posts brought to you by the category “recipes”
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.
Bill : You gotta have it
Ed Bilodeau : Regarding the lack of RSS.
Me : http://aaronland.info/html/ed/example.txt
My apartment smells like a fucking swimming pool
I'll never look at dinner napkins the same way, again.
Even as American officials were preparing to install an interim
government in Iraq, the hoisting of the American flag over the
statue's face was a brief but powerful reminder that unlike the
Soviet empire, Iraq's regime did not implode from within. A closer
historical analogy could have been the photograph of a Red Army
soldier raising the Soviet flag over a bombed-out Reichstag in
1945.
That iconic picture by the Russian photographer Yevgeny Khaldei
was carefully planned and posed. In Baghdad, the Stars and Stripes
were hurriedly pulled down and replaced with a pre-gulf-war Iraqi
flag, tucked into a chain around the statue's neck like a large
dinner napkin. As one commentator on MSNBC said, "It looks like
cooler geopolitical heads have prevailed."
Luke Andrews : Thin Ice
...I realized that without sound, TV war coverage is a hopeless
exercise in confusion. Smoke-drenched shots of indecipherable
landscapes, jerky digital video and talking heads: it all screams
Contemporary Art Museum exhibit.
Robert Fisk : "How, I ask myself, does one describe this outside
the language of a military report?"
How, I ask myself, does one describe this outside the language of
a military report, the definition of the colour, the decibels of the
explosions? When the cruise missiles came in it sounded as if someone
was ripping to pieces huge curtains of silk in the sky and the blast
waves became a kind of frightening counterpoint to the flames.
Andy Milford : As I write this several of my friend sit in police
vans
Inka Essenhigh
Me : XML::SAXDriver::vCard.pm 0.02
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : twice
pipes
Dual exhaust on a vehicle.
ex. Check out that Cavalier, it's got twice
pipes.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : federal
abuse
Abuse of a sibling
ex. My sister was tickling me, and I screamed FEDERAL
ABUSE!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : monomania
Monomania \Mon`o*ma"ni*a\, n. [Mono- + mania.] Derangement
of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a
concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas
to show mental derangement. Syn: Insanity; madness; alienation;
aberration; derangement; mania. See {Insanity}.
web1913
monomania n : a mania restricted to one thing or idea [syn:
{possession}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fiblit
It's a Koosh ball (that colorful ball that looks like
it's made of old rubberbands), but Fiblit is easier to
remember.
ex. Erik, don't throw the fiblit in the living
room.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : back
Bar room slang for a chaser.
ex. I'll have whisky neat with a beer back.
see also :
back dict-ified
Fear not Bostonians.
Michel Bergeron : "Rien ne va battre la rivalité entre le Canadien
et les Nordiques.
Ça allait au delà des équipes. C'était deux
villes, deux brasseries et des journalistes des deux côtés. Et chaque
équipe comptait 12 ou 13 Québécois dans son alignement. Moi, je ne vois
pas de grosse rivalité aujourd'hui. Le jeu est robuste, mais nous sommes
en séries éliminatoires."
Well, recent changes to the perlblog don't look like they will
work
Soon, unless I decide to fuck it and go read my book
Cameron Laird : Easy COM-Web Services Gateways
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : retirement
zombie
Someone who retires without first sorting out a life for
herelf thereafter. Result--retirement zombies wander the streets
aimlessly, usually accosting former colleagues and boring them to
death with chat about "the old days."
ex. Watch, out Chris's coming--he's the worst of this
year's crop of retirement zombies.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
pronunciamento
Pronunciamento \Pro*nun`ci*a*men"to\, n. A proclamation or
manifesto; a formal announcement or declaration.
web1913
pronunciamento n : a public declaration of intentions (as
issued by a political party or government) [syn: {manifesto}]
wn
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.
Radio Crankypants #5 : <% aaronland.Categories () %>
IETF : Whois Export and Exchange Format
Two words : chmod 0777
ResearchBuzz 911 Coverage
MakeMan
"is a project to provide several frontends, GUI
and non-GUI, to an XML interface to write man pages. MakeMan will use
``DocBook'''s definition (RefEntry) as a basis for man pages to represent
the content in SGML, so as to allow a large variety of applications to
access the same data. This will make it possible to write different
frontends, possibly networked client and www-interfaces, SOAP-services
etc. while at the same time promoting proper documentation."
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)
Paul Prescod : Ideas about Subclassing and Inheritance in Generic
Documents
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is satiety
| source : web1913 | Satiety \Sa*ti"e*ty\, n. [L.
satietas, from satis, sat, enough: cf. F. sati['e]t['e].] The state of
being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the
appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of
gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion;
satiation. In all pleasures there is satiety. --Hakewill. But thy words,
with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. --Milton.
Syn: Repletion; satiation; surfeit; cloyment. | source : wn | satiety n :
the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more [syn:
{repletion}, {satiation}] | source : devils | SATIETY, n. The feeling
that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pervicacious
| source : web1913 | Pervicacious
\Per`vi*ca"cious\, a. [L. pervicax, -acis.] Obstinate; willful;
refractory. [Obs.] -- {Per`vi*ca"cious*ly}, adv. --
{Per`vi*ca"cious*ness}, n. [Obs.]
I had occassion to walk through the tunnel at Westmount Square
Andy Wardley : Apache::Template.pm
"provides a simple interface to the Template
Toolkit from Apache/mod_perl."
Harvey Blume : Geek Studies
"[I]f there's one overriding theme to the geek
corpus, it's that tales of the geek will almost always be tales of
science -- of what science is doing to us, what it's turning us into.
