posts brought to you by the category “gimp”
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.
Nicholas Clark : When Perl is not quite fast enough
Sean B. Palmer wrote a pure Python RDF parser
Karl Dubost : Dépanneurs de Montréal
Baby squirrels!
Does anyone want to port this 'zooming photo album generator' to
use SVG
Irony is hard, let's go shopping!
Jake and Sarah : A Cat of Many Colors (sic)
Meanwhile the New York Times, in a fit of poetic license,
on a massive scale / so that / we've accomplished much /
Damn, I want to be "wack old-skool" too!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : tocsin
Tocsin \Toc"sin\, n. [F., fr. OF. toquier to touch, F.
toquer (originally, a dialectic form of F. toucher) + seint (for sein)
a bell, LL. signum, fr. L. signum a sign, signal. See {Touch}, and
{Sign}.] An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of
alarm. The loud tocsin tolled their last alarm. --Campbell.
web1913
tocsin n 1: the sound of an alarm (usually a bell) [syn:
{alarm bell}] 2: a bell used to sound an alarm [syn: {warning bell}]
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Boston Globe : Too Many Memories
Sylvain Carle : "Je déteste le mot [blogue.]"
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : loquacious
Loquacious \Lo*qua"cious\, a. [L. loquax, -acis, talkative,
fr. loqui to speak; cf. Gr. ? to rattle, shriek, shout.] 1. Given to
continual talking; talkative; garrulous. Loquacious, brawling, ever in
the wrong. --Dryden. 2. Speaking; expressive. [R.] --J. Philips. 3. Apt
to blab and disclose secrets. Syn: Garrulous; talkative. See
{Garrulous}.
web1913
loquacious adj : full of trivial conversation; "kept from
her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: {chatty}, {gabby}, {garrulous},
{talkative}, {talky}]
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Jon Udell : Quick and Dirty Topic Mapping
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : forkster
The act of placing ones fork into the toaster in an
attempt to get your now charcoalled toast out.
ex. "Xavier! How many times have I told you not to
forkster? You could get electrocuted!"
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : callow
To touch someone inappropirately
ex. He just callowed my privates.
see also :
callow dict-ified
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : pleonasm
Pleonasm \Ple"o*nasm\,, n. [L. pleonasmus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to
be more than enough, to abound, fr.?, neut. of ?, more, compar. of ?
much. See {Full}, a., and cf. {Poly-}, {Plus}.] (Rhet.) Redundancy of
language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are
necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.
web1913
pleonasm n : using more words than necessary; "a tiny
little child"
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PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of
thought.
devils
pleonasm Redundancy of expression; tautology. (1995-03-25)
foldoc
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bedizen
| source : web1913 | Bedizen \Be*diz"en\, v. t.
To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried
hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his
tatters. --Sir W. Scott. | source : wn | bedizen v 1: decorate
tastelessly 2: dress up garishly and tastelessly [syn: {dizen}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tenet
| source : web1913 | Tenet \Ten"et\, n. [L. tenet
he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See {Tenable}.] Any opinion, principle,
dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true;
as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. That al animals of the land are in
their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable. --Sir T.
Browne. The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with
contempt. --Macaulay. Syn: Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position.
See {Dogma}. | source : wn | tenet n : a religious doctrine that is
proclaimed as true without proof [syn: {belief}, {dogma}]
DevShed : XLink Basics
"It's important to note at this point that XLinks
are not expressed as elements, but as element attributes (from the XLink
namespace) which can be attached to any XML element; the most important
of these is the XLink "type" attribute, which specifies the type of link
being defined. The example above uses this attribute to define four types
of links: extended links, resources, locators and arcs (more on these
later). By allowing any XML element to become an XLink, the XLink
specification substantially improves on HTML's current linking mechanism,
which only allows the anchor tag to define links. In the example above,
the "item", "link" and "arc" XML elements have been converted to XLinks
by the addition of specific attributes from the XLink namespace."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is neoteric
| source : web1913 | Neoteric \Ne`o*ter"ic\,
Neoterical \Ne`o*ter"ic*al\, a. [L. neotericus, gr. ?, fr. ?, compar. of
? young, new.] Recent in origin; modern; new. ``Our neoteric verbs.''
