posts brought to you by the category “gui”
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.
We need to cement the consent that we meant?!
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? I
think my lunch is turning to cement...
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My apartment smells like a fucking swimming pool
and that's all I'm going to tell you right
now.
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Fred Kaplan : How e-mail is wrecking our national archive
Kaplan's concern is not without merit but how hard is it to rig the local subnet's TIA-box, I mean Cisco, to filter all the email packets and then pipe the output to the printer down the hall?Twenty years from now, if someone went looking for similar memos by Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Richard Armitage, and Elliott Abrams on, say, the Bush administration's Middle East policies, not many memos would be found because they don't exist. Officials today e-mail their thoughts and proposals. Perhaps some individuals have been fastidious about printing and saving their e-mails, but there is no system in place for automatically doing so.
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Me : ASCOPE::Search::Boolean.pm 1.0
Subject: Tell me, how long am I going to have to listen to Daniel Libeskind...
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:48:56 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Straup Cope To: ... Subject: Tell me, how long am I going to have to listen to Daniel Libeskind... ...blather on and on like this? Leaving the slurry wall exposed and the slice-o-light are pretty nice ideas but a building whose height was determined based on the year that the U.S. acheived independence? The transmission tower from the WTC not just grafted on to the giant healing crystal of an office building but "rising up like the arm on the Statue of Liberty" ? What is this -- a 911 theme park? The buildings are bad enough all by themselves. Do we really have to also imbue them with all this pomp, circumstance and saccharine? Oh the pain... make it stop!!!
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I'm not really sure what's going on here
but I think it has something to do with tea
and weblogs and aggregators and, doubtless, some way for Amazon and
eBay to notify you about
stuff like this
. via
themes, dreams and
crazy schemes
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First Monday : Digitizing Old Photographs for the Web
Some are private photographs, images of family life. Others are public photographs. Of course, as Roland Barthes (1981) observed in Camera Lucida, even with public photographs we tend to provide a private reading: "Does that train still run through our town?" "How old was I when that happened?" We link images to our own existence.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : factotum
Factotum \Fac*to"tum\, n.; pl. {Factotums} (-t?mz). [L., do everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See {Fact}, and {Total}.] A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. --B. Jonson. web1913
factotum n : a servant employed to do a variety of jobs wn
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Bill : "Come for the fries! Stay for the talk of CSS and porn!"
I can see the t-shirts and other swag,
already.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : depredation
Depredation \Dep`re*da"tion\, n. [L. depraedatio: cf. F. d['e]pr['e]dation.] The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land. web1913
depredation n : an act of plundering [syn: {predation}, {preying}] wn
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Charles Nofsinger : buzz
Look at that export list! If I could figure
out how why wxPython won't build out of ports and teach this thing to
speak
otlml
, I would be set.
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Jon Udell : The Protean Power of Textual Transformation
Me : Blogger.pm 0.6.2
Added support for the UserLand metaWeblog
API in the RadioUserLand engine. I might even get around to uploading
this to the CPAN as Net::Blogger tonight, but don't hold your
breath.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : raconteur
Raconteur \Ra`con`teur"\, n. [F.] A relater; a storyteller. web1913
raconteur n : a person skilled in telling anecdotes [syn: {anecdotist}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cavalcade
Cavalcade \Cav"al*cade`\, n. [F. cavalcade, fr. It. cavalcata, fr. cavalcare to go on horseback, fr. LL. caballicare, fr. L. caballus an inferior horse, Gr. ?. Cf. {Cavalier}, {Cavalry}.] A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade. He brought back war-worn cavalcade to the city. --Prescott. web1913
cavalcade n : a procession of people traveling on horseback wn
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Hayley Wickenheiser : "They had our flag on the floor of their locker room
and now I want to know if they'd like us to sign
it."
