posts brought to you by the category “mail”
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.
15,000!
Dan Farmer and Charles C. Mann : Surveillance Nation
Martine Pagé : Il y a plusieurs ... qui n'ont pas eu
leur baptme de sucre.
Mike Hearn : Using the Mozilla JavaScript interface to XSLT
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.02
Me : [M]ost third-party weblog setups are fuct from the start.
Denis Krylov : "Every one one of us had his own September
11th."
A FreeBSD Operating System Security Checklist
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : recondite
Recondite \Rec"on*dite\ (r?k"?n*d?t or r?*k?n"d?t; 277), a.
[L. reconditus, p. p. of recondere to put up again, to lay up, to
conceal; pref. re- re- + condere to bring or lay together. See
{Abscond}.] 1. Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret;
abstruse; as, recondite causes of things. 2. Dealing in things
abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies. ``Recondite
learning.'' --Bp. Horsley.
web1913
recondite adj : difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to
one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures
were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep
metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography" [syn:
{abstruse}, {deep}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : too hard
basket case
A guy that you love to death but is too hard to get
together with for reasons that are extremely annoying.
ex. Bob's a bit of a too hard basket case.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : intractable
Intractable \In*tract"a*ble\, a. [L. intractabilis: cf. F.
intraitable, formerly also intractable. See {In-} not, and
{Tractable}.] Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed;
indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn;
obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child. Syn: Stubborn;
perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable; unruly;
headstrong; violent; ungovernable; unteachable. --
{In*tract"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*tract"a*bly}, adv.
web1913
intractable adj : not tractable; difficult to manage or
mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most
intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal" [ant: {tractable}]
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If I were a conceptual artist
I would have set up a video camera to the right
of the door at
open da
night
and filmed people as they came in walked to the corner of the bar. I
would capture the moment of realization and the slow turning of the head
as each realized that the line actually started three feet back, so as
not to block the game on television, and actually stretched all the back
to the
pool
table
. But I am not a conceptual artist. So much so that one of my tiny
moments of joy was meeting
Kelly Mark
in the cafeteria at NSCAD and ripping on Damian Hirst.
I was telling Michael the other night that I was pretty sure a
Toronto-Ottawa series
Rasterweb : See if there's interest in at least embedding Lynx in
the sidebar...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : tims
short for Timberland boots (highly thought of in the
hip-hop/rap community)
ex. Yo . . .B! Those tims are off the hook!
Ed Hawco : Bullet holes, Tokyo Restaurant, Montreal
From the "Thinking Out Loud" department : forbidden searches.
Not only have the project7 gang written a VDX -> SVG
stylesheet
Dave, it's not hard to think about a site that uses "all the latest
and greatest technology
Philip A. Mansfield :Using XSLT to Generate SVG
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : joust
Playful fighting or sparring.
ex. They are not really angry. They are just jousting with
each other.
see also :
joust dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : retes
Slang Doritos. Sounds like "pete's."
ex. Pass my the retes.
N.Y. Times : Prosciutto, Fig and Parmesan Rolls
From the salt-in-the-wounds department : 500 wins
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is diablerie
| source : web1913 | Diablerie \Dia`ble*rie"\,
Diabley \Di*ab"le*y\, n. [F. diablerie, fr. diable devil, L. diabolus.
See {Devil}.] Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed;
mischief.
Me : renderRSS.js
Me : Perlblog
Jabber User 1 says : jabber
Jabber User 2
says: web1913 Jabber \Jab"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jabbered}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Jabbering}.] [Cf. {Gibber}, {Gabble}.] To talk rapidly,
indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to
chatter. --Swift. web1913 Jabber \Jab"ber\, v. t. To utter rapidly or
indistinctly; to gabble; as, to jabber French. --Addison. web1913 Jabber
\Jab"ber\, n. Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance;
gibberish. --Swift. web1913 Jabber \Jab"ber\, n. One who jabbers. wn
jabber n : rapid and indistinct speech [syn: {jabbering}, {gabble}] v :
talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner [syn: {rant}, {mouth
off}, {spout}, {rabbit on}, {rave}] foldoc jabber <networking> An
event that occurs when a device on a network using the {LAT} {protocol}
continues to broadcast its availability even though its availability
status is known by the network. (1996-05-10)
Marc Waldman, Aviel D. Rubin and Lorrie Faith Cranor : Publius
"A robust, tamper-evident, censorship-resistant
web publishing system." (pdf)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is exhort
| source : web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, v. i. To
deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.
