posts brought to you by the category “frogs”
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.
It's bigger than a Mooseheads game.
Baci di dama, Montréal, September 2003
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Me : ASCOPE::Apache::XSLT.pm 0.3
Added
ASCOPE_reset_styles
directive. see also :
docs
and
changes
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Philip Roche has written an RSS aggregator for Mozilla
which is cool all on its own, but I find it
interesting as a big batch of example code for doing something fun with
eatdrinkfeelgood
recipes.
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Lars Lundgren : PDF::Reuse::Tutorial
William Grimes : On a Clear Day I Can Eat Forever
It's the dawn of a bright new day. But to usher it in, the government has had to declare shade illegal.
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Margaret Atwood : "Give me your tired, your poor, you sang, and for a while you meant it."
perl -e 'use strict; use Cwd; my $dir = getcwd; my $i = -1; map { $i += $_ eq "/" } (split("",$dir)); print $i,"\n";'
Kendall Grant Clark : The Social Meaning of RDF
Boiled down to basics : we're not sure how
to set this thing up such the legal implications of making an assertion
don't cause users to be set upon by packs of lawyers and malicious
script kiddies. Blah blah blah, brave new world, the interconnectedness
of everything, agents running apeshit across the Network auctioning off
your toothbrush collection while you sleep...and lawyers, waiting to
sue you.
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Ben Hammersley : Contemporaria
Despite my growing fatigue with the Idea of
Weblog and the uneasy feeling that what Ben's done is going to prompt
another flood of mindless blather about the P2P-ness of our
kitchen sinks
and how once they're RDF-enabled they'll be able to more effectively
exchange P3P data and I will be able to have a giant online
the future's so bright
mind-meld with all of Ben's friends and their friends and the friends
of their friends...despite all of that, I kind of like this.
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The APXL (Apple Keynote) Schema
Can I just cut the fucking ironic humor and ask a simple question?
Me : eatdrinkfeelgood-1.1-to-indexcard-fo.xsl 0.9
Meanwhile, the New York Time starts a photo-blog
see also : WBUR pictorial roundup And yes, I am planning on scraping the fuck out of these site. I may even publish RSS feeds if you're nice...Each week, staff photographers around the world send thousands of images to the editors on the picture desk at The New York Times. Only a fraction appear in the newspaper. Margaret O'Connor, picture editor, and Mike Smith, deputy picture editor, will select their favorites each week – both published and not – and tell the stories behind them.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fempulation
Female population.
ex. The majority of the fempulation of the world have once uttered the phrase "men are pigs."
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : malfeasance
Malfeasance \Mal*fea"sance\, n. [F. malfaisance, fr. malfaisant injurious, doing ill; mal ill, evil + faisant doing, p. pr. of faire to do. See {Malice}, {Feasible}, and cf. {Maleficence}.] (Law) The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed. [Written also {malefeasance}.] web1913
malfeasance n : a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; "he charged them with electoral malpractices" [syn: {malpractice}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : pyrokleptomanic
Someone who steals disposable lighters, usually without knowing it--or claiming not to know it.
ex. My boyfriend is a pyrokleptomanic, is yours?
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Ray Whitmer : SOAP Scripts in Mozilla
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : roister
Roister \Roist"er\, n. See {Roisterer}. web1913
roister v : engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making; "They were out carousing last night" [syn: {carouse}, {riot}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : apogee
Apogee \Ap"o*gee\, n. [Gr. ? from the earth; ? from + ?, ?, earth: cf. F. apog['e]e.] 1. (Astron.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth. Note: Formerly, on the hypothesis that the earth is in the center of the system, this name was given to that point in the orbit of the sun, or of a planet, which was supposed to be at the greatest distance from the earth. 2. Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination. web1913
apogee n 1: a final climactic stage; "their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development" [syn: {culmination}] 2: apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth [ant: {perigee}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : resiprocal
ReCIPprocal--for drinking situations.
ex. Our drinking was resiprocal at the party.
