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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.

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Bitflux : “I realized, that Jabber could be the ideal tool for a distributed CMS system.”

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You say “Atom”, I say “bookmark”

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Ceci n'est pas du pop art.

Gnocchi di zucca, Montréal, September 2003

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I <heart /> Montréal

between Resther and St. Hubert, Montréal, September 2003
rue Resther, Montréal, September 2003

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<s0:http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/identifier />

So, I was farting around with RDFpic and I even went as far as to write a little widget that tries to pre-populate the RDF meta-data with corresponding EXIF data. Basic stuff like the date. The Photo-RDF spec says you should not use the identifier element to note the URI of your image. It is reserved for some random, and possibly repeating, internal marker that your camera uses to flag individual images. The logic here escapes me but, whatever. I want an identifier that points to the actual image, I think, so I'll just use the handy dc:identifier instead. I wrote the RDF to a separate file and then I imported it in to an image I was munging with RDFpic. So far, so good. Next, I immediately exported the data to another file to see what it looked like :



 <s0:http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/identifier>



  /home/asc/tmp/photo/2003/07/19/20030719-img_0013.jpg



 </s0:http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/identifier>



  



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 107 ->xmllint ./2003/07/19/20030719-img_0013.rdf2 



 ./2003/07/19/20030719-img_0013.rdf2:9: \



    error: error parsing attribute name



 <s0:http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/identifier>   



          ^



Beauty, eh?

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user_pref("browser.block.bugzilla_server_push", true);

Not that I understand why, but the handy-dandy browser.block.target_new_window Mozilla pref to suppress new windows also disables the "Please wait..." server push hack in buglist.cgi.

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Shouldn't that be /usr/sbin/god ?

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www.taxomita.com

distributed metadata for information geeks is not really a by-line that will win you friends and influence outside a very small circle of dorks but it's cool to see this finally blossoming. I wonder if the database schema will play nicely with Class::DBI...

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I also heard about this plan to move the planetarium

out to the Big O, while I sloshed sleepily around the morning. It seems to me that they might as well just move it *in* to the Big O. Both have a dangerous fondness for light shows with lots of prog-rock and it would probably bring each back to life. If the city chose to spend the money they've ear-marked for YA-roof on a decent sound system, you can be guaranteed that the place would fill up every weekend with acid-heads, phish-weenies and all manner of people who look like deers caught in the headlights. See also : bigger is better... and cue the rent-a-solos.

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www.localharvest.org

Local Harvest maintains a definitive and reliable "living" public nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. Our search engine ... helps people find local sources of sustainably grown food, and encourages them to establish direct contact with family farms in their local area.

I found this linked from the OpenMap project (that rumbling sound you're hearing is the FOAF weenies getting excited) which is also pretty cool.

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Snow men and assault rifles. They go together like...like..uh.

There's also a local copy because that link will probably get borked in a week's time.

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Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.8.4

Added support for the metaWeblog.newMediaObject method. As always, this will take a while to make its way on to the CPAN so you can grab a copy over here if you're feeling eager.

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Subject: the unbearable twingularity of it all




Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:06:31 -0400 (EDT)



From: Aaron Straup Cope



To: Ben Hammersley



Subject: the unbearable twingularity of it all







>From the thinking out loud department :







You might be able to rig something using Mail::Audit and the BBDB (written



by Mr. Intertwingle himself.) All of which will inevitably necessitate



some sort of intersecting of the BBDB and FOAF...







http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/



http://search.cpan.org/author/LAXEN/BBDB-1.34/



http://search.cpan.org/author/SIMON/Mail-Audit-2.1/Audit.pm







See also :







http://aaronland.info/weblog/category/email/recent



http://aaronland.info/weblog/archive/4058







# This part is easy and implemented in a gazillion different



# ways already. I include it only for thoroughness :



http://perl.aaronland.net/rss/







Cheers,



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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : aesthete

AEsthete \[AE]s"thete\, n. [Gr. ? one who perceives.] One who makes much or overmuch of [ae]sthetics. [Recent] web1913
aesthete n : one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature [syn: {esthete}] wn

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Petr Pajas : Converting XML to XPath expression

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XML::Comma

"is an information management platform. Comma speeds the development of content-heavy applications, and was designed to solve some of the problems that make managing extremely large web sites so expensive, difficult and tedious." A bit heavy on the buzzword bingo, but it looks interesting.

