posts brought to you by the category “3d”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database
table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life.
What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated
with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it
will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun
way to find stuff.
All your mo-blog are belong to us.
boulevard St. Laurent, Montréal, October
2003
It should be noted that we were almost called Borelia
Tim Bray on inventing new characters
For example, it really hardly seems necessary to take a perfectly
straightforward concept like countable-infinity and represent it with
a typographical orgasm consisting of a large Hebrew letter Alef
(U+05D0) with a subscript zero, pronounced Aleph-Null. Mind you, it
looks kind of cool. Maybe that's the point.
Tim Bray : Why XML doesn't suck
If I had to pick the biggest contribution XML has made to the
world, this would be it - forcing people to learn the issues and
start doing the right thing.
Amphetathoughts #3: I just sent Morbus diff files
XPointerLib
XPointerLib is a project providing XPointer support for Mozilla
1.0+, Netscape 7, and Phoenix 0.4. This code was motivated by the
Annotea Project's use of XPointers to specify annotation
locations.
On a related note, with all the fuss that everyone makes about the
editing of weblog posts
"Everything had to move and retract"
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : purblind
Purblind \Pur"blind`\, a. [For pure-blind, i. e., wholly
blind. See {Pure}, and cf. {Poreblind}.] 1. Wholly blind. ``Purblind
Argus, all eyes and no sight.'' --Shak. 2. Nearsighted, or dim-sighted;
seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole. The saints have
not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand
sand-blind. --Latimer. O purblind race of miserable men. --Tennyson. --
{Pur"blind`ly}, adv. -- {Pur"blind`ness}, n.
web1913
purblind adj 1: having greatly reduced vision [syn:
{dim-sighted}, {near-blind}, {sand-blind}, {visually impaired},
{visually challenged}] 2: lacking in insight or discernment; "too
obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind
oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to
the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin [syn: {obtuse}]
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José Theodore : "He's probably our best player right now."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : nescience
Nescience \Nes"cience\, n. [L. nescientia, fr. nesciens, p.
pr. of nescire not to know; ne not + scire to know.] Want of knowledge;
ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence
and nescience of mine. --Bp. Hall.
web1913
nescience n : ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)
[syn: {ignorantness}, {unknowing}, {unknowingness}]
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Me : Blogger.pm 0.6.1
Pinging through Teddy
I would just like to point out that the Chinese built a 26' statue
to honour Norman Bethune
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : traduce
Traduce \Tra*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Traduced}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Traducing}.] [L. traducere, traductum, to lead
across, lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive;
trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer,
translate, arraign, fr. L. traducere. See {Duke}.] 1. To transfer; to
transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's
descendants. [Obs.] --Glanvill. 2. To translate from one language to
another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] --Golden Boke. 3. To
increase or distribute by propagation. [Obs.] From these only the race
of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth. --Sir
M. Hale. 4. To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.] I can forget the weakness
Of the traduced soldiers. --Beau. & Fl. 5. To represent; to
exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] --Bacon.
6. To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to
calumniate; to vilify; to defame. The best stratagem that Satan hath .
. . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring
them into contempt. --Hooker. He had the baseness . . . to traduce me
in libel. --Dryden. Syn: To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage;
detract; depreciate; decry; slander.
web1913
traduce v : speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her
husband everywhere" [syn: {badmouth}, {malign}, {drag through the mud}]
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Web Application Standard API (for) Bi-directional Information
Interchange
"(wasabii) is an attempt to create a flexible,
yet simple, API, running via XML-RPC, for various web applications
running on heterogeneous platforms to communicate and interact. this
effort is meant to replace the bloggerAPI by providing a non
application-specific set of methods and arguements. in other words,
wasabii is not specifically geared for "weblogs," though it may fit that
model well. ideally, the API will be flexible enough to support other
types of web applications and content managements systems. realistically,
it will not be as simple as the bloggerAPI, but it will provide broader
functionality."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is excrescence
| source : web1913 | Excrescence
\Ex*cres"cence\n. [F. excrescence, excroissanse, L. excrescentia
excrescences, neut. pl. of p. pr. of excrescere. See {Excrescent}.] An
excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out
unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development;
hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on
the body, or on a plant. ``Excrescences of joy.'' --Jer. Taylor. The
excrescences of the Spanish monarchy. --Addison. | source : wn |
excrescence n 1: something that protrudes [syn: {bulge}, {bump}, {hump},
{gibbosity}, {gibbousness}, {jut}, {prominence}, {protuberance},
{protrusion}, {extrusion}] 2: an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of
some part of the body
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redound
| source : web1913 | Redound \Re*dound"\
(r?*dound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Redounded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Redounding}.] [F. redonder, L. redundare; pref. red-, re-, re- + undare
to rise in waves or surges, fr. unda a wave. See {Undulate}, and cf.
