posts brought to you by the category
“why can't we all just get along?”
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.
Ira Glass : Howard and Me
I'm the host of a show on public radio, and when my listeners
tell me they don't care for [Howard] Stern, I always think it reveals a
regrettable narrowness of vision. Mostly, they're put off by the
naked girls. But Stern has invented a way of being on the air that
uses the medium better than nearly anyone. He's more honest, more
emotionally present, more interesting, more wide-ranging in his
opinions than any host on public radio. Also, he's a fantastic
interviewer. He's truly funny. And his staff on the air is
cheerfully inclusive of every kind of person: black, white, dwarf,
stutterer, drunk and supposed gay. What public radio show has that
kind of diversity?
McIver, Birdsall & Rasmussen : The Internet and the
right to comminicate
The development of the Internet challenges traditional
conceptions of information rights. The discourse
surrounding these rights and the Internet typically deals
with each right in isolation and attempt to adapt long
established understandings of each right to the new
technological environment. We contend there is a need to
address information rights within a comprehensive human
rights framework, specifically, a right to communicate.
It appears that the Liberals are trying to take baby steps towards doing the right thing
The Canadian federal government is poised to announce that it will spend almost $200-million to expand high-speed Internet services to the Far North and other under-serviced regions, part of Ottawa's attempt to provide remote communities with the same electronic services as most other parts of the country.
This one's for Pete.
The problem with the format previously known as RSS
Philip Gourevitch : "What if the ultimate horror of the Congo nightmare is that there is no price for ignoring it?"
Dick Gordon : "If it works out, we'll be hosting The Connection from Baghdad next week."
Me : ASCOPE::IDP.pm 1.0
Me : XML::SAXDriver::NYTimes.pm 0.4
"The trick is to mine the 'iTunes Music Library.xml' file"
Hey, the Peter Pan spotlight is 40!
MaxMind : GeoIP.js
"is a new web service offered by MaxMind to return the Country, Region, City, Latitude, and Longitude for your web visitors."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cursory
Cursory \Cur"so*ry\ (k?r"s?-r?), a. [L. cursorius, fr. cursor.
See {Cursor}.]
1. Running about; not stationary. [Obs.]
2. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially
performed; slight; superficial; careless.
Events far too important to be treated in a cursory
manner. --Hallam.
web1913
cursory
adj : hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a
casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the
house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance";
"perfunctory courtesy" [syn: {casual}, {passing(a)}, {perfunctory}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : connectamazoink
A certain ambiguous something used to connect something to something else.
ex. "Get the connectamazoink," he said after dropping the vase.
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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My prediction is that the Google API will spawn a bunch of child services.
Eric Murphy : Jabberzilla Whiteboard update
Radio Crankypants #9-10
Letter from Montreal : To whom it may concern.
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}]
Alberto Reggiori : RDF Perl Resources
Commander Taco : Handling the Loads
"[Following the events of September 11, 2001] many news sites collapsed under the load, we managed to keep stumbling along. Countless people have asked me questions about how Slashdot handled the gigantic load spike."
Me : Blogger::Manila.pm 0.1
Olivier Berger and Olivier Tharan : Chrooted SSH CVS server HOW-TO
Zeldman : "My feeling about OS X
is that it's the Flash version and OS9 is the HTML version."
Yaron Goland : A Short History of Copy and Move in WebDAV
Quer dizer que a nossa vaca ta Ben Johnson?
John Siracusa : QuickTime 5 changes: the good, the bad, the ugly
"Watch as your computer connects to some Apple QT codec server, downloads the codec QT component, installs it in the appropriate place, and then plays the movie."
From the Life is Hell department :
I spent most of yesterday certain that Hell was having to listen to a cell phone that never stops ringing to the tune of Pachabel's Canon. This morning it was being forced to listen to Jackson 5 clones sing Consumer Season melodies like they were cranked up on angel dust, over coffee too hot to taste. I don't know what's worse, the experiences themselves or the fact that my reaction is to start sentences with phrase like "You people..."