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Michael Boyle : Can someone please tell me why, or if, I should care about the newly-beta-released Google Web APIs?

Despite the fact that I've spent a good chunk of the last 24 hours writing Perl code to deal with the API, I too have been asking much the same question. Here's one possible answer : you can use the API to write a search interface for your website in a handful of lines...



my $google = Net::Google->new(key=>LOCAL_GOOGLE_KEY);



my $search = $google->search();







# Or replace "michael boyle" with $cgi->param("query")



$search->query(qw(michael boyle));



$search->query("site:aaronland.net");







map { print $_->URL()."\n"; } @{$search->results()}







# Prints :



http://www.aaronland.net/weblog/theory/



http://www.aaronland.net/weblog/archive/936



http://www.aaronland.net/weblog/archive/1951



http://www.aaronland.net/weblog/category/40



see also : Nathan Torkington on commercial web services

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John, you could make an equally plausible argument

that you are, in fact, the one who feels threatened by articles like the one you've pointed to because it undermines your marketing campaign. Notwithstanding the prestige and place of privilege that the pithy comment has enjoyed throughout the long and glorious history of the weblog, you really don't do yourself any favours with school-yard taunting and insults. Frankly, some days I share most of Mr. Beam's frustrations...

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On slideshows :

Before the templating engine, before the database abstraction class and before the weblog API there was the slideshow tool. We've all written them. They all suck. Partly because there is too much to keep track of and every widget tries to accomodate every step : the images; the scaled images; the list and ordering the of images (how many times have you sullied your file names with 0045_ prefixes?); the meta data or commentary associated with an image; the look and feel of the actual webpages. And while an all-in-one package is always fun my experience has been that, in a slideshow, context, they usually come at the price of zero-flexibility. Apache::Album is a pretty good example. It is a very cool and very easy widget to set up. But, the HTML is hard-coded and meta data is stored free-form in YA file that sits in the image directory and it only outputs HTML. So, I spent the better part of two months, a while back, tearing the guts of the package apart trying to make it more flexible with things like subclasses for output formats, XPath-itis for meta data and all manner of bells and whistles. I learned a bunch of stuff in the process but ultimately failed to create anything more flexible or robust. One of things I learned is that you can use ImageMagick to read and write comments into image files which got me thinking that you could store all of your metadata as an XML blob in the comments field. Which is pretty interesting since when you think about it a directory listing is basically a bare-bones slideshow. With some clever caching techniques you could simply attach a server based handler to a directory of images -- we'll ignore how you get the meta data in there for the moment -- and be done with it. Neat, huh? But I'm not a scholar on image formats and I don't really know what the rules are about one application respecting the comments that another application writes. And truth be told, I'm not that interested in learning. So, that means we're back to the stage where we've got a bunch of images and a bunch of XML files. Or maybe we've got just one XML file. Either way, we've got this funny bird that needs to be massaged before anything can be done with it. And writing any kind of DTD is going to be a pain because everyone is going to have some kind of random meta-ness they want added to their slideshow. Attentive readers (or David who got to listen to this rant, last night) will have begun to see where this is going :



&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"



          "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" [



&lt;!ENTITY % Slides SYSTEM 



           "http://www.aaronland.net/src/dtd/mod/xhtml/slide.mod">



%Slides;



]>



By redefining the XHTML %Block; and %Flow; entities, you can create a flexible slideshow format that is both XML fit for munging/transforming and HTML for easy viewing :



&lt;!ELEMENT abstract (p*)>



&lt;!ATTLIST abstract id    ID    #REQUIRED



               class CDATA #IMPLIED



                   style CDATA #IMPLIED



           title CDATA #FIXED "Abstract">







&lt;!ELEMENT slide (meta*,a)>



&lt;!ATTLIST slide  sid    ID    #REQUIRED



             class CDATA #IMPLIED



                 style CDATA #IMPLIED>







&lt;!ENTITY % Block "(abstract,ul)">



&lt;!ENTITY % Flow "(slide)">



The ul (yeah yeah, it should probably be an ordered list...) element can only contain li elements. li elements are defined with the %Flow; parameter entity which means you can redefine your XHTML document to validate as a single list, that contains one or more items. Each item contains a "slide" which consists of zero or more meta tags (remember them?) and a link. If all your fancy pants server tools are broken you're still left with a list of named images that link to actual images. Not great but better than than an XML document rendered as a collapsible outline. So far, so good. But wait! There's more :



