posts brought to you by the category “standards”
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 building on the corner of Marie-Anne and the Main always has
the best grafitti.
Norman Walsh : RDF Twig
RDFTwig is a set of XSLT extension functions for accessing an RDF
graph dynamically from XSLT. These functions make it easy to write
stylesheets that process RDF graphs without having to choose a
single, canonical tree representation for the graph.
Greg London : Symbol::Table.pm
Symbol::Table allows the user to manipulate Perl's symbol table
while hiding all those nasty eval's and *typeglobs from the user.
Symbol::Table gives the user an object oriented interface to perl's
actual symbol table. The constructor returns a reference to a tied
hash as a Symbol::Table object. The object acts like a reference to a
hash: the keys are the name of the symbols in the symbol table, and
the values are references to the symbol itself. The tied bit of magic
allows changes in the actual symbol table to be reflected as changes
in the tied hash. Tieing also allows assignments to the hash to
translate into assignments into perl's actual symbol table.
Andy Milford : As I write this several of my friend sit in police
vans
Some clever egg thought to stitch together the stills from the
webcam on the corner of Ste. Catherine and Peel
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : stasis
Stasis \Sta"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a standing still.]
(Physiol.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels,
due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some
abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena
observed in the capillaries in inflammation.
web1913
stasis n 1: an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a
liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped 2: inactivity resulting
from a static balance between opposing forces
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hockey
hair
Short on top, long in the back. Not unlike a
mullet.
ex. Cute, but he's got an ugly case of hockey
hair.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : perugal
To stare at someone for no particular reason
ex. Why are you perugalling at me?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols : The Woes of Web Services
On upstreaming
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is foundling
| source : web1913 | Foundling \Found"ling\, n.
[OE. foundling, fundling; finden to find + -ling; cf. f["u]ndling,
findling. See {Find}, v. t., and {-ling}.] A deserted or exposed infant;
a child found without a parent or owner. {Foundling hospital}, a hospital
for foundlings. | source : wn | foundling n : a child who has been
abandoned and whose parents are unknown [syn: {abandoned infant}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is renege
| source : web1913 | Renege \Re*nege"\ (r?-n?j"
or r?-n?g"), v. t. [LL. renegare. See {Renegade}.] To deny; to disown.
[Obs.] --Shak. All Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) Against the
truth and thee unholy leagued. --Sylvester. | source : web1913 | Renege
\Re*nege"\, v. i. 1. To deny. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. (Card Playing) To revoke.
[R.] | source : wn | renege n : the mistake of not following suit when
able to do so [syn: {revoke}] v : fail to fulfill a promise or
obligation; "She backed out of her promise" [syn: {renege on}, {renegue
on}, {go back on}]
Props to the Movable Type gang for a new release
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is abeyance
| source : web1913 | Abeyance \A*bey"ance\, n.
[OF. abeance expectation, longing; a (L. ad) + baer, beer, to gape, to
look with open mouth, to expect, F. bayer, LL. badare to gape.] 1. (Law)
Expectancy; condition of being undetermined. Note: When there is no
person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is
said to be in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law considering it
as always potentially existing, and ready to vest whenever a proper owner
appears. --Blackstone. 2. Suspension; temporary suppression. Keeping the
sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of
abeyance. --De Quincey. | source : wn | abeyance n : temporary cessation
or suspension [syn: {suspension}]
The shit is going to hit the fan
Bill St. Clair : Blogmax
"extends the power of Emacs to ease the
maintenance of a weblog, a frequently updated web site containing links
and commentary."
via
more
like this
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is timorous
| source : web1913 | Timorous \Tim"or*ous\, a.
[LL. timorosus, from L. timor fear; akin to timere to fear. See {Timid}.]
1. Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage. --Shak. 2. Indicating,
or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts. ``The timorous apostasy of
chuchmen.'' --Milman. -- {Tim"or*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Tim"or*ous*ness}, n. |
source : wn | timorous adj : timid by nature or revealing timidity;
"timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at
the large dog" [syn: {fearful}, {trepid}]
handX software : webLog for PalmOS
"allows you to use your Palm OS device to create
webLog (blog) entries for a web site. The inherent portability of Palm
devices means that you can jot down entries for your weblog practically
anywhere. The included conduit allows you to upload the created entries
to your web server when you return to your PC."
Shawn Ribordy : "After test driving MSXML in a Visual Basic
application,
it begged the question: "I wonder if Perl can use
MSXML?"
This American Life : Two Nations, One President
"In the wake of the bitter Presidential election,
the two political halves [ or "the non-intersecting realities" ] of this
country seem angrier at each other than they have in decades. This week
we bring you tales of the widening rift."
CNET : Better DHTML Through Object Oriented Design
...most [ cross-platform DHTML libraries ]
include the code for all different browsers in each script, creating
bloated, complex code that must be updated whenever a new browser is
released. We think we've found a better way to approach reusable
components that addresses these issues. via
whump
Alan Lightman : "The way that cell phones are used is
emblematic.