--Fitzed. Hall. Some being ancient, others neoterical. --Bacon. | source
: web1913 | Neoteric \Ne`o*ter"ic\, n. One of modern times; a modern.
Me : jabbergroups
Far be it from me to slag one of the three virtues of Perl
Watch what happens when I poke my eye in!
The Mirror Project also publishes an RSS file,
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is luminary
| source : web1913 | Luminary \Lu"mi*na*ry\, n.;
pl. {Luminaries}, [F. luminaire, L. luminare a light or lamp, which was
lighted in the churches, a luminary, fr. lumen, luminis, light, fr.
lucere to be light, to shine, lux, lucis, light. See {Light}.] 1. Any
body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies. `` Radiant
luminary.'' --Skelton. Where the great luminary . . . Dispenses light
from far. --Milton. 2. One who illustrates any subject, or enlightens
mankind; as, Newton was a distinguished luminary. | source : wn |
luminary n : a celebrity who is an inspiration to others; "he was host to
a large gathering of luminaries" [syn: {leading light}, {guiding light},
{notable}, {notability}] | source : devils | LUMINARY, n. One who throws
light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
Neil Bowers : Wordz
"is a simple application for finding words which
match a particular pattern. I wrote it to help when solving crosswords,
and also to learn about database programming under PalmOS."
Eiten Cornfield : Themes & Variations, The Radio Documentaries
of Glenn Gould
Feed : "Joe Wenderoth's Letters to Wendy's
is made up of a series of comments written over
the course of a year on Wendy's customer-feedback cards. Wendy's asks its
customers to "TELL US ABOUT YOUR VISIT," and Wenderoth spares no detail,
from fantasy couplings with its nubile mascot to the challenges of
ordering after ingesting marijuana brownies. ... The mechanistic rituals
and the bland, uniform settings of the fast-food transaction have become
so naturalized that we're not even aware of them until something disturbs
the artificial tranquility -- like Wenderoth replying "Daddy fucked me!"
when another man in line grouses that "You'd think they had to grow the
potatoes!" "
Dave Winer : "So, one might ask, why have weblogs bloomed and
directories haven't?
It's because directories require better editing
tools than weblogs. It's easy to drop a note into a bin called "today". I
do not buy the "better tools" argument. Capital-D Directories and
capital-W Weblogs are, when you get right down to it, glorified
representations of the same thing : the Netscape bookmarks file we all
know and love. Every entry has a unique id, a parent id and a next id :
permalink, date and position. Every entry has a title, a URL and a
description or, to use proper industry jargon, pithy commentary. And
although I don't think I've ever used it, the concept of aliasing
bookmarks across multiple folders...I mean directories, is essentially
categorization. Companies like Userland or DigiCool (Zope) are probably
in a better position, vis a vis technology, do to this because they both
use object databases. You might be able to argue that Zope that an ease
of use edge since every object is just a Python object which can in turn
can have a arbitrary number of "properties" but the depth of my real
understanding is pretty shallow here. The problem that both have is
mapping all this whiz-bang stuff to the browser and the crufty old
<form> paradigm. Maybe once we have real DHTML
compatibility, it will be possible to recreate the metaphor across the
network but by then the JavaScript FileIO classes might not seem so
scary. And then...well, then you'll just be able to update your bookmarks
file automagically.
Jeffrey C. Mogul : What is HTTP Delta Encoding?
"Web caching is successful because many Web pages
don't change between references. But some resources do change, which
forces the re-retrieval of modified resources. However, the modifications
are often minimal; if one could encode just the differences between the
cached (older) page and the new page, in many cases that would require
sending very few bytes. This approach is called delta encoding."
