posts brought to you by the category “wotd”
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.
Leon Brocard : “I've been playing with RDF and CPAN.”
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Bob DuCharme : Datatype Checking with XSLT 2.0
There's actually some good, even if ironic, news about data typing support in XSLT 2.0: if you're still using DTDs, and you're putting off a move to any schema format, you can use XSLT 2.0 stylesheets to add datatype checking to your system, further postponing a move to schemas.
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Norman Walsh : xmlchars.el
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The groom made me do it.
Leon Brocard : Image::IPTCInfo::TemplateFile.pm
...allows the loading of data from an IPTC template file...
I'm not entirely sure what this
is for but Leon Brocard writes cool stuff and
Image::Shoehorn::Gallery
makes heavy use of IPTC data so I'll keep an eye on this
one...
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It's not that anything Maciej has said is wrong
so much as it misses the fact
that because Canada is so big, we have a slightly different
notion of where the "country" begins. Maciej is roughly
seven or eight hours, by car, from the U.S. border and he
still hasn't even hit the 49th parallel. I don't have the
exact numbers, but probably 90+ percent of the country
lives South of that line. If you look at a map you will see
that Canada runs off at the mouth for a considerable
distance North of it. Just to put things in some
perspective, Poland is smaller than France (or looks it)
and the province of Québec, alone, is seven times the size
of France. There were real serious plans on the books
during the 80's to flood about one seventh of the
province's land mass (as part of the James Bay 2
hydro-electric project) which in a European context would
make for a lot of soggy cheese. I mention that to
demonstrate that Canadians have a radically different, and
privileged, sense of space not shared by anyone else on the
planet, except maybe the Russians. Anyway, all that stuff
up there, covered in ice ten months of the year and black
flies the other two:
that
is the "
country
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Steffen Schwigon : pod-mode.el
www.unjourdanslavie.org
Tom Magliozzi : "Are you really planning to chase goats up a mountain?"
RDF boosters really need to learn that creepy, smiley and vaguely stunned-looking ideograms
Guy Lafleur : Marquer un but
evolt.org : Introduction to XFML Core Concepts
Does anyone actually know why
the gang at evolt.org is compelled to put all their code
examples in <textarea> elements? Did I miss the
part about being able to change said examples, thus
presumably making the articles "user-centric", or do they
just think it looks neat?
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A rose is a rose, except when you call it XHTML
For a variety of reasons, I've
started baking all the web pages for a few sites. Any bells
and whistles are just that; all the really important stuff
is right there in the source file on the assumption that
sooner or later the magic server tools will bork out. This
means that things like copyright notices need to be updated
by 'hand'. I knew this when I started and today I sat down
to write a little tool to do the heavy lifting for me. This
is, after all, the magic lala-land we call XML/XHTML,
right? I am generally a SAX-guy but decided this was a good
opportunity to introduce myself to the DOM-ishness of
XML::LibXML. You know, something simple like :
my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
my $doc = $parser->parse_html_file("/path/to/file");
my ($span) = $doc->findnodes("/xpath/to/span/with/curyear");
# I happen to know that the first child
# is a text node containing the year
my $oldyear = $span->firstChild();
$oldyear->replaceNode(XML::LibXML::Text->new("2003"));
# Write changes to disk
Simple, right? Keen observers will have already noticed
that I had to read in the document using the
parse_html_file
method. If your root element says "html", regardless of
whether or not the DOCTYPE says XHTML, it is seemingly
impossible to parse a document using the standard
parse_*
methods. Which means that by the time you get around to
writing your DOM to disk you cant do things
like...drumroll...include an XML declaration. And if you
decide to simply write the declaration out by hand, don't
bother trying to call any of the encoding methods. Maybe
there is some deeper magic I have yet to learn but all I
was able to do was make the Perl interpreter dump core.
