posts brought to you by the category “i hate
post-modernists”
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.
I think the difference is that every email application
ever written sucks
Why Wordnet is Cool
The Connection : Self storage and self identity in
America.
user_pref("browser.block.bugzilla_server_push",
true);
The New York Times imagines a kitchen for people who
don't cook.
Hey look, YAPC::Canada!
In case you needed any more reasons to throw the RSS
baby out with the bathwater,
The Connection : Public Domain on the Stand
brian d. foy : brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl
Problem
"You may think yourself an artist,
but even the old Masters produced a lot of crap. Everybody's
code is crap, which means my code is crap and your code is
crap. Learn to love that. When you have a problem, your first
thought should be "Something is wrong with my crappy code".
That means you do not get to blame perl, and it is not
personal."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
numinous
numinous adj 1: evincing the presence of a
deity; "a numinous wood"; "the most numinous moment in the
Mass 2: of or relating to or characteristic of a numen
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
kismet
Kismet, KS (city, FIPS 37325) Location:
37.20500 N, 100.70057 W Population (1990): 421 (174 housing
units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip
code(s): 67859 Kismet, NY Zip code(s): 11706
gazetteer
Kismet \Kis"met\, n. [Per. qismat.] Destiny;
fate. [Written also {kismat}.] [Oriental]
web1913
kismet n : (Islamic) the will of Allah [syn:
{kismat}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
pugnacious
Pugnacious \Pug*na"cious\, a. [L. pugnax,
-acis, fr. pugnare to fight. Cf. {Pugilism}, {Fist}.]
Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome;
fighting. --{Pug*na"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Pug*na"cious*ness},
n.
web1913
pugnacious adj 1: tough and callous by virtue
of experience [syn: {hard-bitten}, {hard-boiled}] 2: ready
and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious
spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an
exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were
rough and determined fighting men" [syn: {rough}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
perugal
To stare at someone for no particular
reason
ex. Why are you perugalling at
me?
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
dissolute
Dissolute \Dis"so*lute\, a. [L. dissolutus, p.
p. of dissolvere: cf. F. dissolu. See {Dissolve}.] 1. With
nerves unstrung; weak. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. Loosed from
restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly
abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd;
debauched. ``A wild and dissolute soldier.'' --Motley. Syn:
Uncurbed; unbridled; disorderly; unrestrained; reckless;
wild; wanton; vicious; lax; licentious; lewd; rakish;
debauched; profligate.
web1913
dissolute adj : unrestrained by convention or
morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic
society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous
living"; "fast women" [syn: {debauched}, {degenerate},
{degraded}, {dissipated}, {libertine}, {profligate},
{riotous}, {fast}]
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Well, recent changes to the perlblog don't look like
they will work
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
sunder
Sunder \Sun"der\, v. t. To expose to the sun
and wind. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
web1913
sunder v : break apart or in two, using
violence
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
zaiesque
(adj) Reminiscent of the appearance or
character of Dr. Zaius from _Planet of the
Apes_.
ex. Her sublime head of red hair was
exotically zaiesque.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
exigent
Exigent \Ex`i*gent\, a. [L. exigens, -entis, p.
pr. of exigere to drive out or forth, require, exact. See
{Exact}.] Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action;
pressing; critical. ``At this exigent moment.'' --Burke.