  &lt;Directory /path/to/image/directory>



   DirectoryIndex       index.html







   SetHandler   perl-script



   PerlHandler  Apache::ImageViewer



   PerlSetVar   ScaleSmall      25%



   PerlSetVar   ScaleMedium     50%



   PerlSetVar   ScaleLarge      75%



   PerlSetVar   ScaleThumb      x50







   &lt;FilesMatch "index\.html$">



    PerlModule            AxKit



    SetHandler            perl-script







    AxProvider            Apache::AxKit::Provider::Filter



    AxAddStyleMap         text/xsl        Apache::AxKit::Language::LibXSLT



    AxAddProcessor        text/xsl        /site/xsl/slides/slide-tools.xsl



    AxCacheDir            /usr/local/www/htcache







    AxDebugLevel          0



    AxStackTrace          Off



    AxLogDeclines         Off



    AxNoCache             Off







    PerlHandler          AxKit



   &lt;/FilesMatch>



  &lt;/Directory>



And while the example cited is mod_perl specific, there isn't much to prevent it from being implemented in whatever environment suits your fancy. All you need is a widget that can speak to ImageMagick and an XSLT engine that can suck in CGI parameters : sid and scale . Those are the keys used to 1) tell the stylesheet whether or not to render an image or an index and 2) tell the image widget which image to display and how big it should be . The next step is to write an XSLT stlyesheet to convert the XHTML described above in to an AxPoint document. download : slide-tools 0.1

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : irascible

Irascible \I*ras"ci*ble\, a. [L. irascibilis, fr. irasci to be angry, ira anger: cf. F. irascible. See {Ire}.] Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood. -- {I*ras"ci*ble*ness}, n. -- {I*ras"ci*bly}, adv. web1913
irascible adj 1: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: {choleric}, {hotheaded}, {hot-tempered}, {quick-tempered}, {short}, {short-tempered}] 2: characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response" [syn: {choleric}] wn

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Larry Wall : Apocalypse 4

"The basic underlying question is 'What exactly do those curlies mean?'"

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On upstreaming

or "What goes up must come down". In a perfect world, rsync would have been ported to all platforms. In a near-perfect world, you could atleast pass the ls -laR command to an FTP client and and pipe it through to a series of SAX handlers/filters that ended with a single representation of all the changes. I suppose you could run a daemon on the server-side, every (n) minutes and output a dotfile for the client to read. Or maybe run a stand-alone XML-RPC server, at the remote location, that returns a data structure of the directory layout. If you assume that the server has more processing power/tools than the client, there could be a second method that accepted an XML representation of the client-side directory structure that returns a list of changes. But the point is ...the point is that some pointy-head somewhere is going to seize on this as an opportuntity to write YA markup language... that this is really just a daemon with a dumb GUI for storing paths and an authentication. I wonder how hard it would be to hack the Amphetadesk framework to do this since it's essentially the same concept : every once in a while, do something over here with this login. see also : XML::Directory and I'd love to retire XML::Handler::2Simple in favor of the forthcoming XML::Simple

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I went to school with a guy named James.

We were both miserable workaholics the year or so that we studied painting and printmaking together. He did stunning work and try as I did to amass a collection of his finished works, all I ever managed to walk away with were funny and beautiful little doodles of giraffes, lions and this lonely guy in a boat wearing a where the wild things are suit. Then I went to Toronto for an even more miserable year and by the time I went back to Halifax, James has discovered conceptual art. He was building life-size frames of everyday, common objects out of two-by-fours and covering them in white vinyl siding. Things like the garbage bins you see on construction sites and mailboxes. He even did all the windows of a city bus and hung them the length of the gallery walls. I hated them then and I still do now. But they continue to be the first thing I think of when I mail a letter or get on a bus .

