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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.
Seventeen Short Triples About Baking Powder:
Zeldman : "Over a year later we're still waiting for the W3C to take the hint."
Me : ASCOPE::Class::Null.pm 1.0
Your mileage may return undef.
RDF boosters really need to learn that creepy, smiley and vaguely stunned-looking ideograms
What they said.
Hey look, YAPC::Canada!
Andy Wardley : "I finally got around to releasing my XML::Schema module(s)."
I think I'm going to start including one of these charts
Me : WebService::weblogUpdates.pm 0.34
NY Times : More Greens? A Red Light on the Vineyard.
They declared the game, particularly as played by summer-season swells who swoop in and out on private jets, to be a kind of recreational poison that is slowly but surely killing the clam-digging, beachcombing, plaid-shirt-wearing soul of Martha's Vineyard.
"A golf course is the epitome of suburban leisure and affluence," said James Athearn, a commission member from Edgartown who voted against the new course. He described golf as a cultural steamroller that was crushing "the character and identity that we are trying to preserve."
Perl6 Object Oriented Cookbook
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : lassitude
Lassitude \Las"si*tude\, n. [L. lassitudo, fr. lassus faint,
weary; akin to E. late: cf. F. lassitude. See {Late}.]
A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary
functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong
exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness.
The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a
high pitch . . . will soon feel a lassitude. --Barrow.
web1913
lassitude
n 1: a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
[syn: {lethargy}, {sluggishness}]
2: a feeling of lack of interest or energy [syn: {languor}, {listlessness}]
3: weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy [syn:
{inanition}, {lethargy}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hockey hair
Short on top, long in the back. Not unlike a mullet.
ex. Cute, but he's got an ugly case of hockey hair.
Movable Crankypants : The Unbearbable Decentralization of Donuts
Petr Cimprich : XML::Directory.pm 0.95
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : enervate
Enervate \E*ner"vate\, a. [L. enervatus, p. p.]
Weakened; weak; without strength of force. --Pope.
web1913
enervate
v 1: weaken mentally or morally
2: disturb the composure of [syn: {faze}, {unnerve}, {unsettle}]
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Caterina Fake : "I was astonished, upon moving to this country,
that Canadians didn't know how to
deface their own currency."
Kevin Burton : Syndication of javascript: urls as a security window?
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : defenestrate
To throw someone or something out of a window.
ex. If this computer crashes one more time, I'm defenestrating the piece of junk!
Chris Russell : "And being asked to swallow a frozen cube of onion
in green apple juice so you'd burp and be ready for the next course was a little much."
O'Reilly beta chapter : Writing SOAP Web Services
"In this chapter, we demonstrate how to create, deploy, and use SOAP web services using toolkits for Java, Perl, and Microsoft's new .NET platform. We cover the installation, configuration, and use of SOAP::Lite for Perl, Apache SOAP for Java, and Microsoft .NET for C#."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is benison
| source : web1913 |
Benison \Ben"i*son\, n. [OE. beneysun, benesoun, OF.
bene["i]?un, bene["i]son, fr. L. benedictio, fr. benedicere
to bless; bene (adv. of bonus good) + dicere to say. See
{Bounty}, and {Diction}, and cf. {Benediction}.]
Blessing; beatitude; benediction. --Shak.
More precious than the benison of friends. --Talfourd.
| source : wn |
benison
n : a spoken blessing
The Mirror Project : mirror.Random()
FreeBSD Diary : Client Authentication with SSL
Sean M. Burke : The RTF Cookbook
"RTF is a nearly ubiquitous text formatting language devised by Microsoft. Microsoft's Rich Text Format Specification is widely available, but it's usable mainly just as a reference for the language's entire command set. This short document, however, is meant as a quick reference and overview. It is meant for people interested in writing programs that generate a minimal subset of RTF."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is collegial
| source : web1913 |
Collegial \Col*le"gi*al\, n. [LL. collegialis.]
Collegiate. [R.]
| source : wn |
collegial
adj 1: characterized by or having authority vested equally among
colleagues; "collegial harmony"; "a tendency to turn
from collegial to one-man management"- Merle Fainsod
2: of or resembling or typical of a college or college
students; "collegiate living"; "collegiate attitudes";
"collegiate clothes" [syn: {collegiate}]
Can someone tell me what a "created distributed conversation" is?
Leigh Dodds : Validating XML using XSLT
The dictionary.com "word of the day" dict-ified
It's too bad that RadioUserland doesn't seem to talk WebDAV.
Evan Williams : "Talk about collaborative journalism.
It's easy to see why this is going to play a bigger and bigger role in the future of news. Real people, giving reports from the front lines, as they see it. Can't beat it!"
The Globe and Mail : "When Stockwell Day held up a magic-markered
sign saying "No 2-tier health care," decorum disappeared from the studio where political spinners sat watching last night's debate. ... Mr. Day was breaking the rules, and even his own advisers groaned audibly when he produced the crudely handmade sign. He hadn't consulted with them about the prop, and they knew immediately it was a bad idea." It's not just his politics that bother me. The problem with Stockwell Day is that he appears to have no appreciation for the subtleties of life. He's like that annoying brainiac you went to school with. The one who devoured encyclopaedia cover to cover and thought, not only, that he knew all the answers because of it but that it afforded him the right to lord it over you. The one with whom it was impossible to have any kind of intelligent or thoughtful discussion because the idea of conversation meant only an exchange of facts and statistics, devoid of any consideration for the other's point of view, designed to prove the error of your thinking. That, and he has terrible hand-writing.
