posts brought to you by the category “os x”
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.
Prime Minister Poutine : “I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand.”
I think I may start a website where you can enter the name/id of a big box supermarket
and have it return a list of smaller,
mom-and-pop, food stores within a given radius. And to the RDF weenies,
I
know
this is what RDF is supposed to be all about. In theory it should be
trivial to set this up using stuff like the
SMBmeta
and
GeoURL
widgets. But fuct if I can figure out
how
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Is it just now finally warm enough for people to wear their facial piercings outdoors
(it must suck to have a metal ring in wo
bowwom wip when it's -40) or are have we already finshed with the
retro-80's stuff and are now moving onto retro-modern-primitives? I
don't really care one way or the other about facial piercings but they
always conjure up images of stringing together their hosts like those
prison-camp rope contraptions that people fit kindergarten age children
into anytime they go outside...
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15,000!
David Rees : "It's Saddam Hussein, for fuck's sake!"
I do have mixed feelings about it. I can't wait for Saddam Hussein to be dead. I would just feel happy. The world would be a better place. But you have to remember that that doesn't excuse just how they fucking botched this entire thing, soup to nut. I feel like I could have gone to the UN with four magic markers and a notepad and convinced the whole world to come with me to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It's Saddam Hussein, for fuck's sake! Who doesn't want to get rid of that bastard?
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I do, however, have some observations on Bruce Campbell's observations.
This morning I woke up to Mr. Campbell's
missive on politics, daft sports fan and Montréal which had
made its way into my inbox by way of the
interesting people mailing list
. I sent a reply to the list-mom which apparently didn't make the cut,
which is fine. This is what I said:
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:38:22 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Straup Cope To: Dave Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Montreal Politics: Full Contact Blood Sport On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Dave Farber wrote: I am not here to make excuses for those people who booed and cat-called the kids visiting the city for a hockey tournament. They were wrong. Whatever your feelings about the childish nature of adult sports fans on either side of the border, taking it out on children is simply inexcusable. I do, however, have some observations on Bruce Campbell's observations: > There is the French-English tension on a citywide level. There are still a few people who imagine themselves to be an oppressed minority in Montreal and the province as a whole. The rest of get along just fine, thank you. If those tensions really existed, I'm not sure I would find myself getting so annoyed everytime I saw the NY Times refer to the city as an anglophone's paradise (that's called courtesy, BTW.) > That is also a class tension, as a large chunk of the French population > is working class, and traditionally the ruling class in the city was > English. That has changed in recent decades as, frankly, the English This is true. The main building on the campus author's alma mater was in fact James McGill's house. The area surrounding was, until and including the turn of the 20th century, commonly known as The Golden Mile. It was the running ground of the ruling elite made up exclusively of English Canadians from which all but a handful of French Canadians were excluded (see below re: CDN history) > have fled, but it's bred in the bone. There is literally a street > running down the middle of the town: to the East, predominantly > French-speaking; to the West, English. This is just not true anymore. It's a good story and we tell it to anyone who visits the city but the days of Mordechai Richler's Montreal have passed. > There is a language tension. Laws restricting English have been a > source of strife and high feelings. This is perhaps true for some. The rest of us have either learned French or spoken it our entire lives and we're doing just fine. Some of us even left the province and then moved back because we found living in a sea of English to be well, lacking. Quebec has always had a 90% Francophone population. After the defeat of the French, by the English in 1759, the English not wanting to repeat their mistakes in Ireland granted the French colonies in Quebec the rights to their language, their religion and a civil law. Very broadly speaking, this played itself out as : Quebec 'belonged' to the Catholic church and was left to its own affairs so long as it did not interfere with English Canada's economic interests. Until the Quiet Revolution of the 1950's and 1960's the province was roughly half the population of the entire country; families of 10-13 children were not at all uncommon during the first half of the 20th century. One of the first things to happen during the Quiet Revolution was a wholesale move away from the Church and a dramatic decline in the birthrate. Politically, Quebec has generally favoured the interests of the community over the