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : perforce

Perforce \Per*force"\, v. t. To force; to compel. [Obs.] web1913
perforce adv : by necessity; by force of circumstance wn

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Laura Calder : Recipe for boredom

via gohan taberu

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Nicholas Lemann : "Every time there was an applause line,

the Supreme Court Justices would conduct an instant, mute conference, through glances: Should they stand and clap? Justice Sandra Day O'Connor seemed to be the signal-caller here, and the criterion seemed to be whether Bush had said something indicating a policy choice that might one day come before the Court or made a point of general agreement. At "We will come together to strengthen our intelligence capacities," the Court sat; at "The hour is coming when America will act," it stood. Every time the Justices got, or gave themselves, the green light to stand and clap, Justice Clarence Thomas clapped more heartily than the others."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tattoo

| source : web1913 | Tattoo \Tat*too"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tattooed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tattooing}.] [Of Polynesian origin; cf. New Zealand ta to tattoo, tatu puncturation (in Otaheite).] To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out. | source : web1913 | Tattoo \Tat*too"\, n.; pl. {Tattoos}. An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; -- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors. | source : web1913 | Tattoo \Tat*too"\, n. [Earlier taptoo, D. taptoe; tap a tap, faucet + toe to, shut (i. e., the taps, or drinking houses, shut from the soldiers).] (Mil.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp. {The Devil's tattoo}. See under {Devil}. | source : wn | tattoo n 1: a drumbeat of bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters 2: a design on the skin made by tattooing 3: the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining v : stain (skin) with indelible color

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Butthole Radio

"Listen to non-stop MP3 streaming of rare and live Butthole Surfers tracks." Today is turning out to be one those listen to the Butthole Surfers kind of days. Hey.... hey! Hey... hey... heeey-yeyeey... Hey!! (streaming mp3)

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N.Y. Times : The Art World Starts to Pay Attention to Video Games

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is avatar

| source : web1913 | Avatar \Av`a*tar"\, n. [Skr. avat[^a]ra descent; ava from + root t[.r] to cross, pass over.] 1. (Hindoo Myth.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu. 2. Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration. | source : wn | avatar n 1: ny new embodiment of a familiar idea; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of cunning" [syn: {embodiment}, {incarnation}] 2: the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form; "the Buddha is considered an avatar of the god Vishnu" | source : jargon | avatar n. Syn. [in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of a god] 1. Among people working on virtual reality and {cyberspace} interfaces, an "avatar" is an icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual reality. The term is sometimes used on {MUD}s. 2. [CMU, Tektronix] {root}, {superuser}. There are quite a few Unix machines on which the name of the superuser account is `avatar' rather than `root'. This quirk was originated by a CMU hacker who found the terms `root' and `superuser' unimaginative, and thought `avatar' might better impress people with the responsibility they were accepting. | source : foldoc | avatar 1. <chat, virtual reality> An {image} representing a user in a multi-user {virtual reality} (or VR-like, in the case of {Palace}) space. 2. (CMU, Tektronix) {root}, {superuser}. There are quite a few {Unix} computers on which the name of the superuser account is "avatar" rather than "root". This quirk was originated by a {CMU} hacker who disliked the term "superuser", and was propagated through an ex-CMU hacker at {Tektronix}. [{Jargon File}] (1997-09-14) | source : vera | AVATAR Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator (BBS)

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MySQL Wizardry : Cross Tabulation

"The way I found [the solution] is littered with errors and disappointment, and in perspective it should appear quite boring. This is the chronicle of how I would have liked to find out a solution."

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Dan Connolly : Palmagent

"is (intended to be) a Semantic Web Service, providing paper-trail style synchronization."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is peripatetic

| source : web1913 | Peripatetic \Per`i*pa*tet"ic\, a. [L. peripateticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to walk about; ? about + ? to walk: cf. F. p['e]ripat['e]tique.] 1. Walking about; itinerant. 2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. ``The true peripatetic school.'' --Howell. | source : web1913 | Peripatetic \Per`i*pa*tet"ic\, n. 1. One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant. --Tatler. 2. A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian. | source : wn | peripatetic adj : traveling especially on foot; "peripatetic country preachers"; "a poor wayfaring stranger" [syn: {wayfaring}] n : a person who walks from place to place [syn: {itinerant}] | source : devils | PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution -- they knew no more of the matter than he.

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The JavaScript Email Encoder

"enables you to encode your e-mail address with Character Entities, a hexadecimal code to produce the 256 ISO characters. ... This coded e-mail address can be read with almost any browser and doesn't require any JavaScript or Java. Just replace all instances of your e-mail address on your pages with the code, and you won't have to worry about spam lists."

