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Super Bang Pettit III : Paintings Abstracts and landscapes from where we stayed during The Big Trip.
A note to industrial designers and persons thinking about buying a Visor: Why the f*ck can't I put the protective cover back ...
BOP is Blog Oriented Publishing "a database-backed Perl-based content management system designed to output static pages on a l...

Monday, July 03 2000

Randal Schwartz : Simple XML Processing and Queries "So, the strategy is to start with an HTML form asking the user to input SQL search patterns. ...
Bunnies!

Tuesday, July 04 2000

Lawrence Lessig : Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace Happy America Day, kids! It may not always be elegant, or without fault, but you've done a bet...
Building the Grid "An Intergrated Services and Toolkit Architecture for Next Generation Networked Applications."...
"We were lying on the bed and he was rubbing my back" , she said to her friend. The bus was crossing University, going East on Sherbrooke, and she h...
Matt Neuberg's Frontier : The Definitive Guide has been "open-booked". When did that happen?

Wednesday, July 05 2000

Washington Post : Do-It-Yourself Checkout "We're so Internet-oriented, so ATM-oriented. It's a natural transition. It's a natural extens...
Perl Golf Apocalypse "will have 10 teams, each comprised of up to 3 Perl hackers. Each team will be given its own c...

Thursday, July 06 2000

NY Times : Voyeur-Cams Come to Home Furnishings "But like many shoppers, I suspect, I was more intrigued by other shoppers' preferences to gai...
National Post : "Each article of skim.com clothing displays a number that doubles as that person's email address. For example, someone wearing a skirt with 99876 s...

Friday, July 07 2000

Rest assured gentle reader, that there is no shortage of crazy John Woo-style digital action taking place behind the scene...
mp3sh "A shell like interface to mpg123 and id3 tags" see also : Connecting mpg123 to MySQL
Python for the PalmOS Cool! Watch as Perl weenies, the world over, gnash their teeth in silent simmering respect. v...
PHP Builder : Using PHP and XML with Apache Cocoon
suricate "brings the meerkat open wire service into the realm of handheld devices, wireless email appli...
WebReference : Registering and publishing with RSS

Saturday, July 08 2000

"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 acr...
Matt Sergeant : RSSmirror.pl "The clean-up process, in addition to fixing "uncuddled &'s", also converts the Latin-1 entiti...

Sunday, July 09 2000

Christie Blanchford quotes Wilson Lee "F--k, I feel like a Korean guy at a Reform/Alliance convention." Pause. "I am. lt's always a ...
Sarah Vowell : American Dreams "I am more of a "despite" patriot, believing in the inherent truth and beauty of the nation's ...
This American Life : In Dog We Trust (real evil g2)
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." ...

Monday, July 10 2000

Vodka espresso?

Tuesday, July 11 2000

Guy Gilbert "Isolée dans son geste, la Sûreté du Québec a pris sur elle-même de résoudre la question socia...
Jesse Erlbaum : CGI::Application "is an inversion of the "Embedded" philosophy (ASP, JSP, EmbPerl, Mason, etc.) in which there ...
Jay Barwell and Derek Rogusky : Social conservatives come out of the closet "This social conservative belief in, and preference for, the democratic political process stan...
Scott McCloud : 10 Suggestions for first-time webcomics artists The fervour with which McCloud has taken to the web makes these comix seem a bit like those li...
Patrick Hess : class.tree.php3 "gives you an easy way to create expandable tree lists." mmmmm ..... easy. The clever lad als...
WebNap is "a web-based Napster-compatible client in PHP." How cool is that?

Wednesday, July 12 2000

International Panel of Eminent Personalities : Report on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide "But when it came to trying to understand the actual act of killing, we confess our total fail...
Ideas : Sovereignty "What is the "right size" for a nation? What counts most - Geography? Language? Economic self-...
Mark Kingwell "Focusing on income levels while ignoring other factors can only lead to a skewed assessment o...
project-flash "is a new shell replacement for Windows 98 made from Macromedia's Flash 4 vector based technol...
Gary Dahl "The heather-encrusted headlands, veiled in fog as thick as smoke in a crowded pub, hunched pr...

Thursday, July 13 2000

"I'm not too good with left and right or east and west, but north south isfine, why is that?" The only way I can remember left from right is that I draw with my right hand. If you ever see...
This sight at the Vatican museum is possibly the only thing that saved an otherwise aggravating trip to Popeworld. That and the...
Abigail : JAPHS and other obscure signatures
The Cuckoo Egg Project "is essentially a monkey wrench in the machinery of online piracy. The method is relatively si...
Brendan Bernhard : Schmooze Dot Com "Little did I know ... that this would be the beginning of a long, painful odyssey through the...
Dru Lavigne : Accessing Microsoft Files [from FreeBSD] Using Sharity-Light

Friday, July 14 2000

Kudos to A List Apart for raising a little hell this week, even if it is mostly just ill-conceived, childish drivel ...
Palm Open Source "The PalmOS Open Source Portal" see also : The Open Palm Group
Michael Lucas : Experiments in SMB
Cool Uses for Perl : 250 badges in 10 minutes!

Saturday, July 15 2000

Dave Winer "You can relax, no matter what other people say, every point of view is just as valid as any o...

