Gimp supports neither and
only allows for comments not exceeding 512 characters in length.
Karl
threatened to put together some sort of hairy, scary document based on
the many emails we exchanged on the subject but I guess he has been
busy enjoying the summer, and rightly so. Oh yeah, and the interface?
use Gallery;
Gallery->create(directory=>"/htdocs/images",
url=>"mysite.com/images",
static=>1, # Don't use Apache::Image::Shoehorn
scales=>[ ["thumb","x50"],["small","25%"] ],
);
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : fulminate
Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, n. [Cf. P. fulminate. See {Fulminate}, v. i.] (Chem.) (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under {Fulminic}. (b) A fulminating powder. {Fulminate of gold}, an explosive compound of gold; -- called also {fulminating gold}, and {aurum fulminans}. web1913
fulminate n : a salt or ester of fulminic acid v 1: criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies" [syn: {rail}] 2: come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated" 3: cause to explode violently and with loud noise wn
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From the "Not ready for prime-time, but it works" department :
use XML::SAX::Writer;
use XML::Directory::SAX;
use XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2RSS;
my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new();
my $rss = XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2RSS->new(Handler=>$writer);
$rss->exclude(exclude=>["RCS"],ending=>["~"]);
my $directory = XML::Directory::SAX->new(Handler=>$rss,
detail=>2,
depth=>1);
$directory->order_by("a");
$directory->parse_dir("/path/to/aaronland.net");
XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2RSS inherits from
XML::Filter::XML_Directory_Pruner
so that it can pass along all the necessary information to a
2RSS::Items handler for populating the
channel/items/rdf:Seq
node (ah RDF, let me rdf:Bag the ways...) In the end, I may have to
subclass XML::Directory::SAX itself and rename the package as a
"Handler" so that I can also pass/enforce ordering, detail and depth
configs. BTW, does anyone know whether the mod_threading
<thr:children>
element can contain <thr:children> of its own?
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : pecuniary
Pecuniary \Pe*cun"ia*ry\, a. [L. pecuniarius, fr. pecunia money, orig., property in cattle, fr. pecus cattle: cf. F. p['e]cuniaire. See {Fee}, and cf. {Peculiar}.] 1. Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward. --Burke. web1913
pecuniary adj : relating to or involving money; "monetary rewards"; "he received thanks but no pecuniary compensation for his services" [syn: {monetary}] wn
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Radio Crankypants #11 : for category in aaronland.getCategories()
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : countervail
Countervail \Coun"ter*vail`\ (koun"t?r-v?l`), n. Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital. [Obs.] Surely, the present pleasure of a sinful act is a poor countervail for the bitterness of the review. --South. web1913
countervail v 1: compensate for or counterbalance; "offset deposits and withdrawals" [syn: {offset}] 2: oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions; "This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues" [syn: {counteract}, {neutralize}, {counterbalance}] wn
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While mulling over YA-Project
I found myself silently muttering that old
Internet saw :
I am too busy writing code, I don't have time to make a fancy
website.
I don't think I ever imagined myself saying those words...
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is urbane
| source : web1913 | Urbane \Ur*bane"\, a. [See
{Urban}.] Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant. | source : wn |
urbane adj 1: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that
comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an
urbane tone in his letters" [syn: {polished}, {refined}, {svelte}] 2:
characterized by tact and propriety 3: marked by wide-ranging knowledge
and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and
wide travel; "the sophisticated manners of a true cosmopolite"; "urbane
and pliant...he was at ease even in the drawing rooms of Paris" [syn:
{sophisticated}] | source : hitchcock | Urbane, courteous
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hebetude
| source : web1913 | Hebetude \Heb"e*tude\, n.
[L. hebetudo.] Dullness; stupidity. --Harvey. | source : wn | hebetude n
: mental lethargy or dullness
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Tim Berners-Lee : "The Semantic Web is really data that is processable by machine.
That's what the fuss is about."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is serendipity
| source : wn | serendipity n : accidental
sagacity; the faculty of making fortunate discoveries of things you were
not looking for
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J David Eisenberg : How To Read W3C Specs
A sandwich consists of a lower slice of bread,
mustard or mayonnaise; optional lettuce, an optional slice of tomato; two
to four slices of either bologna, salami, or ham (in any combination);
one or more slices of cheese, and a top slice of bread [translated into
Backus Normal Form becomes ]
sandwich ::=
lower_slice
[ mustard | mayonnaise ]
lettuce? tomato?
[ bologna | salami | ham ] {2,4}
cheese+
top_slice
I sense a Perl module being born...
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Like almost everyone else, I thought Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma
was a very bad book. Despite that, I was
struck by the idea of waking up in a world where technology has so
radically changed everything you know. Like hearing that people,
trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center are using their
cell-phones to call their families.
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Integrating Web Applications: XML-RPC in PHP
From the shooting fish in a bowl department : "It's easier for him to stay on message
when the interview lasts only a few minutes."
