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Wednesday, November 01 2000
- Oh fuck it. I'm just going to break it and see how long it takes to fix... I will put all the foofy dhtml ...
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Thursday, November 02 2000
- CBC : Do penguins fall over backwards watching planes?
- Beck-weenies take note : he'll be appearing on Morning Becomes Eclectic tomorrow at 11h00 PST. ( real evil g2 )
- David Sweet : A Perl of a Site Map "I hope I have inspired you to sneak into your boss's office and throw away all the photocopie...
- Ben Schochet : Homesite editor for Zope [ alpha ] Meanwhile, BBEdit 6 won't play nicely with Zope. Accordingly to tech support : "...BBEdit 5.1 ...
- Why do people feel the need to override the UNIVERSAL::can method? Must .... bang ... head
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Friday, November 03 2000
- Bill Adler : "Disgusted as I am with two-party politics, I thought it was crucially important to support Nader, who has long been a hero of mine and wh...
- Anne Charlton & Clive Bates : "We argue that the mobile phone is an effective competitor to cigarettes in the market for products that offer teenagers adult style, individuality, sociability, rebel...
- Salon : The gleeful contrarian "Now Dutton [ publisher of Arts & Letters Daily, the weblog we'd all like to be ] has struck a...
- XML-DBMS "is [Perl/Java] middleware for transferring data between XML documents and relational database...
- Blair Zajac : WebFS::FileCopy.pm "provides some simple routines to read, move, copy, and delete files as references by string U...
- NewsDaemon is the [PHP] code that run daily.daemonnews.org and has been just been open sourced by it's au...
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Saturday, November 04 2000
- Make Lego not war "A user is able to give high-level commands through the PC, such as "make three cars", and see...
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Sunday, November 05 2000
- As It Happens : "The Institute of Economic Affairs took a look at some of the websites of British MPs. The think tank describes them as comically...
- What E.T. merchandising?
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Monday, November 06 2000
- Fred Evans : Cyberspace and the Concept of Democracy "I argue that the Internet's status as a "virtual" rather than actual reality (its status as a...
- The UCLA Internet Report : Surveying the Digital Future "We hope our findings about the Internet will have broad implications for government policy...
- Storing RDF in relational databases "This page summarizes some current approaches to storing RDF in a relational database. ... To ...
- Simson Cole : The Myth of Fingerprints "When I first chose to write my dissertation on how fingerprint examiners achieve credibility ...
- Jon Ippolito : "I would say that the graffiti artists of today are working online, where some home-spun HTML and easily obtained plug-ins can reach a broad audience with minimal...
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Tuesday, November 07 2000
- The Globe and Mail : "Under the prime ministership of Stockwell Day, [eeughhghh] Parliament would hold a free vote on marijuana use, natives on reserves would lose...
- The 2000 Massey Lecture : The Rights Revolution "In Canada, rights have become the trump card in every argument from family life to Parliament...
- Mike Hall : JavaScript Crunchinator "This is not a script you would include on a web page. Instead it's a utility that you can use...
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Wednesday, November 08 2000
- Jiri Jirat : XSL Tracer "[displays the] name of the currently processed XML element or attribute, full XPath of the cu...
- Andy Mackay : DocBrowser "The eventual aim of this product is to able to slurp an entire static html tree (including im...
- Morning Becomes Eclectic : Banco de Gaia (real evil g2)
- Overheard : "Michael Dukakis said that if Ralph Nader really did cost Al Gore the election, he would go out and strangle him with his own hands which is interesting since he wasn't sure ...
- You crazy fuckers.
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Thursday, November 09 2000
- 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. ...
- Administration and Cost of Elections Project : Ballot Design "While there are common factors in "mark choice" ballot design, the manner in which they are i...
- Ellen Ullman : Hurrah for slow recounts "The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface. What sort o...
- Hour : It's not the internet, stupid "Here's a look at the net-savvy parts of each platforms, focussing on the Red Book of futurema...
- Gallery 101 : Boxes & Borders "is a collaborative project focusing on the artistic exploration of identities within the cont...
- Database Debunkings "The Forum Where Database Matters Are Set Straight."
- G4 Cube question : Does anyone know whether it possible to set up NAT on a G4 Cube [running OS X] using the...
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Saturday, November 11 2000
- John McCrae : In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our pla...
- The Memory Project : Veteran's Stories Archive
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Sunday, November 12 2000
- Lauren Weinstein & Peter Neumann : Sanity in the Election Process "We stand at a crossroads where the existence of fundamental flaws in our election system h...
- Steve Spicklemire : Zope SWF Output Object "Zwiff uses two existing products to bring on the fly swf output to Zope. Zwiff is a subclass ...
- The release of Amaya 4.0 has demonstrated that there is still some work to do in making this site truly portable. Amaya...
- Jamie Jaworski : A DOM-Based Tabbed Panel
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Monday, November 13 2000
- Paul Lukas : Inconspicuous Consumption "It's about deconstructing the details of consumer culture -- details that are either so weird...
- Me : Favorites::Convert.pm The other day I came across a Perl script on Freshmeat that converts your IE (Win) favorites i...
- Kip Hampton : Simple XML Validation with Perl "Now what does Test.pm have to do with validating an XML document? The answer lies in its comb...
- Jeff Rowan : Creating a Log Class in Perl "What did all those spooler daemons do while I was at lunch?"
- Jonathon Eisenzopf : RSA Encryption in Perl "using the Crypt::RC4 module."