I'd still to see Team Wayne win, but this is
just so much better.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : redoubt
Redoubt \Re*doubt"\ (r?*dout"), n. [F. redoute, fem., It. ridotto, LL. reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. r['e]duit, also fr. LL. reductus. See {Reduce}, and cf. {Reduct}, {R['e]duit}, {Ridotto}.] (Fort.) (a) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory. (b) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of {Ravelin}. [Written also {redout}.] web1913
redoubt n : a stronghold [syn: {sconce}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : borality
The ethical conduct between bores
ex. When Max recounted two consecutive fishing trips I think I spoke for all when I reminded him of the borality of the situation.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hydroplegic
ex. I ran into Steve yesterday and tried to have a conversation, but he's turned into a hydroplegic.
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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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Randal L. Schwartz : Parsing Interesting Things
"[C]ertainly Perl’s regular expressions are
pretty powerful in the first place, and this task really wouldn’t
be that difficult with hand-written code, but we can go a bit further and
pull out a nifty tool from the CPAN: the “madman of Perl”
Damian Conway’s Parse::RecDescent . This module permits extremely
complex parsers to be built by specifying a nice hierarchical description
of the data (as a grammar), and a series of actions to be taken as each
portion of the data is returned. I find it very simple to use, and
whipped up a parser in no time."
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Perlmonks : Security issues when allowing file upload via CGI
Not much new here, but it's always a good
idea to read these things because you never know.
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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."
Authored by the excellent fellow who brought
us
XSLT Questions and Answers
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is popinjay
| source : web1913 | Yaffle \Yaf"fle\, n.
[Probably imitative of its call or cry.] (Zo["o]l.) The European green
woodpecker ({Picus, or Genius, viridis}). It is noted for its loud
laughlike note. Called also {eccle}, {hewhole}, {highhoe}, {laughing
bird}, {popinjay}, {rain bird}, {yaffil}, {yaffler}, {yaffingale},
{yappingale}, {yackel}, and {woodhack}. | source : web1913 | Popinjay
\Pop"in*jay\, n. [OE. popingay, papejay, OF. papegai, papegaut; cf. Pr.
papagai, Sp. & Pg. papagayo, It. pappagallo, LGr. ?, NGr. ?; in which
the first syllables are perhaps imitative of the bird's chatter, and the
last either fr. L. gallus cock, or the same word as E. jay, F. geai. Cf.
{Papagay}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The green woodpecker. (b) A parrot. The pye
and popyngay speak they know not what. --Tyndale. 2. A target in the form
of a parrot. [Scot.] 3. A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb. ``To be
so pestered with a popinjay.'' --Shak. | source : wn | popinjay n 1: a
vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) 2: archaic
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What does Aaron think about it, today?
A lot of tweaks on the backend of the
categories as rss as html
framework. The RSS file (
warning :
namespace
hell
) contains all the category information for a given post. The html
displays links to related categories in much the same way the daily
pages do. There is also a link to the RSS file on each category page.
Next up, is adding all these changes to the standard
syndication
files, as well as setting up an RSS widget for individually archived
posts...
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Dirk-Willem van Gulik : mod_auth_jabber
Simson Garfinkel : Kooks and Terrorists
"The question we face, then, is a simple one: is
it possible to prevent future incidents of terrorism by systematically
monitoring all potential terrorists and imprisoning them before they can
strike? And, if so, are such measures worth the cost?"
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is quagmire
| source : web1913 | Quagmire \Quag"mire`\, n.
[Quake + mire.] Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the
feet. ``A spot surrounded by quagmires, which rendered it difficult of
access.'' --Palfrey. Syn: Morass; marsh; bog; swamp; fen; slough. |
source : wn | quagmire n : a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks
underfoot [syn: {mire}, {morass}]
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Am I the only person who can't watch Ari Fleishcer without being convinced he is lying?