This, of course, is the first thing they
teach you to say about the party leader in press secretary school.
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Jeffery M. Griffith : newsic.py
"is a program that creates a streaming gateway to
the alt.binaries newsgroups. ... The biggest advantage is a newsic server
is offering songs that aren't stored on a local filesystem. This means
there is no need to worry about diskspace and the music selection
couldn't be better =) If you wanted to listen to hiphop but you had no
idea what was new, you could just stream random songs from
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.rap-hiphop
skipping the ones that didn't suit your taste.
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Shiny new tunes from Bran Van 3000
A bit on the super-disco, chorus-line,
my-prada-my-self side of things, similar to what people like Fatboy Slim
and Dimitri from Paris have been doing lately but there you go. There's a
nice "And now for something completely different!" at the end, too.
People who listen to commercial radio in Montreal tell me that the
stations have been playing the MP3 since the hardcopy version has yet to
be released. Video killed the what?
(mp3)
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Secret Labs : xmlrpclib 0.9.9
"is now available. This is a development release
(hopefully the last one before 1.0 final), which adds support for
encodings, Unicode, and HTTPS transports."
yay for https!
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Bookworm : Post-modern Comix w/ Chris Ware and Dan Clowes
14h30 PST (real evil G2) I saw this about a month
ago randomly surfing through the KCRW site. But I knew I would forget all
about it --like I did until I checked the first post from this morning--
so I posted it last month.
I love
rolling my own
.
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Please think good thoughts for the Deepleap gang,
they deserve it.
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mod_xslt
"is a simple Apache module to serve XML based
content."
refers to
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Ann Shin on fetal marketing and internal branding
"Putting up a Web site is equivalent to opening
up a storefront, placing an ad, and launching a brand, all at once. If
you're not on the World Wide Web, where are you? Do you exist if people
can't find you on a search engine?"
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NY Times : The Pressure To Take It Off
"Rosie Perez, whose first film role, in "Do the
Right Thing," had such a memorable nude scene that a decade later she's
still living it down (or up), convened a round table of some of her
friends and colleagues, inviting a reporter to participate, to talk about
the pressures, rewards and plain facts about getting naked in public."
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Don MacPhearson : Je me souviens
"Like Richard, the [Sun Life] building was a
symbol, in its case of English domination of Montreal, a bastion like the
one it physically resembles. In Richard's day, it also happened to house
the offices of the National Hockey League, when that league was still
dominated by English Canadians. So it was from the building that in 1955,
the league's English-speaking president, Clarence Campbell, handed down
the suspension that, perhaps even more than Richard's feats on the ice,
earned him his place in Quebec history." The funny thing about history
and Canadians is that one solitude knows too much and other too little...
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Pretty
How do the French send email?
A friend asks : "I have a client that recently
moved to France. She is using a French keyboard and cannot seem to create
the @ symbol. I have downloaded keyboard maps and they verify the key is
missing from the layout. How do the French (and other Europeans) send
email? May be a dumb question, but we're baffled." If you know the
answer,
send me mail
.
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Brent Simmons : How to Run Frontier on Linux with Wine
While I was in New York City
I went to
PS1
,
Thomas' Beauty Bar
, had one too many exciting subway adventures, saw the current
Odd Nerdrum
show, and marveled at the seeming inability of the locals to put
comfort before style. A word of advice : when it's -30 outside, no one
cares what you look like. Really.
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Mœbius
"Avec l'ordinateur, on peut faire une révolution
dans la BD, comme Fred Beltran dans Megalex, créer un univers en trois
dimensions, faire dedans un travail de caméraman, chercher le point de
vue qui correspond à l'image qu'on veut montrer. On le stocke et on
travaille dedans pour le perfectionner. Ça devient quelque chose qui est
suspendu entre le théâtre, la sculpture, le cinéma, la mise en scène,
l'univers virtuel de nos têtes, ça crée un résultat complètement martien
qui fait un choc culturel dans la tête du lecteur."
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Feeling lonely or neglected?
Don't fret about it,
just file an IPO
.
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John Katz : The End of the Amazon Era
"Jeff Bezos newly-revealed once-revolutionary
website has been revealed: a tacky online K-Mart. You're as likely to see
a Pokemon critter or digital camera as a book there these days. Is this
what all those investors were counting on?" Duh.
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
"Je ne crois pas que notre idée puisse être
comparée à la taxe Tobin. Cette proposition visait à stabiliser les
mouvements de capitaux pour éviter la spéculation. Pour nous, une taxe
sur les mails n'a pas pour objectif de stabiliser l'expansion de
l'Internet, ce qui serait néfaste. Au contraire, nous disons qu'on peut
profiter de cette explosion pour en faire bénéficier le plus grand nombre
et réduire ainsi les écarts entre les branchés et les autres." I think
it's a wothwhile idea but I also think the
backend
will kill it (if it ever gets off the ground).
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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