posts brought to you by the category “painting is
dead”
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 am a sucker for buildings with curved facades.
We found Momo the morning after the Party.
devshed : Date Arithmetic With MySQL
Eric Meyer : Using the :target selector
Andrew Gilligan : "I want to talk to you about my favourite Saddam
statues."
In the "Letters from the Past to the Future" Department : Today was
the day that 'make' made suck.
Sam Tregar : Class::XPath.pm
[A]dds XPath-style matching to your object trees.
Paul Martin : Why Am I Keeping a Blog?
After all, it's not like I can pretend to be the kind of guy that
spends a lot of time surfing the web. To be honest, until a few weeks
ago, I didn't even know what the hell a blog was - I joked that I
thought it was something that might climb out of a swamp.
via
montreal city
Jeanette Winterson : The Secret Life of Us
I know of a man, a Quaker, who volunteered as an ambulance driver
in the second world war. While other men had pictures of their
sweethearts in their breast pockets, he carried a photo of a Queen
Anne chair. In his despair at where human folly had brought him and
millions of others, he needed to remember the glory of the human
spirit, as well as its loss. Like Barbara Hepworth, he believed that
art affirms and sustains life at its highest level. He became an
antique dealer because he wanted to be surrounded by what the Jews
call "real presences". A real presence is one where spirit and body,
or spirit and object, have never been separated. It doesn't matter
whether we are talking a chair, a picture, a book or a human being;
what makes us feel alive is the living quality lodged there.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : oh
crackerz
When you forget something or are
disappointed.
ex. Oh, crackerz! I wanted to go.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mandals
Bulky, strappy, sandals worn by men. European men wear
them with socks.
ex. Phil could walk no further, as his new mandals had
given him a blister. If only he'd worn his socks!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : protean
Protean \Pro"te*an\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to Proteus;
characteristic of Proteus. `` Protean transformations.'' --Cudworth. 2.
Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as,
an am[oe]ba is a protean animalcule.
web1913
protean adj : taking on different forms; "eyes...of that
baffling protean gray which is never twice the same"
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : beholden
Beholden \Be*hold"en\, p. a. [Old p. p. of behold, used in
the primitive sense of the simple verb hold.] Obliged; bound in
gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. --Tennyson.
web1913
beholden adj : under a moral obligation to someone [syn:
{beholden(p)}]
wn
Robin Williams : "George almost died from a pretzel
— almost took the cab. Gilligan's down!
Gilligan's down! Even his own dogs don't give a shit. They were licking
him for salt."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : taciturn
Taciturn \Tac"i*turn\, a. [L. taciturnus: cf. F. taciturne.
See {Tacit}.] Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk
or speak. -- {Tac"i*turn*ly}, adv. Syn: Silent; reserved. Usage:
{Taciturn}, {Silent}. Silent has reference to the act; taciturn, to the
habit. A man may be silent from circumstances; he is taciturn from
disposition. The loquacious man is at times silent; one who is taciturn
may now and then make an effort at conversation.
web1913
taciturn adj : habitually reserved and uncommunicative
[ant: {voluble}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : craveable
Being able to be craved.
ex. The sandwich was very craveable.
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
Movable Type 1.3
"<snip>Added DBUmask, HTMLUmask,
DirUmask, and UploadUmask settings for the mt.cfg file. These are to be
used to adjust permissions set on files and directories created by MT.
Removed manual chmod calls.</snip>"
MZSanford : Win32::InternetExplorer::Window.pm
"is for the creation of floating InternetExplorer
windows with no tool bars. Also included is the control of that window.
As i get more work done, another name space will be added to allow
embedding of IE rendering windows within Win32::GUI windows, i hope."
John McCoy : I Want To Believe
Christian Jaeger : ETHLife-CMS
"Unlike most [CMS'], it doesn't try to use a
browser as its sole interface, but combines the benefits of a stable,
seasoned html editor and file sharing techniques like samba, netatalk,
ftp with the exact text markup definitions and standard data format of
xml. It will work on both Windows and MacOS, and maybe even Linux, other
unixes and other OS's provided there is a decent wysiwyg html editor."
