posts brought to you by the category “citizenship”
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.
Oh god, Karl's going to want these comments embedded as RDF in each
picture...
Using English to Avoid Semantic Navel Gazing
Michael Bierut : "It is a hapless attempt to tame the
terrifying."
Me : Log::Dispatch::Jabber.pm 0.1
Quick! Someone lend Jim Holt a book, any book, by William
Gibson.
Michael S. DeGraw-Bertsch : Configuring a FreeBSD Access Point for
your Wireless Network
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : sunder
Sunder \Sun"der\, v. t. To expose to the sun and wind.
[Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
web1913
sunder v : break apart or in two, using violence
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : claque
Claque \Claque\, n. [F.] A collection of persons employed
to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.
web1913
claque n : a group of followers hired to applaud at a
performance
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Radio Crankypants #1: Let it never be said that I have a problem
with aggregating data.
UVM : ProcBuilder
"is a basic web interface to creating and editing
Procmail recipes."
While thinking about YA-Project,
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redound
| source : web1913 | Redound \Re*dound"\
(r?*dound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Redounded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Redounding}.] [F. redonder, L. redundare; pref. red-, re-, re- + undare
to rise in waves or surges, fr. unda a wave. See {Undulate}, and cf.
{Redundant}.] 1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven
back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to
contribute; to result. The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood
on those From whom it sprung. --Milton. The honor done to our religion
ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. --Rogers. both . . . will
devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from
them to that manufacture. --Addison. 2. To be in excess; to remain over
and above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein
found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. --Spenser. | source :
web1913 | Redound \Re*dound"\, n. 1. The coming back, as of consequence
or effect; result; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without
redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. --Tennyson. 2. Rebound;
reverberation. [R.] --Codrington. | source : wn | redound v 1: be
excessive in quantity 2: be deflected; "His actions redound on his
parents" 3: be added; "Everything he does redounds to himself" 4: have an
affect for good or ill: "Her efforts will redound to the general good"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hubris
| source : wn | hubris n : overbearing pride or
presumption
Village Voice : Wish You Were Here
Never mind "It happened (n) years ago today",
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hinterland
| source : web1913 | Hinterland \Hin"ter*land`\,
n. [G.; hinter behind + land land.] The land or region lying behind the
coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called
{doctrine of the hinterland}, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the
coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to
time, the territory lying inland of the coast. | source : wn | hinterland
n : a remote and undeveloped area [syn: {backwoods}, {back country},
{boondocks}]
ActiveState : XSLT Cookbook
Daniel Lundin : xmlrpc.el
"is an XML-RPC client implementation in emacs
lisp, capable of both synchronous and asynchronous method calls (using
the url package's async retrieval functionality)."
From the shooting fish in a bowl department : "It's easier for him
to stay on message
when the interview lasts only a few minutes."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is dotage
| source : web1913 | Dotage \Do"tage\, n. [From
{Dote}, v. i.] 1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind,
particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a
venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the
infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. --Macaulay. 2. Foolish
utterance; drivel. The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. --
Milton. 3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection. The dotage of
the nation on presbytery. -- Bp. Burnet. | source : wn | dotage n :
mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish
infatuations [syn: {second childhood}, {senility}]
Douglas Adams, 1952 - 2001
developerWorks : Zope for the Perl/CGI programmers
351 -> ./bin/perl/dictwotd
No defintions found for 'bricolage'
Frans de Waal : "The question whether animals have culture
is a bit like whether chickens can fly. Compared
to an albatross or falcon, perhaps not, but chickens do have wings, they
do flap them, and they do get up in the trees."
Bob DuCharme : Editing SGML Documents with Emacs
Chris Gibbs on installing a Dict server
Pierre Dittgen : PalmLib
"is a set of functions that allow you to convert
text or HTML documents into 3COM PalmPilot documents. PalmLib is written
in PHP3 and can be used to provide on-the-fly document generation on Web
sites."
Spider Robinson : Mugging the poor for their own good
"Tobacco's secret, magic gift is solace. Simple
solace. Smoking doesn't make you feel good, exactly; there's rarely any
real pleasure in it. What it does is make you feel just a little better.
Not quite as bad as a moment ago. Reliably, 100 per cent of the time, 20
to 60 times a day, you can light up a cigarette and maybe your problems
and sorrows will all remain, but at least you've scratched that one
urgent itch for the next few minutes. You've taken action, and bettered
your lot, however briefly or illusorily. ... O World Bank and World
Health Organization -- ye patricians in grey suits and United Nations
politicians in phony white medical coats -- here's a news flash for you:
The poor have the greatest need of that kind of solace. They have damn
little else. You make your living on their backs: You cannot convince me
you honestly believe that raising the cost of that pitiful solace will
brighten or lengthen their lives. You cannot convince me 42 million poor
people will quit smoking, abandon the only comfort you have left them, if
you raise the price by 10 cents a pack. I resent the implication that I
look that gullible."
Hrvoje Niksic : htmlize.el
"To use, just switch to a buffer you want
HTML-ized, and type `M-x htmlize-buffer'. After that, you should find
yourself in an HTML buffer, which you can save. Alternatively, `M-x
htmlize-file' will find a file, font-lockify the buffer, and save the
HTML version, all before you blink. Even more alternatively, `M-x
htmlize-many-files' will prompt you for a slew of files to undergo the
same treatment. `M-x htmlize-many-files-dired' will do the same for the
files marked by dired." If I could be any computer program, I think I'd
like to be emacs.