Guido van Rossum
"[S]tarting today, Tim Peters, Barry Warsaw, Jeremy Hylton, Fred Drake and myself are working for Digital Creations. We will be spending part of our time on core Python development (including Jython and Mailman) and part of our time on Python infrastructure improvements that also benefit Zope." mmmmm.... whitespace.
Gareth Rees : DBO.pm
"is designed to be flexibly extensible in a number of directions - adding new operations on the database, adding new kinds of tables or columns, and applying to new database systems. All extensions can be carriedout by creating new classes that inherit from the classes DBO defines, and by defining new multimethod instances for those classes."
M.J. Milroy on bathroom hackers
"The way I see it, it's simple. As a student taking a piss, I'm bombarded by ads. My environment affects me and I have a responsibility to respond to that."
Susan Musgrave
will give a poetry reading in Montreal at
Dawson College, room 5B16 at 17h30.
The Hundertwasserhaus Webcam
David Ronfeldt : Social Science at 190MPH on NASCAR's Biggest Superspeedways
"In aerodynamically intense stock-car races like the Daytona 500, the drivers form into multi-car draft lines to gain extra speed. A driver who does not enter a draft line (slipstream) will lose.
Once in a line, a driver must attract a drafting partner in order to break out and try to get further ahead. Thus the effort to win leads to ever-shifting patterns of cooperation and competition
among rivals. This provides a curious laboratory for several social science theories: (1) complexity theory, since the racers self-organize into structures that oscillate between order and chaos; (2) social network analysis, since draft lines are line networks whose organization depends on a driver's social capital as well as his human capital; and (3) game theory, since racers face a "prisoner's dilemma" in seeking drafting partners who will not defect and leave them stranded. Perhaps draft lines and related "bump and run" tactics amount to a little-recognized dynamic of everyday life, including in structures evolving on the Internet."
GLOR-R-RT!!
I love comix (sic) sound effects.
The Canadian Student Federation demonstrations yesterday
led me their
Declaration of Student Rights. I hate documents like this. I can't tell if they are legitimate statements of principle or just bargaining tools. The basic thrust seems to be that post-secondary education should be *whatever* the student body decides it is at *any* given moment, no matter what. It obscures and trivializes more important and immediate issues. Ultimately, it begs the question: why go to school at all? If all you want to do is be learned, read a book. Schools exist beyond any one student's tenure and make their decisions accordingly.
FuckU-Fuck Me : Changing the feel of communication
I've got the re-install blues
LA Weekly : The Big Nowhere
"Out on the Nellis Range [known most commonly as the notorious Area 51] with the Center for Land Use Interpretation."
Saturday Night : Call Him Nardwuar
"One guy wrote 'Nardwuar, you are the litmus test for humanity. Anyone who gets upset by you is a jerk. Those who find you wonderful, magical, and hysterical are all those things inside.' " I'd like to think that Nardwuar maybe goes a small way towards exonerating Canada for having unleashed Bryan Adams, Celine Dion and
Alanis Morissette on the world.
Globe & Mail : UVic refuses to honour Bill Gates
"[Other] senators took issue with a 1998 Microsoft deal that offered professors $200 if they mentioned -- or used -- Microsoft programming tools in a scholarly presentation." One of the arguments that keeps coming up in conversations like this is : Well, how else are we supposed to pay for education? It's called taxation, folks. Of the people, by the people, for the people. The practice may be broken, for sure, but I would argue the premise remains sound.
LinuxPlanet : Setting up a MySQL Website
Dale Chihuly went to Jerusalem
Tom Lehrer : The Political Musician That Wasn't
"All my life I was reading about this stuff, oh Dylan did this and the Beatles did that, and I'm thinking 'well I don't know, I didn't see it.' You know, we're all going to hold hands and be beautiful and change the world... well that's nice, but then you go back to the dorm and get stoned."
CBC : Viagra keeps flowers from wilting
"They believe Viagra could revolutionize packaging and storage of produce."
Phillipe Queau : Unequal terms of electronic trade
"The "invisible hands" of networks and the market are naturally at work weaving a single fabric. It is a familiar lesson, one we have already learned from Microsoft (4). It has turned the geography of Europe and Asia upside down: America has now become virtually the heart of these regions. On average, the cost of dedicated lines between European countries - the famous "information highways" or "backbones" along which Internet traffic passes - is between 17 and 20 times higher than that of equivalent links in the US (5). A Paris-New York or London-New York link is cheaper than Paris-London or Paris-Frankfurt. Virginia has become the hub of intra-European links." The original piece, written in French, can be found
here.
Shut Down the Computer
<?xml version="1.0"?> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:e="http://eatdrinkfeelgood.org#"> <e:ingredient rdf:about = "http://eatdrinkfeelgood.org/recipe#ingredient"> <rdfs:label>ingredient</rdfs:label> <e:quantity> <e:range rdf:about = "http://eatdrinkfeelgood.org/general/quantity#range"> <rdfs:label>between</rdfs:label> <e:lower> <e:num rdf:about = "http://example.com/number/int#4"> <rdfs:label>5</rdfs:label> </e:num> </e:lower> <e:upper> <e:num rdf:about = "http://example.com/number/decimal#6.5"> <rdfs:label>6.5</rdfs:label> </e:num> </e:upper> </e:range> </e:quantity> <e:measure> <e:unit rdf:about = "http://example.com/measure/unit#teaspoon"> <rdfs:label>teaspoon</rdfs:label> </e:unit> </e:measure> <e:item> <e:foodstuff rdf:about = "http://eatdrinkfeelgood.org/foodstuff#bakingpowder"> <rdfs:label>baking powder</rdfs:label> </e:foodstuff> </e:item> </e:ingredient> </rdf:RDF>That would be for the few remaining humans who haven't already poked their eyes out.