individual. Don't get the wrong idea, Quebec introduced a provincial charter of human rights and freedoms 7 years before the federal government but there has never been the same emphasis on the individual that there is in places like the United States. Both are valid political views. My point is that, faced with being a minority of 6-7 millions francophones in a population of 30-300 millions anglophones (if you include the U.S.), a declining birth rate and an increasing immigrant population the province opted to enforce laws governing the language of education and commerce. If a person doesn't accept the idea that language is culture, or atleast an intrinsic part of it, then it is unlikely that they will see much need or merit in doing anything to preserve it. This is not the case in Quebec so to argue otherwise is basically a non-starter. > There is a city agglomeration tension, as traditional independent > communities have been forced to join a larger urban entity. True. It should, however, be noted that this is also a Canadian trend. Toronto did it five years before Montreal with no fewer recriminations between the parties involved. Halifax, which now technically spans half the province of Nova Scotia, a few years before that. > There is economic tension. Things just aren't that rosy in Montreal and > haven't been for 30 years. At one point in the 60s and 70s (when I > lived there), gun battles and bus burnings broke out between rival > gangs of taxi drivers. I kid you not. Gun battles in an urban environment. Shocking. One can only imagine the horrors that such a thought must bring to a New Yorker's delicate sensibilities. > There is nationalist tension. Strained relations with the rest of > Canada stretch back to 1760. In 1970, that led to bombings, Without boring people with the niggly details of Canadian political history it can largely be summed up as : French Canadians know too much history, English Canadians not enough. > kidnappings, assasination and the imposition of martial law. > The license plates say "I remember" but that might be better expressed > as "we never forget". Okay, sorry but: After the Papineau (?) rebellions the English, in England, sent over Lord Durham to find out why the natives were so restless. He is said to have famously remarked that he really didn't know what the fuss was all about and that the Quebecois were "un peuple sans histoire"; a people without a history. There's also the one about King George III promising the territorial intergrity of Quebec in the Paris Treaty of 1774 and then carving the province in half to form Ontario after the Union Loyalists fled North after the American revolution and complained that they didn't want to be governed by a bunch of "damn Catholic frogs". Like I said: a little too much on one side, not nearly enough on the other. > There have been repeated attempts by up to 50% of the province to > redraw the map of Canada. These campaigns are brutal, vicious affairs > that leave everyone bruised and bleeding (often literally). This is most commonly known as democracy. Whether you agree with Quebec's desire to separate or not there are in fact reasons, and they are more nuanced that just wanting to piss off the rest of Canada. (see note above re Cdn history) A careful observer will have noted that in the last twenty years the province has held two referenda on the question of secession and, having lost both time, still remains part of Canada. Meanwhile, it should also be noted that Quebec is not hardly alone in it's unease over the Idea of Canada. Newfoundland has really never been sure that they made the right decision to join Confedration in 1949 and, to hear the stories, plenty of people still believe the election was rigged. More recently, there is a growing movement in Alberta who are arguing that their province should secede; some have even suggested that their newly independent nation should purchase a handful of nuclear submarines and roam the planet enforcing Alberta's interests. (Whether they are getting the volume of coverage because they are a real political force or just because's it's the end of winter and people are bored remains to be seen.) > There are ethnic tensions that often explode. I hate to characterize > people too broadly, but there is a strain of xenophobia in the Quebec > populace. During a recent electoral failure, a senior government > official actually referred darkly and threateningly to the "new" > Quebecers who had defeated the separatist referendum. The implication > was that they would be dealt with. I can't say who the author is speaking of specifically, but Jacques Parizeau did stagger up to the podium on the night of the last referendum and declare that the seperatists lost because of "the ethnic and money vote". There are maybe a handful of people who think that his comments and his interpretation were justified or hold any kind of validity and he was promptly forced to resign as Premier of the province the next day. There is plenty to account for in the province's past but the see it as the whole of today's province is disingenous at best. > These things pop up like "whack-a-mole" periodically and need to be > beaten down. Usually with a royal commission. It is unclear what to 'beat down' means, especially given the implied bad-ness of 'dealing with' something or someone you don't agree with. I would only remark that Canadian Royal