Still with me? Okay, so we're going to write the
declaration by hand and just assume we know what we're
dealing with when it comes to encodings. Now remember the
bit about being in an HTML context? Logically, the thing to
do is follow the docs, call the
toStringHTML
method and hope for the best. The best in this case is a
terrible journey back to 1998 because all the singletons in
the well-formed documents you've laboured over are suddenly
left open and dangling. And don't bother throwing caution
to wind and just calling
toString
, not if you use the clever C-style comments hack to hide
the <![CDATA[]]> blocks so that your XHTML
can valid and be understood by a web browser. Who the fuck
knows why, but libxml will turn in to this :
<![CDATA[ /* <![CDATA[ */ @import url(some.css) /* ]]> */ ]]>Oh yeah, and it will include an XML declaration for you. So long as you dont mind that it doesn't specify the encoding. Ugh.
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Installing rsync on a Windows machine
rsync is not without its flaws but it is also not a wheel that needs to be reinvented. I did not realize that someone had gotten it to work under Win98 so I point this out for future reference as much as for anything else.My version of rsync+ssh is a very stock-standard rsync, with the cygwin1.dll (currently version 1.3.6-6), and a simplified version of ssh. It is version 1.2.26 (yeah, ok, old, but works well enough for this). The main difference is that you can put the whole thing in one directory, wherever you like (e.g. c:\rsync or c:\program files\rsync). And you specify your username and home directory with environment variables (e.g. SET USERNAME=bloggs), i.e. you don't need /etc/passwd. You also don't need /usr, /usr/bin etc.
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MaxMind : GeoIP.js
"is a new web service offered by
MaxMind to return the Country, Region, City, Latitude, and
Longitude for your web visitors."
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Matt Sergeant : XML::LibXML.pm 1.52
"This is a feature release,
introducing Perl extension functions to XSLT."
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : whangdepootenawah
In the Ojibwa tongue, "disaster." An affliction that strikes hard when no one expects it.
ex. Whangdepootenawah.see also : whangdepootenawah dict-ified
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Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.8.1
Added support for the
mt.getTrackbackPings
XML-RPC method.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : pucker factor
The degree to which one is in mortal terror while excecuting a dangerous task. Term credited to USAF A-10 pilots flying ground-attack missions during The Gulf War.
ex. So, I'm ridin' in Bobby's new 'Vette and he takes this corner at like 110 mph--serious pucker factor.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : acumen
Acumen \A*cu"men\, n. [L. acumen, fr. acuere to sharpen. Cf. {Acute}.] Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. --Selden. Syn: Sharpness; sagacity; keenness; shrewdness; acuteness. web1913
acumen n 1: a tapering point 2: shrewdness shown by keen insight [syn: {insightfulness}] wn
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The Connection : Whither the Digital Revolution?
Half an hour in to the program
it could perhaps be best described as "watch as the West
coast kids desperately try to revive the old-skool/new
skool" thing. Which by any other name is old skool
pretentiousness and tunnel-vision dressed up as happy happy
joy joy. Someone please make Jaron Lanier shut the fuck
up.
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Me : Net::Google.pm 0.3
Fixed a bunch of bugs and added
a Makefile. I will upload this to the CPAN shortly.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : rotted
Rotted is something that is plain awful. It can also be used to describe a person, place or thing.
ex. "Geez, that guy is really rotted".see also : rotted dict-ified
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : shift
To snog, neck, or make out.
ex. "I shifted Anna at the club last night. Big mistake."see also : shift dict-ified
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Barrie Slaymaker : Bootstrapping AxKit
The Open Source Blogsticker Party
"Blogging. Almost as much fun as
poutine
."
It occurred to me while I was
visiting the States, recently, to have bumper stickers
printed that just say :
God Bless Bumperstickers
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I didn't really think it was possible,
but I have almost finished
re-jigging the HTML behind the weblog to be completely
<table>-less. Since everything that comes out of
the database is RSS, it's just a question of a little bit
of XSL munging and some CSS magic and you'd never know
anything had changed. Well, except for the unpolished image
files, wacky colour mismatches, random font-sizes and
foofy-less meta data. Anyway, I will try to post the files
XSL and CSS files in the next couple of days although I
doubt I will have time to write up any kind of
documentation. Mileage for people using pre 5.0 browsers
will undoubtedly vary...
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Paul Johnson : Shell::Source.pm
"allows arbitrary shell scripts, or
other programs for that matter, to be run and their
environment to be inherited into a Perl program."
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From the Tower of Babel department :
come the
Value Chain
Markup Language,
AccountReceivable-AccountPayable
Markup Language and
QuickBooks
Markup Language.
