posts brought to you by the category “netiquette”
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 don't know either Anil or Paul personally though they seem like
perfectly nice fellows.
Did I mention how much I like Montréal?
Bienville and Rivard, Montréal, September
2003
C'est le sport municipal!
Stewart Butterfield : "Caterina and I will also IM, even when we
are laying on the same bed with laptops open."
Simon Woodside: XML data round-tripping with Relax NG and HTML
forms
These are XSLT stylesheets to be used with a Relax NG schema.
Alexandra uses the RNG schema to create a roundtripping forms
interface in HTML to edit an instance document that conforms to the
schema.
Heather Champ : The Kelp Forest
PhoneBlogger
"allows you to post to a weblog by phone. [It] is
written in VoiceXML, Python, and JavaScript."
Donate your bookmarks to science
Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) are a new paradigm modelled after
the human immune system. Here at the University of Bradford, we
believe that they could be developed into an extremely powerful tool
to extract information from a database. In order to confirm this
conjecture, we decided to experiment with the task of extracting
useful information from a database of Internet addresses.
Slate coins the word "bloghdad"...
Martine Pagé : Il y a plusieurs ... qui n'ont pas eu
leur baptme de sucre.
Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood 1.1b3
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
10, 000
The Connection : Glenn Gould and the Quest for Perfection
Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm 0.21
Daniel Gardner : Apache::Blog.pm
"is a simple handler for online diaries. At the
moment it works on the one-entry-one-page paradigm, but would be easy to
apapt to multiple entries per page if this is prefered. In the future
this will be a configuration option."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : acrid
Acrid \Ac"rid\, a. [L. acer sharp; prob. assimilated in
form to acid. See {Eager}.] 1. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to
the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts. 2. Causing heat and irritation;
corrosive; as, acrid secretions. 3. Caustic; bitter; bitterly
irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing. {Acrid poison}, a poison
which irritates, corrodes, or burns the parts to which it is applied.
web1913
acrid adj 1: strong and sharp; "the acrid smell of burning
rubber" 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}, {acerbic},
{acid}, {bitter}, {blistering}, {caustic}, {sulfurous}, {sulphurous},
{venomous}, {virulent}, {vitriolic}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : firmament
Firmament from the Vulgate firmamentum, which is used as
the translation of the Hebrew _raki'a_. This word means simply
"expansion." It denotes the space or expanse like an arch appearing
immediately above us. They who rendered _raki'a_ by firmamentum
regarded it as a solid body. The language of Scripture is not
scientific but popular, and hence we read of the sun rising and
setting, and also here the use of this particular word. It is plain
that it was used to denote solidity as well as expansion. It formed a
division between the waters above and the waters below (Gen. 1:7). The
_raki'a_ supported the upper reservoir (Ps. 148:4). It was the support
also of the heavenly bodies (Gen. 1:14), and is spoken of as having
"windows" and "doors" (Gen. 7:11; Isa. 24:18; Mal. 3:10) through which
the rain and snow might descend.
easton
Firmament \Fir"ma*ment\, n. [L. firmamentum, fr. firmare to
make firm: cf. F. firmament. See {Firm}, v. & a.] 1. Fixed
foundation; established basis. [Obs.] Custom is the . . . firmament of
the law. --Jer. Taylor. 2. The region of the air; the sky or heavens.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and
let it divide the waters from the waters. --Gen. i. 6. And God said,
Let there be lights in the firmament. --Gen. i. 14. Note: In Scripture,
the word denotes an expanse, a wide extent; the great arch or expanse
over out heads, in which are placed the atmosphere and the clouds, and
in which the stars appear to be placed, and are really seen. 3. (Old
Astron.) The orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial
spheres.
web1913
firmament n : the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere
on which celestial bodies appear to be projected [syn: {celestial
sphere}, {sphere}, {empyrean}, {heavens}, {vault of heaven}, {welkin}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : body nazi
A self-obsessed workout king or queen.
ex. Where's the neck on that body nazi?
