posts brought to you by the category “nationalism”
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.
Overheard, game seven :
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I might be able to root for the Ducks if they actually came out
and played the V-formation.
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It was worth hearing the New Jersey fans boo Giguere to also
hear them boo the Weasel.
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Ah, come on! L'hockey c'est pas une game de famille!
Emily Eveleth loves jelly donuts:
Robert Fisk : Baghdad, the day after
One can hardly be moralistic about the spoils of Saddam's henchmen
but how is the government of America's so-called "New Iraq" supposed
to operate now that the state's property has been so comprehensively
looted?
Joseph J. Esposito : The Processed Book
This is painful to behold for someone who prayed earnestly that
Isabel Archer would not return to Osmond, but words are symbols and
are ideally suited for the manipulations of the symbolic logic of
computers. The processed book takes Isabel Archer and shows her to be
the collection of words that she is. She then can be processed.
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.60_01
Me : ASCOPE::Class::Null.pm 1.0
Your mileage may return undef.
The APXL (Apple Keynote) Schema
For those of you keeping track, NetSol is apparently called Netsol
again.
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.03
Diego Golberg : Time
On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual:
we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment, the arrow of time
passing by.
via
laura holder
What the hell is a "bunny-hugger" ?
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : off the hizzi
fa schizzi
(His-e for sh-is-e) It means that something is really
"hot" or "cool". It can also mean that someone is being
serious.
ex. His new car is off the hizzi fa schizzi. Or "She said
that you lied." " No I didn't lie. I'm off the hizzi fa
schizzi."
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.7
Petr Cimprich : XML::Directory.pm 0.95
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : demagogue
Demagogue \Dem"a*gogue\ (?; 115), n. [Gr. dhmagwgo`s a
popular leader; commonly in a bad sense, a leader of the mob; dh^mos
the people + 'agwgo`s leading, fr. 'a`gein to lead; akin to E. act: cf.
F. d['e]magogue.] A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control
the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and
factious mob orator or political leader.
web1913
demagogue n : an orator who appeals to the passions and
prejudices of his audience [syn: {demagog}, {rabble-rouser}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : friable
Friable \Fri"a*ble\, a. [L. friabilis, fr. friare to rub,
break, or crumble into small pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray: cf.
F. friable.] Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
``Friable ground.'' --Evelyn. ``Soft and friable texture.'' --Paley. --
{Fri'a*ble*ness}, n.
web1913
friable adj 1: easily broken into small fragments or
reduced to powder; "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue";
"friable curds formed in the stomach" 2: (used of soil) loose and
large-grained in consistency; "light sandy soil" [syn: {light},
{sandy}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : raconteur
Raconteur \Ra`con`teur"\, n. [F.] A relater; a storyteller.
web1913
raconteur n : a person skilled in telling anecdotes [syn:
{anecdotist}]
wn
"The icon looks more like iHam on iWhole iWheat. iSo iSue
iMe."
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}]
Like many people, I am eager to see what Moveabletype is like,
Marc Ferro : "Il y a bien sûr une convergence entre les deux:
le terrorisme a pour but d'instituer une terreur,
mais la Terreur, c'est un régime. Certes, à propos du Comité de salut
public, on parlait effectivement de «terroristes», mais il s'agissait de
tout autre chose. La Terreur vient d'en haut, c'est une pratique d'Etat,
une forme de contrôle sur la société, alors que le terrorisme vient d'en
bas, de la société. Evidemment, ce n'est pas toujours clair: quand
Staline fait assassiner Trotski, c'est de la terreur ou du terrorisme?"
Me : Blogger.pm 0.2
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is machination
| source : web1913 | Machination
\Mach`i*na"tion\, n. [L. machinatio: cf. F. machination.] 1. The act of
machinating. --Shak. 2. That which is devised; a device; a hostile or
treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot. Devilish machinations come
to naught. --Milton. His ingenious machinations had failed. --Macaulay. |
source : wn | machination n : covert and involved plotting to achieve
your ends [syn: {intrigue}] | source : devils | MACHINATION, n. The
method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable
efforts to do the right thing. So plain the advantages of machination It
constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with
loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers
still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart.
R.S.K.
Larry Wall : State of the Onion 2001
Le Monde : Le dictionnaire intime de Milan Kundera
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is ossify
| source : web1913 | Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Ossified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ossifying}.] [L. os,
ossis, bone + -fy: cf. F. ossifier. See {Osseous}.] 1. (Physiol.) To form
into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the
deposition of lime salts. 2. Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.