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Tuesday, November 14 2000
- "We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his name to Doris." Remember kids, all we need is 350, 000 signa...
- Eric van der Vlist : XMLtree An "XPath-ish" PHP library for reading and manipulating XML files. Whoo-hoo!
- Jeffrey C. Mogul : What is HTTP Delta Encoding? "Web caching is successful because many Web pages don't change between references. But some re...
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Wednesday, November 15 2000
- Overheard : When asked what she thought of U.S. election/recount, singer K.D. Lang replied "I think [George Bush] is hiding ballots in his boil."
- Victor Liu See-le : "b. is a Web-based manager for Web bookmarks. ... b. now supports multi-user environments. Using basic Web server user authentication (i.e. ...
- Oliver Travers : Recently I backed up my online bookmarks... Wherein the author cautions ASPs that they really ought to offer one-click backups for their c...
- Perlmonks : Parsing and spewing CSS "So here is my plan: create a default external style sheet with default settings and then use ...
- What the hell is a "Quality of Life" crime?
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Thursday, November 16 2000
- This Hour Has 22 Minutes : "This is not only an exercise in democracy, this is an exercise in national unity." The CBC is reporting that, as of this morning, the pet...
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Friday, November 17 2000
- Most of what I've had to say today has been over here. The rest has largely involved typeglobs but I'll spare you that.
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Saturday, November 18 2000
- Tres Seaver : FSDump "is an early cut at a bridge between quick-to-develop "through-the-web" [Zope] code (folders, ...
- Do androids dream of renting electric sheep?
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Sunday, November 19 2000
- Scott Gardiner : To be distinct is a balancing act "There are differences, of course: Quebeckers [ Why can't English people just say Quebecois? ]...
- If the DeCSS code set to folk music turned your crank, you might also enjoy Mama Cranberg's Cranberry Relish recipe set to song. Following a pretty s...
- The Basics of Italian Cuisine A most excellent site cross-referencing recipes and their ingredients.
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Monday, November 20 2000
- There is still a god.
- bk2site "will transform your Netscape bookmarks file into a yahoo-like website with slashdot-like news...
- Alan Lightman : "The way that cell phones are used is emblematic. When you're on the cell phone, you're not where your body is. You're somewhere out there in hy...
- Benjamin Weil : "What difference does it make if it has been produced with a Palm of not? I think that deeming it the 'first serious work of art' is somewhat preposterous. I am really ...
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Tuesday, November 21 2000
- As futher evidence that the end is nigh, Web Reference has published an article on how to script the Windows file system with JavaScrip...
- uncontrol "is an interactive exercise that explores the themes of anthropomorphism and kinetics. Usin...
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Wednesday, November 22 2000
- Florida Supreme Court : "But to allow the Secretary to summarily disenfranchise innocent electors in an effort to punish dilatory Board members, as she proposes in the present case, misses the...
- Stephen Budiansky : The Physics of Gridlock Wherein, some clever Germans compare the American highway system to a dozen dogs standing on a...
- Personally, I'm not sure that a guy incapable of putting together an Ikea shelf by himself is the most qualified person to write...
- How, exactly, do you "stockpile cyberweapons" ?
- Matt Kruse : Bookmarks Tree Creator "is a simple CGI utility to create a Javascript from a Netscape bookmarks file."
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Thursday, November 23 2000
- This day has been Chrétienized
- NY Times : Screen Savers as Artist's Medium "It exists while it's being ignored, but as soon as you come back to work, you click it away. ...
- Teodor Zlatanov : Debugging Perl with ease "walks you through both the built-in Perl debugger and CPAN's Devel::ptkdb. The Perl debugger ...
- Perlmonks : Net::Ping, The Mini-series "I used the Perl debugger to step into Net::Ping and found that the connect() was failing with...
- Ahmed El-Mahmoudy : lynx2links "is a program that converts between 'lynx', 'links' & Netscape bookmarks." Although, I swore I...
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Saturday, November 25 2000
- My friend Mary got her book published. There's a pretty funny story about the book cover but I don't know if it's my place to tell it...
- Sometimes, I guess, the only thing to do is deal with the here and now and remember that it wasn't always this way. It's the rememberin...
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Monday, November 27 2000
- My friend Christine is going to be doing readings of her book, Last Chance Texaco, in Montreal next month : "The d...
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Tuesday, November 28 2000
- From the Life is Hell department : I spent most of yesterday certain that Hell was having to listen to a cell phone that never st...
- phone.sourceforge.net "I assign you numbers for each URL you enter. With this number, you can issue, via TellMe, an ...
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Wednesday, November 29 2000
- www.routergod.com Featuring celebrity interviews including Gillian Anderson on LAN switching and Mr. Rogers on t...
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Thursday, November 30 2000
- My friend John is directing a live webcast from Halifax today at 13h00 (Atlantic.) "A Splendid Torch, A Nova Scotia Youth Arts Showcase is b...
- CBC : Jeanette Winterson and co. on books in the digital age "[Publishers] just want to do text e-books in a very straightforward way. If I'm going on to elec...
- Bookworm : Post-modern Comix w/ Chris Ware and Dan Clowes 14h30 PST (real evil G2) I saw this about a month ago randomly surfing through the KCRW site. But...
- Jose Joao Dias de Almeida : XML::DT.pm is "a package for down translation of XML to strings." Also of interest is Matt Sergeant's Pod::X...