With many other words did he testify and exhort. --Acts ii. 40. | source
: web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, n. Exhortation. [Obs.] --Pope. | source :
web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exhorted}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Exhorting}.] [L. exhortari; ex out + hortari to incite,
encourage; cf. F. exhorter. See {Hortative}.] To incite by words or
advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable
conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise,
warn, or caution. Examples gross as earth exhort me. --Shak. Let me
exhort you to take care of yourself. --J. D. Forbes. | source : wn |
exhort v 1: urge on or encourage esp. by shouts; "The crowd cheered the
demonstrating strikers" [syn: {cheer}, {inspire}, {urge}, {barrack},
{urge on}, {pep up}] 2: force or impel in an indicated direction; "I
urged him to finish his studies" [syn: {urge}, {urge on}, {press}] |
source : devils | EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the
conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown
discomfort.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is apotheosis
| source : web1913 | Apotheosis \Ap`o*the"o*sis\
(?; 277), n. pl. {Apotheoses}. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to deify; ? from + ?
to deify, ? a god.] 1. The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and
placing him among, ``the gods;'' deification. 2. Glorification;
exaltation. ``The apotheosis of chivalry.'' --Prescott. ``The noisy
apotheosis of liberty and machinery.'' --F. Harrison. | source : wn |
apotheosis n 1: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having
no equal [syn: {ideal}, {paragon}, {nonpareil}, {saint}, {nonesuch},
{nonsuch}] 2: the elevation of a person to the status of a god [syn:
{deification}, {exaltation}]
Lincoln Dahlberg : Extending the Public Sphere through
Cyberspace
Marie-Joelle Gros : Le «Gitoyen» contre le Web commercial
"Pour eux, la constitution d'un GIE «associatif»
est une étape supplémentaire dans l'édification d'un Web indépendant des
pressions économiques. «
On n'a rien contre le business, mais on défend une
autre idée: celle d'une appropriation du réseau par le public
, explique Laurent Chemla.
La liberté d'expression appartient à tous. Elle n'a
rien à voir avec une logique marchande.
»"
mmmmm...recursive web applications.
Jean-Sébastien Marsan : "En somme, bien que les phantasmes
technologiques
des ingénieurs soient sans limites, des
contraintes physiques, économiques et surtout humaines détermineront
l'informatique et les réseaux de demain. «Notre propre temps biologique
demeure relativement constant, même si celui qui nous entoure nous donne
l'impression de s'accélérer sans cesse, relativise M. Poussart. C'est
ainsi que la dimension d'une main demeure encore incontournable dans la
réalisation d'une interface tactile…»."
It figures I would see Happy Birthday Barbie
the same night I went out without my camera. I
was walking home from the bagel store past one of the many dusty
nondescript and almost always empty bakeries that dot the city. The
bakeries that make the soft and squishy buns served in restaurants and
bake the wacky Liberace wedding cakes and displayed proudly in the
window. This place has always been pretty tame when it comes to cakes.
Nothing like the bakery on the Main that once had a cake decorated as a
soccer field, complete with little plastic soccer players. But tonight,
there she was : Happy Birthday Barbie. She was a full size doll and with
heavy makeup and some sort of sparkling top. There she stood, with her
little Barbie hands that seem to be simultaneously saying "Take me with
you" and "All is forgiven" wearing a giant white bell gown made
of...cake.
Jeanne Schinto : Obscure Objects of Lapsed Desire
"Only artists can ever destroy their own work
without compunction, it seems. Maybe we would all feel better if
sanctioned rituals existed for destroying unwanted art. As a Catholic, I
learned in childhood that it was a sin to throw away a crucifix, even a
broken one. If I wanted to dispose of something like that, the old nuns
who taught me said, I had to burn it. I'm lapsed now, but living in our
secular society, where art so often substitutes for religion, I think
ceremonially incinerating excess art would make a kind of skewed sense."
see also :
On A-lists and Art
.
