posts brought to you by the category “the semantic web”
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.
Daniel Zambonini : Diagramming the XML Family
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Me : Images and thumbnails, a pure CSS hack.
#20030810-pnd {
background-image:url( span#20030810-pnd + span.caption > a[href] );
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Jirka Kosek : Understanding the node-set() Function
You might be wondering whether the node-set() function will be part of [XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0]. The answer is no, but don't worry. The authors of XSLT 2.0 made an important decision: result tree fragments are gone. There will be no need to use the node-set() function in XSLT 2.0 as you can operate directly on XML fragments stored in a variable, as on any other node-set. Regardless, you should put the node-set() function in your bag of tools as it will take several years before XSLT 2.0 will be deployed as widely as XSLT 1.0 is deployed today.
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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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I have a friend who joked once about turning a church into a pizza joint and calling it Cheesus Crust.
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Jeanette Winterson : The Secret Life of Us
I know of a man, a Quaker, who volunteered as an ambulance driver in the second world war. While other men had pictures of their sweethearts in their breast pockets, he carried a photo of a Queen Anne chair. In his despair at where human folly had brought him and millions of others, he needed to remember the glory of the human spirit, as well as its loss. Like Barbara Hepworth, he believed that art affirms and sustains life at its highest level. He became an antique dealer because he wanted to be surrounded by what the Jews call "real presences". A real presence is one where spirit and body, or spirit and object, have never been separated. It doesn't matter whether we are talking a chair, a picture, a book or a human being; what makes us feel alive is the living quality lodged there.
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Allen Day: Video::OpenQuicktime.pm
Sigi Moeslinger : "Since cities are so strange and dense and anonymous,
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : begator
A female alligator. Used as a description of someone or as a curse.
ex. That begator is very large. OR Begator! Begator this!
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : peregrination
Peregrination \Per`e*gri*na"tion\, n. [L. peregrinatio: cf. F. p['e]r['e]grination.] A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. ``His peregrination abroad.'' --Bacon. web1913
peregrination n : travel (especially by foot) wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : perspicacity
Perspicacity \Per`spi*cac"i*ty\, n. [L. perspicacitas: cf. F. perspicacit['e]. See {Perspicacious}.] The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. --Sir T. Browne. web1913
perspicacity n 1: intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) [syn: {shrewdness}, {astuteness}, {perspicaciousness}] 2: the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions [syn: {judgment}, {judgement}, {sound judgment}, {sound judgement}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : yummolicious
When something tastes really good or yummy. A cross between yummy and delicious.
ex. Auntie Sar, this candy sure is yummolicious.
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As I write this, I am listening to Desmond Tutu being interviewed
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Lawrence Lessig : weblogger
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : celerity
Celerity \Ce*ler"i*ty\, n. [L. celeritas, from celer swiftm speedy: sf. F. c['e]l['e]rit['e].] Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness. Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. --Johnson. web1913
celerity n : a rate that is rapid [syn: {quickness}, {rapidity}] wn
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Perlmonks : Security issues when allowing file upload via CGI
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Christian Jaeger : ETHLife-CMS
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is epicene
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is doyen
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From the Simple Pleasures department : cop shades
Clever XSL/JavaScript hack for returning the name of the current node
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is plaudit
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Lincoln Stein : "Who ever heard of holding a conversation
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I would consider buying one of these
Neil Bowers : Wordz
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I wonder how hard it would be to write an Apache::ZODB module
mmmm...the POD Object Model
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Ovidiu Predescu : XSLT-process minor mode
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This day has been Chrétienized
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Adbusters : Chris Woods Art Gallery
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Bob Rogers : Do It Yourself
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Andrew Ó Baoill : Slashdot and the Public Sphere
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It's not as though no one else produces crap.
It's just that the super-abundance of it in the States is truly
staggering and seemingly unmatched anywhere else in the world. The
weekend provided
an opportunity to visit
one of big name monster supermarkets and I was amazed at the ability to
make so many seemingly different products from the same basic
components : plastic, corn syrup and food colouring. Well, not really
surprised, but the shock never seems to abate. It's like this crap has
evolved into a self-preserving life-form and spawns new progeny -- or
atleast new packaging -- right there on the shelf, in front of your
eyes. see also :
fresh watermelon
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InterGuru's E-Mail Address Book Conversions
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Globe and Mail : Dot-com this!
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Washington Post : Do-It-Yourself Checkout
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I am Boy,
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The gadgets are coming! The gadgets are coming!
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Rex Murphy : Dot-com looniness, phantoms of avarice and appetite
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Katie Bacon : Get A Life
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Well, if you end up buying a car
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Web Review : Cross Browser Events for Dynamic HTML
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Builder.com
Steve Rothman : The Publication of [John Hersey's] Hiroshima in the New Yorker
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My Most Scary Canada Day
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Wired on nextmonet.com
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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