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weblog-devel thread : Adding a shortcut/macros feature
Benjamin Wright : "The [ IE6 P3P ] filters force administrators to post new privacy policies for their web sites,
coded in a technical language called P3P. The
filters punish administrators who fail to publish properly coded P3P
privacy policies by blocking or impeding their cookies. Cookies are an
important web feature. The P3P coding language raises, for any
corporation, government agency or other institution that uses it, a
lawsuit danger. A privacy policy written in it exposes the organization
to liability, with little or no escape."
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Michael S. Shapiro : Copyright as Cultural Policy
Mike J. Brown and Jeni Tennison : Pretty XML Tree Viewer
"produces an HTML document that shows, in the
form of 'ASCII art', the node structure of an XML document. A CSS 1
stylesheet (tree-view.css) helps render the HTML in an appealing style.
There are different ways of representing what's in an XML document. This
particular model is what is used by XSLT and is prescribed by Section 5
of the XPath recommendation." via
eclectic
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Ken Simpson : Pyinline
"allows you to put source code from other
programming languages directly "inline" in a Python script or module. The
code is automatically compiled as needed, and then loaded for immediate
access from Python. PyInline is the Python equivalent of Brian Ingerson's
Inline module for Perl"
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is germane
| source : web1913 | Germane \Ger*mane"\, a. [See
{German} akin, nearly related.] Literally, near akin; hence, closely
allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more
germane to the matter. --Shak. [An amendment] must be germane. --Barclay
(Digest). | source : wn | germane adj : having close kinship and
appropriateness; "he asks questions that are germane and central to the
issue" [syn: {germane(p)}, {related}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is brackish
| source : web1913 | Brackish \Brack"ish\, a.
[See {Brack} salt water.] Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water
in saline soil. Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though
they be. --Byron. | source : wn | brackish adj : slightly salty; "a
brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep" [syn: {briny}]
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Mick McFadden : "Since when is the word 'Canadian'
interchangeable with or similar to 'crappy' ?"
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Mike Godwin : Thieves R Us
This Morning : Babes in Boyland
"CBC Radio's technology reporter, Julie Ireton,
has been exploring the world of women in technology."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is furtive
| source : web1913 | Furtive \Fur"tive\, a. [L.
furtivus, fr. furtum theft, fr. fur thief, akin to ferre to bear: cf. F.
furtif. See {Fertile}.] Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth;
sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look. --Prior. A hasty and furtive
ceremony. --Hallam. | source : wn | furtive adj 1: marked by quiet and
caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive
manner"; "a lurking prowler"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a
surreptitious glance at his watch"; "someone skulking in the shadows"
[syn: {lurking}, {skulking}, {sneak(a)}, {sneaky}, {stealthy},
{surreptitious}] 2: secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his
low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive
behavior" [syn: {backstair}, {backstairs}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bevy
| source : web1913 | Bevy \Bev"y\, n.; pl.
{Bevies}. [Perhaps orig. a drinking company, fr. OF. bev['e]e (cf. It.
beva) a drink, beverage; then, perh., a company in general, esp. of
ladies; and last applied by sportsmen to larks, quails, etc. See
{Beverage}.] 1. A company; an assembly or collection of persons,
especially of ladies. What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here ! --Beau.
& Fl. 2. A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd
of roes. | source : wn | bevy n 1: a group of girls or young women 2: a
flock of quail
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Michael A. Fischer : The Worthless Word for the Day
"This week: words you likely won't find in your
desk dictionary (no matter how big)"
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R.V. Guha and Tim Bray "There is no useful distinction between data and metadata.
Every item of information, without exception, is
likely to be regarded by some applications as ancillary and never to be
displayed, and by others as core content that needs to be formatted,
printed, or searched."
mmmm.... arcs
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Falkkin of Minneapolis : Using Perl to Teach Perl
Spencer Kimball : "It's almost like it's our duty
to create cool things for the world."