This is not anything I would have
normally thought I could be interested in, but I increasingly
find myself rolling my own budget/finance tools so...wonk
wonk wonk.
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Me : Blogger.pm 0.5.2
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is homily
| source : web1913 | Homily
\Hom"i*ly\, n.; pl. {Homilies}. [LL. homilia, Gr. ?
communion, assembly, converse, sermon, fr. ? an assembly, fr.
? same; cf. ? together, and ? crowd, cf. ? to press: cf. F.
hom['e]lie. See {Same}.] 1. A discourse or sermon read or
pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. --Shak. 2. A
serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral
point, or on the conduct of life. As I have heard my father
Deal out in his long homilies. --Byron. {Book of Homilies}. A
collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by
ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward
VI., and a second, issued in the reign of Elizabeth; -- both
books being certified to contain a ``godly and wholesome
doctrine.'' | source : wn | homily n : a sermon on a moral or
religious topic [syn: {preachment}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is avatar
| source : web1913 | Avatar
\Av`a*tar"\, n. [Skr. avat[^a]ra descent; ava from + root
t[.r] to cross, pass over.] 1. (Hindoo Myth.) The descent of
a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal;
-- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu. 2.
Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or
admiration. | source : wn | avatar n 1: ny new embodiment of
a familiar idea; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar
of cunning" [syn: {embodiment}, {incarnation}] 2: the
manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human
or superhuman or animal form; "the Buddha is considered an
avatar of the god Vishnu" | source : jargon | avatar n. Syn.
[in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of a god] 1. Among
people working on virtual reality and {cyberspace}
interfaces, an "avatar" is an icon or representation of a
user in a shared virtual reality. The term is sometimes used
on {MUD}s. 2. [CMU, Tektronix] {root}, {superuser}. There are
quite a few Unix machines on which the name of the superuser
account is `avatar' rather than `root'. This quirk was
originated by a CMU hacker who found the terms `root' and
`superuser' unimaginative, and thought `avatar' might better
impress people with the responsibility they were accepting. |
source : foldoc | avatar 1. <chat, virtual reality> An
{image} representing a user in a multi-user {virtual reality}
(or VR-like, in the case of {Palace}) space. 2. (CMU,
Tektronix) {root}, {superuser}. There are quite a few {Unix}
computers on which the name of the superuser account is
"avatar" rather than "root". This quirk was originated by a
{CMU} hacker who disliked the term "superuser", and was
propagated through an ex-CMU hacker at {Tektronix}. [{Jargon
File}] (1997-09-14) | source : vera | AVATAR Advanced Video
Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator (BBS)
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OpenFlow
"is a workflow engine created with
python and Zope. With OpenFlow, you can define a map of the
activities to be performed, conditional paths and parallel
activities. Activities can be defined using every Zope
object, and conditions can be definined using every data
visible in a Zope object."
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Eric van der Vlist : RTFOutputHandler
is an output method 4xt that
serializes a XML tree following a RTF syntax."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is slaver
| source : web1913 | Slabber
\Slab"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slabbered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Slabbering}.] [OE. slaberen; akin to LG. & D.
slabbern, G. schlabbern, LG. & D. slabben, G. schlabben,
Icel. slafra. Cf. {Slaver}, {Slobber}, {Slubber}.] To let
saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a
child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also
{slaver}, and {slobber}.] | source : web1913 | Slaver
\Slav"er\, n. Saliva driveling from the mouth. Of all mad
creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills,
and not the bite. --Pope. | source : web1913 | Slaver
\Slav"er\, n. 1. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave
ship. 2. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves;
a slave merchant, or slave trader. The slaver's hand was on
the latch, He seemed in haste to go. --Longfellow. | source :
web1913 | Slaver \Slav"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Slavered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slavering}.] [Cf. Icel.