Commissions are known generally for being thorough, well-meaning, long in the tooth and almost univerally ignored by all levels of goverment. > Italian immigration in the 60s led to French-Italian conflict in the > 70s. Traditional anti-semitism can run up against a substantial Hasidic > community and a more ordinary Jewish presence. Large numbers of > Africans and Caribbeans have moved to the city, adding a racial tension. > > And in recent years (a surprise to me on this trip), large numbers of > Muslims have moved there from the French-speaking North African > countries. Concordia U (the other English university) has ongoing, > often physically violent struggles between traditional ethnic rivals. I > am told that the nickname for the college is Al Qaeda U. Didn't we just finish agreeing that xenophobia was bad? > In addition, the Gallic intellectual does tend to the Marxist, adding a > soupçon of the romantic revolutionary to the mix. Your average French > college student (not in business school) tends to fancy himself or > herself a dashing mix of Che and Communard. The one-finger salute and > the rude comment are their way of demonstrating their street cred. Hey, > it's better than a molotov cocktail or a brick. Let it stand as a testament to globalization that in blind taste-tests, this could be your average "not in business school" college student anywhere in the world. > In other words, politics in Montreal is a full contact blood sport. > > By contrast, Americans are used to way more gentility and > bipartisanship than you find on a good day up there. That would almost be funny if it were actually true.
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Who's on first? chat-bot
This one made wasting my time looking at all the others worth it.
Larry Wall on subroutines in Perl 6
...Perl subroutines don't have a lot of historical cruft to get rid of. In fact, the basic problem with Perl 5's subroutines is that they're not crufty enough, so the cruft leaks out into user-defined code instead, by the Conservation of Cruft Principle. Perl 6 will let you migrate the cruft out of the user-defined code and back into the declarations where it belongs. Then you will think it to be very beautiful cruft indeed (we hope).
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Never mind the Friday Five, I propose the Daily Three.
Just as the Catholic Church has managed to
fill the entire calendar with a Saint Someone-or-other day, perhaps it
is time for the left-of-center press in the U.S. to fill the calendar
with daily specials on why Some-country-or-another hates America. In
November, it was the Germans and today it appears to be the French:
1
,
2
,
3
. I'm sure that there are thoughtful people, right of the center, who
engage in their own hand-wringing over this kind of thing but they are
noticeably few and far between many apparently having gone off to get
drunk and party with the
Let God Sort 'em Out
crowd. What is it about American popular opinion, or atleast what
passes itself off as popular opinion, that gets its panties all tied in
knots over anything but unconditional love? Meanwhile, the French and
the Americans
consider bombing Saskatchewan
.
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Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood 1.1b3
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Me : foaf-to-about.xsl 0.1
Because I've had my head buried in XSLT all weekend anyway, and because I couldn't really understand why Mark thought it was so hard to parse FOAF . Not that anyone should think that means I've suddenly developed a fondness for RDF/XML...or FOAF for that matter. See also : example.html .[Is] an XSLT stylesheet to transform a FOAF document into an HTML 'about' page. As of this writing, the stylesheet is one of those 80/20 things. Specifically, it works but doesn't handle the formatting of foaf:interests very well. That's not too hard to fix; it's just a lot of typing in XSLT.
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Ars Technica : Essential Home Wireless Security Practices
perl.com : Embedding webservers
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : insectclopedia
Insect encyclopedia.
ex. I am researching the insectclopedia.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fempulation
Female population.
ex. The majority of the fempulation of the world have once uttered the phrase "men are pigs."
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : rigid
A person who has it all going for him.
ex. Mike is rigid.see also : rigid dict-ified
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Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm docs
I will send this off the to the CPAN
tonight or tomorrow morning. A few more details to massage and obvious
POD bugs to fix...
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Props to Doug Gilmour for capturing the mood last night.
Not much left to do now but hope that he
comes back next year, hope that the Breezer doesn't and hope that
Ottawa
wins tonight
...
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : shie
An inscrutable person.
ex. What's up with the shie? I don't get him.see also : shie dict-ified
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José Theodore : "He's probably our best player right now."
That's a good one, Josie. You just keep
doing whatever it is you need to be the "second best" player,
okay?
