posts brought to you by the category “religion”
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 groom made me do it.
Elliotte Rusty Harold : Remember Mixed Content
What's really telling in this example is that the community
promptly hacked their own uglier version of mixed content back into
RSS, even though the original developers had tried to avoid it.
Movable Thoughts #19 : CGIPath != mod_dir.c
A "trailing slash" redirect is issued when the server receives a
request for a URL http://servername/foo/dirname where dirname is a
directory. Directories require a trailing slash, so mod_dir issues a
redirect to http://servername/foo/dirname/.
Me : xml résumé (XSL) formatting extensions 0.1
These stylesheets extend those included with the XML Résumé
Library to add better support for external links and to support a
small number of elements that are not part of the DTD.
Nichola Bouges : "I wrote a very basic SyncML server in PHP."
Me : strip_unix_comments 1.0 (bloxsom plugin)
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.60_02
Me : eatdrinkfeelgood-1.1-to-indexcard-fo.xsl 0.91
Me : WebService::weblogUpdates.pm 0.35
Mina Naguib : Weather::Underground.pm
Bill Stilwell : mt.el
;; This packages enables you to create new posts and edit old posts on
;; your Movable Type Weblog. It may be expanded so that any weblog
;; tool that supports the metaWeblog API can be used.
And in the "Small ingredients, loosely arranged" department :
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.7
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : collude
Collude \Col*lude"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Colluded}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Colluding}.] [L. colludere, -lusum; col- + ludere to
play. See {Ludicrous}.] To have secretly a joint part or share in an
action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in
concert. If they let things take their course, they will be represented
as colluding with sedition. --Burke.
web1913
collude v : act in unison or agreement; "These two factors
conspired to cause the stock market to fall" [syn: {conspire}]
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Dave Winer : "Now imagine an outliner that works on the
Internet.
In your bibliography, you cite a source. Link to
it. When a reader double-clicks on the headline, the document expands, in
place. Copy the citation into another outline, and you've got another
link. Linking and outlining over the Internet. This is the start of
something big."
Benjamin Trott : "I've started implementing the common weblog API
in Movable Type."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
resiprocal
ReCIPprocal--for drinking situations.
ex. Our drinking was resiprocal at the
party.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : gripper
An obviously too tight piece of clothing.
ex. Come on, that`s a bit of gripper. We don`t want to see
that.
see also :
gripper dict-ified
David Brownell : Producing SAX2 Events
Bran Van 3000 : What is Knabber Knossi?
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
tintinnabulation
| source : web1913 | Tintinnabulation
\Tin`tin*nab`u*la"tion\, n. A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.
--Poe. | source : wn | tintinnabulation n : the sound of a bell ringing;
"the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the
telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the
ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe [syn: {ring}, {ringing}]
David Mertz : Using CSS2 to display XML documents
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}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pantheon
| source : web1913 | Pantheon \Pan*the"on\, n.
[L. pantheon, pantheum, Gr. ? (sc. ?), fr. ? of all gods; ?, ?, all + ? a
god: cf. F. panth['e]on. See {Pan-}, and {Theism}.] 1. A temple dedicated
to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome. 2. The
collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity
of the Greek pantheon. | source : wn | pantheon n 1: all the gods of a
religion 2: a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes 3: (ancient
Greece or Rome) a temple to all the gods
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bibulous
| source : web1913 | Bibulous \Bib"u*lous\, a.
[L. bibulus, fr. bibere to drink. See {Bib}, v. t. ] 1. Readily imbibing
fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper. 2. Inclined to
drink; addicted to tippling. | source : wn | bibulous adj : given to or
marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous
evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a
drunken binge"; "two drunken gentleman holding each other up"; "sottish
behavior" [syn: {boozy}, {drunken}, {sottish}]
Me : weblogUpdates.xsl 0.4
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is frangible
| source : web1913 | Frangible \Fran"gi*ble\, a.
[Cf. F. frangible.] Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily
broken. | source : wn | frangible adj : capable of being broken; "the
museum stored all frangible articles in locked showcases"
Andrew Savige : Acme::EyeDrops.pm
"[allows you to make your program] look like a
camel with:
print sightly( { Shape => 'camel', SourceFile =>
'helloworld.pl', Regex => 1 } );
"
Marco Pratesi : The PHP Layers Menu
"is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly
choose among the items. It achieves a compact view and a reasonably small
file size for the page also with a very large number of entries." via
dangerousmeta
Websign: hyperlinks from a physical location to the web
"By using a simple form of augmented reality, the
system allows users to visualize services related to physical objects of
interest. The websign system provides infrastructure not just for
detecting websigns but also for creating and deploying them. In this
paper we present the concept, an overview of the prototype and the
algorithms used in the implementation."
(pdf)
Kip Hampton : Creating Scalable Vector Graphics with Perl
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is jocular
| source : web1913 | Jocular \Joc"u*lar\, a. [L.
jocularis, fr. joculus, dim. of jocus joke. See {Joke}.] 1. Given to
jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person. 2. Sportive; merry. ``Jocular
exploits.'' --Cowper. The style is serious and partly jocular. --Dryden.
| source : wn | jocular adj : characterized by jokes and good humor [syn:
{jesting}, {jocose}, {joking}] adv : with humor; "they tried to deal with
this painful subject jocularly" [syn: {jocosely}]
Brian Ingerson : Data::Denter.pm
"The main problem with Data::Dumper (one of my
all-time favorite modules) is that you have to use eval() to deserialize
the data you've dumped. This is great if you can trust the data you're
evaling, but horrible if you can't. A good alternative is Storable.pm. It
can safely thaw your frozen data. But if you want to read/edit the frozen
data, your out of luck, because Storable uses a binary format. Even
Data::Dumper's output can be a little cumbersome for larger data objects.