Does History Matter?
"in an increasingly technologically oriented
present?" A discussion between Jack Granatstein and Michael Ignatieff
CBC : A woman from Tampa, Fla
"wrote, asking Orkin to buy her a new television
set. She broke hers when she tried to kill the roach by throwing a
motorcycle helmet at it."
Lydia Pallas Loren : The Purpose of Copyright
"[T]he conclusion that a greater numbers of works
will be created when there are greater monopolies fails to account for
the negative implications of broad monopolies on creative expression.
When the scope of the copyright monopoly becomes too great, the creation
of new works is, itself, hampered. After all, each creator of a new work
builds in some way on the works of the past. With overly broad
monopolies, new works that build upon old are not created, creativity is
stifled, and thus the net value to society is lessened. We have, what
Judge Walker referred to a 'monopolistic stagnation.'"
Perl Month : MacPerl and XML
CERT : Results of the Distributed-Systems Intruder Tools
Workshop
"In November 1999, experts addressed issues
surrounding distributed-systems intruder tools. This paper is one outcome
of the DSIT Workshop. In it, workshop participants examine the use of
distributed-system intruder tools and provide information about
protecting systems from attack by the tools, detecting the use of the
tools, and responding to attacks." (pdf)
I've been working with a Finder-less Mac
for about four hours now. I finally got around to
installing OS9 and today the Finder bailed, but left everything else
running. I can't see anything on my desktop, but I seem to be able to do
pretty much everything I want with a quasi command line using Finder-Pop,
the Script Editor, Frontier and DAVE. I'm not sure whether to be annoyed
or impressed, but it's been fun.
Kenneth Tibbetts : Writing Friendly Code
"Call it my Millennium Resolution, I'm gonna quit
writing crappy code. I don't like writing it, I don't like seeing it on
the Web, and most of all I don't like going back and tinkering,
endlessly, with code that was too darn specific to start with." Truer
last words were never spoken more famously.
Simson Garfinkel
"It used to be that the best way to protect
yourself from being spammed was to be cagey with your e-mail address. ...
At the Spam Roundtable, I learned that more and more spammers are
resorting to dictionary attacks, where they send e-mail to any address
that's likely to be valid. If the message gets through, that's great for
the spammer. If the message bounces, the spammer doesn't care."
Seattle Times : Free-speech rights vs. protest ban
"If the mayor used his emergency powers to close
downtown to everybody without WTO credentials or a job downtown, it might
be legal, some experts said. If it was closed only to those who wanted to
protest, most agreed, it would not be legal." Meanwhile, accountant
Mike Ferguson
supports the protestors but is bummed that their actions have led
Starbucks to close all its Seattle branches because "I've had to look
everywhere for a cup of good coffee."
Groove Collective, live in Hogtown
requires the evil g2 player.
Bill Humphries : Using a Glossary to Unwind Comments from
Links
"Automating WebLogs that are more than a list of
links presents a challenge when representing them in XML. One way to
solve the problem is to unentangle links from narrative in the XML
representation."
Big Brother isn't on your TV
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."
Tell me about the first time you bought gasoline.
"A growing number of CEOs have become convinced
that they cannot sell their brand of deodorant, or deli meat, or
automobile until they first explore the Jungian substrata of four-wheel
drive; unlock the discourse codes of female power sweating; or
deconstruct the sexual politics of bologna."
Do Androids Dream of Jon Katz?
"As he was thousands of years ago, man will again
become a fairly rare animal, probably a nomadic one. Towns may still
exist in places of unusual beauty or historic importance, but most homes
will be self-contained and completely mobile, relocatable to any spot
within hours. The continents will have reverted to wilderness; a rich
variety of life forms will return." Huh? Who programmed these uber-gaia
machines? How does [he] know that all artificial life will come with the
soul of a Greenpeace activist built in? I enjoy reading Jon Katz' work,
but it would be so much better if he would just focus focus focus on the
topic at hand rather than running everything through a
better-living-with-technology / politicians-are-stupid filter.
Wired : Real Agents fro Virtual Models
"The Elite modeling agency has created a new
division to manage the careers of computer-generated models and
actresses." There's a passage in William Gibson's
Virtual Light
where he talks about the feedback loop of cops learning how to be cops by
watching shows like "Cops". For a while now I've been kind of worried
that ( the collective ) we are living in a similar loop, learning how to
deal with our the future is now syndrome by reading William Gibson books.
They are good books, for sure, but I do *not* want to live in
the world he writes about
.
Leah Lazariuk : Virtual Squat
"Virtual Squat is intended to be a forum for
experience and exploration about alternative living solutions." I went to
school with Leah, and had no idea she was working on the web until I saw
her name in an overview of
Quebecois web artists
.
MacWeek on Photoshop 5.5
Call me bitter if you want, but I can't help but
feel Adobe is just trying to raise capital to finish PS6. There was never
any question that people would pay whatever it cost for multiple undos in
PS5 when it was released, so where was the impetus to add web features
when they can just call them an "upgrade" a year later? Grrrrr. via
scripting news
.
Sutton vs. United Airlines
[U.S.] Supreme Court Decision
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.