{Redundant}.] 1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven
back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to
contribute; to result. The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood
on those From whom it sprung. --Milton. The honor done to our religion
ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. --Rogers. both . . . will
devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from
them to that manufacture. --Addison. 2. To be in excess; to remain over
and above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein
found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. --Spenser. | source :
web1913 | Redound \Re*dound"\, n. 1. The coming back, as of consequence
or effect; result; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without
redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. --Tennyson. 2. Rebound;
reverberation. [R.] --Codrington. | source : wn | redound v 1: be
excessive in quantity 2: be deflected; "His actions redound on his
parents" 3: be added; "Everything he does redounds to himself" 4: have an
affect for good or ill: "Her efforts will redound to the general good"
Dave Pawson : DocBook FAQ
"This is a collation of some Frequently Asked
questions regarding Docbook. The initial focus will be on the XML version
of the DTD, and the XSLT based stylesheets. Over time I may add faq's for
SGML and DSSSL. I will need help there though! I doubt if its possible to
keep up with the latest revision of the stylesheets, so please excuse me
(and let me know) if you find content that is out of date."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cajole
| source : web1913 | Cajole \Ca*jole"\, v. i.
[imp. & p. p. {Cajoled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cajoling}.] [F.
cajoler, orig., to chatter like a bird in a cage, to sing; hence, to
amuse with idle talk, to flatter, from the source of OF. goale, jaiole,
F. ge[^o]le, dim. of cage a cage. See {Cage}, {Jail}.] To deceive with
flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter
you into a reception of my views. --F. W. Robertson. Syn: To flatter;
wheedle; delude; coax; entrap. | source : wn | cajole v : influence or
urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into
going along" [syn: {wheedle}, {palaver}, {blarney}, {coax}, {sweet-talk},
{inveigle}] | source : foldoc | CAJOLE <language> (Chris And John's
Own LanguagE) A {dataflow} language developed by Chris Hankin
<clh@doc.ic.ac.uk> and John Sharp at {Westfield College}. ["The
Data Flow Programming Language CAJOLE: An Informal Introduction", C.L.
Hankin et al, SIGPLAN Notices 16(7):35-44 (Jul 1981)]. (1994-11-08)
Normal Walsh : DTDParse
"reads an SGML or XML DTD and constructs an XML
database of its content. This database can be examined to construct other
views of the DTD."
developerWorks : Recurse, not divide, to conquer [XSLT]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is gadabout
| source : web1913 | Gadabout \Gad"a*bout`\, n. A
gadder [Colloq.] | source : wn | gadabout n : a restless seeker after
amusement or social companionship
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is peripatetic
| source : web1913 | Peripatetic
\Per`i*pa*tet"ic\, a. [L. peripateticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to walk about; ?
about + ? to walk: cf. F. p['e]ripat['e]tique.] 1. Walking about;
itinerant. 2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who
gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his
followers. ``The true peripatetic school.'' --Howell. | source : web1913
| Peripatetic \Per`i*pa*tet"ic\, n. 1. One who walks about; a pedestrian;
an itinerant. --Tatler. 2. A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian. |
source : wn | peripatetic adj : traveling especially on foot;
"peripatetic country preachers"; "a poor wayfaring stranger" [syn:
{wayfaring}] n : a person who walks from place to place [syn:
{itinerant}] | source : devils | PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about.
Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved
from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless
precaution -- they knew no more of the matter than he.
brian d. foy : Creating Perl Code Graphs
NY Times : "The big question, as Mr. Spiegelman put it, is
"How did `Peanuts' consistently depict genuine
pain and loss and still keep everything so warm and fuzzy?"
It's too bad that RadioUserland doesn't seem to talk WebDAV.
Jeff Covey thinks he can win the browser wars
by "[simplifying] the Web. We need to lower the
entry costs for the people writing alternative browsers. Web sites need
to loose the Flash, the Javascript links, and the font tags. That too is
hard work. If you have a Web page, resist the temptation to add clever
stuff to it. Disable Javascript, Java, and remote fonts in your browser.
Ignore sites which rely on these things. If you visit pages which do,
drop the author a line and tell him about it. Email is best. If you can't
be bothered with email, try the approach I use: I request links such as
http:// www.somecommercesite.com/using/
javascript/has/just/lost/you/a/customer/ or http://
www.someidiot.com/lose/ the/flash/or/lose/this/viewer in the hope that
somebody reads the error logs. ... Focus on content, not looks."
I had no idea
My friend Susie (that's Susan to you) got written up in the Globe
yesterday
"Weinthaler contributed a piece she calls
Godzilla Golf, in which contestants don a gigantic latex Godzilla head
and then terrorize a miniature town by attempt to hit golf balls into
it." see also :
Purple
Girl of the Month : Susan Weinthaler
Beth Coleman
"At first, I have to ask, why is this art? But I
guess Web art belongs in a unique place. It exists in a space in which
you can't distinguish between what is real and what isn't." The "filter
of art", indeed. see also :
Virtucone
(quicktime)
I had no idea
that you could actually get a job as a
professional
Web Surfer
. Apparently, "little creativity is required."