Jan Sipke van der Veen : Multiple webservers behind one IP
address
"This article discusses a network setup where
multiple webservers reside behind one IP address. Such a situation may
arise when you need a specific webserver for one task and a different
webserver for another task, running different operating systems or
webserver software. With only one IP address available from the Internet,
you could simply use Network Address Translation (NAT) with port
forwarding. However, this forces you to give each webserver an ugly URL
with a non-standard port number. Luckily, there is a better way. In the
setup described in this article, each webserver can be reached via its
own fully qualified domainname on the standard HTTP port (80)."
I went to school with a guy named James.
Andrew Wilson : Mail::Address::Tagged.pm
"This module implements an object that can
generate and validate tagged email addresses. These are designed to be
used primarily in anti-spam applications. The addresses generated all
carry extra information, such as the date when they expire, who may use
them to send you mail etc. A cryptocraphic hash of this extra information
is also included in in the address. This Hashed Message Authenticaion
Code (HMAC RFC 2104) is your guarantee that the information contained in
the address has not been tampered with."
Chris Nandor : Mac:: modules on MacOS X
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
predonistic
ex. The cheerleader walked by her "old crowd" of friends,
sticking her nose up with a predonistic flare as she wrapped her arm
around her new boyfriend. OR The pop star ignored the little girl
asking for an autograph, predonistically waving her away.
submitted by Francesca
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is sentient
| source : web1913 | Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, a.
[L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the
senses. See {Sense}.] Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and
perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient
extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
| source : web1913 | Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, n. One who has the faculty of
perception; a sentient being. | source : wn | sentient adj 1: endowed
with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves
just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: {animate}]
[ant: {insentient}] 2: consciously perceiving; "sentient of the
intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
Tony Bowden : Radioactive::Decay.pm
"allows you to tie a scalar variable so that it
will decay over time. For example, if you set a half-life of 30 seconds,
then a variable which is set to 100 now will be 25 in a minute's time.
We're sure there are all manner of useful applications for this, and
hopefully someone will let us know what they are."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is unguent
| source : web1913 | Unguent \Un"guent\ (?; 277),
n. [L. unguentum, from unguere, ungere, to anoint: cf. F. onguent. See
{Ointment}, and cf. {Unction}, {Unctuous}.] A lubricant or salve for
sores, burns, or the like; an ointment. --Cowper. Note: An unguent is
stiffer than a liniment, but softer than a cerate. | source : wn |
unguent n : used for healing or soothing [syn: {ointment}, {balm},
{salve}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
extemporaneous
| source : web1913 | Extemporaneous
\Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, a. [See {Extempore}.] Composed, performed, or
uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study;
unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous
address or production. -- {Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly}, adv. --
{Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness},n. | source : wn | extemporaneous adj : with
little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib comments showed poor
judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture";
"an extempore skit"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to sound offhanded and
reassuring"; "an off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments" [syn:
{ad-lib}, {extemporary}, {extempore}, {offhand}, {offhanded},
{off-the-cuff}, {unrehearsed}]
The North Atlantic Treaty, Article 5 : "The Parties agree that an
armed attack against one
or more of them in Europe or North America shall
be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree
that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the
right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51
of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so
attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other
Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed
force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area."
google cache
ScrollKeeper, Open Documentation Cataloging Project
see also :
Telsa Gwynn's summary of the ScrollKeeper talk at GUADEC
"Scrollkeeper is the middle layer: it abstracts all metadata handling
into a library. It extracts data, stores it in a database, and provides
an API for help browsers to talk to. ... It's a mixture of C, shell
scripts, and libxml. You feed it documents and an OMF metadata file (in
XML). It spits out normal and extended trees in XML for every locale."
Plucker
"is an offline HTML viewer for PalmOS devices
packaged with UNIX and Linux conduits and a Windows installer in Virtual
Pascal. An included set of scripts will spider HTML pages which you
specify to a supplied depth, and parse them on your desktop machine. ...
Plucker supports clickable images, italics, multiple databases,
configurable display parameters and stylus options, compression, Perl and
Python conduits and parsers, a Windows fully-integrated installer, and a
whole lot more!"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is stripling
| source : web1913 | Stripling \Strip"ling\, n.