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Norman Walsh : The Design of the DocBook XSL Stylesheets

"Building stylesheets for a large, rich XML vocabulary is a challenging exercise. This paper explores some of the design issues confronted by the author in designing XSL stylesheets for DocBook... Five techniques stand out as important factors in achieving these goals: modularity, parameterization, self-customizing stylesheets, “literate” programming, and extensions. The rest of this paper will discuss these techniques in detail."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is internecine

| source : web1913 | Internecine \In`ter*ne"cine\, a. [L. internecinus deadly, murderous, fr. internecare to kill, to slaughter; inter between + necare to kill; akin to Gr. ? dead. See {Necromancy}.] Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive. Internecine quarrels, horrible tumults, stain the streets with blood. --Motley. | source : wn | internecine adj 1: (of conflict) within a group or organization; "an internecine feud among proxy holders" 2: characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides; "internecine war" [syn: {mutually ruinous}]

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Beta chapter : The Python Standard Library on file munging

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Chuck Esterbrook : Using Mix-ins with Python

"There are several reasons to use mix-ins: they extend existing classes in new areas without having to edit, maintain or merge with their source code; they keep project components (such as domain frameworks and interface frameworks) separate; they ease the creation of new classes by providing a grab bag of functionalities that can be combined as needed; and they overcome a limitation of subclassing, whereby a new subclass has no effect if objects of the original class are still being created in other parts of the software."

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NY Times : Beyond Hypertext - Novels With Interactive Animation

"It's a chance to explore not only the message of the particular work but the form in which it's created. You're interacting with the story as a maker of the world." I am?

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Paul Kinnucan : XML Authoring Environment for Emacs

"is an add-on software package that enables you to use Emacs and your system's HTML browser to create, transform, and display XML documents. ... Requires Java and eieio, an object-oriented Emacs Lisp package."

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Josh Goldberg : traceroute.cgi

"takes numbers from traceroutes and turns them into midi files. wooooo hooooooooooooo. not great music but it works"

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Nicholas of Canberra : $bells->jingle;




my $we = new People;



my $snow = new Enviroment ( type => 'cold' );



my $sleigh = new Transport ( for => $snow );







$sleigh->puller( new Horse );



$sleigh->dash( $snow );







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     $we->ride and $we->sing( about => 'sleighing' );







$bells->jingle; $bells->jingle;



$bells->jingle while ( $we->travel );



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$bells->jingle; $bells->jingle;



$bells->jingle while ( $we->travel );



$we->set_fun( 'lots' ) while ( $we->in($sleigh) );



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Jeffrey William Baker : Application Performance using DBI and mod_perl

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James Spahr : LogTools

I am not much for OpArt, but there's just something about logfiles...

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We know Heather Champ

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Randal Schwartz : Should I organize a boycott of camel 3?

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CBC

"The federal [ Longitudinal Labour Force File ] database that some MPs have called "Big Brother" is being dismantled, according to Human Resources Minister Jane Stewart."

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A big shout-out and thanks

to Stephanie and the gang at ThinkOutside for offering to loan me a Stowaway for the upcoming Big Trip with which to more easily update my site ( I've ordered one but I am concerned that it will not ship before I leave. ) How cool is that!

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Happiness is being forced to dismantle all your computer equipment

on a beautiful, sunny day and get a haircut after four months of procrastinating and finding a nice place to go for coffee in Old Montreal even if it is full of Beautiful People, True Believers and other new media whores and...well I don't remember what the third thing was. Still, I had a grand time Friday.

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Tangentially related, my friend Alexander

is convinced that there is something in the cups or the beer --or both-- at the Molson Center that causes the former to begin dissolving when it comes into contact with the latter. Just in case you needed another reason another reason not to drink big corporate beer . Meanwhile, congratulations to the Canadian Women's Hockey Team for winning a sixth consecutive World Championship and demonstrating that, despite Buffalo having won this afternoon, there is still some small justice in the universe.

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Conversations with David

The not French enough from France spent much of the 19th century smashing all the clocks everytime they had a revolution, so maybe this harkens back to our collective cultural past on some deep subconscious level. Personally, I'd like to see them do something like the randomcam with all those units if they're not going to tell the time. Never mind the bollocks , I want to watch IT professionals pick their nose during my commute!