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 to my forehead when it
gets hot. As expected, I've started getting comments from people that I
look an awful lot like Stockwell Day, leader and idiot-savant of the CRAP
party and general all-around tool of The Man. Seeing as how some guy in
B.C. managed to register
stockwelldaysucks.com
before me, I'm thinking of using my new found disguise to travel the
province of Quebec
pretending to be the Holy Word of CRAP
, quoting liberally from the works of Pierre Trudeau and Diane Francis
wherever I go.
Towards the end of the trip
I realized what it is about Italy, in the cities
atleast, that can be so intimidating. Everyone wears closes that are
fitted, regardless of whether they are dressing up or dressing down.
People may just be bumming around town but their t-shirts are square with
their shoulders. I'm told that there is a dark side to this "simple
elegance" but it's hard -- even if you are perfectly secure in your
self-image and don't give a lick about fashion -- not to feel like a bit
of a boob and a slob standing next to it.
Jason Kottke : Hello, hexagonal iMac-inspired goodness.
For a counter-point to this thought, take a
stroll to your local library or magazine store and pick up the current
issue of Harpers. They've reprinted a convocation speech delivered by
Mark
Kingwell
. Smooth things, he argues, are tools of The Man and will only lead us
down the road to greater homogenization and servitude. He also recently
wrote a piece for Saturday Night extolling the virtues of concrete,
unfinished of course. Unfortunately, SN has revamped their website
without
first finishing the archiving system
.
Many of todays links
have gone on my "
reading pile
". I think that if we were all forced to keep one of these and be
brutally honest about what we'd actually read versus what we thought
sounded neat, we might get a better handle on the depth, or penetration,
of any given meme.
Edward Gorey, 1925 - 2000
Pretty
The Emacs Babel mode
"You give it a word or paragraph to translate and
select the source and destination languages, and it connects to the
translation server, retrieves the data, and presents it in a special
*babel* buffer." mmmmm...emacs.
Montreal Mirror : The 99c pizza slice exposed
LeoCAD
"is a CAD program that uses bricks similar to
those found in many toys (but they don't represent any particular brand).
Currently it has a library of more than 1000 different pieces..."
mmmm....bricks.
Speared Peanut : I Hate Mosquitos
"Squish that buzzer with malice."
I remember thinking
National Post : Bladder defence urged for drunk driving
suspects
"It's a well-known fact that when we've had
something alcoholic to drink we need to go to the bathroom and if the
machine claims that someone has a blood-alcohol level of 0.17, these
tests show that if that person has gone 2.5 hours without peeing, that
can't be right." So, if you have a small bladder you must be drunk,
right?
Morning Edition talks to Michael Lewis
about Jim Clark and Silicon Valley. I really hope
it's not true that one of the defining characteristics of the Valley and
the people who live there is a general neglect and disdain for the past.
It seems sad and limiting on a individual level and just a wee bit
disconcerting on a societal one. real audio.
Boston Globe
"Today, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
will grapple with the question of what should become of the microscopic
fertilized eggs, and could tackle legal and ethical issues few other
states have addressed: What is the legal status of a human embryo? Is it
property, a person, or something in between?" If you didn't think that
was complicated enough, the parties involved are divorced and arguing
about whether or not to have more children. I think I'll just go play
with some data structures, now, and pretend the world is simple.
Burn All GIFs Day
Community action at it's best , I say.
Globe and Mail : You'll get your money, right after this
message
"The marketing options on these things are
limitless, because you're at a store and you're going to have cash in
your hand," said Bill Duncan ... "It's dead time, anyway -- it's not like
you're going to do anything during that period." Maybe it's time to send
Bill to re-education camp.
Steve Rothman : The Publication of [John Hersey's] Hiroshima in the
New Yorker
"TO OUR READERS The New Yorker this week devotes
its entire editorial space to an article on the almost complete
obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb, and what happened to the
people of that city. It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet
comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and
that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications
of its use. The Editors."
Lauren Weinstein on Bright Light
Since we're on the subject
be sure and check out G.H.Hovagimyan's
Barbie Meets Richard Serra
, an obvious precursor to the cutting-edge neo-montage work of
Alien Ice
Picktures
(whose entire body of work is conceivably now owned and copyrighted by
Yahoo.)
Aislin: Guns & Bullets
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses
CSS
kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its
contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the
content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it
shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
browser with incomplete
CSS
and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one
browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they
will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some
later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's
just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I
rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old
stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through
the cracks.
See also :
W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.