... Data::Denter is yet another Perl data serializer/deserializer. It
formats nested data structures in an indented fashion. It is optimized
for human readability/editability, safe deserialization, and (eventually)
speed."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pulchritude
| source : web1913 | Pulchritude \Pul"chri*tude\,
n. [L. pulchritudo, fr. pulcher beautiful.] 1. That quality of appearance
which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness. Piercing
our heartes with thy pulchritude. --Court of Love. 2. Attractive moral
excellence; moral beauty. By the pulchritude of their souls make up what
is wanting in the beauty of their bodies. --Ray. | source : wn |
pulchritude n : physical beauty (especially of a woman)
W3C RDF-Calendaring mailing list
Larry Wall : "What I will be revealing in these columns will be the
design of Perl 6.
Or more accurately, the beginnings of that
design, since the design process will certainly continue after I've had
my initial say in the matter. I'm not omniscient, rumors to the contrary
notwithstanding. This job of playing God is a little too big for me.
Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it. And
I'll expect all of you to help me out with the process of creating
history. We all have to do our bit with free will."
Dave Cross : Creating Data Output Files Using the Template
Toolkit
Irational Radio : DIY Net Radio Guide
What else can you get for ten bucks?
How about a second-hand book on computer
programming.
Quote
: "[T]he average computer user can typically only change a limited set of
options configurable via a "wizard" (a lofty word for a canned dialog),
and is dependent on expert programmers for everything else. ... We
compare mass ability to read and write software with mass literacy, and
predict equally pervasive changes to society."
Nathan Torkington : What every Perl programmer needs to know about
.NET
"Where Microsoft betters Sun is that while Java
is the only real language that compiles to the JVM, Microsoft intends IL
[Intermediate Language] to be cross-language. That is, Perl, Visual Basic
and C# can be compiled down to IL. The idea is to make it possible to
integrate multiple languages into one system."
Why are Americans so fond of putting everything
webCDCreator
"can be used to make a single CD-writer available
to the users in your network. There is a server that controls the
CD-writer using cdrecord. It accepts the requests from several clients
around in the network. webCDwriter comes with a client written in java
that can run as an applet within a browser. It lets the user put together
a CD and transmit the files afterward. The server gives the CD-writer to
one user at a time and tells them when to insert the CD." neat!
CNN : Will the real katie.com please stand up?
"There's a certain naivete in publishing a book
about the Internet, with a Web address in the title, publicizing the book
online, and making no attempt to buy or secure the logical domain name."
LEAPs (LibwEb APplications)
"is a suite of community web site applications
built by using a Perl toolkit called LibWeb. Currently it has a
file-manager and possibly more in the future as developers write more web
applications based on the interfaces and frameworks defined in LibWeb ...
This makes LEAPs plug-and-play web applications." The problem with saying
that is that it has to pass the 30 second test which I've never ever seen
happen on a Unix machine. I'll be curious. Meanwhile, as more news about
the Perl 6 re-write comes out, I am happy to see that
the system call will stop returning false on success
. mmmmm .... return 1;
NY Times : British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode
E-Mail
"The measure would not require traditional
warrants signed by judges. Instead, warrants for e-mail surveillance
would have to be signed by the home secretary, who controls a range of
domestic and legal matters. Other officials, including high-ranking
police officers, would be empowered to approve requests for encryption
keys." see also :
V
for Vendetta
DIY law?
Patrick Hess : class.tree.php3
"gives you an easy way to create expandable tree
lists." mmmmm ..... easy. The clever lad also wrote a php class for
generating
overLib dialogue
boxes
( warning : very very broken in IE5 Mac. ) Clever lad.
The Slashdot Kiddies : What Will the Internet of the Future Be
Like?
Interesting, but I worry that few people are
seeing the forest for the trees. There's another aspect that is troubling
: I'd like to hear what people *want* the future of the Network to be and
it fucking sucks to have to consider that as a separate issue. How lame
is it that we ( and I include myself ) find it so hard to reconcile our
hopes with our expectations? see also :
The trouble with having a recursive imagination
and then
Angela
Gunn : Hoax in the machine
It's nice to see websites acting like cigarette companies
and re-designing their packaging for seemingly no
other reason than to garner attention and increaseco-called mindshare.
All I know is I can't read anything because I keep getting distracted by
all those foofy dots ( I struggle on in a war of attrition with one of my
employers over the use of bullets ) and triangles and those lines. What
is up with those lines? see also
MetaFilter / Zeldman : I smell cubicle
. Update : via
haughey
comes
plain vanilla
Salon
, just the way we like it.
CBC : A woman from Tampa, Fla
"wrote, asking Orkin to buy her a new television
set. She broke hers when she tried to kill the roach by throwing a
motorcycle helmet at it."
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.
Douglas Rushkoff on mandatory technology
NY Times : Columbia, Guggenheim and BAM Consider New-Media Arts
Program
"Officials ... say they are discussing the
formation of a new-media arts consortium, an initiative that would bring
three major New York City institutions together to explore the
intersection of technology and culture." An interesting piece, once you
make your way past the
buzzword bingo
.
Darren Hick : Xerox Generation
"Why is it that so many people have taken their
access to Kinko's and Xerox technology as a licence to produce 'art'?"
Lysiane Gagnon : Does anyone care about Radio-Canada?
"Radio-Canada is the French equivalent of the CBC
-- and much more. During its first decades, it was the major lifeblood of
French-speaking culture in Canada. No other institution did as much to
promote home-grown culture and to raise the standards of spoken French."
See also : Richard Martineau's
Traitement de
Canal
.
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
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On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
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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
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On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
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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.
