posts brought to you by the category “philosophy”
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.
The Resource Description Framework Explorer (RDFX) is a plugin for Eclipse
Philemon nodded knowingly.
Are you out of your mind?Shelby asked.There's already so much food that no one will have room!
That's what they all say,I replied.And then it arrives and, with it, The Silence.Philemon nodded knowingly.
Editor's note: it was pointed out to me, today, that I was clearly very drunk by the time the following occurred.
The problem is,I told the Princess,that I've always been very drunk by the time I get around to making these. So, I never remember what I did the last time or if I'm actually doing it right.
Both the Princess and Frances licked their plates clean.
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It's not that anything Maciej has said is wrong
so much as it misses the fact that because
Canada is so big, we have a slightly different notion of where the
"country" begins. Maciej is roughly seven or eight hours, by car, from
the U.S. border and he still hasn't even hit the 49th parallel. I don't
have the exact numbers, but probably 90+ percent of the country lives
South of that line. If you look at a map you will see that Canada runs
off at the mouth for a considerable distance North of it. Just to put
things in some perspective, Poland is smaller than France (or looks it)
and the province of Québec, alone, is seven times the size of France.
There were real serious plans on the books during the 80's to flood
about one seventh of the province's land mass (as part of the James Bay
2 hydro-electric project) which in a European context would make for a
lot of soggy cheese. I mention that to demonstrate that Canadians have
a radically different, and privileged, sense of space not shared by
anyone else on the planet, except maybe the Russians. Anyway, all that
stuff up there, covered in ice ten months of the year and black flies
the other two:
that
is the "
country
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freebsd-update
FreeBSD Update is a system for automatically building, distributing, fetching, and applying binary security updates for FreeBSD. This makes it possible to easily track the FreeBSD security branches without the need for fetching the source tree and recompiling (except on the machine building the updates, of course). Updates are cryptographically signed.
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Me : date-periodparser-simpledates.diff
Hooks for
Date::PeriodParser
(and by extension,
Mail::Miner
) to allow to get timestamps for dates like
2003
,
january 1999
and
feb fourteenth
. I guess this means I have to teach it to understand stuff last
last march
now, too...
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Subject: Re: dc language in rss
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:24:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Aaron Straup Cope
To: Bill Kearney
Subject: Re: dc language in rss
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Bill Kearney wrote:
> That would indeed be a problem. You could actually mark up those
sections, even
> down to the paragraphs or even words with span tags. I shudder at the
thought
> of what most environments would DO with that data, but it's certainly
possible.
If I were a better person, I(would(learn(lisp))) and write an Emacs
minor-mode to do that. (Sadly(,(lisp(scares(me))))).
> Well, the problem is what does that element mean? What purpose is it
being used
> for? I daresay outside of Syndic8's listing of feeds by language, not
much is
> paying attention to it. So my question to you is what would you have a
reader
> program DO with multiple languages?
The short answer is : I have no idea.
The longer answer is : Who cares?
There are two issues here :
The first falls into the Foofy Grand Unifying Principles category - the
people who invented the Internet didn't know what it was going to be used
for. Why should RSS, and its tool set, presume the samething as basic and
often controversial as language?
The second falls into the Dueling Shakespeare category - RFC 1766 states
that :
"In some contexts, it is possible to have information in more than one
language, or it might be possible to provide tools for assisting in the
understanding of a language (like dictionaries).
"A prerequisite for any such function is a means of labelling the
information content with an identifier for the language in which is is
written."
But in the absense of multiple language tags, the correct answer when
prigs like me start pussing is :
<quote src = "rfc1766">
The information in the subtag may for instance be:
- Country identification, such as en-US (this usage is
described in ISO 639)
- Dialect or variant information, such as no-nynorsk or en-
cockney
- Languages not listed in ISO 639 that are not variants of
any listed language, which can be registered with the i-
prefix, such as i-cherokee
- Script variations, such as az-arabic and az-cyrillic
</quote>
Which doesn't solve everyone's problem, but can be adapted to deal with
the problem of Quebec. I chose en-quebecois, because I like the sound of
it. Sovereigntists, on the other hand will probably opt for 'en-qc' since
it implies nationhood.
Then, of course, there is the question of how to deal with representing a
weblog written by the province's allophone population (translation:
persons whose mother tongue is neither English nor French and who, in my
limited experience, often speak upward of 4-6 languages). What then?
qc-allophone?
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Me : XML::Filter::Glossary.pm 0.1
While the package makes it's way on to the CPAN, you can also grap a copy over here .Keywords are flagged as being any word, or words, between double quotes which are then looked up in the glossary. If no match is found, the text is left unaltered.