"Now this isn't quite a Cinderella story
about the hippy-dippy restaurant that made it. It is doubtful that Santropol will issue an IPO a la Ben & Jerry's or set up franchises like The Body Shop (although Gilker, Luczynski, and James Solkin set up their restaurant at about the same time). But Café Santropol does prove that even a small business can have a large impact."
Dave Cross : Sub::Approx.pm
"allows you to call functions by _approximate_ names. Why you would ever want to do this is a complete mystery to me. ... I can't stress too strongly that this will make your code completely unmaintainable and you really shouldn't use this module unless you're doing something very stupid." Combined with
mod_speling and
mod_perl, this guarantees to bring a whole new level of excitement and possibilities to the burgeoning field of web applications!
The GlobeCom Jukebox
is another in the growing pool of web based music players. It appears to do everything under the sun including "remote CD ripping", which is pretty cool if it really works. You'll need a Unix weenie to get it running, though.
"Puis j'vous aidez?"
she asked, obviously annoyed. I didn't look up to see if it was the one who had gotten my apple juice or the older woman who acted as though she were the manager. The smell of bad vinegary bean salad, recently ordered, was filling the room. "
Non. Merci."
The "Making the Macintosh" series debuts today
Rest assured gentle reader,
Bunnies!
Question
Are there any services online where you can query for NIC handles? I know that you can type a (meatspace) name into the existing domain name tools and get an answer. The problem is that it returns both the domains and the handles and I'm wondering if someone has already gone to the trouble of filtering out the former.
Let me know.
Confessions of a font-addict
Alright, it's not quite done
-- specifically the category listings, but I'm more interested in knowing if and where it breaks. If it happens to you,
please let me know. Thanks. If you're using IE4.5 for the Mac, I'm sorry. I know that the layout renders all wacky, but 4.5 *sucks* and there's is a new version coming out in a couple days so it's not going to happen.
Paul Krugman : Being Bob Forehead
"So why can't people like Steve Forbes simply declare victory and go home? The well-off would, of course, like to see even lower taxes -- which George W. Bush, his life made easy by the revenues a booming economy generates, promises to deliver. (Is he sincere, or is he just doing this because that is what Republicans are supposed to do? Who knows?) But there is one important thing that the supply-side movement has not gotten, and still desperately wants: intellectual vindication."
David Chess : Visual Mantras, take one
mmmmm ... sooooothing shapes. I want one that's full screen and refreshes by itself.
Lydia Lee : Something for nothing?
"As a persona and not a person, Olivia is not the least bit embarrassed about ordering samples of facial hair remover, say, or lingerie catalogues. She doesn't care if every marketer in the country knows how much money she makes and what she does for a living. I enter Olivia's name, e-mail address and other data for the AutoFill feature in my browser, Internet Explorer 4.5 for the Mac. AutoFill is the main reason I switched from Netscape to IE -- you just hit a button and AutoFill plugs your data into online forms, AKA requests for freebies." see also :
Tom Watson : The Six Degrees of Free.
U.S. Census Bureau : Computer Use and Ownership
Globe & Mail : UVic refuses to honour Bill Gates
"[Other] senators took issue with a 1998 Microsoft deal that offered professors $200 if they mentioned -- or used -- Microsoft programming tools in a scholarly presentation." One of the arguments that keeps coming up in conversations like this is : Well, how else are we supposed to pay for education? It's called taxation, folks. Of the people, by the people, for the people. The practice may be broken, for sure, but I would argue the premise remains sound.
C. Scott Ananian : Inside the Red Hat IPO
Sad. I don't think much will change in this generation, but maybe when the open-source hacks start having kids, they'll raise them to be better human beings than the scum-suckers at eTrade.
I'm starting to feel bad.
The moped
is a popular method of transportation among tourists on the Vineyard, much to the consternation of people who actually live here. Over the winter, some industrious soul had bumper stickers printed that read "Mopeds are dangerous". They've been a big hit and you can see them on the tail of many a car. The other day, I spotted this
variation on the theme.
As I write this, I am still working my way through this one and the syllogism (are we allowed to call them Shirky-isms, now?) in the introduction doesn't get the overall argument off to a very good start. But the Network really is the spanner in the works in the way every one thinks about how we, as individuals and societies, communicate so it's worth some time and some thought.