Much as God is always a presence, however peripheral, in the Hebrew
Bible, so science rules the expanse of geek studies. That in itself is
one reason geeks are getting so much attention: the impact of science on
our lives is something we're endlessly anxious to understand."
PHP Builder : Using PHP and XML with Apache Cocoon
developerWorks : Transforming XML documents
into HTML, SVG and PDF documents. "In the future
we'll expand this tutorial to include TeX, the emerging VoiceXML
standard, and Wireless Markup Language (WML). Although this isn’t
an exhaustive list of target formats you might want to support,
it’s enough to show you how transformations work. Our range of
sample targets include online, printed, and audio formats. Some convert
one XML vocabulary to another, while the rest convert XML documents into
non-markup language formats." ( bobo-level registration )
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Groove Armada
Meanwhile, academics discover fan fiction
although you could just as easily argue that they
invented it too.
Michel Lacombe
"La révolte contre la mort est quelque chose
d'absurde. Mais on a besoin de toi. T'es de ceux qui donnent un sens à
notre nouvelle société québécoise. Certains disent que le XXIe siècle
n'est pas commencé. Ils n'ont pas pensé à toi."
So, apparently the States
It's called a classroom.
Everything that Meg is talking about should
already be done in class; simply funneling the discourse on to the web is
only a partial solution and moot by itself. If education at all levels
was given adequate funding and not seen merely as tool for career
advancement, by students and teachers alike, people might not feel so
shitty about it. I'm pretty sure it's not what she meant, but Meg's
comments could also be interpreted as "Who needs school when you've got
Blogger?" Meanwhile, universities everywhere are
reinventing themselves as search engines
.
Morning Becomes Eclectic : DJ Cheb I Sabbah
Lance Gould : Blame Canada? Hell, let's declare war!
Jason Vest quotes Bruce Sterling
"The class-resentment aspect is so obvious. It's
a lot like the World Trade Organization thing, where people were
wandering around in pepper gas and people across the country started
thinking, gee, why would anyone possibly be against world trade as we
know it? In this case, it's like, how could anyone possibly resent
e-commerce, which is about a bunch of superrich guys with stock options
up the wazoo more or less taking over the Web?"
Le Devoir : Le débat référendaire envahit Internet
"De ce lieu d'échanges émerge soudainement une
information inédite, une troublante primeur. L'on nous informe qu'Ottawa
se propose de refaire le coup des mesures de guerre de 1970. De son
centre de crise installé dans la capitale fédérale, le gouvernement
Chrétien prétexterait la menace du bogue de l'an 2000 pour proclamer
l'application de la Loi des mesures d'urgence et dépêcher 12 000 soldats
sur le territoire québécois."
Would that I have my wits about me
Everything was fine when I woke; it was only when
I got to work that the hangover set in. What more do you need in life
than a little
grappa
and a little
Scrabble
? (In the tiny victories department, we managed three 7-letter words in
ten minutes.)
Vicky Southard
"The Guinness people have been trying for a long
time to find a way to show the world’s biggest breasts on their TV
show. Now that we’ll be making a bra to fit them, Guinness will be
able to show them on TV."
Douglas Rushkoff on mandatory technology
CBC : U.S. Senate cuts funding for the BMA
Smells like an election year, to me.
Maybe Mr. Nice Guy would be happier
Armand Mattelart : L'anti-géomètre
"Cela signifie l'élimination du concept de la
différenciation sociale, mais aussi de celui de justice sociale, et des
luttes pour l'établir. ... C'est la fin de tous les acteurs, sauf un, le
manager, qui se déresponsabilise puisque tout est global."
Bunnies!
Now I know what to answer if anyone from O'Reilly
ever asks which animal I'd like to be. Speaking of which, here's
a still
from a project that never really got off the ground. via
braindump
.
William Safire : Killer E-speak for the 24/7 Generation
Hemp News
Apple's AirPort uses the
IEEE 802.11
Standard
, which means :"...802.11 embeds the WEP mechanism within the MAC that
covers station-to-station transmission. The standard specifies usage of
the RC4 security algorithm from RSA. The scheme relies on a 40-bit key to
encrypt the payload of data frames. The working group chose the RC4
algorithm in part because the US Government does not restrict the export
of products using the RC4 encryption method. In contrast, other
algorithms such as DES can only be exported in a few specific
applications. Moreover, tests by members of 802.11 prove RC4 to offer
security that matches or exceeds the privacy achievable by standard wired
Ethernet." Big thanks to
Lawrence Lee
for the heads up. When in doubt, RTFM. Doh!
Gil Courtemanche : Merci les femmes
"Mais plus profondément, ces femmes vivent au
cour de toutes les distorsions de la société néo-libérale. Dans leur
propres conditions de vie, en tout premier lieu, car si elles ne vivent
pas la précarité financière, elles connaissent la précarité de l'emploi,
l'incertitude du rappel, la mise à la retraite précoce, l'instabilité du
système qui interdit de planifier une vraie vie familiale."
Alicia Neumann : The Overtime Stigma
"The start-up culture has taught many to think of
work as a hierarchy-free team effort with distributed ownership -- even
if most employees hold a tiny fraction of the shares held by the
company's founders and investors." I want to believe. via
bump
.
Sunday Times : Water company ready to launch wind farm at sea
I've always thought wind farms amazingly
beautiful.
The World on Yeska
skafrocuban jazz, real audio
Filtering Amendment Passes [US] House
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.