slafra. See {Slabber}.] 1. To suffer spittle, etc., to run
from the mouth. 2. To be besmeared with saliva. --Shak. |
source : web1913 | Slaver \Slav"er\, v. t. To smear with
saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to
slabber. | source : wn | slaver n 1: a person engaged in
slave trade [syn: {slave dealer}, {slave trader}] 2: someone
who owns slaves [syn: {slaveholder}] v : let saliva drivel
from the mouth; "The baby drooled" [syn: {drivel}, {drool},
{slabber}, {slobber}, {dribble}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pervicacious
| source : web1913 | Pervicacious
\Per`vi*ca"cious\, a. [L. pervicax, -acis.] Obstinate;
willful; refractory. [Obs.] -- {Per`vi*ca"cious*ly}, adv. --
{Per`vi*ca"cious*ness}, n. [Obs.]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is rivulet
| source : web1913 | Rivulet
\Riv"u*let\, n. [Earlier rivolet, It. rivoletto, a dim. fr.
rivolo, L. rivulus, dim. of rivus a brook. CF. {Rival},
{Rite}.] A small stream or brook; a streamlet. By fountain or
by shady rivulet He sought them. --Milton. | source : wn |
rivulet n : a small stream [syn: {rill}, {run}, {runnel},
{streamlet}]
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Marc Lindahl's Audio Product for Zope
has prompted some interesting
discussion on the merits of storing large widgets in the
ZODB or on the filesystem.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is potboiler
| source : web1913 | Potboiler
\Pot"boil`er\, n. A term applied derisively to any literary
or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money
and the means of living. [Cant] | source : wn | potboiler n :
a literary composition of poor quality that was written
quickly to make money (to boil the pot)
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is galvanic
| source : web1913 | Galvanic
\Gal*van"ic\, a. [From Galvani, a professor of physiology at
Bologna, on account of his connection (about 1780) with the
discovery of dynamical or current electricity: cf. F.
galvanique.] Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena
of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
{Galvanic battery} (Elec.), an apparatus for generating
electrical currents by the mutual action of certain liquids
and metals; -- now usually called {voltaic battery}. See
{Battery}. {Galvanic} {circuit or circle}. (Elec.) See under
{Circuit}. {Galvanic pile} (Elec.), the voltaic pile. See
under {Voltaic}. | source : wn | galvanic adj 1:
(electricity) pertaining to or producing electric current by
chemical action; "a galvanic cell"; "a voltaic (or galvanic)
couple" [syn: {voltaic}] 2: affected by emotion as if by
electricity; thrilling; "gave an electric reading of the
play"; "the new leader had a galvanic effect on morale" [syn:
{electric}, {galvanizing}]
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Olivier Dameron : XBEL Bookmarks Manager
If this thing can do
file-locking, it would be a pretty cool example of the
street finding it's own use for things. Every day I do a
certain amount of sysadmin-ish type work and there is a
real need to document who did what and when. I keep notes
locally, but that really doesn't work for people in another
office or another city. Similarly, having to scp a bunch of
files to a remote server or write 15 lines of DocBook
everytime I add a symlink, just won't happen. On the other
hand,
there's a
lot of overlap
between keeping log file, writing a journal, maintaining a
bookmarks list and updating a weblog so the tools for one
aren't very different for another. Digressing for just a
moment, journals and logs could benefit by having aliases
and bookmarks could stand to use, well, hyperlinks. But I
digress. If this thing does file locking then I could use
it for most of what
I'm currently using the RadioUserland outliner for
(why can't the Gimp capture individual windows in RU?) I
would rather use RU because it speaks XML, maps the
outliner to the weblog nicely and has a built in search
engine. But it runs on NT and, more importantly, it can't
talk to the network over a secure connection. That
shouldn't be interpreted as being quite as pissy as it may
sound. There's a lot to be said for knowing who your
customers are and acting accordingly. Plain old FTP and
Windows are probably smart business decisions from
Userland's point of view. What I find sad is that by
deciding to not include one of the core widgets (SSL) for
any Internet app they effectively limit the different uses
that the street may find for their thing. Call it
boot-strapping, call it capturing eyeballs, call it
whatever you want; it's almost always good for business.
And if you think I'm just being flaky and idealistic I
would point out that the web itself is a as good an example
of the adage as you're going to get these days.
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Ron Savage : CGI::Explorer.pm
"is a support module for CGI scripts.
It manages a tree of data, so that the script can display the
tree, and the user can click on a node in the tree to open or
close that node."
