posts brought to you by the category “theatre”
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.
Nicholas Clark : When Perl is not quite fast enough
TODO : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm
# Use
F:F:R:MMagic
for finding images
# doesn't always work (let when you
# deleted all those pending images who
# didn't return image/* )
# Use
F:F:Rule
->directory() for breadcrumbs
# Use
XML::Filter::TT
for templates
# templates => { image => "image.tt",
# index => "index.tt" };
# pass the following args:
# %iptc_info
# %exif_info
# next / previous image
# next / previous directory
# id
# scales
# static (huh?)
# ?
# How to eval
PhotoRDF in
EXIF comments
?
# Fix railing slash on directories
# Use
File::Rsync
to reconcile old/new files
# write to temp dir then call rsync --delete to remove
# old or out of date files
# this would allow 'directory' to be a
# remote URI
Matthias Wandel : Building a megapixel digital camera from a
flatbed scanner
I started playing around with my flatbed scanner to see if I could
capture images of stuff around it, by holding the scanner in my hand
and rotating it as it scanned.
Ponie is a version of Perl 5 that will run on Parrot.
Tomer Hanuka has some fine lines.
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.
Wow, I'm not sure I could be any more underwhelmed.
Subject: Tell me, how long am I going to have to listen to Daniel
Libeskind...
That picture of the escalator could be from any metro station in
the city.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dhinchak
Adjective used when you see really weird clothing on nice
people.
ex. Remember Smita's dhinchak tiger skirt?
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
superextable
It's a compression of super extra double. It's used when
you really mean it.
ex. That was a superextable job on that test!
100%.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : cueless
The blank expression on a newsreader's face when the
autocue breaks down.
ex. When they cut to camera 5 and for a moment, he looked
totally cueless.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : button
box
The infra red remote control for any one of many
different types of electrical home entertainment
appliances.
ex. Pass the button box so I can see what's on the other
channels.
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."
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)}]
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Donald A. Norman : Just because it's funny doesn't mean it isn't
real
"The New 7 series BMW no longer has all those
knobs and buttons that clutter up the dashboard - you know, where each
knob does one thing that you can count on. Instead, it has a single
controller located on the center console that "functions similarly to a
computer mouse." It drives a display in the center of the dashboard. It
is called the iDrive: i for "intuitive") (Don't get me started on
intuitive. You know what's intuitive? Fear of heights. Everything else we
call intuitive, such as walking or using a pencil took years of practice.
Is that what we want? A control that takes years of practice?)"
Yuuichi Teranishi : eldav.el
"provides an interface to the WebDAV servers for
Emacs. ... [note that] SSL is not supported (because `nd' does not handle
it.)"
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : forkster
The act of placing ones fork into the toaster in an
attempt to get your now charcoalled toast out.
ex. "Xavier! How many times have I told you not to
forkster? You could get electrocuted!"
The nice people at ActiveState have added a PHP Cookbook
Mark Hershberger : Myblogger.el
"is based on Simon Kittle's blogger.el, but where
his code calls a Perl program, this code uses xml-rpc.el. As of this
writing, my mods to xml-rpc.el are needed to add support for boolean
types."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : philomath
Philomath, GA Zip code(s): 30660 Philomath, OR (city, FIPS
57450) Location: 44.54050 N, 123.35708 W Population (1990): 2983 (1145
housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s):
97370
gazetteer
Philomath \Phil"o*math\, n. [Gr. ?; fi`los loving, a friend
+ ma`qh learning, fr. ?, ?, to learn.] A lover of learning; a scholar.
--Chesterfield.
web1913
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : gelid
Gelid \Gel"id\, a. [L. gelidus, fr. gelun frost, cold. See
{Cold}, and cf. {Congeal}, {Gelatin}, {Jelly}.] Cold; very cold;
frozen. ``Gelid founts.'' --Thompson.
web1913
gelid adj : extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "let's get
inside; I'm freezing"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North
Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn:
{arctic}, {freezing}, {frigid}, {glacial}, {icy}, {polar}]
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Jorge Godoy : CVS and DocBook Validation
"Writing a document and putting it under revision
control is not an easy task. One might want to make that document into a
printable format and face several markup errors. One way to prevent that
is to ensure that only correct DocBook documents are available to
everybody and authors don't put problematic or with an incomplete
structure at the repository. ... CVS allows the use of triggers in some
stages. By using commit triggers we can start a validation proccess (in
our case using onsgmls, from [[WWW]] OpenJade) that will either accept
the document as valid SGML or refuse it."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is acerbic
| source : web1913 | Acerbic \A*cerb"ic\, a. Sour
or severe. | source : wn | acerbic adj 1: sour or bitter in taste [syn:
{acerb}, {astringent}, {sharp}] 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}, {acid}, {acrid}, {bitter}, {blistering}, {caustic}, {sulfurous},
{sulphurous}, {venomous}, {virulent}, {vitriolic}]
DevShed : The Fundamentals of DTD Design
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redact
| source : web1913 | Redact \Re*dact"\
(r?*d?kt"), v. t. [L. redactus, p. p. of redigere; pref. red-, re-,
again, back + agere to put in motion, to drive.] To reduce to form, as
literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to
edit. | source : wn | redact v 1: formulate in a particular style or
language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very
polite language" [syn: {frame}, {cast}, {put}, {couch}] 2: make editorial
changes (in a text) [syn: {edit}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is caterwaul
| source : web1913 | Caterwaul \Cat"er*waul\, v.