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : shacket
A piece of clothing that is both a shirt and a jacket. Perfect for nights that are not too cold or hot.
ex. That is a nice shacket.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fek
Used to show disgust at something, or to describe something disgusting.
ex. "this is some really fek food" "that was the fekest thing i have ever seen"see also : fek dict-ified
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : antiscurvies
Green vegetables, or limes, for avoidance of scurvy.
ex. No desert until you eat your antiscurvies.
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Russell Matbouli : WWW::UsePerl::Journal.pm
"lists journal entries for a user. Can display a
specific journal entry."
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : susurration
Susurration \Su`sur*ra"tion\, n. [L. susurratio, fr. susurrare to whisper: cf. F. susurration.] A whispering; a soft murmur. ``Soft susurrations of the trees.'' --Howell. web1913
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David Mertz : Using CSS2 to display XML documents
via
dangerousmeta
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is enjoin
| source : web1913 | Enjoin \En*join"\, v. t. To
join or unite. [Obs.] --Hooker. | source : web1913 | Enjoin \En*join"\,
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enjoined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Enjoining}.] [F.
enjoindre, L. injungere to join into, charge, enjoin; in + jungere to
join. See {Join}, and cf. {Injunction}.] 1. To lay upon, as an order or
command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to
charge. High matter thou enjoin'st me. --Milton. I am enjoined by oath to
observe three things. --Shak. 2. (Law) To prohibit or restrain by a
judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on. This is a suit to
enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs. --Kent. Note:
Enjoin has the force of pressing admonition with authority; as, a parent
enjoins on his children the duty of obedience. But it has also the sense
of command; as, the duties enjoined by God in the moral law. ``This word
is more authoritative than direct, and less imperious than command.''
--Johnson. | source : wn | enjoin v 1: issue an injunction 2: tell
somebody to do something; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to
do the shopping" [syn: {order}, {tell}, {say}]
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No one is going to argue that Stallman is cranky and dogmatic, Dave,
but the rest of your argument is more than
a bit myopic. One word :
Emacs
. Do I need to say anything more? Okay. How about,
Descriptions of GNU Software Packages
? No one is asking you to
like
Stallman but, honestly, you only do an otherwise reasonable
argument
a disservice with this kind of lopsided blather.
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I'm working on some bad-ass computer shit right now!
Haruki Murakami : Honey Pie
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tattoo
| source : web1913 | Tattoo \Tat*too"\, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Tattooed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tattooing}.] [Of
Polynesian origin; cf. New Zealand ta to tattoo, tatu puncturation (in
Otaheite).] To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as
to form marks or figures which can not be washed out. | source : web1913
| Tattoo \Tat*too"\, n.; pl. {Tattoos}. An indelible mark or figure made
by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures;
-- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in
ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations,
especially by sailors. | source : web1913 | Tattoo \Tat*too"\, n.
[Earlier taptoo, D. taptoe; tap a tap, faucet + toe to, shut (i. e., the
taps, or drinking houses, shut from the soldiers).] (Mil.) A beat of
drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers
to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents
in camp. {The Devil's tattoo}. See under {Devil}. | source : wn | tattoo
n 1: a drumbeat of bugle call that signals the military to return to
their quarters 2: a design on the skin made by tattooing 3: the practice
of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining v : stain (skin)
with indelible color
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Randal L. Schwartz : "A rite of passage with C
is to write a sorting routine or linear search. A
rite of passage with Perl appears to be writing a templating system."
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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)
hee hee hee.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fey
| source : web1913 | Fey \Fey\, a. [AS. f?ga,
Icel. feigr, OHG. feigi.] Fated; doomed. [Old Eng. & Scot.] | source
: web1913 | Fey \Fey\, n. [See {Fay} faith.] Faith. [Obs.] --Chaucer. |
source : web1913 | Fey \Fey\, v. t. [Cf. {Feague}.] To cleanse; to clean
out. [Obs.] --Tusser. | source : wn | fey adj 1: slightly insane [syn:
{touched(p)}] 2: suggestive of an elf in strangeness and
otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat
lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at
midday"- John Mason Brown [syn: {elfin}]
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Plucker
"is an offline HTML viewer for PalmOS devices
packaged with UNIX and Linux conduits and a Windows installer in Virtual
Pascal. An included set of scripts will spider HTML pages which you
specify to a supplied depth, and parse them on your desktop machine. ...