First, there was the laundromat-cafe.
They've been talking about the Code Red worm on the radio this
morning.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is crux
| source : web1913 | Crux \Crux\ (kr[u^]ks), n.;
pl. E. {Cruxes} (-[e^]z), L. {Cruces} (kr[udd]"s[=e]z). [L., cross,
torture, trouble.] Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to
explain. --Dr. Sheridan. The perpetual crux of New Testament
chronologists. --Strauss. | source : wn | Crux n 1: a small conspicuous
constellation the the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus
[syn: {Southern Cross}, {Crux}, {Crux Australis}] 2: the most important
point [syn: {crux of the matter}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is mendicant
| source : web1913 | Mendicant \Men"di*cant\, a.
[L. mendicans, -antis, p. pr. of mendicare to beg, fr. mendicus beggar,
indigent.] Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant
friars. {Mendicant orders} (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which are
forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by
alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the
Augustinians. | source : web1913 | Mendicant \Men"di*cant\, n. A beggar;
esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.
| source : wn | mendicant adj : practicing beggary; "mendicant friars" n
1: a male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel
[syn: {friar}] 2: a pauper who lives by begging [syn: {beggar}]
I would consider buying one of these
Michael J. Hammel : Linux Tools for the Graphic Artist
LA Weekly : "Apart from the unfathomable condescension
inherent to what amounts to a smug citywide
territorial pissing, the wholesale conversion of arbitrary chunks of
nonmuseum life (chosen mostly for their adjacency to billboards running
from the Westside to downtown) into second-rate ’60s conceptual art
is hardly going to convince the “sometimes wary
advertising-bombarded youthful audience” targeted by the campaign
that a wealth of cutting-edge creativity is lurking on Bunker Hill. Nor
will it ingratiate itself with many artists, even the ones who still
think using a museum label to identify smog as art is a pretty neat idea.
Apart from the fact that MOCA commissioned a multinational advertising
conglomerate to do what could have been done by individual professional
artists, the jokes just plain suck."
Web Reference : DOM Differences and Commonalities with IE5.x [and
Netscape 6]
Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to meet Bonne Fete Barbie.
Tricia Cusack : "The snowman is, of course, white and invariably
male.
[His] ritual location in the semi-public space of
garden or field imaginatively reinforces a spatial social system, marking
women's proper sphere as the domestic-private and men's as the
commercial-public. It presents an image, however jocular, of a masculine
control of public space. ... Like Father Christmas, he is round, fat and
smiling, suggesting overindulgence. The classic carnival figure is a fat,
lusty eater and drinker."
Indeed.
developerWorks : Abstracting the interface
"Using XML to describe parts of a Web app user
interface can make it easy to convert the UI for multiple devices via XSL
style sheets. The article describes using XML data and XSL style sheets
to build the user interface of complex Web applications. A Web calendar
sample application demonstrates the basic techniques and concepts."
Jiri Jirat : XSL Tracer
"[displays the] name of the currently processed
XML element or attribute, full XPath of the currently processed XML
element or attribute, values of parameters and variables, all nodes of
node-set which is matched by select expression in xsl:apply-templates or
xsl:for-each, value returned by xsl:value-of" (javascript)
Bryan Boyer : "Nomadicism is thus no longer lamenting the lack of
Home,
but redefining it altogether. Home as series.
(This makes a rather large assumption that one's aesthetic is influenced
by their Home. I'd like to extend the idea of Home as more than physical
dwelling, but now cultural, spiritual, and geographic locus.)" I'm not
sure I agree with this but I will say that, more and more, not just
having a home but knowing what and where it is is a luxury not to be
overlooked. see also :
Chez moi is not
a home
I promise I will fix the heinous IE (Win) display bug in the
morning...
Meanwhile, my friend Justen wrote a poem about dessert
I confess poetry, like dance, is one of those
things I rarely "get". I know there's something there, but I never seem
to find it.