If a match is located, the result is then parsed with Robert Cameron's REX shallow parsing regular expressions. Chunks of balanced markup are then re-inserted into the SAX stream via XML::Filter::Merger. Anything else, including markup not deemed well-formed, is added as character data.
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brian d foy : MacOSX::iTunes.pm
All I have to say is : What is the deal with the nipple-shirt?
Eugene Eric Kim : Purple
is a small suite of quickly hacked tools inspired
by Doug Engelbart's attempt to bootstrap the addressing features of his
Augment system onto HTML pages. Its purpose is simple: produce HTML
documents that can be addressed at the paragraph level. It does this by
automatically creating name anchors with static and hierarchical
addresses at the beginning of each text node, and by displaying these
addresses as links at the end of each text node."
Thinking out loud (read:untested), it seems
like you ought to be able to do the same thing with :
<xsl:template match = "somenode">
<xsl:variable name = "anchor">
<xsl:value-of select = "generate-id()" />
</xsl:variable>
<someanchor>
<xsl:attribute name = "name">
<xsl:value-of select = "$anchor" />
</xsl:attribute>
<someanchor>
<somenode>
<xsl:copy-of select = "." />
<somedivider>
<someanchor>
<xsl:attribute name = "href">
<xsl:value-of select = "$anchor" />
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select = "$anchor" />
</someanchor>
</somedivider>
</somenode>
</xsl:template>
via
decafbad
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : brio
brio n : quality of being active or spirited or vigorous [syn: {animation}, {spiritedness}] wn
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Nicholas C. Zakas : Creating a Cross-Browser (DOM) Expandable Tree
Radio Crankypants #6-8
6) Where the hell is the glossary? The
glossary framework
is one of the single most useful things the UserLand gang has ever
developed. It was in Manila and if it wasn't in older versions of Radio
it should have been. I mean, look, I actually know where the glossary
is
but why isn't there a web interface? 7) The navigation menu should be a
DHTML toolbar. I am already tired of clicking
>Prefs >Templates >Home page template
. And I might begin to remember what
next/prev
is supposed to mean, in any given context, in another six months but
right now it's just laughable. Both of these things should be a trivial
tasks for UserLand by now. The menus are exactly the same as building
the menubars for Radio/Frontier on the fly or building, only in HTML.
People have been beating on DHTML menus long enough that there really
is solid cross browser, cross platform, backwards compatible code
available. And the named next/prev linky widget was practically the
first thing people learned how to do in Frontier 4! 8) If the CMS
behind Radio is supposed to be
file-system based
why on earth does the file corresponding to
this page
look like this:
#flHomepage true #flArchivePage true #archiveDate "2002/01/12" <%radio.macros.viewWeblog ()%>
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Me : Image::Import.pm
"[slurps] an image as a hashref. In the process,
you may optionally resize the image, converting the image to another
image type, create a thumbnail or any combination thereof."
refers to
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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}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is rodomontade
| source : web1913 | Rodomontade
\Rod`o*mon*tade"\, n. [F., fr. It. rodomontana. See {Rodomont}, n.] Vain
boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant. I could show that the
rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible.
--Dryden. | source : web1913 | Rodomontade \Rod`o*mon*tade"\, v. i. To
boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant. | source : wn | rodomontade n : vain
and empty boasting [syn: {braggadocio}, {bluster}]
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Can someone please tell me what "persistent partial attention" is?
I'm going to guess that, if nothing else,
it isn't "very complete". Looks like someone is selling sugar-water,
again...
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Apparently, O'Reilly is prepping a book on Slashcode...
Stephen King : "It wouldn’t hurt to remember that the boys who shot up Columbine High School
planned to finish their day by hijacking a
jetliner and flying it into — yes, that’s right — the
World Trade Center. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris weren’t exactly
rocket scientists, and the guys who did this didn’t have to be
either. All you had to be was willing to die..."
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Dave Cross : Tie::Hash::Cannabinol.pm
"is a completely useless demostration of how to
use Tie::StdHash to pervert the behaviour of Perl hashes. Once a hash has
been tied to Tie::Hash::Cannabinol, there is a 25% chance that it will
forget anything that you tell it immediately and a further 25% chance
that it won't be able to retrieve any information you ask it for. Any
information that it does return will be pulled at random from it's keys."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is Argus-eyed
| source : web1913 | Argus-eyed \Ar"gus-eyed\, a.
