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Friday, January 04 2002

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

"is a new museum celebrating the art of the picture book due to open to the public in 2002. Founded by Eric Carle and his wife, Barbara, the Museum will be for visitors of all ages: children and families, teachers and librarians, scholars, and everyone interested in the art of the picture book." via randomwalks

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Rick Olson : [ RFC ] Common XML-RPC API for Weblogs

Rick has been the first among us to start walking the walk and put pen to paper. I hope that we can take this one somewhere. It would be wrong, I think, to imagine an API that addresses everyone's quirks and peculiarities. But maybe we can find a way to agree on the basic commonalities and a framework for individuals to append the interface the handle their individual widgetitis. But, we may be in for a bumpy ride when you consider some of the differences in the lowly blog entry itself : Meanwhile, it appears that the Blogger API has been silently updated.

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The Connection : Language and the Internet

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

| source : web1913 | Malapropos \Mal*ap"ro*pos`\, a. & adv. [F. mal [`a] propos; mal evil + [`a] propos to the purpose.] Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably. | source : wn | malapropos adj : of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature [ant: {apropos}] adv : at an inconvenient time; "he arrived inopportunely just as we sat down for dinner"; "she answered malapropos" [syn: {inopportunely}] [ant: {opportunely}]

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Thursday, January 03 2002 ←  → Saturday, January 05 2002