This, in combination with
mod_perl, would be a useful tool for groups who write and
share OPML documents ( any XML document really ) to a
fileshare/webdav folder but don't want to serve them via the
web using a Frontier, or whatever it's called this week,
server.
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Simson Garfinkel : The Internet on a Chip
"Pervasive telemetry will create
unprecedented opportunities to collect personal information.
An engineer at Zojirushi, for example, proudly showed
iReady's Koyama a cell phone, displaying a message indicating
that the engineer's grandmother had used her wireless hot pot
that very morning.
"What does she think of this?"
Koyama asked the engineer.
"Well, she doesn't know!"
answered the engineer—who then said that if his
grandmother were aware that her hot pot was monitoring her
actions, she almost certainly would object.
"There is this whole Little Brother aspect" to the
project that is a little unsettling"
, Koyama concedes." see also
Behind the Bar Code
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The thing I don't understand is
J.M. Soler : Scripting Blender with Python
Sometimes, even if it only lasts a
couple of seconds, I start to feel like the last five years
actually make sense...
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mmmmm....planibuses.
The mountain, good cheese and killer
public transportation. What more do you need in life? via
YULblog
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National Post on the Ladies Afternoon Art Society
"The problem with the word
performance is that it implies a distance from the audience,
and we're just not like that. We want to be out and talking
to people and getting to know them. We don't call it
performance because we find it deters people from paying
attention, and then they won't think of it in any other way.
We are not artists, we are the Ladies Afternoon Art Society,
out to help other people and to make things look nice."
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Beck-weenies take note :
he'll be appearing on Morning Becomes
Eclectic tomorrow at 11h00 PST. ( real evil g2 )
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CNN : "On Monday, Handspring will release the VisorPhone,
a $299 product that essentially turns
the Visor into a [GSM] cell phone. Using the microphone built
into the PDA, the cartridge includes software that provides
caller ID and integration with the Visor address book."
Thanks
Chris
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Salon : To heck with hacktivism
"The truth is that while the
hacktivist slogan, "The revolution will be digitized!" is
certainly catchy, most techno-protestors have yet to prove
themselves anything more than pests. Disorganized and
occasionally reckless, many are content to deface Web pages
with "Break the Bank!" graffiti; they are not engaging in
powerful acts that might set the mandarins of globalization
aquake in their boots." I was talking to someone, this
evening, about being part of the hardcode scene when I was in
high-school. I'm not sure how much any of us really thought
about the complexities of some of things we raged against.
For alot of people talk of smashing the state was just
another way to be hardcorer-than-thou; a practice best
evidenced in massive and prolonged drug taking. But there was
an awareness of events in the world and an expectation, even
if you were too stoned to talk straight, to question the
forces and motivations behind them. We may have talked the
talk more than anything but I think it was a valuable
exercise intellectually and it was a good step more than some
of the other people I knew were doing. see also :
Talk Minus
Action = 0! The strange history of Joey Shithead and
D.O.A.
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Bill Softky : xml2tree
"This project is effectively a [PHP
4] library class for reading/writing/displaying XML
documents, for manipulating them in memory by
adding/deleting/changing attribute values and child nodes,
and for extracting specific nodes from larger XML objects. It
is written entirely in PHP (as a file to "require"), and
depends on no other software, tools, libraries etc. ... it
does not conform to the Document Object Model (DOM), which is
the formal standard for XML memory representations. This
project is meant only to be more useful than nothing at all."
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Ideas : Sovereignty
"What is the "right size" for a
nation? What counts most - Geography? Language? Economic
self-sufficiency? The case of Quebec is familiar, but two
other examples aren't. In Micro-states (July 5th) professor
Tim Carroll examines the case for the independence of Prince
Edward Island. A Charter for Toronto (July 12th), with former
mayors John Sewell and David Crombie, urban guru Jane Jacobs,
journalists and academic economists, asks what would happen
if the city separated from the province."
02h05
GMT
(real evil g2)
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Sarah Vowell : American Dreams
"I am more of a "despite" patriot,
believing in the inherent truth and beauty of the nation's
founding documents despite the fact we've never, not even in
the beginning—especially in the beginning—lived
up to anything close to a more perfect union. But (A) show me
somewhere better (and if you say your native Canada, Paul, I
suggest you tell me why you moved to L.A.), and (B), I think
I'm a better person because I have words like "more perfect
union" to live up to."