Kip Hampton : Using XML and Relational Databases with Perl
Alan Lightman : "The way that cell phones are used is
emblematic.
When you're on the cell phone, you're not where
your body is. You're somewhere out there in hyperspace. By always being
somewhere else, rather than where you are, you're nowhere. It represents
the lost state of society. We're nowhere."
CBC : Do penguins fall over backwards watching planes?
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."
Webreview : Using CSS2 to Layout HTML Pages for Print
On the off chance you've got a browser that
supports CSS2...
Rbmake
"is a "book maker" for the Rocket eBook. It
consists of a set of commandline tools that assemble or disassemble .rb
files -- the book format that is native to the ReB"
CBC : Why can't we tickle ourselves?
"Researchers at University College London found
that the cerebellum detects self-inflicted touch ahead of time and tells
the rest of the brain to ignore the resulting sensation, spoiling the fun
of self-tickling."
Alex Shah, Tony Darugar : Creating High Performance Web
Applications
DHTML Lab : Hiermenus Go Forth!
version 4.0 of the nifty DHTML menu generator.
Talk of the Nation : [The] End of Nationhood
"A discussion with the French Ambassador to the
European Union [ Jean Marie Guehenno, author of
The End
of the Nation State
] about changes to the traditional notion of the nation-state. With the
advent of the global village and changing alliances world wide, the ways
we think about nations and their individual sovereignty are changing."
(real evil g2)
NY Times : British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode
E-Mail
"The measure would not require traditional
warrants signed by judges. Instead, warrants for e-mail surveillance
would have to be signed by the home secretary, who controls a range of
domestic and legal matters. Other officials, including high-ranking
police officers, would be empowered to approve requests for encryption
keys." see also :
V
for Vendetta
National Post : "Each article of skim.com clothing displays a
number
that doubles as that person's email address. For
example, someone wearing a skirt with 99876 stenciled in large print
across the back could be reached, or 'skimmed' at 99876@skim.com." Some
days, it's just too much to bear. Must... scream... in... despair... (oh,
the pain.)
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...
Bunnies!
Lance Gould : Blame Canada? Hell, let's declare war!
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.
I've got the re-install blues
U.S. Census Bureau : Computer Use and Ownership
Brig
is partial to the
poop-o-nizer
but I rather fancy
this
one
as a screen saver. What delicious line work!
There's been a lot of naked gift solicitation
Michael Kimmelman : The Importance of Matthew Barney
"Matthew hates anything obvious," Chelsea
Romersa, his assistant, says. "Like the color red. The crew's job is to
buy the scrims for the windows, to get the materials, to build the sets,
and often we have to ask practical questions, but we never ask direct
questions about content. By osmosis, you begin to make connections
yourself, which is the real point of art anyway, don't you think?"
JazzerWockies
What is Openlaw?
"Openlaw is an experiment in crafting legal
argument in an open forum. With your assistance, we will develop
arguments, draft pleadings, and edit briefs online. You are invited to
join the process by adding thoughts to the 'brainstorm' outline, drafting
and commenting on drafts in progress, and suggesting reference sources."
via
dsl
.
Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
"In short, [the club] presented evidence that
there is a class of people with serious medical conditions for whom the
use of cannabis is necessary in order to treat or alleviate those
conditions or their symptoms; who will suffer serious harm if they are
denied cannabis; and for whom there is no legal alternative to cannabis
for the effective treatment of their medical conditions because they have
tried other alternatives and have found that they are ineffective, or
that they result in intolerable side effects."
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."
Clive Thompson : The Attack of the Incredible Grading Machine
"The theory behind the method is this: For any
given essay, good content is a function of using certain words in the
vicinity of certain other words, and that accomplishment can be expressed
numerically." Fascinating. The claim is that it is optimized for
short-essay answers, but how long will that last? What happens, then,
when you feed it a paper by someone who decides to challenge accepted
notions, expand the area of discussion or just outright aims to prove an
idea to be wrong wrong wrong? Galileo, anyone?
Wired on the Anti-Weblog
The Unbearable Lightness of Pool
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.