Plucker supports clickable images, italics, multiple databases,
configurable display parameters and stylus options, compression, Perl and
Python conduits and parsers, a Windows fully-integrated installer, and a
whole lot more!"
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is perorate
| source : web1913 | Perorate \Per"o*rate\, v. i.
[See {Peroration}.] To make a peroration; to harangue. [Colloq.] | source
: wn | perorate v : deliver an oration in grandiloquent style
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Adobe : Acrobat Reader for [the] PalmOS
(beta)
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is appellation
| source : web1913 | Appellation
\Ap`pel*la"tion\, n. [L. appellatio, fr. appellare: cf. F. appellation.
See {Appeal}.] 1. The act of appealing; appeal. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. The
act of calling by a name. 3. The word by which a particular person or
thing is called and known; name; title; designation. They must institute
some persons under the appellation of magistrates. --Hume. Syn: See
{Name}. | source : wn | appellation n : identifying word or words by
which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from
others [syn: {denomination}, {designation}, {appellative}]
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Northern Magic : PHPWidgets
I can't for the life of me find any docs,
but it looks pretty cool. Assuming that the framework is easy to set up
and automate, it would be a good display wrapper for an aggregator,
allowing people to move and order newsfeeds on the page depending on
their mood or interests. I wonder how hard it would be to
draggable pal
-ize.
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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?"
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What the hell is a "Quality of Life" crime?
Bill Adler : "Disgusted as I am with two-party politics,
I thought it was crucially important to support
Nader, who has long been a hero of mine and who represents a
soul-stirring alternative to the big-money candidates. It was very
gratifying to reach out to some of my musician pals and discover that
they felt the same way. These recordings put some modern beats to the
best of Ralph in bite-sized pieces. I thought he could use the rhythm."
via
robot wisdom
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Michael G. Schwern : Bone::Easy.pm
"generates pickup-lines GUARANTEED to get
something thrown in your face." mmmmm... guestbooks.
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I think websites need more sound effects
Spider Robinson : Mugging the poor for their own good
"Tobacco's secret, magic gift is solace. Simple
solace. Smoking doesn't make you feel good, exactly; there's rarely any
real pleasure in it. What it does is make you feel just a little better.
Not quite as bad as a moment ago. Reliably, 100 per cent of the time, 20
to 60 times a day, you can light up a cigarette and maybe your problems
and sorrows will all remain, but at least you've scratched that one
urgent itch for the next few minutes. You've taken action, and bettered
your lot, however briefly or illusorily. ... O World Bank and World
Health Organization -- ye patricians in grey suits and United Nations
politicians in phony white medical coats -- here's a news flash for you:
The poor have the greatest need of that kind of solace. They have damn
little else. You make your living on their backs: You cannot convince me
you honestly believe that raising the cost of that pitiful solace will
brighten or lengthen their lives. You cannot convince me 42 million poor
people will quit smoking, abandon the only comfort you have left them, if
you raise the price by 10 cents a pack. I resent the implication that I
look that gullible."
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Palm Open Source
project-flash
"is a new shell replacement for Windows 98 made
from Macromedia's Flash 4 vector based technology."
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Meta is as meta does
Okay, so I finally got around to hiding the meta
information behind foofy dhtml/css silliness. I haven't had a chance to
debug all around the world so if it breaks,
please let me know
. Thanks.
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Jack Todd
"In their most critical game of the season, the
Canadiens could not score on young Ottawa goalie Patrick Lalime until it
was too late. When it was over, Lalime himself had to show an unpleasant
Montreal crowd how to handle it with class: Lalime pointed to the
Canadiens bench and applauded, and those who hadn't already stampeded for
the exits followed his example and gave the Canadiens a long ovation."
