Tuesday, May 08 2001

Notes from the "Art Is Your Friend" department.

Mark my words, sometime in the next eighteen months an art school twerp is going to paint an RDF description of a master work on canvas and call it Art. The painted word, indeed.

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Jeff Sasmor : "Blark is a product for the Zope CMF.

It provides portal members with a flexible weblog [private] or newslog [public]. The member who creates a Blark has control over the following properties, among others..." Apparently, this page may be sucked into the vortex. Blark is part of the larger CMFOptions Product, which can be found here.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bucolic

| source : web1913 | Bucolic \Bu*col"ic\, n. [L. Bucolic[^o]n po["e]ma.] A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. --Dryden. | source : web1913 | Bucolic \Bu*col"ic\, a. [L. bucolicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? cowherd, herdsman; ? ox + (perh.) ? race horse; cf. Skr. kal to drive: cf. F. bucolique. See {Cow} the animal.] Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic. | source : wn | bucolic adj 1: used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: {arcadian}, {pastoral}, {rustic}] 2: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" [syn: {pastoral}] n 1: a country person [syn: {peasant}, {provincial}] 2: a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life [syn: {eclogue}, {idyll}]

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