web1913
exigent adj 1: demanding attention; "clamant
needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as
exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger";
"an instant need" [syn: {clamant}, {crying}, {insistent},
{instant}] 2: requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting
job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation" [syn:
{exacting}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
agitprop
| source : wn | agitprop n : a person
who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or
some government [syn: {propagandist}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
bowdlerize
| source : web1913 | Bowdlerize
\Bowd"ler*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowdlerized}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Bowdlerizing}.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an
English physician, who published an expurgated edition of
Shakespeare in 1818.] To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or
modifying the parts considered offensive. It is a grave
defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a
Bowlderized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a
tale. --F. Harrison. -- {Bowd`ler*i*za"tion}, n. --
{Bowd"ler*ism}, n. | source : wn | bowdlerize v : edit by
omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
"bowdlerize a novel" [syn: {bowdlerise}, {expurgate},
{shorten}]
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Joe Henry and Daniel
Lanois
Me : weblogUpdates.xsl 0.3
Hellmuth Michaelis : Yet another approach to the laptop
multi-home problem
"For several years now, I've been
using FreeBSD on my laptop at work. Since I am often at
different customer sites on any given day, I must adjust my
laptop settings according to their network, which means a new
IP address, new name server, new default gateway and so on.
Editing rc.conf, resolv.conf and friends by hand was tedious.
I needed something that was easy to set up, use, develop and
maintain."
Michael Kinsey : "Furthermore, under the theory of MAD,
we leave ourselves vulnerable in certain ways not because
we have no choice,
and not because we've agreed to do
so, and not because protecting ourselves might upset the
Europeans, but because it is in our own unilateral
self-interest. Specifically, it is important to be vulnerable
to a "second strike"—that is, a retaliatory strike by
an arsenal crippled by your potential "first strike." Why?
Because you don't want anybody with nukes pointed at you to
think they have to use 'em or lose 'em. As long as they can
rain cataclysmic damage on us by striking second, they have
no more incentive than we do to strike first."
John Shearer : A Perl Package for Monitoring
Traffic
"The rtr-graph package described in
this article is a set of Perl scripts for polling routers (or
other SNMP-enabled devices) for information about traffic in
and out of specified interfaces. You can set up "rtr-traff"
as a cron job to poll the interface at a specified interval,
then use a CGI script for a Web front end to the finished
graphs. The Web interface automatically sorts results from
different devices into separate drop-down lists. You can also
set up multiple config files to poll different devices,
change final graph specs, and set up new parameters. This
concept was originally designed to check our Internet T1
interface for traffic levels during the day. It has since
evolved into a versatile program that gathers statistics from
any device to check problems, get baselines, or just see
what's going on."
James Spahr : NewsFeedsPalm
"is a very simple tool for Radio
Userland. It publishes your Userland On the Desktop content
to a website that is ideal for Avantgo Channels. It basically
puts Userland On the Desktop on your Palm."
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}]
Albert-László Barabási : The Physics of the Web
Olivier Berger and Olivier Tharan : Chrooted SSH CVS
server HOW-TO
Paul Prescod : Ideas about Subclassing and Inheritance
in Generic Documents
www.routergod.com
Featuring celebrity interviews
including Gillian Anderson on LAN switching and Mr. Rogers on
the RS 232.
Ben Schochet : Homesite editor for Zope [ alpha ]
Meanwhile,
BBEdit 6
won't play nicely with Zope
. Accordingly to tech support : "...BBEdit 5.1 is not
designed to do this either. IF it worked in 5.1 this was
purely by accident. The FTP tool in BBEdit currently only
connect [sic] to the standard ftp port." Duh.
Perlmonks : "I need to write a program to compare two
HTML documents
to determine if they are similar
enough to be considered 'the same'."
Leah McLaren : "Open Letters was conceived in the dark
heart of last winter,
when Paul Tough met Ian Brown for a
pint at the Munster Hall, a traditional English alehouse in
downtown Toronto. The two journalists met to talk about
ideas. Tough, a Toronto-born editor who cut his teeth at
Harpers magazine in New York, had recently resigned from his
position as editor of Saturday Night magazine and was in the
process of deciding what do with the rest of his life -- or
at least where to direct his energy after he packed up his
desk. He told Brown, a freelance writer and the host of CBC
Radio's Talking Books, about a project he had been mentally
toying with for a while. It involved letters. A whole
magazine of letters, in fact."
