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
Me : Images and thumbnails, a pure CSS hack.
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.
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.
I have a friend who joked once about turning a church into a pizza
joint and calling it Cheesus Crust.
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.
Allen Day: Video::OpenQuicktime.pm
Sigi Moeslinger : "Since cities are so strange and dense and
anonymous,
you are driven to surround yourself with things
that have personality. Things become like pets."
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!
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
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
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.
As I write this, I am listening to Desmond Tutu being
interviewed
Lawrence Lessig : weblogger
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
Perlmonks : Security issues when allowing file upload via CGI
Christian Jaeger : ETHLife-CMS
"Unlike most [CMS'], it doesn't try to use a
browser as its sole interface, but combines the benefits of a stable,
seasoned html editor and file sharing techniques like samba, netatalk,
ftp with the exact text markup definitions and standard data format of
xml. It will work on both Windows and MacOS, and maybe even Linux, other
unixes and other OS's provided there is a decent wysiwyg html editor."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is epicene
| source : web1913 | Epicene \Ep"i*cene\, a.
& n. [L. epicoenus, Gr. ?; fr. 'epi` + ? common; cf. F.
['e]pic[`e]ne.] 1. Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar,
to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or
feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox
and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites. 2. Fig.:
Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. The literary prigs epicene.
--Prof. Wilson. He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor
layman. --J. A. Symonds. | source : wn | epicene adj 1: having an
ambiguous sexual identity [syn: {bisexual}] 2: having unsuitable feminine
qualities [syn: {effeminate}, {emasculate}, {cissy}, {sissified},
{sissyish}, {sissy}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is doyen
| source : web1913 | Doyen \Doy`en"\, n. [F. See
{Dean}.] Lit., a dean; the senior member of a body or group; as, the
doyen of French physicians. ``This doyen of newspapers.'' --A. R.
Colquhoun. | source : wn | doyen n : the senior member of a group; "he is
the dean of foreign correspondents" [syn: {dean}]
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
| source : web1913 | Plaudit \Plau"dit\, n. [From
L. plaudite do ye praise (which was said by players at the end of a
performance), 2d pers. pl. imperative of plaudere. Cf. {Plausible}.] A
mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and
plaudits of the throng. --Longfellow. Syn: Acclamation; applause;
encomium; commendation; approbation; approval. | source : wn | plaudit n
: enthusiastic approval; "the book met with modest acclaim"; "he
acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd"; "they gave him more eclat than
he really deserved" [syn: {acclaim}, {acclamation}, {plaudits}, {eclat}]
Lincoln Stein : "Who ever heard of holding a conversation
with someone so forgetful that you have to
continually remind them who they're talking to by handing them back a
slip of paper with your name written on it?"
I would consider buying one of these
Neil Bowers : Wordz
"is a simple application for finding words which
match a particular pattern. I wrote it to help when solving crosswords,
and also to learn about database programming under PalmOS."
I wonder how hard it would be to write an Apache::ZODB module
mmmm...the POD Object Model
Ovidiu Predescu : XSLT-process minor mode
"Have you ever developed XML applications using
XSLT? If so you probably felt the need of viewing the result of applying
the XSLT processor on the XML file using an XSLT sheet you have been
working on right inside your (X)Emacs, without having to go to a terminal
or to the Web browser. This minor mode allows you to do it!"
This day has been Chrétienized
Adbusters : Chris Woods Art Gallery
I had no idea you could do that with french
fries. Beautiful!
Bob Rogers : Do It Yourself
(lynx weenies will only be frustrated)
Andrew Ó Baoill : Slashdot and the Public Sphere
"Jurgen Habermas's theory of the public sphere
provides a model of idealised democratic debate. Three major features of
this model can be identified - universal access, rational debate, and a
disregard for rank. I analyse the model, and use it to examine Slashdot,
a popular Web site, as an actualisation of public space."
It's not as though no one else produces crap.
InterGuru's E-Mail Address Book Conversions
"This service will convert e-mail address lists
between Eudora alias files, Pine address books, Elm address files,
Pegasus address files ( Europe and USA ) address files, databases and
spreadsheets Compuserve, Spry, Lotus cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, Microsoft
Internet Mail, ldif formatted file, Netscape address books Mac AOL,
T-Online , and Claris Emailer. Other conversions are being developed."
Globe and Mail : Dot-com this!
"Reid hears something else, when his "geek"
friends and colleagues are talking. 'Knowledge is what's valued in this
industry, and that's how people speak,' he says. 'There's a rapid-fire
passing back and forth of facts, it's almost like a pissing contest, in
the way it sounds. But it's just exchanging knowledge. There's no wisdom
or value attached.' "
Washington Post : Do-It-Yourself Checkout
"We're so Internet-oriented, so ATM-oriented.
It's a natural transition. It's a natural extension of what we do every
day." And you just know that whenevers he mouths drivel like this he sees
not his sorry-ass grocery store self but instead Obi-Wan Kenobi jedi
mind-fucking stormtroopers telling them : "There is nothing to see here."
I am Boy,
The gadgets are coming! The gadgets are coming!
Rex Murphy : Dot-com looniness, phantoms of avarice and
appetite
"The most self- regarding generation of all
history is going to live forever; jog till it's 90; chemically extend its
furious sexual capacity; replace and enhance all body parts and get
continuously rich forever. It is this happy exceptionalism that has made
the practice of building hopes and dreams on the stock market, and in
particular that portion of it known as the NASDAQ, such a delightful
habit for so many North Americans." Is it just me, or does it frighten
anyone else how much Rex Murphy looks like
Prime Minister Poutine
?
Katie Bacon : Get A Life
At one time, "on line commerce" meant ordering by
phone from a catalogue. Was there ever a "CatalogueGuy" who started off
in an empty house and waited for things to arrive by mail while keeping a
journal of his experiences? If so, the spectacle would have been about as
exciting as watching someone buy things off the Internet."
Well, if you end up buying a car
Web Review : Cross Browser Events for Dynamic HTML
"As I mentioned earlier, using events to perform
functions on your web site sounds great in theory. But in reality, I've
discovered only nine unique events that work equally well with both
Netscape and IE." see also : <a href =
"http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1999/02/junk/">Generalized
Event Handling in JavaScript </a>
Builder.com
Steve Rothman : The Publication of [John Hersey's] Hiroshima in the
New Yorker
"TO OUR READERS The New Yorker this week devotes
its entire editorial space to an article on the almost complete
obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb, and what happened to the
people of that city. It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet
comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and
that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications
of its use. The Editors."
My Most Scary Canada Day
Here we go again. A chorus of anxious Canadians
pleading to not break up "my" country. I can hardly wait for the next
love-in
.
Wired on nextmonet.com
"When I was ready to graduate from posters, I
went to several galleries and was never more intimidated. I thought I had
a great vocabulary, but I realized I didn't know much about art. I felt
really dumb." Graduate from posters? When you were ready? Buy a copy of
ArtSpeak
and decide for yourself if you're really missing anything.
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.