[Dim. of strip; as if a small strip from the main stock or steam.] A
youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to
manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. --1 Sam. xvii.
56. | source : wn | stripling n : a juvenile between the onset of puberty
and maturity [syn: {adolescent}, {teenager}]
developerWorks : Zope for the Perl/CGI programmers
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is apologia
| source : wn | apologia n : a formal written
defense of something you believe in strongly [syn: {apology}]
There are dots for everyone.
The revolution is being televised.
"What blogs do is they give a context for chunks,
and they arrange them chronologically, which is really simple for people
to follow," Mr. Williams said. "That for me is an example of a medium
finding something that works and that's unique to the medium."
mmmmm...topic maps
Overheard : When asked what she thought of U.S. election/recount,
singer K.D. Lang replied
"I think [George Bush] is hiding ballots in his
boil."
Bookworm : Art Speigelman and Francoise Mouly
"introduce their new collection of comics by
world-renowned children's book artists and underground cartoonists-all
based on fairy tales..." (real evil g2)
webCDCreator
"can be used to make a single CD-writer available
to the users in your network. There is a server that controls the
CD-writer using cdrecord. It accepts the requests from several clients
around in the network. webCDwriter comes with a client written in java
that can run as an applet within a browser. It lets the user put together
a CD and transmit the files afterward. The server gives the CD-writer to
one user at a time and tells them when to insert the CD." neat!
PHPBuilder : PHP Extension and Add-on Repository (PEAR)
"is an effort to develop a repository similar to
perl's CPAN and TeX's CTAN for the PHP community."
Abigail : JAPHS and other obscure signatures
"It is worth noting that good argument does not guarantee good
action" [sic]
I was going through my stuff this morning, in
anticipation of The Big Move 2.0, and I came across my notes from a
philosophy class I took during my last semester at school. It was one of
a series called "Philosopical Issues for Artists", and this one was
titled "Being reasonable: What's right and what's art?" but I quickly
renamed it "Teaching Artists to be Reasonable." On the first day of
class, I drew
this
drawing
on my course outline. I wonder what I was thinking about.
The purpose of SmartWorker
"is not to provide another means of generating
HTML pages on-the-fly from databases. There are plenty of ways to do this
already. SW applications are not Web sites, but true applications that
happen to be served over the Web. In fact, it is possible (when the
renderers are written!) to access SW apps via non-Web interfaces, such as
handheld devices and PCS phones."
The Unbearable Lightness of White Space
So, I made my way back to
Ed's
Weblog
this morning. I had read his comments regarding the necessity of
standards
the other day, but I wanted to read them again before I told my story.
Mine is definitely in the Left-Field Department, but it does demonstrate
why standards are a Good Thing. For what feels like the last 8-billion
years, I have been testing a powerful open source shopping cart system.
The code that drives the tools is robust and elegant (despite the fact
that there are *no* comments...grrrrr) but the html templates it ships
with are nasty. There is no other word. They are machine generated,
impossible to read and make liberal use of the dreaded font tag. I
decided the Right Thing To Do was clean up the templates, and I did. Any
guesses on what happened next? The images vanished. Poof! The reason they
disappeared was simple : I like white space. I prefer to write
img src = "foo.jpg"
rather than
img src="bar.gif"
because I find it easier to read. Unfortunately, the propeller-heads
decided that the former would fail a pattern-match when the templates are
rendered. So now I know and, frankly, I feel worse for the knowledge.
Granted, this has more to do with the software I am using than any
particular web standard. The point is that if we all had the same
definitive reference we would find new and, more importantly, better ways
to waste our time. Just ask anyone who's ever tried to write cross-bowser
DHTML. Anyway, the whole reason I started the story with Ed is that, when
I arrived first link on his site was to something called
White
Space Bugs in Browsers
. see also
Edd Dumbill
: XML, Standards and You
.
81 games of hope
is what my friend Jason said, sometime during the
third period. The Habs played their last game of the regular season last
night, and lost to Ottawa. We're out of the playoffs and it's been
snowing ever since. I think it's the city crying.