--Ruskin. | source : web1913 | Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. i. (Physiol.) To
become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue. | source
: wn | ossify v : become bony; "The tissue ossified"
brian d. foy : Profiling in Perl
Jeffrey William Baker : Application Performance using DBI and
mod_perl
"We demand that the government of Canada
force Stockwell Day to change his name to Doris."
Remember kids, all we need is 350, 000 signatures!
David Sweet : A Perl of a Site Map
"I hope I have inspired you to sneak into your
boss's office and throw away all the photocopies of your site."
NY Times : A Happy, Scary New Day for Design
"Environmentalists use the term ecotone to
describe the area where two adjacent ecosystems — a wetland and a
forest, say — overlap. The ecotone has an ecology of its own. It
can support forms of life not found in either of the adjacent systems.
Today there exists the cultural equivalent of an ecotone between the old
and new economies, between the culture of industrial production and that
of informational exchange. Design today is flourishing in this region.
Its symbol is the veil, a graphic device that conveys the conflicting
desire to conceal and reveal."
James Spahr : LogTools
I am not much for OpArt, but there's just
something about logfiles...
CBC : &34;The study says the chemical, triphenyl
phosphate,
often used as a flame retardant in the plastic of
video monitors, causes allergic reactions in some people, from itching
and nasal congestion to headaches."
Bill Evans : boycott-riaa.com
"The RIAA is a professional lobby organization of
recording labels of which five labels control 90%of the music distributed
in the US. In 1999 these so called "protectors" of the music industry and
musicains released only 2600 cds. In the first 4 months of 2000 Napster
signed up 17,000 new artists. I have no idea how many are on MP3.Com
Excellent artists are being ignored, and discouraged by the music
industry. In short, I'm forced to use MP3.Com and Napster if I want to
hear new music, or artists. My comment to the "Big 5" is you made your
bed, now lie in it." Meanwhile, in other Napster news, if you've been
itching to download MP3s from your IRC client,
napyrc
is the answer to your dreams.
Jamie Jawinski : Gronk!
"I looked around at other jukebox programs, and
none of them really did exactly what I wanted. Either they had user
interfaces that I didn't like, or they were far too complicated to
install. Among other things, they all seem to rely heavily on MySQL.
Sorry, but the fact is that when you're only dealing with ten or twenty
thousand items, a database is overkill. Especially since these items
change infrequently (how many CDs do you buy a week?) So Gronk is built
almost entirely around static HTML pages: it goes through the MP3 files
and the CDDB data, and constructs HTML representing all of the discs.
When you add a new set of CDs, regenerate the pages. Even with my huge
collection this only takes a few minutes." Neat, but heavy on the frames.
Evil, evil frames.
The Honeypot Project : The Motives and Psychology of the Black-hat
Community
PHP Builder, XML & PHP : Using expat functions
Andrew Gavil
"There's no clear precedent for vacating a ruling
after it has been issued. Once the ruling is entered, you lose
containment. There's no guarantee that another judge in another district
where a suit is being tried would agree that the ruling is withdrawn."
Jorn Barger : I hate database-y
"Reading databases is no fun. They're convenient
for the author, not for the reader." Jorn makes some good points; I
understand how all the fluff and meta information can be annoying. On the
other hand, since adding links for categories and individual days, I've
started travelling back and around and through old posts. Sort of like
going out for a walk and letting the green lights at crosswalks guide
your direction. It may just be navel-gazing but it has been very
interesting for me, seeing things long since forgotten. Maybe the happy
medium is to hide the meta information in some
clever and
foofy DHTML trickery
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Web Review : Flash and QuickTime Integration
The AppleScript Weblog
NYTimes : High Tech is the Art in SF
"It's a funny situation right now, because there
really isn't an N.E.A. to support experimental work, and there's so much
money and activity in high technology. The question is, how do artists
fit in? Nobody really has the answer."
I would have never thought
to make <a href =
"http://www.tamaraskitchen.com.au/books/risotto.asp">risotto with
plums and kangaroo meat</a>. Then again, I wouldn't have
thought to make <a href =
"http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/food/gar-ice-cream.html">roasted
garlic ice cream</a> either.