Carlos Ramirez : Perldoc.com
Soon to come : "perldoc functionality via URLS"
mmmmm .... perldoc
Oh well,
I guess the joke's on me.
Perlmonks : Opinions on the best way to inherit class data
Tangentially related,
Damien
Conway talks shop
: "Whatever software your trying to build, you need people who are
inspired by the idea of that software. Even if they aren't virtuoso
hackers: you can always teach a person to code better, or tidy their code
after it's written; you can never teach a person to love your project.
And without that emotional engagement, you'll never get the superhuman
effort that's required to produce quality software."
Miguel de Icaza : Let's Make Unix Not Suck
"Now this isn't quite a Cinderella story
about the hippy-dippy restaurant that made it. It
is doubtful that Santropol will issue an IPO a la Ben & Jerry's or
set up franchises like The Body Shop (although Gilker, Luczynski, and
James Solkin set up their restaurant at about the same time). But Café
Santropol does prove that even a small business can have a large impact."
mp3-player on one floppy
"It's a linux system on one 1,44Mb floppy with
mpg123 as mp3-player and camp on the console." see also :
MP3Master
, "is a web-based jukebox for MP3 songs ... written [entirely] in Perl."
Perl for Zope (zope-perl)
"Python programmers will be able to directly take
advantage of the large collection of reusable Perl program modules, like
DBI, found on CPAN. Perl programmers will be able to program and
customize the Zope web application server using their favorite language."
Yipppeeee! via
rc3
The gadgets are coming! The gadgets are coming!
Justin Fox
Profits, Darwinism, and the Internet
I love the randomcam.
The Perl Shell (psh)
"combines aspects of bash and other shells with
the power of Perl scripting. It aspires to be your primary login shell."
Oooh!
Kenneth Tibbetts : Writing Friendly Code
"Call it my Millennium Resolution, I'm gonna quit
writing crappy code. I don't like writing it, I don't like seeing it on
the Web, and most of all I don't like going back and tinkering,
endlessly, with code that was too darn specific to start with." Truer
last words were never spoken more famously.
Meanwhile, in Ottawa
David Bowie is hosting the entire Sensation show on his
website
"All 141 pieces will be on virtual display,
complete with artist biographies/photos and David Bowie's descriptions of
many pieces under scrutiny."
The US Coast Guard
doesn't seem too concerned about Floyd, if their
homepage is anything to judge by. On the other hand, they have put
together a nice site devoted to information and photographs of
Historic
Light Houses
if you're in to that kind of thing.
Avril Benoit talks to Catherine Annau
Armand Mattelart : L'anti-géomètre
"Cela signifie l'élimination du concept de la
différenciation sociale, mais aussi de celui de justice sociale, et des
luttes pour l'établir. ... C'est la fin de tous les acteurs, sauf un, le
manager, qui se déresponsabilise puisque tout est global."
Brave New Waves
"There's nothing wrong with your radio. Maybe
it's you."
Live on the
Internet
, Monday-Friday 00h05 - 04h00 EST. Some of my happiest moments in life
have been staying up all night making art, listening to BNW.
Wired on the Anti-Weblog
slashdot has pointed people to the Stan Lee site
Philip Gourevitch
"The best reason I have come up with for looking
closely into Rwanda's stories is that ignoring them makes me even more
uncomfortable about existence and my place in it."
Scott McCloud
"But this wasn't what people were picking up from
the book. They were talking about the nature of cartoons, and they were
talking about the combination of words and pictures. That one comes up a
lot. And they were comparing the experience of surfing the Web to the
alchemy that occurs between the panels. " I'm glad to see this book
[<a href =
"http://scottmccloud.com/objects/uc/uc.html">Understanding
Comics</a>] getting around. I read it a few times over when
it first came out. A couple years ago I started to see it popping up in
art schools and recently more and more web people are takling about it.
It's a truly remarkable piece of work!
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.