Extremely observant; watchful; sharp-sighted. | source : wn | argus-eyed
adj 1: having very keen vision; "quick-sighted as a cat" [syn:
{hawk-eyed}, {keen-sighted}, {lynx-eyed}, {quick-sighted}, {sharp-eyed},
{sharp-sighted}] 2: carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for
possible danger; "a policy of open-eyed awareness"; "the vigilant eye of
the town watch"; "there was a watchful dignity in the room"; "a watchful
parent with a toddler in tow" [syn: {open-eyed}, {vigilant}, {wakeful},
{watchful}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is aright
| source : web1913 | Aright \A*right"\, adv.
[Pref. a- + right.] Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without
mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright. | source : wn | aright adv :
in a correct manner; "he guessed right" [syn: {correctly}, {right}] [ant:
{incorrectly}, {incorrectly}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is egress
| source : web1913 | Egress \E"gress\, n. [L.
egressus, fr. egredi to go out; e out + gradi to go. See {Grade}.] 1. The
act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure. Embarred
from all egress and regress. --Holland. Gates of burning adamant, Barred
over us, prohibit all egress. --Milton. 2. (Astron.) The passing off from
the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit. | source : web1913 |
Egress \E*gress"\, v. i. To go out; to depart; to leave. | source : wn |
egress n 1: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the
emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins" [syn:
{emergence}, {issue}] 2: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming
apparent [syn: {egression}, {emergence}] 3: (astronomy) the reappearance
of a celestial body after an eclipse [syn: {emersion}]
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Notes from the "Art Is Your Friend" department.
Mark my words, sometime in the next
eighteen months an art school twerp is going to paint an RDF
description of a master work on canvas and call it Art. The painted
word, indeed.
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Jonathon Eisenzopf : Weblog 2.0
"Other than departmentalizing the Weblog
functionality, the major addition is the integration and rewrite of Xhoo.
In short, this version of Weblog is a move towards a well-defined
environment for creating, editing, syndicating, and organizing channels.
... If you haven't heard of it before, Xhoo is a Web catalog that I
developed as an article a while back. You can still read about it off the
Mother of Perl home page. The difference now is that Xhoo itself is built
using RSS files, which allows you to leverage all of the same tools that
are now available for manipulating RSS. In the future, Xhoo will probably
support the RSS 1.0 threads module as soon as it matures a bit. Weblog
channels link to Xhoo categories through the taxonomy RSS 1.0 module."
mmmm...categories. Sigh, does anyone want to
pay me to finish v4.0 of this site? Anyway, with any luck I will be able
to announce something pretty cool, and tangentially related to all this
stuff, today or tomorrow...
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Ron Bickers : DocBook Document
"is a [Zope] ZClass that provides rendering of
Docbook documents."
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Matt Sergeant : Using AxKit To Build Static Sites
Neil Gaiman : Being an Account of the Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabolus
refers to
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J.M. Soler : Scripting Blender with Python
Sometimes, even if it only lasts a couple of
seconds, I start to feel like the last five years actually make sense...
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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."
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A.P. : "Data taken from the [body] scans
will be stored on password-protected sites on the
Web and can be used by consumers to help make purchases at affiliated
companies." One word : mischief.
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Sightings : swooshy lights
I have no memory of taking this picture.
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Why is it that people in the website business
feel the need to communicate in every conceivable
format except the web? Tangentially, has anyone written an XSLT
StyleSheet for converting Microsoft Word/MSXML documents into HTML?
Please say
yes....
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Scott Thomason : RSSLite.pm
Parse XML newsfeeds with well-formedness (my
mouth is full of potatoes) errors; XML::Parser and expat aren't very
forgiving of mistakes. Handles the rss.*, rdf.*, scriptingnews.* and
weblog.* formats. Neat! via
More
Like This
tangentially related :
Browser
XML Display Support Chart
.
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This one is for the people with the teeny weeny webcam thumbnails
small .... big ... .small .... big ..... mmmmm.
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Stephen Kendrick : Zen in the Art of Sherlock Holmes
Denise Caruso
"Unlike print and broadcast media, for example,
most Web sites feel no particular need to distinguish between what
information is paid for by sponsors and what is not. In fact, next to
labeled advertising, the sale or barter of a hypertext link on a Web page
is probably the most fundamental value exchange for those conducting
business on the Internet."
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NY Times on the dirty tricks that webmasters play
"From my experience, [pornography sites] were
definitely the ones leading it," Daniel Glovich, the manager of Web
development at the E-commerce site Cybershop, said of the use of these
tricks. "But then, like a lot of things on the Web, everybody saw that it
worked -- and followed."
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KCRW : Luscious Jackson
real audio
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ooooooooh
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