posts brought to you by the category “music”
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.
Tortilla tortilla tortilla?
boulevard St. Laurent, Montréal, September
2003
Norman Walsh : Threading Essays
Me : Class::Phrasebook::Simple.pm 0.1
Really, I am just annoyed that any kind of exception is made for
carbonara prepared with cream
You don't need to tell me who "to raise a glass to."
You don't need to tell me who "to raise a glass to", you fucking
idiot -- I raise six glasses every night, just to get drunk enough to
love this country like I did as a kid:
without feeling like it's using me
.
I also heard about this plan to move the planetarium
Me : XML::SAXDriver::vCard.pm 0.04
Me : All versions of the Eatdrinkfeelgood DTD
Scrabble source code
There are many web sites on the net which allow you to play
Scrabble interactively. If that's what you're looking for, go use
Alta Vista or any of the search engines to find them on your own.
There are no downloadable executables here and no interactive web
games. What we have on our archive are only the sources of computer
programs for academic study.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : exegete
Exegetist \Ex`e*ge"tist\, n. One versed in the science of
exegesis or interpretation; -- also called {exegete}.
web1913
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : spoonerism
spoonerism n : transposition of initial consonants in a
pair of words
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : heebatow
Similar to shushing. A nice, confusing way of telling
someone to be quiet.
ex. In response to someone talking too much. "Excuse me,
would you please heebatow."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
discaboobliated
Being flustered or confused.
ex. Having that beautiful girl come up and talk to me
left me all discaboobliated.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : nefarious
Nefarious \Ne*fa"ri*ous\, a. [L. nefarius, fr. nefas crime,
wrong; ne not + fas divine law; akin to fari to speak. See {No}, adv.,
and {Fate}.] Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously
villainous; execrable; detestably vile. Syn: Iniquitous; detestable;
horrible; heinious; atrocious; infamous; impious. See {Iniquitous}. --
{Ne*fa"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ne*fa"ri*ous*ness}, n.
web1913
nefarious adj : extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a
villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: {villainous}]
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Radio Crankypants #20 : Never let it be said that I have a problem
with clever hacks.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : philomath
Philomath, GA Zip code(s): 30660 Philomath, OR (city, FIPS
57450) Location: 44.54050 N, 123.35708 W Population (1990): 2983 (1145
housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s):
97370
gazetteer
Philomath \Phil"o*math\, n. [Gr. ?; fi`los loving, a friend
+ ma`qh learning, fr. ?, ?, to learn.] A lover of learning; a scholar.
--Chesterfield.
web1913
The Ping Indentity Bill of Rights and Principles
"assumes that someday, everything that
communicates electronically will have a globally unique digital identity.
This Bill of Rights captures the fundamental rights and privileges that
should be enjoyed by each digital identity, and the principles by which
these identities are created and shared."
One of the things that hasn't been said about Boingo yet
Skwonk
"is an application that will listen to your
Ethernet interface for traffic. All traffic. Like a traffic monitor.
Difference is, Skwonk plays specific sounds for the type of packets that
go flying by. For example, if a TCP packet for port 80 goes flying by the
network to another Mac, Skwonk can blurt out a belch, or hoot like an
owl, etc."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is repletion
| source : web1913 | Repletion \Re*ple"tion\
(r?-pl?"sh?n), n. [L. repletio a filling up: cf. F. r['e]pl['e]tion. See
{Replete}.] 1. The state of being replete; superabundant fullness. The
tree had too much repletion, and was oppressed with its own sap. --Bacon.
Repleccioun [overeating] ne made her never sick. --Chaucer. 2. (Med.)
Fullness of blood; plethora. | source : wn | repletion n 1: the state of
being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more [syn: {satiety},
{satiation}] 2: eating until excessively full [syn: {surfeit}]
Movable Thoughts #9
Nathan Torkington : Apache::Vermicide.pm
"[is] a mod_perl handler to catch the requests as
soon as they arrive, and discard them with a minimum of work to Apache.
If your web server is struggling under the load, this might help. The
heuristic it uses for "requests to ignore with prejudice" is the presence
of root.exe, cmd.exe, or default.ida. You might want to tweak the regexp
if those files are part of your web site :-)"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is potentate
| source : web1913 | Potentate \Po"ten*tate\, n.