Today, I am wrestling with my inner X
"X-Windows is the Iran-Contra of graphical user
interfaces: a tragedy of political compromises, entangled alliances,
marketing hype, and just plain greed. X-Windows is to memory as Ronald
Reagan was to money."
NY Times : Taking a Corporate Approach to Remaking Education
This is not about improving education or giving
parents choice. This is about "learning" consumers, untapped markets, and
creating a tailor-made work force for industry. It is Huxley's
Brave New World
and
Ape and Essence
all rolled in to one.
David Chess : Visual Mantras, take one
mmmmm ... sooooothing shapes. I want one that's
full screen and refreshes by itself.
Honeylocust : Linux got me kicked out of Wal-Mart
"She told us that wasn't allowed, so we'd have to
leave or she'd have to take [the pictures]. Afterward we wondered what
would have happened if they'd tried to search the computer. Would they
have had anyone who could have figured out how to log in?"
Today is my birthday!
Today, I am thankful
that my family celebrates [U.S.] Thanksgiving on
Friday and that there is atleast one more day until
Consumer Season
begins in earnest.
O'Reilly : A Dictionary for Strangers in a Strange Land
or The Hitchhiker's Guide to Consumer OSes
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."
O'Reilly Sample Chapter
<a href =
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/realbasic/chapter/ch03.html">
REALbasic : Chapter 3 Objects, Classes, and Instances</a>
The 1999 Phi Tau Bad Poetry Contest
"The Holy God of Lentil Pods / Makes protein for
hungry vegans / The Holy God of Lentil Pods / Makes his lentils all
intriguing." see also, the poem that started it all:
Love
guppy
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Web Review on QuickTime
Cameron Barrett : I Live in a Wired World
"It's not about giving away all your secrets,
habits, or personal information. It's about putting you back into control
of that information. No longer would you be subtly influenced by
advertising media and blatant in-your-face marketing..." I'm sorry, but
this just seems hopelessly naive. I think that there is enough evidence,
both historical and anecdotal, to rest assured that all of your buttons
will be pushed in all the right ways. Further, it sounds too much like
the tyranny of the majority for my taste.
Sunday Times : Water company ready to launch wind farm at sea
I've always thought wind farms amazingly
beautiful.
While I attended art school
there was a retrospective celebrating the role
the
College
played in the heyday of 70's
conceptual
art
. One of the pieces consisted of a single hole in the wall, the result of
someone firing a pellet gun. Whatever, I didn't like it either. What
fascinated me was that not only had someone bought the "original" (did
they buy the whole wall or just like a square foot?), but they had also
"authorized" the "reproduction" of the nonobject-cum-artobject!
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" ?
Me Mom & Morgentaler, together again for the very first
time
"It's like we're supposed to be mega-upset
because we didn't become cocaine-sniffing, therapist-visiting,
fancy-car-driving stars. Like that was the point of life or something.
Actually, we set a goal when we started: TO BECOME THE #1 BAND IN THE
MONTREAL SCENE. A goal that I think we definitely accomplished, so all
this talk of failure is complete bullshit. We were a success. We took it
as far as it could possibly go and that was it. Life goes on."
Voix d'extinction?
The imperiled anglophone community in Quebec.
Yeah...that's a good one. The article points out that most people leave
the province largely because they're too freaked out to learn how to
write French properly.
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.
sub main { my $mt = Net::Blogger->new(engine=>"movabletype"); $mt->Proxy("http://yaddayadda.com/mt-xmlrpc.cgi"); $mt->Username("asc"); $mt->Password("*****"); $mt->BlogId(123); $mt->newPost(postbody=>\&fortune(),publish=>1) || croak $mt->LastError(); my $id = $mt->metaWeblog()->newPost(title=>"test:".time, description=>&fortune(), publish=>1) || croak $mt->LastError(); my $categories = $mt->mt()->getCategoryList() || croak $mt->LastError(); my $cid = $categories->[0]->{categoryId}; $mt->mt()->setPostCategories(postid=>$id, categories=>[{categoryId=>$cid}]) || croak $mt->LastError(); print &Dumper($mt->mt()->getPostCategories(postid=>$id)); return 1; } sub fortune { local $/; undef $/; system ("fortune > /home/asc/tmp/fortune"); open F, "</home/asc/tmp/fortune"; my $fortune = <F>; close F; return $fortune; }We will get a common API, one of these days, by hook or by crook...