When you're on the cell phone, you're not where
your body is. You're somewhere out there in hyperspace. By always being
somewhere else, rather than where you are, you're nowhere. It represents
the lost state of society. We're nowhere."
Jeff Rowan : Creating a Log Class in Perl
"What did all those spooler daemons do while I
was at lunch?"
Lauren Weinstein & Peter Neumann : Sanity in the Election
Process
"We stand at a crossroads where the existence of
fundamental flaws in our election system have finally been exposed to the
public. It is no longer tenable for the powers that be, with a
gentleman's agreement or a nod and a wink, to steamroll over these flaws
-- and the will of voters -- for the sake of convenience and expediency.
We can start down the path toward ensuring genuine fairness and integrity
in the voting process by making sure that the election of last Tuesday is
resolved in a manner that not only serves the candidates, but more
importantly the will of the voters themselves."
Ralph Steadman : "What I might have done is picked up on someone
else's vibes.
And all I've done is manifest it, then, in a
drawing, and people go, "I like that, because I think that way." That's
how people look at my work, I bet. But that's only preaching to the
converted, isn't it? People already think like that, so what am I doing?
I'm doing something which is out of date, finished."
David Talbot
"Salon's redesign project was not simply a
perverse experiment, though it seemed that way to many of you. We needed
to find a way of showcasing our growing volume of articles, editorial
departments and reader services in a new and useful way." Word of mouth,
as you may have recently discovered. via
mikel
. see also :
Simson
Garfinkel : Undo me!
and
Michael
LeBlanc : The Power of the Undo
Jazz fans take note
Boston's WGBH, has complimented their unbearably
flaky QuickTime streaming audio with a more reliable
Media Player
audio feed
. WGBH is the home of
Eric in the Evening
, which is five hours of good solid (well, mostly good -- Eric has a
flavour for terrible terrible crooners) jazz, live performances and
interviews. Monday - Thursday, 19h00 - 0h00 EST.
CBC on the people who make weblogging possible
"Nearly four out of five bosses tolerate the idea
that their employees are using the Internet at work for non-work-related
surfing..."
If Nike has a sense of humour
they might think about re-doing
this ad
set in the middle of the WTO protests.
For every protest
What is up with
In a fit of stunning unoriginality
the 9th grade SPH (I don't know either) has
decided to call their website
aaronland.com
. I am already enough of a
misanthrope
as it is, without having to confront sub-morons and
greedheads
like this.
Andy Oram : The Lexus, the Olive Tree, and the Internet
This is not the sort of thing I would have ever
expected to see in
web review
. Good for them.
Slashdot : Network Solutions E-Mail Security Alert
Maybe Network Solutions will just be washed in to
the sea. Yes, it would prove a nuisance but probably worth it in the end.
Douglas Coupland : 32 Thoughts about 32 Short Films
"When I was 22, I bought a Glenn Gould cassette,
knowing nothing of Gould's tendency to hum during recordings. I thought
there was a defect in the tape and tried to return it." The "snap-shot"
style of story-telling is something of a hit and miss affair. One of the
best examples I've read was an essay in The New Yorker on David Salle
titled "37 False Starts". Their
website
really begs the question, so just go to your local library (author? date?
sorry.)
The Times : The New American Gold Rush
Oh great, it's the eighties all over again.
Happy, happy. Joy, joy.
Seattle Weekly : Pottery Barn Nation
"It's all about seeing the red. I see and am
sold. I walk out of the store with a bag containing five red shop towels,
feeling as though my education in good taste has just begun..."
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.
I spotted this Stephen Hawking -esque dealie last year. It's not there any more which isn't too surprising. It probably creeped people out. I would have started bumming, too, if I'd had to come to that every night in the dead of winter.
This year the wall to the left was painted with something more like the grafitti you come to expect everywhere. I don't really like it except for the space-blaster guy in the corner:
Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure that these were the inspiration for the milk carton thingies that show up in the taint and room projects.
Every summer there seems to be a single graffiti meme that predominates. One year it was the milk cartons. Another year it was the numbered bunny rabbit heads . This year it's these funny cartoons mouths. I'm not convinced that they aren't actually just a marketing gimmick for some yet to be announced product.
Switching gears, entirely, it was pointed out to me that those were actually yellow tomatoes on the vine. Waiting for them to ripen any more would only yield rotten fruit.
In my defense I will just say that I never paid much attention to the tomatoes on the farm and this isn't garden. Circumstances dictated that I take care of it this year so I opted for stuff that I thought I could grow a lot of for canning or drying.
I guess we'll have lots of yellow tomatoes this year. I certainly didn't buy yellow tomatoes so I'm left to assume that hooligans re-arranged all the tags at the nursery. It's a drag but it's also something I could see myself doing a few years ago.
That red-ish one is apparently a tomato. Dunno. We swapped vegetables with someone on the way out and that's what she called it.