I take no comfort in the public actions of
the U.S. government, today. I take no comfort in watching Dubya stumble
his way through a staged tough-guy phone call with Rudy Guliani who,
frankly, has more important things to do right now. I take no comfort
in watching as Poppy::Dubya is brought out of the closet to float the
idea that The Company needs to be given carte blanche. I take no
comfort in watching as Dubya::Mouthpiece cracks jokes with the press
corps while saying "national security" will trump any, and every other,
concern. I take no comfort in the fact that so many people are acting
as though this as a captial-O opportunity to advance policy decisions
without discussion or reflection.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is moil
| source : web1913 | Moil \Moil\, v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Moiled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Moiling}.] [OE. moillen to
wet, OF. moillier, muillier, F. mouller, fr. (assumed) LL. molliare, fr.
L. mollis soft. See {Mollify}.] To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to
defile. Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. --Spenser. |
source : web1913 | Moil \Moil\, v. i. [From {Moil} to daub; prob. from
the idea of struggling through the wet.] To soil one's self with severe
labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge. Moil
not too much under ground. --Bacon. Now he must moil and drudge for one
he loathes. --Dryden. | source : web1913 | Moil \Moil\, n. A spot; a
defilement. The moil of death upon them. --Mrs. Browning. | source : wn |
moil v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework" [syn:
{labor}, {labour}, {toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge}, {dig}] 2:
be agitated; of liquids [syn: {churn}, {boil}, {roil}] 3: moisten or
soil: "Her tears moiled the letter"
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Me : rss2blogger 1.0
or RadioUserland in 220 lines (including
newlines and comments) of Perl. But seriously, from the docs : "This is
a simple program that fetches a list of rss feeds and posts them to a
Blogger account. I wrote it as a debugging tool for Blogger.pm and
figured it might be of interest to someone else."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is oblivious
| source : web1913 | Oblivious \Ob*liv"i*ous\, a.
[L. obliviosus: cf.F. oblivieux.] 1. Promoting oblivion; causing
forgetfulness. ``The oblivious pool.'' --Milton. She lay in deep,
oblivious slumber. --Longfellow. 2. Evincing oblivion; forgetful. Through
are both weak in body and oblivious. --Latimer. -- {Obliv"i*ous*ly}, adv.
-- {Ob*liv"i*ous*ness}, n. --Foxe. | source : wn | oblivious adj 1:
(followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of; "oblivious of
the mounting pressures for political reform"; "oblivious to the risks she
ran"; "not unmindful of the heavy responsibility" [syn: {oblivious(p)},
{unmindful(p)}] 2: failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her
responsibilities"; "oblivious old age" [syn: {forgetful}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cohort
| source : web1913 | Series \Se"ries\, n. 1.
(Bot.) In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families
showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds
to the {cohort} of some writers, and to the {order} of many modern
systematists. 2. (Elec.) A mode of arranging the separate parts of a
circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path
for the current; -- opposed to {parallel}. The parts so arranged are said
to be {in series}. 3. (Com.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted
qualities. | source : web1913 | Cohort \Co"hort\, n. [L. cohors, prop. an
inclosure: cf. F. cohorte. See {Court}, n.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A body of
about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion. 2. Any
band or body of warriors. With him the cohort bright Of watchful
cherubim. --Milton. 3. (Bot.) A natural group of orders of plants, less
comprehensive than a class. | source : wn | cohort n 1: a company of
companions or supporters 2: a band of warriors (originally a unit of a
Roman Legion)
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Plucker
"is an offline HTML viewer for PalmOS devices
packaged with UNIX and Linux conduits and a Windows installer in Virtual
Pascal. An included set of scripts will spider HTML pages which you
specify to a supplied depth, and parse them on your desktop machine. ...
Plucker supports clickable images, italics, multiple databases,
configurable display parameters and stylus options, compression, Perl and
Python conduits and parsers, a Windows fully-integrated installer, and a
whole lot more!"
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Tomas Abrahamsson : artist.el
"is an Emacs lisp package that allows you to draw
lines, rectangles, squares, poly-lines, ellipses and circles by using
your mouse and/or keyboard. The shapes are made up with the ascii
characters |, -, / and \."