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The Memory Project : Veteran's Stories Archive
Jonathan G. S. Koppell
"Thinking of the Internet as a place certainly
makes it seem more intriguing. The idea of logging on and entering
another space is suggestive in all sorts of ways. It raises issues of
consciousness, allows us to think of ourselves as disembodied cybernauts,
and sets us apart not just from our primitive ancestors but also from our
recent ones. Not incidentally, representing the home computer and AOL
membership as a gateway to another dimension helps to sell home computers
and AOL memberships."
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Salon : Reading, writing and candy ads
"At Colorado Springs' Harrison High School,
students are largely unimpressed by the debate over their ZapMe computer
lab. 'Sure, the ads can be distracting,' says one 16-year-old junior,
adding that he doesn't see anything unusual about being pitched at in
school. After all, he says, 'we see ads everywhere we go. It just seems
natural.' And about the possibility that students' every mouse click
could be monitored from afar? 'Big deal,' replies another student. 'That
starts the day you get a Social Security number.' "
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Johan Vromans : Mail::Procmail.pm
"is inspired by Simon Cozen's Mail::Audit that
was inspired by Tom Christiansen's audit_mail and deliverlib programs. It
allows a piece of email to be logged, examined, accepted into a mailbox,
filtered, resent elsewhere, rejected, and so on. It's designed to allow
you to easily create filter programs to stick in a .forward file or
similar." Speaking of Simon Cozen, he's written an article for The Perl
Journal titled
Filtering Mail with Mail::Audit and News::Gateway
, but you'll need a tpj subscription to read it.
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I am so unbelievably happy to be back in Montréal.
Still, there are a few things that have been
troubling me since my return.
The first is my inability to find short stubby pine nuts. All I ever
find here are the semi translucent, anorexic nuts that smell like
Plastecine
. My other anxiety is the growing number of stores that insist on
wrapping *all* their fresh vegetables in plastic wrap. Can someone
explain the reason for wrapping string beans in plastic?! see also :
Mr. Cucumber
The first is my inability to find short stubby pine nuts. All I ever
find here are the semi translucent, anorexic nuts that smell like
Plastecine
. My other anxiety is the growing number of stores that insist on
wrapping *all* their fresh vegetables in plastic wrap. Can someone
explain the reason for wrapping string beans in plastic?! see also :
Mr. Cucumber
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Randal Schwartz : Should I organize a boycott of camel 3?
Dave Cross : Sub::Approx.pm
"allows you to call functions by _approximate_
names. Why you would ever want to do this is a complete mystery to me.
... I can't stress too strongly that this will make your code completely
unmaintainable and you really shouldn't use this module unless you're
doing something very stupid." Combined with
mod_speling
and
mod_perl
, this guarantees to bring a whole new level of excitement and
possibilities to the burgeoning field of web applications!
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Shu Lea Cheang
"Pornography is a common language, and technology
is what you make of it. My own sense of technology is always about
cracking the codes and accessing the means which are apparent in my
approach to the art forms - be it the '80s camcorder movement or the
so-called digital revolution of the moment. I claim the body as hard
drive, and the pussy as matrix. The beautiful techno-future that I dream
of is not plug in and off, jerk in and off but simply, I am the system.'
I generate the orgasmic power to advance into a new generation. I am my
own portal." see also :
IKU
( glorified screenshots. )
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"I'm not too good with left and right or east and west, but north south isfine, why is that?"
The only way I can remember left from right is
that I draw with my right hand. If you ever see me giving directions,
you'll probably see me raise my hands and then look from one to the
other. In Montreal, South is the water, North the mountain. East and West
has historically been divided into French and English respectively,
separated by St. Laurent Blvd (The Main) which goes down to the water. It
also goes North, at which point the whole scheme falls apart since
Montreal is an island. Some maps of the city even adjust their printed
compass to compensate for the fact that when we point North, we're
actually pointing North-East.
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Monkey Radio
"Grooving sexy beats" ( streaming mp3 )
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Ira Glass fans
will be interested to know that he is speaking on
the "Producer of the Future" at tomorrow's
PRI Affiliates Meeting
in Orlando. The event will be broadcast
live on the
Internet
, from 11h00 - 13h00 EDT.