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Philip E. Agre : The architecture of identity, Embedding privacy in market institutions
"[This] article considers the ideas about human
identity that have been implicit in the development of economics and
computer science. The two fields have evolved along parallel tracks,
starting with an assumption of perfect transparency and moving toward a
more sophisticated appreciation of individuals' private informational
states. Progress in the analysis and resolution of privacy problems will
require that this evolution be taken seriously and continued."
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Dave Winer
"To people who say that W2K isn't a great server
OS, let's show them what people can do, without a degree in rocket
science."
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CBC : Michael Jackson rumoured to play Edgar Allen Poe in film
Eeep!
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Thomas L. Friedman
"I visited Microsoft four years ago to interview
some of its top managers. I asked them how big their Washington office
was. They proudly answered that they had no Washington office. Underlying
their answer was a contempt for Washington, and for government in general
-- a contempt that runs right through the high-tech community. The
techies have no sense of what it is about the U.S. system that enables
them to do what they do. It's not just about electrons and bandwidth.
It's also about rules and institutions."
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I'd like to offer this as one of many
possible replacements for the Microsoft
Freedom to Innovate Network
logo. Why does Microsoft *always* have such lame icons? via
camworld
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AppleScript SourceBook : What's New in AppleScript 1.4.0
I wish I knew more AppleScript than I do but the
truth is that the "easy to use" English-like syntax drives me batty.
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William Safire : Bagels vs. Doughnuts
"In the bagel's adaptive triumph lies the
poppyseed of its self-destruction. For the bagel has moved toward the
center, and that center has no distinctive hole; its crust has lost its
hard-boiled nature." Finally, someone else who thinks blueberry bagels
are the work of dark dark forces!
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The Internet for Assholes : Voting Fraud for Assholes
"As the meaningless dollops of demagoguery fall
time and time again to whichever autocratic asshole wields the best
vote-busting program, the obvious question arises as to why corporations
still cling to this stupid feature. Do they blunder on despite the fact
that online polls have been proven worthless, or because of it? Some
suspect corporate Webmasters are secretly grateful for the notoriety of
their unreliable results. News stories gloating about the meaninglessness
of their surveys still generate traffic."
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The Apper
is a cool launcher utility that brings some level
of file-name completion to the Mac. (I really hope Apple manages to pull
this Unix thing off.)
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Les objets du siècle : la carte postale
"Pourquoi avoir inventé la carte postale? Parce
que le 1er juillet suivant (1870), la Prusse entre en guerre contre la
France et que les soldats montent à l'assaut avec des cartes postales
plein la musette."
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What is the panic encyclopedia?
"It's a frenzied scene of post-facts for the
fin-de-millenium. Here, even the alphabet implodes under the twin
pressures of the ecstasy of catastrophe and the anxiety of fear. From
panic art, panic astronomy, panic babies and panic (shopping) malls to
panic sex, panic perfect faces and panic victims, that is the post-modern
alphabet. Not then an alphabetic listing of empirical facts about the
modern condition, but a post-alphabetic description of the actual
dissolution of facts into the flash of thermonuclear cultural "events" in
the postmodern situation." Courtesy the
Way New
Leftists
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Adbusters : Creative Resistance Contest
"DIRTY AIR. ALTERED FOODS. MISINFORMATION. LOSS
OF IDENTITY. These are problems most people just can't warm to. If you're
a graphic designer, art student, ad agency team, or multi-media pro, you
have the skills to help solve them. Adbusters wants you to sell ideas,
not just products. So we're running a contest. Send us your best social
marketing concept - storyboard, poster, print-ad, spoof, or any other
creative détournement." This has always struck me a dangerous way to
confront The Beast, but atleast Adbusters has the courage
to address the
issue
.
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If I dig a hole through the Earth from Montreal
David Post
"We always look to the community to ask ourselves
what is reasonable conduct. The Internet is a distinctive community of
users. It has a funny name for standards of reasonable behavior --
netiquette. All law in a sense starts like this." see also :
1267623 Ontario Inc. v. Nexx Online Inc.
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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
.
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The People's Photos
"The Archive of pictures found on the street by
me and you."
refers to
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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
refers to
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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