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Stas Bekman : [T]aking mod_perl to the commercial world
Damian Conway : "...Larry is targeting Perl 6 as a meta-language,
as well as a programming language in its own
right. It seems likely that a large number of other languages will be
built in-, with-, and over- Perl 6 (modules like Prolog.pm,
Lingua::Romana::Perligata, and most especially Inline.pm give a taste of
that already in Perl 5)." see also :
Camel
Lot #6, The Once and Future Perl
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Dan O'Connor : The FreeBSD Cheat Sheets
"are notes that I have made to myself, so that I
could re-create what I have done in the event of a catastrophic failure
of either the hardware or me. I have made no attempt to explain the 'why'
behind the actions, or to take into account all the possible
configuration options, as there are other sources available which cover
such topics in-depth."
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Michel Rodiguez : Processing XML efficiently with Perl and XML::Twig
I would like to know who the jackass is
that decided brown, for anything except
shoes and jackets, should be the "in" colour this year.
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pseudodictionary.com
"is the place where all of your made up words,
slang, webspeak and colloquialisms become part of the dictionary as well.
we take the words you use every day, but aren't in the dictionary, and
put them into ours." see also :
wanted
words
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National Post : "Taped to the walls and halls of Callahan's home
are letters, both those in praise of his work and
the sharply critical. One is from Judge Lance Ito, thanking Callahan for
the books he sent after the cartoonist heard the judge ask during the
O.J. Simpson trial: 'Why do I feel like I'm in the middle of a Callahan
cartoon?'"
In many ways, this sort of thing can be the
highest honour for a cartoonist. It is also, though not exactly the same,
the kind of behaviour that finally drove Ralph Steadman from political
cartooning. When the subjects of your work start calling, wanting the
originals as a kind of trophy you have to wonder if something isn't quite
working.
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Scott Draves : electric sheep - a distributed screen saver
This software owes its name to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet. When the screen saver is activated, the screen goes black and an animated 'sheep' appears. Behind the scenes, the screen saver contacts an internet server and joins the parallel computation of new sheep.
Does the Internet have a Mercer yet? via
captain cursor
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Jean Chretien : "I, too, wish the French had won against the English."
I'm not sure I follow the argument that, if they
had, Americans would now speak French but there you go.
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"Ming is a C library for generating SWF format movies,
plus a set of wrappers for using the library from
popular scripting languages like PHP, Python, and Ruby."
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Anne Charlton & Clive Bates : "We argue that the mobile phone is an effective competitor to cigarettes
in the market for products that offer teenagers
adult style, individuality, sociability, rebellion, peer group bonding,
and adult aspiration. ... To explain the link with declining teenage
smoking, mobile phones are particularly important as they consume
teenagers' available cash, especially the pay-as-you-go cards. If some
teenagers cannot afford to smoke and pay for a mobile phone satisfies the
same needs as smoking, they may decide not to smoke."
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Todd Gitlin : "On Earth, the only land ahead is the compromised land.
Politics means satisfactions and
dissatisfactions, not redemptions. There is this truth: We are condemned
to share the Earth with people we dislike, even despise. In a democracy,
we are condemned to share power with them."
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mod_xslt
"is a simple Apache module to serve XML based
content."
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It is a computer in name only.
People are making the same arguments about the
Cube that they made about the iMac before it actually shipped. Do you
remember how everyone bitch moaned about what lame specs the iMac had --
and still does -- relative to new PCs, not to mention new Macs? These
things are *not* about specs. Desktop machines have reached the point,
for the time being, where they have far more computrons than people ( the
ones who don't sit in front of their computers all the time, with lives )
need or even care about. They are about being blue and having mice that
fit perfectly in the hands of seven year olds. It is about owning a
product that you imagine having the same cultural and design longevity as
those
fifties stainless steel
car toasters
. With the exception of
the
Performa Years
, Apple has always understood that better than
anyone else
. The hockey pucks suck, they really do, but they'll be all the rage when
the kids who've grown up with them hit their thrities. The Cube is the
same thing, just for
a different crowd
. It's called
lifestyle
porn
.