The Memory Project : Veteran's Stories Archive
YULblog : New research centre puts Montreal on leading edge of art
and technology
Morning Edition : Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing
"Madeleine Brand talks with Abram Shalom
Himelstein and Jamie Schweser, co-authors of Tales of a Punk Rock
Nothing. Both writers lived in Washington, D.C. in the early 1990's, when
punk rock ruled the city's alternative rock scene. Their experiences are
the basis for their self-published book, which follows the exploits of a
Jewish kid who leaves his small, southern town to live in a house full of
punk rock activists." (real audio)
Miguel de Icaza : Let's Make Unix Not Suck
Robert J. Lurtsema : 1931 - 2000
DHTML Lab : Where does the tummy-rumbling come from?
I had no idea that "The string argument of
document.write() is exported as a text file to [Navigator's] cache on
your hard disk. The text file is read back and the contained HTML
rendered in the layer." and that consequently "Navigator can handle
thousands of layers in a single page with no problem, but may choke with
too many document.write's."
Meanwhile, academics discover fan fiction
although you could just as easily argue that they
invented it too.
The nice fellow who wrote the suite of PalmOS related Perl
modules
mmmmmm...doughnuts.
Perl Month : MacPerl and XML
I was going to spend the weekend
working on the never-ending upgrade of my own
weblog software. I think, instead, I'm going to turn my computer off and
sit around reading and scratching my ass. It's getting just plain weird
out here or, as the one who knows all says : "There are very few
despondent weblogs, though I bet there are more than a few despondent
webloggers."
William Safire
"Look at yourself, dear reader. Are you a
narrowband person, cribbed, cabin'd and confined in a strait gate -- or
are you the sort whose mind ranges far out over the amber waves of corn?
By rejecting the 'verie euill thoughts of the wicked,' you, too, can
mega-merge yourself into a broadband person."
"This is quite possibly the most inherently wrong thing in the
world today."
Simson Garfinkel
"It used to be that the best way to protect
yourself from being spammed was to be cagey with your e-mail address. ...
At the Spam Roundtable, I learned that more and more spammers are
resorting to dictionary attacks, where they send e-mail to any address
that's likely to be valid. If the message gets through, that's great for
the spammer. If the message bounces, the spammer doesn't care."
bgcolor=mouse
I am a total sucker for this kind of stuff. Super
cool! via
evhead
Mœbius
"Avec l'ordinateur, on peut faire une révolution
dans la BD, comme Fred Beltran dans Megalex, créer un univers en trois
dimensions, faire dedans un travail de caméraman, chercher le point de
vue qui correspond à l'image qu'on veut montrer. On le stocke et on
travaille dedans pour le perfectionner. Ça devient quelque chose qui est
suspendu entre le théâtre, la sculpture, le cinéma, la mise en scène,
l'univers virtuel de nos têtes, ça crée un résultat complètement martien
qui fait un choc culturel dans la tête du lecteur."
Mr. Nice Guy fights the right to bad art
and threatens to cut off funding to the B.M.A.
unless they can the
Sensation
show. Meanwhile, all of Canada is a-flutter over Diana Throneycroft's
dead bunnies
.
Audrey Schulman on attending weddings naked
"Downstairs there were a variety of surprises.
The first surprise was that the sacred pie had been mostly eaten by us
guests. I guess it had been the Entenmann's raspberry danish. The bride
and groom decided to use the one remaining slice."
I think I'll make my first million
setting up an online bazaar where people can buy,
sell and track the
value of human organs
. It could have reduced commission fees for persons in war-zones. It
could have a draft-round system for nations who rank low on the Annual UN
Good Times & Good Living list. And penalties for anyone who
floods the market, although we'd want to make sure we weren't
unnecessarily stiffling this new emerging economy. To the winner go the
spoils!
Nando Times on the next-generation Virtual Hell
"They hope to develop simulators to help soldiers
learn the customs of foreign countries to prepare them for the kind of
peacekeeping missions that have taken troops on short notice to places
like Bosnia and Kosovo. For example, a soldier could take an online
course about an area's history, then enter a virtual reality where a
"guide" could lead the soldier through a town." Cute. Really cute.
This is
what it's really going to be used for.
The Negro Problem
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.