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The scene with the pig and the kabuki player

was hilarious. Still, the only thing I can say about Peter Greenaway's 8 1/2 Women is that it wasn't as bad as Prospero's Books.

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Rob O'Daniel

"I worry about some 15 year old kid with too much spare time on his hands hacking into my sedan. Given that so much of today's automotive engine is controlled by computers (which will almost certainly continue to be even more prevalent) and I'll have an always-on (when I'm driving) Internet connection with my new car, I can imagine some very unpleasant possibilities."

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CBLDF : Censorship of Comics Bibliography

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CBC : Tobacco companies charged with fraud, racketeering

"Justice Minister Anne McLellan announced Tuesday the government is taking R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc., RJR-Macdonald Canada, the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers Council and several related companies to court in the U.S. The charges are fraud and racketeering. ... McLellan said the evidence now exists to prove that in 1991 the big tobacco companies established an "elaborate network of smugglers and shell companies." Their aim, she said, was to "undermine" Canada's policy to reduce tobacco use by increasing the price of cigarettes." I don't remember anyone actually buying cigarettes in the stores around that time. People just went to the bars and waited for the guys with the hockey bags full of butts selling for 3$ /pack (they were 7.50$ at the dépanneurs .)

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Rob Pegoraro wants to use his PGP software

but no one will play with him.

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Libération : L'utopie communiste devient possible

"Après l'économiste Eric Brousseau, qui affichait hier dans nos colonnes une critique du discours sur la nouvelle économie, nous publions aujourd'hui le point de vue plus enthousiaste du philosophe et spécialiste des sciences cognitives, Dan Sperber sur les effets sociaux des nouvelles technologies. Il y développe une analyse marxiste, ou plutôt marxienne, des nouveaux réseaux et de la révolution informationnelle."

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The World This Weekend

on the resilience and resurgence of the printed book. real audio (starts 20:00 - twtw doesn't seem to archive their programs so this will probabaly vanish on october 31)

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The Comics Journal : Superman Opens Can of Copyright Worms

"Due to the split between the trademark and the copyright, if the Siegels decided to publish their own new Superman works, they might have to find a way to do it without using Superman's image, costume or logo."

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Philip Nobel : The Architecture of Madness

“There is a certain perverse genius in the design of the building for people with poor ego boundaries.”

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Tech Law Journal : Keyword Deception Is Common In Political Web Sites

The winner is none other than Mr. Potatoe Head himself whose meta tags include every possible variation on the names of rival Presidential candidates and...and...Murphy Brown.

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The Vineyard is only now

implementing a much needed public transportation system . It's still in it's infancy, but has improved by an order of magintude in the last year. I kicked myself, the other day, when I thought back to when the only options were car-bike-hitching and realized I had missed the perfect opportunity for a little bit of art making. It would have been a beautiful moment to wake up one morning and see the Island dotted with bus stops, maps and schedules for a 100% imaginary transit system!

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Upside on IPIX

"Ipix has patented the use of a camera and a fish-eye lens to capture two images that [are] combined via software algorithms, to produce an image that can be viewed on a computer to simulate an immersive environment," says one member of the International QuickTime VR Association ( IQTVR ) , an international group supporting the Apple technology. "This is like Crayola patenting the use of paper and drawing instruments to produce art and then charging people for each sheet of paper used."

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This is Not CNN

(unusually large) flash animations

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In case you needed a reason to get more exercise

office towers in New York, Boston and Chicago will start airing "content" (read : advertising) on flat panel displays in their elevators.

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As It Happens : The dark heart of Flipper

"Recently scientists off the coast of Scotland watched an adult dolphin whack a dolphin calf against the water until it finally sank from view. Recent news reports describe dolphins bludgeoning porpoises, biting human swimmers, as well as killing their own young." real audio (starts 23:40)

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Brian Myles : Le jazz façon techno

"À ceux qui soulignent que les musiques électroniques ne sauraient être représentées dans un Festival de jazz, il répond du tac au tac: «Sortez de l'âge des ténèbres. Le futur est à nos portes. L'an 2000, c'est dans... cinq mois. Nous devons nous ouvrir les yeux, l'esprit. Le scratch, c'est de l'improvisation.» "

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posts brought to you by the category “standards” ←   → posts brought to you by the category “style before comfort”
 

wtf?