posts brought to you by the category “quetaine”
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.
Earle Martin : WWW::Lipsum.pm
Noel Jackson : "PhotoPal is going to be an image organizer
featuring Textism style photos."
Nicholas Kristof : A Reader's Guide to the War
But since the Bush administration was willing to bring in a
Hollywood producer to design a $250,000 set for the Central Command
briefings, it might at least remind officials that we are not
invading Eye-rack, but Ee-rack.
Kellan's "similar entries" hack is pretty interesting.
From the "Art is Your Friend" department: Christa Donner
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fat coke
opposite of diet coke
submitted by rik
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : dissolute
Dissolute \Dis"so*lute\, a. [L. dissolutus, p. p. of
dissolvere: cf. F. dissolu. See {Dissolve}.] 1. With nerves unstrung;
weak. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals
and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate;
wanton; lewd; debauched. ``A wild and dissolute soldier.'' --Motley.
Syn: Uncurbed; unbridled; disorderly; unrestrained; reckless; wild;
wanton; vicious; lax; licentious; lewd; rakish; debauched; profligate.
web1913
dissolute adj : unrestrained by convention or morality;
"Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably
dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn:
{debauched}, {degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissipated}, {libertine},
{profligate}, {riotous}, {fast}]
wn
Charles Nofsinger : buzz
"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."
Ron Gilmour : Taxonomic Markup Language
Jeffa : HTML::Template extensions for Dreamweaver
"
I am a programmer. Why would I want Dreamweaver extensions for
HTML::Template?
" If you work with a designer/design team, chances are they use
Dreamweaver to create the HTML templates. Now they can use HTML::Template
tags in Dreamweaver just like they would any other object - by clicking
on an icon which places the resulting HTML code in the document. "
Uche Ogbuji : Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge
management
"shows how to add semantic knowledge to an RDF
application by incorporating WordNet synonym sets. With the added
knowledge of the WordNet lexical database, you can search a set of RDF
data for related concepts, not just one keyword at a time."
I've been wating patiently for someone else to say it
Ronan Oger : SVG.pm
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}]
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
From the Soundtrack Effect department :
The mere declaration of "natural frontiers", however, did not
imply that French arms would be confined within them. On the contrary, as
long as they were threatened by coalitions of kings, or (as the
propaganda decree now authorized) as long as they were summoned by
peoples groaning under the yoke of despotism, the French would feel free
to take the fight to the enemy, wherever he was. Nor did the means of
this offensive have to remain orthodox. The
ci-devant
Marquis de Bry offered to found what was, in effect, the first
organization of international terrorism, the Tyrannicides -- twelve
hundred committed freedom fighters despatched [sic] to assassinate kings
and commanders of foreign armies wherever they could be nailed down. It
was, indeed, as Goethe warned, a new moment in the history of the
world.
--
Simon Schama
, Citizens.
Me : Blogger.pm 0.5.1
Butthole Radio
"Listen to non-stop MP3 streaming of rare and
live Butthole Surfers tracks."
(streaming mp3)
Me : jabbergroups
RISKS : E-Divorce banned in Singapore
"...the Syariah Court and the Registry of Muslim
Marriages are "unanimous in their view that divorce through SMS is
unacceptable..."
Matt Segeant's slides from his AxKit presentation at TPC5
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is juxtaposition
| source : web1913 | Juxtaposition
\Jux`ta*po*si"tion\, n. [L. juxta near + positio position: cf. F.
juxtaposition. See {Just}, v. i., and {Position}.] A placing or being
placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of
words. Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition. --Glanvill.
Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity. --Hare. | source
: wn | juxtaposition n : positioning close together (or side by side)
Perlmonks : URI::Unprotocol.pm
"was created for sites ... which need / want /
could use "unprotocols", that is, foreign protocols that actually map
onto known protocols. [e.g.
google://
,
id://
and
dict://
]"
Dan Connolly : PalmPilot Datebook and the Semantic Web
Jerome Alet : The Zope Shell
"is a GPLed Python Script which makes some of the
most commonly used unix shell commands available from within Zope, to
manage the ZODB contents. ... As for the 0.001 version which is attached
to this message, the following commands are recognized: cd, cp, mv, rm,
ls."