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Wired : The Medium is the Community
"Most information that people might
find useful is not considered to be newsworthy, [Preecs]
said, because it stretches over a longer period than the
daily news cycle most of the press adheres to. He recommended
using lots of volunteers working over the Internet to cover
local issues and events, and delve into subjects that do not
follow a daily news cycle."
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Butthole Surfers : buttlegs
"By the mid 80's there were a bunch
of bad sounding live bootlegs of the band in the shops. In
'87 we felt we could bootleg the band as well as everybody
else, so we joined the crowd and released our own crappy
bootleg too. ... Since it's doubtful we'll ever reissue this
again, here all the songs in the MP3 format, for those who
want it but are reluctant to cough up the 100 bucks or so for
an original copy on Ebay."
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An HTML to XHTML converter
from the nice people at O'Reilly.
Pass the source, please.
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Because I've always wanted one
of these shiny happy weirdos staring out of my website like
it was a Skinner box and they were the rats; I've just been
too cheap to
pay for them
. via
eatonweb
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Azby Brown : Aqua borrows heavily from Kai Krause
Meanwhile,
David Every considers The Dock
: "But then we come to a bigger question: Is the Dock for
showing running applications, or is it a launcher? Jobs
showed the Dock as both. At times, he dropped aliases into
the Dock, saying it was a great place to keep things you need
to launch regularly. However, the Dock also gained icons
automatically whenever something was launched or opened. To
add to the confusion, icons were constantly reordering
themselves, never staying in a "familiar" place. And what the
hell is the Trash doing in the dock? How does that add
clarity to the interface? You don't drag things to the Dock
to delete them. They blew the whole desktop metaphor with
that mess. One behavior per Dock, please." It's starting to
sound like OS X might just be one big disco inferno...
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The only thing worse than censorship
O'Reilly Sample Chapter
<a href =
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscook/chapter/ch01.html">JavaScript
Application Cookbook : The Client-Side Search
Engine</a>
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Andrei Codrescu on Idiot Guides
"I am working on an Idiot's Guide to
Myself." real audio
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Cyberia : Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace
Douglas Rushkoff has put the complete
text of his third book online. I tend to think that Rushkoff
gives hyperbole a whole new meaning, but he's always
interesting. via
metascene
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Michel Trudeau : Les yeux grands fermés
"Il y a quelques années, L'Amant, de
Marguerite Duras, avait été jugé obscène par les douaniers
canadiens et estampillé «9899.00.00», comme toute marchandise
moralement indigne d'entrer au pays. J'ai voulu savoir où en
était rendue la censure. Pour ce faire, j'ai donc entrepris
une petite expérience très instructive. Je me suis fait venir
du matériel érotique par la poste."
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Radio Free Martha's Vineyard
Cool. Maybe they can do
Clinton-traffic reports while the big guy is here. There are
only a half dozen main roads on the Island, and everyone has
stories of spending an extra two hours getting home at night,
waiting for the Presidential motorcade to pass by. Maybe
they'll play
this
song
(mp3), too. Meanwhile, the good staff at KPFA
stick it to The Man
any which way they can.
refers to
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Kelly Hagerton, Product Manager Elron Software
"It's only Orwellian when
organizations spy and don't tell employees." And 2 + 2 = 5.
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Handhelds Beaming Up a Coke
"But one outspoken privacy critic
said that advertising has just gone too far. Jason Catlett
wondered if the machine requires intrusive caller ID and if
TeleVend would keep a database of purchases and locations
that could be used to track a consumer's movements. " Duh.
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I've taken two Star Wars Personality Tests now
In the first I ranked
Yoda
, the second
Obi Wan Kenobi
"No, not the brash, young Jedi currently on screen, but Alec
Guiness' wise hermit of the Classic Trilogy." Indeed. I think
I'll have to put that one on my resume. (I quoted Darth Vader
on my
application to
art school.
)
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Julie Doucet
I got pointed to
Rodney Greenblat's recent watercolours
from the
peterme
site, and it reminded me of her work.