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DIY law?
BOP is Blog Oriented Publishing
"a database-backed Perl-based content management
system designed to output static pages on a local system, which can then
be uploaded to a remote server." ( alpha code )
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GeekLog
"is the weblog software that runs the Security
Geeks and News Geeks web sites. The software features basic weblog
capabilities and easy configurability. The over-riding development
philosophy for the software is preformance, privacy and security."
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If this
is what
getting the
web
means, can there possibly be any hope for the rest of us?
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Never one to pass up an opportunity
to link to
Gutenbook
, [it] now has a
dictionary
interface
! I wonder how hard it would be to have it talk to
word.net
or a
dict server
...
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Salon : Why leave your 'marks online
"On these sites, I had to select the link I
wanted to move, click the move button, wait for a refreshed page, click
the folder I wanted to put it in, wait again for a new page, click
another move button and then -- after another wait -- voilà, the bookmark
sat where I wanted it to go. Moving filing cabinets would have been more
fun." I wrote my own version of this and came pretty much to the same
conclusion. I liked the idea of being able to slurp my bookmarks from any
machine, cross-browser, but ultimately the only way it will ever really
beat what we've already got is with
a
standardized bookmark description
and
standardized DHTML
interface
. Oh well, hope springs eternal...
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I am a big fan of any OS installation
that requires
fast
typing and yanking the power supply
.
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I've been working with a Finder-less Mac
for about four hours now. I finally got around to
installing OS9 and today the Finder bailed, but left everything else
running. I can't see anything on my desktop, but I seem to be able to do
pretty much everything I want with a quasi command line using Finder-Pop,
the Script Editor, Frontier and DAVE. I'm not sure whether to be annoyed
or impressed, but it's been fun.
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Shirley L. Thompson : Why the public must fund the arts
"The modest support from the Canada Council to
young artists has frequently paid off in spades. In film, consider Atom
Egoyan, David Cronenberg and François Girard. In literature, dance,
music, theatre and the visual arts, the list could go on and on. As
Margaret Atwood pithily said: 'If anyone says these were free handouts at
the expense of the taxpayer, I'd tell them to stuff it up their jumper.
The taxpayers didn't just get their money's worth. They got way, way
more.' "
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William Saleton on Vote.com
"Meanwhile, [Morris] predicts that "money won't
work in politics anymore, because you won't be able to reach people by
buying television ads," since "the Internet is taking the place of
television in politics." So if you're a special interest, where can you
take your money to reach the voters? To Morris, of course. He boasts that
vote.com is "free" because "we get our money from advertisers." And who's
going to advertise on a site where people vote on political issues? Why,
special interests, naturally."
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Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission
"The Commission is issuing a direction to cable
carriers with respect to the resale of retail Internet Services...This
resale must be provided at a discount of 25% from the lowest retail
Internet service rate charged by the cable carrier to a cable customer in
its service area during any one month period."
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Apocalypse Countdown Clocks!
requires java.
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Warren Beatty & Bob McKenzie in 2000!
"And where the future President Beatty is a
recovering ladies' man--perhaps the only man alive who has loved more
than President Clinton and who is now happily raising a family in a
successful marriage--I, on the other hand, can bring a great deal of
knowledge and experience to the debate on Internet pornography."
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Le bal des cerfs-volants
My friend JB's father is a kite-maker in
Montreal. The story goes that the
SRC
asked him to do a kite-show in the parking lot of their Montreal studios
some years ago. He showed up at the
Maison
Radio Canada
, got a kite up and soon someone came along and commented on the kite and
[Claude] asked him he'd like to fly it. Now there were two kites in air,
and after the next person stopped there were three. Eventually, the whole
sky was full of kites!
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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