Sunday, July 16 2000

XML for <SCRIPT> "is a simple non-validating XML parser written in JavaScript. This was written partly as an ex...
The only thing worse than X? X as a Java-based web application. The end is truly nigh. Run for the hills. see also : Joel Sutton ...
I got my hair cut the other day. It is shorter than I planned but my only real concern during the summer is that [it] not stick...

Monday, July 17 2000

SANS Flash Advisory "You are vulnerable to total compromise simply by previewing or reading an email (without open...
DIY law?
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 commun...
Bill Softky : xml2tree "This project is effectively a [PHP 4] library class for reading/writing/displaying XML docume...
I just feel more alive when I'm shopping parts one, two and three.

Tuesday, July 18 2000

The "Making the Macintosh" series debuts today
Volker Grassmuck : Into the Muddy Waters of the Turing Galaxy "Death and metaphoric rebirth of the world in media and of media in the Universal medium" ...
Dirk Nicolas Wagner : Software Agents take the Internet as a Shortcut to Enter Society "A Survey of New Actors to Study for Social Theory." What do you suppose agents would demand a...
CBC : Guggenheim may open on Las Vegas strip
XML Hack : RDF from email headers

Wednesday, July 19 2000

developerWorks : Dare to script tree-based XML with Perl Meanwhile, Perl 6 has been announced and The Camel Book v 3.0 is in stores now!
Macworld : "Seeing the Cube for the first time is an experience that no recitation of the specs can possibly describe. Almost totally smooth ...
Ideas considers "hacktivism" this evening "The threat: If Indonesia failed to abide by the East Timor referendum, government communicati...
NY Times : British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail "The measure would not require traditional warrants signed by judges. Instead, warrants for e-...
Jamie Jawinski : Gronk! "I looked around at other jukebox programs, and none of them really did exactly what I wanted....

Thursday, July 20 2000

Seven 2 Eleven paintings by Daniel McCleary
Salon : To heck with hacktivism "The truth is that while the hacktivist slogan, "The revolution will be digitized!" is certain...
LEAPs (LibwEb APplications) "is a suite of community web site applications built by using a Perl toolkit called LibWeb. Cu...
If you didn't think it could get any worse than radio-controlled machine-gun vehicles, it just did. via squared biz
Free Pint : Web resources for handheld computers

Friday, July 21 2000

It is a computer in name only. People are making the same arguments about the Cube that they made about the iMac before it ac...
Shu Lea Cheang "Pornography is a common language, and technology is what you make of it. My own sense of tech...
I'm not one for single-issue voting, but Ambassador Duke's campaign promise to send yappy dogs back to wherever it is they come fro...
Chris Hubrick "Be thankful Netscape is building a /free/ (as in speech) browser for you at all. And the fre...
CBC : Scientists break speed of light "It [a light pulse] raced so fast the pulse exited a specially-prepared chamber before it even...
Gareth Rees : DBO.pm "is designed to be flexibly extensible in a number of directions - adding new operations on th...

Saturday, July 22 2000

Eric Meyer : The CSS Anarchist's Cookbook "I kept telling myself that CSS should never be used for evil. That in the wrong hands, it co...
Mordecai Richler : O, woe is Montreal "In Montreal, only Schwartz's is capable of warning us of the horror that could be coming our ...

Sunday, July 23 2000

"Puis j'vous aidez?" she asked, obviously annoyed. I didn't look up to see if it was the one who had gotten my appl...
enormous luscious woman breast

Monday, July 24 2000

Cybridputo #3 "We don't have a Web site! Get the fuck off the Web!" see also : Courtney : "How am I supposed...
Joust "lets you create really, really spiffy JavaScript index menus that function just like Windows ...

Tuesday, July 25 2000

All basements are not created equal. I found these photos while preparing for The Big Move 2.0. With six and half foot high stucco ...
Talk of the Nation : [The] End of Nationhood "A discussion with the French Ambassador to the European Union [ Jean Marie Guehenno, author o...

Wednesday, July 26 2000

Jorn Barger : Scare the motherfuckers shitless
The GlobeCom Jukebox is another in the growing pool of web based music players. It appears to do everything under t...

Thursday, July 27 2000

Robert J. Lurtsema : 1931 - 2000
John R. MacArthur : French Toast "In the United States, capitalism has become the raison d'être of the elites; in France, it se...
Bill Evans : boycott-riaa.com "The RIAA is a professional lobby organization of recording labels of which five labels contro...
Dave Cross : Sub::Approx.pm "allows you to call functions by _approximate_ names. Why you would ever want to do this is a ...

Friday, July 28 2000

The Big Move 2.0 has begun. Regular programming will resume sometime next week. In the meantime, I'll leave you...
Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day "Let's be honest, sometimes we don't know our System Administrators as well as they know us. R...
Marc St-Maurice, leader of the Marijuana Party : "I'm just waiting for Jean Chrétien to drop the writ and call a by-election, then I'm off to ...
NY Times : Gulf War Led Cheney to the Oil Boardroom After reading this article, it occured to me that Dick Cheney might have a very specific funct...
Randal Schwartz : Should I organize a boycott of camel 3?
From the Pen is Mightier than the Sword department : comes the Write Here Suite that brings handwriting recognition software to the desktop, using ...
Also in the Go Forth and Make Money department : why has no one announced -- even as vapourware -- a cell phone module for my Visor?

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