The Cuckoo Egg Project
"is essentially a monkey wrench in
the machinery of online piracy. The method is relatively
simple - by creating an mp3 and renaming it to whatever your
devious mind desires you can subvert the machinery. It's that
easy - Napster users trust that what they see is what they
get but we have the power to change what they get." via
slashdot
Where does all this bad computer karma come from?
These are also the times when I ask
where all the Boundless Enthusiasm comes from, but I guess
that's a different story.
It's called a classroom.
Everything that Meg is talking about
should already be done in class; simply funneling the
discourse on to the web is only a partial solution and moot
by itself. If education at all levels was given adequate
funding and not seen merely as tool for career advancement,
by students and teachers alike, people might not feel so
shitty about it. I'm pretty sure it's not what she meant, but
Meg's comments could also be interpreted as "Who needs school
when you've got Blogger?" Meanwhile, universities everywhere
are
reinventing
themselves as search engines
.
Don't worry kids.
Diary of an Everynerd
"Hemos likes to open the window,
which pisses me off because I wear contacts, and the breeze
makes my eyes water, and then I can't type. I hate that."
news.com : AOL Time Warner will open cable lines to
ISPs
iCab 1.9 has limited JavaScript support
with a caveat : "At the moment no
security policy is implemented in InScript, i.e. every frame
in one window can access all other frames in that window
without any restrictions. Who (sic) considers this too
dangerous has to switch off InScript in 'Preferences -
InScript'." mmmmm....
standards
.
Magnus Lie Hetland : Instant Python
Clifton Joseph
"But it's not all doom and gloom. In
this new age boom, there will still be those independent
media, the Davids, that'll bloom and groom themselves for the
next battle against the Goliaths' power and control. An
important point to remember here is that when it comes to
content, the huge companies don't lead, they follow. They
sniff like profit/motive-hungry/hyenas-in-glee, searching for
the next trend to market and exploit."
I had no idea that
Chapter 6 : Database Nation
The Death of Privacy in the 21st
Century, by Simson Garfinkel.
sendmail.net : Q&A with Paul Vixie
"...it's safe to say that the
original design of virtually all Internet technology took no
account of human nature - because the subset of humanity who
used the early Internet had been preselected by their
employers and schools and research labs and whatnot to weed
out rudeness." Meanwhile,
via
slashdot
come news that Hotmail (of all people)
will implement the MAPS Realtime Blackhole List
.
Builder.com
Choking Pear : Poke Figbash to learn your fate
NYT Magazine on the Anti-Ironist
A "fine young man" and author of "For
Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today",
he describes cynicism as the "simple sister of irony". I've
been reading Mark Kingwell's "Better Living: In Pursuit of
Happiness From Plato to Prozac", and he has this to say on
the subject :
"A
loose succession of thinkers rather than a coherent school,
the Cynics were founded, more or less, in the fourth century
B.C by Diogenes of Sinope and flourished into the sixth
century A.D. They argued that genuine happiness must involve
critical self-knowledge, virtuous action and a deep mistrust
of external goods like wealth, reputation and social
convention. They were sharply critical of ignorance, however
blissful, and favoured the literary genres of diatribe and
polemic to shock their listeners into awareness of society's
many somnambulent features. Radical, satirical and
iconoclastic, the Cynics believed that lasting satisfaction
was to be found only in overcoming the cheap temptations of
the cultural marketplace and in calling society to moral
account. They were prickly, yes, but not dismissive. They
advocated self-mastery and reform, not destruction or
hopelessness. They were happy. So call me cynical; I consider
it a compliment."
Scott Rosenberg : Don't Link or I'll Sue
Perhaps the Anti-Weblog is really
just another manifestation of the
Anti-Cruise
.
Larry Wall
"These days it's popular to demonize
Microsoft, but I think of Microsoft more as a spoiled child
with a tendency to be a bully. Yes, they need to be
disciplined, but they also need to be praised when they do
something right. That might be more important in the long run
than any amount of spanking."
Julie Doucet
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.