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Jeff Covey : Negotiating for Nerds
"Here is the number one piece of advice I have
for negotiating: SHUT UP! Sales people do this all the time. Ask a
leading question and then let it hang. Let the other person get nervous
and fill the space with a number or a suggestion. You never know what
you'll get using this technique, but I guarantee you won't get less. Ask
leading questions and then SHUT UP!"
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A.P. : AOL to offer free service to schools
I'm not sure that Steve Case could be any more
disingenuous when he says "We don't think of this as a business
opportunity." In exchange for free bandwidth, the world's largest media
company has been given license to track, record and and analyze the
surfing patterns of students over a multi-year timespan. Oh yeah,
students will be "blocked" from offensive material, which presumably
means anyone not owned by AOL. It doesn't get any better than this when
it comes to data-mining and product development.
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Jack Todd
"In their most critical game of the season, the
Canadiens could not score on young Ottawa goalie Patrick Lalime until it
was too late. When it was over, Lalime himself had to show an unpleasant
Montreal crowd how to handle it with class: Lalime pointed to the
Canadiens bench and applauded, and those who hadn't already stampeded for
the exits followed his example and gave the Canadiens a long ovation."
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Mary Anne DeMonte-Whelan on the bidding war for Videotron
"This is a politically motivated counterbid.
Quebecor and the Caisse [ de dépôt et placement du Québec ] want to keep
a strong presence in the new economy based in Quebec."
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Jorn Barger : I hate database-y
"Reading databases is no fun. They're convenient
for the author, not for the reader." Jorn makes some good points; I
understand how all the fluff and meta information can be annoying. On the
other hand, since adding links for categories and individual days, I've
started travelling back and around and through old posts. Sort of like
going out for a walk and letting the green lights at crosswalks guide
your direction. It may just be navel-gazing but it has been very
interesting for me, seeing things long since forgotten. Maybe the happy
medium is to hide the meta information in some
clever and
foofy DHTML trickery
.
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser : 1928 - 2000
"His mission, as he saw it, was to "improve the
world and make it more beautiful." He despised the geometrical, disdained
symmetry and defined the straight line as "the tool of the devil." see
also
hundertwasser.com
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I've been playing with Manila
(thanks
Robert
) and I think what I'd like for Christmas is ModFrontier, or ModManila,
for Apache.
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As It Happens on the goodness of nose-blowing
Everything you know is wrong. real audio (starts
19:40)
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Vive le Québec webabillard!
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Saturday Night : The Hole Truth
"It has its own lingo, its own legends, its own
cultural legacy. Tim Hortons occupies a central place in Canadian life.
But what does it say about us that our only truly national institution is
a donut shop?" This doesn't hold so much for Quebec, but is certainly
true in the rest of the country. When I went tree-planting, the cultural
and social epicenter of
Fort Frances
was the Robin's Donut shop. Meanwhile, the NY Times has re-printed the
first chapter of
Uncommon Grounds : The History of Coffee and How It Transformed our
World
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Mr. Purple on The Network
"In effect, he was suggesting that the Web could
grow self-aware, live off human fetuses, and replace our very reality
with a precise fabrication." Dig, if you will, the picture.
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Neil Leach : The Anaesthetics of Architecture
"In this culture of aesthetic consumption, this
"culture of the cocktail," meaningful discourse gives way to strategies
of seduction, and architectural design is reduced to the superficial play
of empty, seductive forms." Interestingly, many art schools art trying to
re-invent themselves these days by marketing their students as the only
ones 'visually literate' enough to make sense of it all.
Chapter one
is available as a pdf file.
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No updates on Monday
I want to make sure the code does the right thing
if nothing happens for a day (or more.)
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If you've gotten here from my.userland.com
the script I wrote to generate the xml file was
broken. The titles (and their links) weren't being included. It's fixed
now and hopefully the updated version will trickle down quickly! Doh!
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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