[LL. potentatus, fr. potentare to exercise power: cf. F. potentat. See
{Potent}, a.] One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a
prince, sovereign, or monarch. The blessed and only potentate. --1 Tim.
vi. 15. Cherub and seraph, potentates and thrones. --Milton. | source :
wn | potentate n : someone who rules unconstrained by law [syn:
{dictator}]
Mark Jason Dominus : qrpff Explained
Harlan Hile and Drew Perttula : Toilet Paper
"When a motion sensor detects a visitor in the
hallway outside, toilet picks from a list of sounds to play to encourage
a visitor to enter. If toilet has a visitor, it plays appropriate sounds
based on state from the seat positions, the laser beam across the seat
being broken, the light switch being off, etc. It scrolls news headlines
across the LCD panel. When the toilet is flushed, the lights flash and
the music fades. If the seat is left up when the door is opened, a
reminder sound plays. Toilet also serves web pages to the outside that
allow us to view history from the database, request specific CD tracks,
control the volume, and send messages to the LCD screen."
Brian Aker : mod_index_rss
"provides RSS output for directories. Sites that
publish mainly static content to directories (whether images, html...)
can use it to have dynamic lists of their content."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is galvanic
| source : web1913 | Galvanic \Gal*van"ic\, a.
[From Galvani, a professor of physiology at Bologna, on account of his
connection (about 1780) with the discovery of dynamical or current
electricity: cf. F. galvanique.] Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the
phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
{Galvanic battery} (Elec.), an apparatus for generating electrical
currents by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; -- now
usually called {voltaic battery}. See {Battery}. {Galvanic} {circuit or
circle}. (Elec.) See under {Circuit}. {Galvanic pile} (Elec.), the
voltaic pile. See under {Voltaic}. | source : wn | galvanic adj 1:
(electricity) pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical
action; "a galvanic cell"; "a voltaic (or galvanic) couple" [syn:
{voltaic}] 2: affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling; "gave
an electric reading of the play"; "the new leader had a galvanic effect
on morale" [syn: {electric}, {galvanizing}]
Bob DuCharme : Editing SGML Documents with Emacs
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
.
Paul Lukas : Inconspicuous Consumption
"It's about deconstructing the details of
consumer culture -- details that are either so weird or obscure that we'd
never see them, or so ubiquitous that we've essentially stopped seeing
them. ... Every month, this column will use products like these -- some
of them eccentric, many exceedingly ordinary, but all worthy of close
inspection -- as a way to look at consumer culture in excruciating
detail." This month's topic is the almost forgotten, but amazingly
topical, hole puncher.
XML-DBMS
"is [Perl/Java] middleware for transferring data
between XML documents and relational databases. It views the XML document
as a tree of data-specific objects in which element types are generally
viewed as classes and attributes and PCDATA as properties of those
classes. It then uses an object-relational mapping to map these objects
to the database. An XML-based mapping language is used to define the view
and map it to the database." )
Beck-weenies take note :
he'll be appearing on Morning Becomes Eclectic
tomorrow at 11h00 PST. ( real evil g2 )
Thomas Homer-Dixon : The Ingenuity Gap
"[T]o understand the determinants of social
adaptation to scarcity, analysts should focus on the society's ability to
supply enough ideas, or "ingenuity." As scarcity worsens, some poor
societies will face a widening "ingenuity gap" between their need for and
their supply of ingenuity. Most importantly, their supply of social
ingenuity (in the form of new and reformed institutions) will be
vulnerable to stresses generated by the very scarcities the ingenuity is
needed to solve."
Chip Salzenberg
"I've got to say that this is the longest
distance I've ever seen anyone go to avoid typing one keyword."
DHTML Lab : Hiermenus Go Forth!
version 4.0 of the nifty DHTML menu generator.
Monkey Radio
"Grooving sexy beats" ( streaming mp3 )
They're called dictionaries for a reason...
A
tangram
is a "Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other
suitable material, into seven pieces...being capable of combination in
various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures." RTFM
...doh!
