Friday, November 30 2001

The 'canadian', features a helmet of fine bacon

and a chin-strap of sausage links." via mesh

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Nat Torkington : Jihaddict

"A Skewed View of the War on Terrorism."

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Mozilla DOM Inspector

"is a tool that can be used to inspect and edit the live DOM of any web document or XUL application. The DOM hierarchy can be navigated using a two-paned window that allows for a variety of different views on the document and all nodes within." I saw mention made of this, the other day, and installed a fresh copy this morning. Despite the fact that this is obviously not of beta yet -- make sure you've finished or saved any important data, Mozilla will probably bail at some point -- I think it is a very good thing. It will make for an excellent learning and debugging tool. At the very least, it takes the indecipherable mish-mash that is a person's JavaScript and CSS code and makes it half-way legible. And, there's a handy-dandy sidebar widget! via scottandrew

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Michael Graham : Palm::Progect.pm

" is a helper class for the Palm::PDB package. It allows you to load and save Progect databases. ... This module was largely written in support of the progconv utility, which is a conversion utility which imports and exports between Progect PDB files and other formats."

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Dave Winer : Success in software

"As long as people expect software to be free, it will be unusable crap. If you believe people will sweat over user interface details with no hope of being paid, you'll wait a long time for nirvana, imho." Dave, please, stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater. You can't really expect the GPL-keeners to stop painting all commercial developers with the same brush when you do the same thing in the other direction. It sounds like you are confusing user interfaces with reliabilty and functionality. No one is going to argue that BIND or httpd.conf files are difficult to understand and set up (or that Unix-weenies, as a whole, ha...(I think I am going to have to build a footnotes widget for posts)...ve a unique design sensibility) but no one is going to take you seriously if you are saying that they are "unusuable crap". Most of the Internet is built, and runs, on "unusuable crap" that lots of people sweat over with "no hope [or expectation] of being paid" for. These are not the nails you are looking for; move along, now. Update : It appears that Dave has retracted his comments, so you'll just have to take my word that the quote is accurate. I have left the link on the off-chance that it will suddenly point to something, again.

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

| source : web1913 | Sowens \Sow"ens\ (? or ?), n. pl. [Scottish; cf. AS. se['a]w juice, glue, paste.] A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called {flummery} in England. [Written also {sowans}, and {sowins}.] | source : web1913 | Flummery \Flum"mer*y\, n. [W. llumru, or llumruwd, a kind of food made of oatmeal steeped in water until it has turned sour, fr. llumrig harsh, raw, crude, fr. llum sharp, severe.] 1. A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. Milk and flummery are very fit for children. --Locke. 2. Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing. The flummery of modern criticism. --J. Morley. | source : wn | flummery n 1: a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal 2: meaningless ceremonies and flattery [syn: {mummery}]

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