posts brought to you by the category
“law”
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.
Irwin Cotler as Minister of Justice; that's one I
didn't see coming.
It's bigger than a Mooseheads game.
Baci di dama, Montréal, September
2003
www.ilesansfil.org
IleSansFil is a non-profit community group that
promotes free public wireless internet access in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We use open source software and
inexpensive commercial wifi equipment to share broadband
internet connections. ... Besides doing this to provide
something to regular members (the fortunate ones that
have laptops) of the community, we also plan to use these
hotspots to promote more interactions and collaboration
between local digital artists and hobby-ists. We're
thinking webdesign vernisages, digital comic book jams,
linux meetings, online gaming nights, etc.
If I ever taught programming, I would set aside an
entire class for making risotto.
All I wanted was a Pepsi
To build JDK 1.4.1 port, you should have at least
1.5Gb of free disk space in build area!
Does this mean that Apple is going to release
iFeed
"They do care. They just have a bad attitude."
Me : XML::SAXDriver::vCard.pm 0.02
Ha! Stick this in your RSS pipe and smoke it.
Bitflux Editor
"is a browser based Wysiwyg XML
Editor. ... Now you can edit your content semantically and at
the same time display it to your users and editors in its
final form. "
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
camarilla
Camarilla \Ca`ma*ril"la\, n. [Sp., a small
room.] 1. The private audience chamber of a king. 2. A
company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king;
a cabal or clique.
web1913
camarilla n : a clique that seeks power usually
through intrigue [syn: {cabal}, {faction}, {junta},
{junto}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
leximaven
Someone who loves words, from "lexi" (word)
and "maven" (knowledgeable about something).
ex. Leximavens beware, pseudodictionary is
addictive.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
persiflage
Persiflage \Per`si`flage"\, n. [F., fr.
persifler to quiz, fr. L. per + siffler to whistle, hiss,
L. sibilare, sifilare.] Frivolous or bantering talk; a
frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious
or otherwise; light raillery. --Hannah More.
web1913
persiflage n : light teasing
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
laudable
Laudable \Laud"a*ble\, a. [L. laudabilis: cf.
OE. laudable. See {Laud}, v. i.] 1. Worthy of being lauded;
praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable
actions; laudable ambition. 2. (Med.) Healthy; salubrious;
normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not
noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus.
--Arbuthnot.
web1913
laudable adj : worthy of high praise;
"applaudable efforts to save the environment"; "a
commendable sense of purpose"; "laudable motives of
improving housing conditions"; "a significant and
praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence" [syn:
{applaudable}, {commendable}, {praiseworthy}]
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Never mind the "weblog as journalism" meme,
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
hole of pluto
Middle of nowhere.
ex. She moved to the hole of Pluto. I don't
even think they deliver mail where she
moved.
Philip A. Mansfield :Using XSLT to Generate SVG
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
ambimoustrous
Equally adept at using a computer's mouse
with either hand - often in reaction to early-onset
RSI.
ex. Oh, Paul's mouse is always on the wrong
side of the PC - he's not a leftie though, he's
ambimoustrous.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
flumpus
(n, v) An animal or person who sprawls all
over while looking squishy, cuddly, and cute. Plural:
flumpi...or flumpuses.
ex. My cat is the neighborhood flumpus. Look
at her, purring and flumpusing in the laundry basket.
Squish!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
adunyaha
A variation of "duh," to be used only under
extreme circumstances.
ex. A. Neil Armstrong went to the moon. B.
Adunyaha.
Notes from the "You say French beans" department.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
surly
| source : web1913 | Surly \Sur"ly\,
a. [Compar. {Surlier}; superl. {Surliest}.] [Probably from
sir, and originally meaning, sirlike, i.e., proud. See {Sir},
and {Like}, a.] 1. Arrogant; haughty. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. 2.
Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour;
crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly
dog; surly language; a surly look. ``That surly spirit,
melancholy.'' --Shak. 3. Rough; dark; tempestuous. Now
softened into joy the surly storm. --Thomson. | source : wn |
surly adj : inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones
of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" [syn:
{ugly}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
malapropism
| source : web1913 | Malapropism
\Mal"a*prop*ism\, n. [From Mrs. Malaprop, a character in
Sheridan's drama, `` The Rivals,'' who makes amusing blunders
in her use of words. See {Malapropos}.] A grotesque misuse of
a word; a word so used. | source : wn | malapropism n : the
unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that
sounds similar [syn: {malaprop}]
The nice people from the band Ozomatli
Anthony Lane : This is not a movie
"If the disaster movie is indeed to
be shamed by disaster, we would do well to remember the exact
moment of its defeat. It came, I think, when the cameras
began to pick up moving dots in the steel grid of the towers:
people waving for help that would never arrive. Was it just
me, or did the networks back off of these long-lens shots,
and revert, with something like relief, to the wider view?