i. [imp. & p. p. {Caterwauled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caterwauling}.]
[Cat + waul, wawl, to cry as a cat.] To cry as cats in rutting time; to
make a harsh, offensive noise. --Coleridge. | source : web1913 |
Caterwaul \Cat"er*waul\, n. A caterwauling. | source : wn | caterwaul n :
the yowling sound made by a cat in heat v : utter shrieks, as of cats
[syn: {yowl}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is slake
| source : web1913 | Slake \Slake\, v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Slaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slaking}.] [OE. slaken to
render slack, to slake, AS. sleacian, fr. sleac slack. See {Slack}, v.
& a.] 1. To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
``And slake the heavenly fire.'' --Spenser. It could not slake mine ire
nor ease my heart. --Shak. 2. To mix with water, so that a true chemical
combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime. | source :
web1913 | Slake \Slake\, v. i. 1. To go out; to become extinct. ``His
flame did slake.'' --Sir T. Browne. 2. To abate; to become less decided.
[R.] --Shak. 3. To slacken; to become relaxed. ``When the body's
strongest sinews slake.'' [R.] --Sir J. Davies. 4. To become mixed with
water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime
slakes. {Slake trough}, a trough containing water in which a blacksmith
cools a forging or tool. | source : wn | slake v 1: satisfy (thirst)
[syn: {quench}, {allay}, {assuage}] 2: make less active or intense [syn:
{abate}, {slack}] 3: cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water,
as of lime [syn: {slack}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is rotund
| source : web1913 | Rotund \Ro*tund"\, a. [L.
rotundus. See {Round}, and cf. {Rotunda}.] 1. Round; circular; spherical.
2. Hence, complete; entire. 3. (Bot.) Orbicular, or nearly so. --Gray. |
source : web1913 | Rotund \Ro*tund"\, n. A rotunda. [Obs.] --Burke. |
source : wn | rotund adj 1: spherical in shape 2: full and rich; "orotund
tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase" [syn: {orotund}, {round}]
3: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: {corpulent}, {obese},
{weighty}]
Lauren Weinstein & Peter Neumann : Sanity in the Election
Process
"We stand at a crossroads where the existence of
fundamental flaws in our election system have finally been exposed to the
public. It is no longer tenable for the powers that be, with a
gentleman's agreement or a nod and a wink, to steamroll over these flaws
-- and the will of voters -- for the sake of convenience and expediency.
We can start down the path toward ensuring genuine fairness and integrity
in the voting process by making sure that the election of last Tuesday is
resolved in a manner that not only serves the candidates, but more
importantly the will of the voters themselves."
CBC : Marc-Boris St. Maurice is running in the downtown Montreal
riding of Laurier-Sainte-Marie against Gilles Duceppe.
"...St-Maurice said one in four Canadians admit
to trying marijuana or hashish at least once. "If all those people voted
for the Marijuana Party, I would be the Prime Minister," he said. Other
parties have mentioned this issue during the campaign. The Canadian
Alliance said it would allow a free vote on decriminalization. But
St-Maurice is skeptical. He said Stockwell Day is trying to look cool by
bringing up the marijuana issue and that's totally unacceptable." Enough
said.
Montreal Gazette : "The Toronto-area Undeliverable Mail Office
of Canada Post processes more than 6.2 million
pieces of mail annually - not counting the 55,000 sets of keys (car,
house, hotel) and more than 50,000 pictures." see also :
Mailboxes
were different then
.
PHPBuilder : Browser Detection and Appropriate CSS Generation
"Whoever said CSS would solve all your
cross-platform browser display issues needs to lay off the pipe a
little."
Looking for a change?
Maybe you should try a
Cheese Choc-Dog
for lunch. How could you resist a recipe that requires you : "carefully
drill each hot dog lengthwise" and then "fill the cavaties with aerosol
cheese product." Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my chin...