Michael P. Mehl : phpXML
"is a set of scripts now aims to make the power
of XML available in "plain PHP", which means only a basic PHP
configuration is required at all. All XML handling methods like DOM,
XPath or even XSL will be accomplished by the usage of simple and core
PHP functions. So even if your hoster regrets to set up extensions like
Sablotron, DOM XML or others, phpXML will help you to use the power of
XML." via
more
like this
opml2ft
is a Perl script that converts an
OPML
document into a JavaScript file suitable for parsing by Marcelino
Martins'
FolderTree
DHTML outliner (v2.0)
I'm going to stick my finger in the pie
and ask why it is that people bother to put the
slides from presentations they've given online? Divorced from their
presenter, and that which is being discussed, they tend to read like a
cross between poetry fridge magnets and the transcript to a
buzzword-bingo game. I think a good classroom exercise would be to see
how many different presentations could be concocted using one set of
slides a starting point.
Chris Fofiu : GIMP Aqua-pill Tutorial
Here's me,
looking for god in all these fucking details...
This morning I downloaded the Eudora 5.0 beta
The clever propellor-heads at Qualcomm have spent
their time and energy developing something called
Mood
Watch
which will apparently tell me if my mail is "on fire". Never mind who
comes up with this nonsense, how does it get off the whiteboard? I know
that there aren't many things stupider than saying "I'm going to write my
own email client" but I'm almost there...
Super Bang Pettit III : Paintings
Abstracts and landscapes from where we stayed
during
The Big Trip
.
That's a perfectly reasonable point
even if I don't agree with it. I do not think
that there is only one way to make an argument convincingly. You betray
yourself, however, when you feel the need to refer to your subject as
"stupid frogs". I'm not sure that the
O.L.F.
has set up a
joual-o-meter
yet; if anyone, they would be the ones to do such a thing.
The scene with the pig and the kabuki player
was hilarious. Still, the only thing I can say
about
Peter
Greenaway's
8 1/2 Women is that it wasn't as bad as Prospero's Books.
I wonder who decided
moo
Montreal Mirror : The 99c pizza slice exposed
MacWeek : Flash printing SDK debuts
Ooh! Smells like dead-tree weblogs to me...
Andy Oram on the Collections of Information Antipiracy Act.
"If the [CIAA] is passed ... litigators will
probably have to claim that linking is a form of copying, a slippery
slope we don't want to start down."
Perlmonth : The DOMinant Technique for Parsing XML
"A DOM parser translates an XML document into an
object model that allows a program to randomly access and alter sections
of the document.... The containment (not inheritance) hierarchy of the
object model corresponds to the hierarchical structure of the document."
If you're looking for something to do
Burn All GIFs Day
Community action at it's best , I say.
David McFarlane : A few tips on the care, feeding and shooing-away
of artists
"Those 'I always keep a notebook beside the bed
for my dreams' types. Those 'the creative process is a mystery I don't
like to tamper with' types. They can all take a long walk off a short
pier, as far as I'm concerned, and maybe they wouldn't mind taking a few
'absolutely riveted' critics with them." A little shrill perhaps, but not
far from the truth.
L.A. Times on the Tree People
"Now they want the trees they plant and the
houses they retrofit to be part of a total system--what they call a
"sustainable watershed." The bottom line: a city that functions as its
own ecosystem, dramatically reducing flooding, drought and pollution. "
mmmmm....
tree-planting
.
More rumours of Apple and Disney getting into bed
I'm sorry, but I just have a problem with a
company that sues day care centers for copyright violations and has a
dress-code for it's animators.
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.
Larry Wall
"These days it's popular to demonize Microsoft,
but I think of Microsoft more as a spoiled child with a tendency to be a
bully. Yes, they need to be disciplined, but they also need to be praised
when they do something right. That might be more important in the long
run than any amount of spanking."
While I attended art school
there was a retrospective celebrating the role
the
College
played in the heyday of 70's
conceptual
art
. One of the pieces consisted of a single hole in the wall, the result of
someone firing a pellet gun. Whatever, I didn't like it either. What
fascinated me was that not only had someone bought the "original" (did
they buy the whole wall or just like a square foot?), but they had also
"authorized" the "reproduction" of the nonobject-cum-artobject!
Factoid Paranoia
"However, my worry about the factoid system is
about the "subpeona-bility" of the home database. Would you want a
step-by-step record of where you went and who you saw each day of your
life available to anyone who wants to start a nuisance civil suit against
you?" It's really scary how people seem willing to overlook this kind of
stuff if the "hack-value" is high enough.
Sutton vs. United Airlines
[U.S.] Supreme Court Decision
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.