Lev Manovitch : Postmodernism and Photoshop
I hope all the software engineers out there
realize that "computer software 'naturalizes' the model of authorship as
selection from libraries of pre-defined objects." Please, someone make
post-modernism go away.
Rick Salutin : Yikes! Not another brave new world
These issues long have been discussed by hackers
and hacktivists on the Internet. They were the context of the attacks,
with AOL-Time Warner as the last straw. There's widespread contempt for
what some call "the AOL lamer," says Toronto Net activist Jesse Hirsh,
and agreement that there's nothing wrong with "bumrushing the mall,
because these guys, the dot.coms, aren't the Internet, they're the mall,
and if we shut down the mall, the Internet will still exist." Maybe the
promise of the Net can then be reborn. There's a complex anger among such
people, reminiscent of early industrial workers before they sorted out
strategies like unions and socialism. There are older hackers, says
Jesse, who have a more developed analysis; and there are the younger kids
"who are like, 'Yeah, whatever, let's just fuck it up.'"
Norman Nie
"No one is asking the obvious questions about
what kind of world we are going to live in when the Internet becomes
ubiquitous. No one asked these questions with the advent of the
automobile, which led to unplanned suburbanization, or with the rise of
television, which led to the decline of our political parties. We hope we
can give society a chance to talk through some of these issues before the
changes take place." see also
Jon Katz : How
many hours did you work this week?
CBC on the people who make weblogging possible
"Nearly four out of five bosses tolerate the idea
that their employees are using the Internet at work for non-work-related
surfing..."
CBLDF : Censorship of Comics Bibliography
I had no idea that
Morning Edition : Sodas in Schools
Didn't someone famous once say "We may not be
able to control you, but we can control your children." (real audio)
The World This Weekend
on the resilience and resurgence of the printed
book. real audio (starts 20:00 - twtw doesn't seem to archive their
programs so this will probabaly vanish on october 31)
People like to be entertained
Nick Gold
Norman Spinrad : Too high the moon
"You think you can trick the Pentagon into
financing the infrastructure for a major manned civilian space programme
out of the military budget?"
NY Times : Is Linking Always Legal?
"Until the courts provide clear guidelines, the
experts say, powerful intellectual property owners like movie studios
will fill the legal vacuum with their untested assumption that deep
linking is illegal."
Derrick de Kerckhove
"Aujourd'hui, les logiciels et les connecticiels
que l'on crée sur les réseaux sont des technologies d'intelligence
capables d'ajouter un plus dans les relations de collaboration humaine.
La question est de savoir ce que cela ajoute aux conditions
psychologiques de l'humanité. L'intelligence connective, c'est
l'intelligence qui travaille à plusieurs sur des objets qui, jadis,
étaient associés à l'intelligence individuelle. L'idée d'une intelligence
qui sortirait des limites étroites du corps personnel est tout à fait
essentielle."
Utne Reader : Y2K Citizen's Action Guide
Available in hard-copy and pdf versions.
Sunday Times : Water company ready to launch wind farm at sea
I've always thought wind farms amazingly
beautiful.
Joe Lelyveld
"While literally billions of speculative dollars
are being amassed, invested and turned into overnight fortunes in this
effort to develop and control the means of transmission in the coming age
of instantaneous information, investment in the actual gathering of
information by conventional journalistic means is in apparent decline,
under the banner of cost control, in all but a handful of traditional
news organizations. ... The Internet ... is a wonderful place to collect
raw data. But it's not, so far, a wonderful place to find reliable and
original reporting, real news, except where it has been siphoned off the
old."
Jeff Howe : Artistic License, Creating a Space for Net-art
"[He] likens the obstacles net-art faces in
finding a museum audience to those faced by artists exploring issues of
cultural diversity 20 years ago. 'It's outside [some curators'] value
structure, so they don't have the impetus to take it seriously. I don't
know what it's going to take for [Net-based artists] to overcome the
barriers we face.' "
The World on La Bottine Souriante
"Last year we went for three shows in Madrid,
Bilbao and some big cities in Spain, and people went crazy," he
says,"They don't understand a word but they really like the show, the
spirit of the show.", real audio
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.