Too late: the aesthetic habit had cracked, and there was no
going back."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
pablum
| source : wn | Pablum n 1: a form of
cereal for infants [syn: {Pablum}] 2: a diet that does not
require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders
[syn: {soft diet}, {pap}, {spoon food}] 3: worthless or
oversimplified ideas [syn: {pap}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
doyen
| source : web1913 | Doyen \Doy`en"\,
n. [F. See {Dean}.] Lit., a dean; the senior member of a body
or group; as, the doyen of French physicians. ``This doyen of
newspapers.'' --A. R. Colquhoun. | source : wn | doyen n :
the senior member of a group; "he is the dean of foreign
correspondents" [syn: {dean}]
There's a small-ish park near where I live.
Some desperately earnest half-wit : "After sitting at
home in my bathrobe,
and having some nice man hand me my
movie, how can I ever go back to Blockbusters? It's like
living in a Third World country."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
cudgel
| source : web1913 | Cudgel
\Cudg"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cudgeled} or {Cudgelled}
(-?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cudgeling} or {cudgelling}.] To
beat with a cudgel. An he here, I would cudgel him like a
dog. --Shak. {To cudgel one's brains}, to exercise one's
wits. | source : web1913 | Cudgel \Cudg"el\ (k?j"?l), n. [OE.
kuggel; cf. G. keule club (with a round end), kugel ball, or
perh. W. cogyl cudgel, or D. cudse, kuds, cudgel.] A staff
used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and
wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a
weapon. He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . .
falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. --Bunyan.
{Cudgel play}, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels. {To
cross the cudgels}, to forbear or give up the contest; -- a
phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who lay
one cudgel over another when the contest is ended. {To take
up cudgels for}, to engage in a contest in behalf of (some
one or something). | source : wn | cudgel n : used as a
weapon v : strike with a cudgel
Julia Hayden : The Daily Decision
Ronald Bourret : Mapping DTDs tp Databases
Andrew Van Etten : "So... help me understand where
[WebDAV] fits in the CMS world..."
Shawn Ribordy : "After test driving MSXML in a Visual
Basic application,
it begged the question: "I wonder if
Perl can use MSXML?"
NY Times : Auditing Classes at M.I.T., on the Web and
Free
"Selling content for profit, or
trying in some ways to commercialize one of the core
intellectual activities of the university seemed less
attractive to people at a deep level than finding ways to
disseminate it as broadly as possible."
Peter Steiner : "I feel a little like the person
(whoever it is) who invented the
smiley face. ... Isn't that horrifying — to think
that's the thing I'll be remembered for?"
[U.S.] Justice John Paul Stevens : "It is confidence in
the men and women who administer the judicial system
that is the true backbone of the rule
of law. Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence
that will be inflicted by today's decision. One thing,
however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete
certainty the identity of the winner of this year's
Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly
clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an
impartial guardian of the rule of law." (pdf)
Overheard : "It's not community building.
It's making me hate everyone in my
office."
Frontier weenies will chuckle knowingly to
themselves
Ellen Ullman : Hurrah for slow recounts
"The act of voting, to put it in
computing terms, is a question of user interface. What sort
of physical representation do we want to give to this most
central act of citizenship? Here on one side is the browser
window, looking in essence like every other Web page -- the
usual form to fill out, the inevitable button at the bottom
which everyone has somehow decided should be labeled
"Submit." And on the other is the polling place: that
slightly ramshackle affair of rec rooms and church basements
and garages, where poll workers, usually retired people, run
a gnarled hand down the voter roll looking for your name;
that place of large purposes and small human fumblings."
G4 Cube question :
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Banco de Gaia
Fred Evans : Cyberspace and the Concept of
Democracy
"I argue that the Internet's status
as a "virtual" rather than actual reality (its status as a
serendipitous form of what phenomenologists call an epochéor
a "placing within brackets" of our standard beliefs) reveals
some of the more important aspects underlying democracy. In
particular, the Internet's virtual status indicates that
society is what I term a "metamorphosing multi-voiced body."
This implies that democracy off-line and online must support
the interplay or solidarity among the "voices" of this body
(as opposed to their mere plurality) and simultaneously
respect their heterogeneity. It must adopt the "interplay of
equally audible voices" as its political ideal. Because this
interplay among voices produces new discourses, democracy's
valorization of the multi-voiced body must also affirm the
metamorphosis that society's creativity brings about." see
also
Derek Powazek : The C-word
Here's me,
looking for god in all these fucking
details...
Bill Lessard on the perception and reality of dot-com
perks
Mr. Lessard is part of
NetSlaves
gang who, incidentally, awarded their Shut the Fuck Up award
to
Jakob Neilson
this week. (real audio)
Julian Dibbell : After Babelfish
"Suppose that the unhinged flights of
Babelfish at its nuttiest are in some sense very much what
Shakespeare is about -- or at least what translations of
Shakespeare ought to be about. Suppose, that is, that Walter
Benjamin in fact had something very much like Babelfish in
mind when he wrote that translation has but one true task: to
catch a fleeting glimpse for us of that "higher and purer"
language of which all languages, after Babel, are mere
fragments."