Web Reference : Disabling the Context Menu
Step right up, kids! It's another episode of
"Everything you know is wrong." Aaarrgh. I have no coffee grinder, I
spent three hours tracking down a fucking semi-colon this morning (a
thousand curses on you MSHTML.DLL) and now someone wants to show the
world how to disable all the hooks in the operating system. Yeah, yeah,
yeah...the browser is the operating system. We are all just one big
interconnected mind too, right?
Gary Chapman : Putting responsibility before technical
progress
"After the [DDoS] attacks, Weinstein wrote, 'For
now, it might be advisable for everyone to remember that the Internet,
for all its wonders, is in many ways very fragile. We must not allow
ourselves to get into a position where being cut off from a site for a
few hours -- or even longer -- puts people or property at risk. Our lives
should not revolve around guaranteed 24/7 access to eBay, or Yahoo!, or
any site on the public Internet, regardless of its importance.' "
SANS : Consensus Roadmap for Defeating Distributed Denial of
Service Attacks
Leah Casner on webcams
"We have reached an even emptier level of fame,
beyond even the "being famous for being famous" level. We are feeling
famous for just being in view of anyone who wants to look. At least I
haven't mistaken my new celebrity as an indication that I should run for
president."
Chapter 6 : Database Nation
The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century, by
Simson Garfinkel.
NY Times : Is Cyberspace a Public Accomodation
"The hitch, of course, is that AOL's services are
not provided in a physical structure like a store. Does that make a
difference? Lawyer who are experts in disability law tend to disagree on
the answers. And so far no court has decided this exact question as it
relates to the Internet."
The government of Canada is looking for worms
I had no idea that the "largest earthworm ever
found in the world measured in at 22 feet from its nose to the tip of its
tail" or that earthworms "are 82 % protein." I remember reading
How To
Eat Fried Worms
when I was kid, which of course led me to a recipe for
Gummy Worm Marshmallow Treats
. mmmmmm...gummy worms.
My God!
Peter Gzosky talks with Samuel Hollander
"Samuel Hollander is an internationally respected
intellectual economic historian. He says that a close reading of the
works of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill reveal them to be closet
socialists. And further, that they would be alarmed by our modern day
love affair with unfettered capitalism and depleted social safety nets."
real audio.
Chris Crawford on hypertext
"Let me explain that last sentence in real
English. Your branchpoints are all treated equally; there is never any
bias based on context. You cannot set up a branchpoint that is likely to
veer left if the reader has shown a sense of humor, or right if the
reader has demonstrated gravitas. Your work cannot truly react to the
user." Charles Taylor, in
The
Malaise of Modernity
(real audio), also discusses this idea but in the context of contemporary
culture and philosophy. via
camworld
.
Matthew Mirapaul : An Attack on the Commercialization of Web
Art
"Rinehart said: 'Is $52.50 the true value of the
work? Well, it doesn't need to be, because I sold a copy of the work to
Robbin, not exclusive ownership rights. I sold the only form of property
relevant in the 'e-verse:' intellectual property. Maybe digital artists
could make up in volume at low prices what they lose in uniqueness at
high prices.' " Does anyone remember Paul Allen spending $6M of his own
money to help Jimi Hendrix' father secure his son's "image rights" ?
N.Y.Times : High-Speed Lines Leave Door Ajar for Hackers
Meanwhile, the new ( and as yet unpublished
on-line ) issue of
Web Techniques
has a piece by Lincoln Stein on setting up appropriate security for your
home computer.
Eli M. Noam : Will the Internet Be Bad For Democracy
"My skepticism about the Internet as a
pro-democracy force is not based on its uneven distribution. ... The
problem is that most analysts commit a so-called error of composition.
That is, they confuse micro behavior with macro results. They think that
if something is helpful to an individual, it is also helpful to society
at large, when everybody uses it."
Recent additions to the Online Slang Dictionary
"Though Webster publishes a slang dictionary, it
could potentially take years for a new word or phrase to enter its pages.
Now, with the power of the Internet, it can be in a dictionary in a
matter of hours. This page depends entirely on your contributions. " via
benicetobears
Filtering Amendment Passes [US] House
If you've gotten here from my.userland.com
the script I wrote to generate the xml file was
broken. The titles (and their links) weren't being included. It's fixed
now and hopefully the updated version will trickle down quickly! Doh!
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.