TechNetCast : The Social and Legal Impact of XLink
"The lawsuits and threats over deep
linking, framed sites and image theft are nothing compared to
what lay ahead. XLink, XPointer and XFragment suggest a world
where information is routinely transcluded between documents,
with or without permission." ( real -sigh- video )
Steve Rothman : The Publication of [John Hersey's]
Hiroshima in the New Yorker
"TO OUR READERS The New Yorker this
week devotes its entire editorial space to an article on the
almost complete obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb,
and what happened to the people of that city. It does so in
the conviction that few of us have yet comprehended the all
but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and that
everyone might well take time to consider the terrible
implications of its use. The Editors." see also :
Takeharu Terao : A Personal Record of Hiroshima A-bomb
Survival
Palm Open Source
WebReference : Registering and publishing with RSS
Building the Grid
"An Intergrated Services and Toolkit
Architecture for Next Generation Networked Applications." All
I can say is you'd better hope the future loves you...
The Slashdot Kiddies : What Will the Internet of the
Future Be Like?
Interesting, but I worry that few
people are seeing the forest for the trees. There's another
aspect that is troubling : I'd like to hear what people
*want* the future of the Network to be and it fucking sucks
to have to consider that as a separate issue. How lame is it
that we ( and I include myself ) find it so hard to reconcile
our hopes with our expectations? see also :
The trouble with having a recursive imagination
and then
Angela Gunn : Hoax in the machine
tempography
scan-art experiment-o-rama
Apparently, happiness can also be had
masturbating with Tiger Balm
( and other activities you probably shouldn't try unless
you're a trained professional which would, no doubt, beg the
question... ) via
wetlog
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."
This one's for Airport Girl
Peter Braunstein writes
"To understand a Nokia film, it's first necessary to unearth
the very singular psychic landscape produced by cell phones:
the sense that one's personal narrative is no longer
enclosed, but rather is always intermingled and intercut with
other people's. The net effect is an enhanced sense of
simultaneity, synergy, interconnectedness between people,
while at the a same time a displacement of self, a
disembodied feeling, a sense of being uprooted from any
distinct physical domain."
Josey Vogels
"Does your girlfriend fart during
sex? Now here's a topic that comes up at all my dinner
parties. Somehow what started out as a guy who calls himself
Mike Hunt (hardee har) asking whether anyone else's
girlfriend farts during sex ended up with someone sharing the
fascinating tidbit that, apparently, cats hate the smell of
human farts. The things you can learn on the internet."
news.com : AOL Time Warner will open cable lines to
ISPs
The Global Film School
"As the film and television
production community embraces digitization, it is our
obligation as teaching institutions to ensure that the next
generation of storytellers are able to work freely,
creatively and efficiently in any environment whether that is
physically on a film set or virtually at a computer
terminal." I'm normally not a big fan of "distance-education"
but, at a glance, online film and television studies seems
like an endeavour that could become greater than the sum of
its parts. What I really want to know, howver, is how the web
designers for this site talked their way into using "lateral
scrolling" (ick!)
Speaking of 3D modelling
Mark-Jason Dominus : The Sins of Perl Revisted
The Times : Evidence of the Great Flood supports Noah's
Ark saga
"Around 7,600 years ago, guess what
happens? The Mediterranean breaks through a natural dam at
the Bosphorus and catastrophically floods the land surface.
People living there are 400ft below sea level and in trouble.
They are facing a flood equal to 10,000 Niagara Falls."
Technologies to the People Foundation
"is a non-profit-making organization
that provides the destitute with access to the new
technologies and thus facilitates their entry to the
information society."
Flatfishnight
What is Monk?
"Monk is the epic saga of two men who
quit their jobs and sold everything they owned and hit the
road with their cats, Nurse and Nurse's Aide, and for eleven
and a half years argued across America, publishing the
world's only mobile magazine."
Wired : Real Agents fro Virtual Models
"The Elite modeling agency has
created a new division to manage the careers of
computer-generated models and actresses." There's a passage
in William Gibson's
Virtual Light
where he talks about the feedback loop of cops learning how
to be cops by watching shows like "Cops". For a while now
I've been kind of worried that ( the collective ) we are
living in a similar loop, learning how to deal with our the
future is now syndrome by reading William Gibson books. They
are good books, for sure, but I do *not* want to live in
the world he writes about
.
The People's Photos
"The Archive of pictures found on the
street by me and you."
Office porn cases raising issues of privacy,
protection
'' 'To me, the biggest issue in the
Harvard case is why the technicians were not disciplined for
disclosing the content of the computer files,' said Alan
Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard. "
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.
So, le Steamé has appointed Ann McClennan to squawk at Tom Ridge about , Pierre Pettigrew to yammer on at the US drug czar about health issues and Irwin Cotler to debate the finer points of legal theory with John Ashcroft.
Curious — to say the least. I admit to a nagging sense that I may have to reevaluate my generally poor estimation of Paul Martin but don't expect anything from me until after the next election. Three or fours months of good deeds and faces do not five years of governing make.