posts brought to you by the category “design”
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.
Loosely translated : Your business success depends on lifestyle
porn
Yehuda Berlinger : Podindex
Podindex is an attempt to provide an interface to the Perl
documentation which is easier to navigate than the currently
available perldoc or the html pages. ... We have created a module
called Pod::Index which is the indexer and the core interface to the
index. We are using it as the backend to all kinds of user
interfaces.
Dispatches : Should peacekeeping be privatized and for profit?
The building on the corner of Marie-Anne and the Main always has
the best grafitti.
Tim Bray on inventing new characters
For example, it really hardly seems necessary to take a perfectly
straightforward concept like countable-infinity and represent it with
a typographical orgasm consisting of a large Hebrew letter Alef
(U+05D0) with a subscript zero, pronounced Aleph-Null. Mind you, it
looks kind of cool. Maybe that's the point.
Me : xml résumé (XSL) formatting extensions 0.1
These stylesheets extend those included with the XML Résumé
Library to add better support for external links and to support a
small number of elements that are not part of the DTD.
Me : eatdrinkfeelgood-1.1-to-indexcard-fo.xsl 0.93
Cory Doctorow : Boring profs exposed by WiFi
Profs who bore their students and blame laptops don't get a lot of
sympathy from me -- if you can't convince a room full of young people
who've committed to a lifetime of debt in order to cram their heads
with useful knowledge and skills to pay attention, it's time to
re-evaluate your material and methods.
Meanwhile, most people are shopping their way into a stupor,
Me : [M]ost third-party weblog setups are fuct from the start.
developerWorks : Use recursion effectively in XSL
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : concomitant
Concomitant \Con*com"i*tant\, n. One who, or that which,
accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an
associate; an accompaniment. Reproach is a concomitant to greatness.
--Addison. The other concomitant of ingratitude is hardheartedness.
--South.
web1913
concomitant adj : following as a consequence; "an excessive
growth of bureaucracy, with related problems"; "snags incidental to the
changeover in management" [syn: {accompanying}, {attendant},
{incidental}, {incidental to(p)}] n : an event or situation that
happens at the same time as or in connection with another [syn:
{accompaniment}, {co-occurrence}]
wn
Blogmapper
"lets you associate blog entries with hot spots
on a map. When you click on the spots, the entries appear. ... Blogmapper
can be used to map and log anything *anywhere, including your travels,
and the places and things that interest you."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : pugnacious
Pugnacious \Pug*na"cious\, a. [L. pugnax, -acis, fr.
pugnare to fight. Cf. {Pugilism}, {Fist}.] Disposed to fight; inclined
to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting. --{Pug*na"cious*ly}, adv. --
{Pug*na"cious*ness}, n.
web1913
pugnacious adj 1: tough and callous by virtue of experience
[syn: {hard-bitten}, {hard-boiled}] 2: ready and able to resort to
force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so
little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they
were rough and determined fighting men" [syn: {rough}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : apposite
Apposite \Ap"po*site\, a. [L. appositus, p. p. of apponere
to set or put to; ad + ponere to put, place.] Very applicable; well
adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this
argument is very apposite to the case. -- {Ap"po*site*ly}, adv. --
{Ap"po*site*ness}, n.
web1913
apposite adj : being of striking appropriateness and
pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and
evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply" [syn: {appropriate}, {apt},
{pertinent}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : temerarious
Temerarious \Tem`er*a"ri*ous\, a. [L. temerarius. See
{Temerity}.] Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash;
headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless. -- {Tem`er*a"ri*ous*ly},
adv. I spake against temerarious judgment. --Latimer.
web1913
temerarious adj : presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test
pilot having the right stuff" [syn: {brash}, {daredevil}]
wn
Joe Johnston : "It's not the language designer's perview to make
you code clearly.
Any claim a language makes to being inherently
cleaner to code in (I'm looking at you, Java and python) is naive. I
don't expect a java programmer to maintain a Perl program, just as I
don't expect a Perl programmer to maintain a java program. In fact,
that's why I'm not an editor for a Japanese magazine -- I have no
facility for the language. Does that mean Japanese is inferior to
English?"
Mark Howell : Spoofing link clicks with JavaScript events.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : myrmidon
Myrmidon \Myr"mi*don\, n. [L. Myrmidones, Gr. ?, pl.] 1.
One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to
the Trojan war. 2. A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who
executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; --
sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc. --Thackeray. With
unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed
forward. --W. H. Ainsworth.
web1913
myrmidon n 1: a follower who carries out orders without
question 2: (Greek mythology) a member of the warriors who followed
Achilles on the expedition against Troy [syn: {Myrmidon}]
wn
MYRMIDON, n. A follower of Achilles -- particularly when he
didn't lead.
devils
One of the things that hasn't been said about Boingo yet
Scott Andrew : When I think of JavaScript events, I think of
marbles.
"If you can imagine all that without your eyes
glazing over, you have a pretty good idea of what KnowNow does, and what
Jon Udell is talking about in this article about the Event-Driven
Internet."
Richard L. Chase : Simmer Stock
"is meant to be a collection place for ideas and
recipies for all the dinners I've thought of and cooked over the years,
and all the tips, tricks and resources I've managed to gather. I'm nudged
frequently by family, friends and colleagues to write down recipies for
the stuff I cook. Of course, recipies are actually for whimps - I haven't
really used recipies (other than as sources for ideas) in years. But
there is a lot of knowledge of cooking - techniques, ingredients, tools
and meals - sitting in my head that I could and should, as I would say in
my real-world job, store in some sort of repository."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is ken
| source : web1913 | Ken \Ken\, n. [Perh. from
kennel.] A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves. [Slang, Eng.]
| source : web1913 | Ken \Ken\, n. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kenned}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Kenning}.] [OE. kennen to teach, make known, know, AS.
cennan to make known, proclaim, or rather from the related Icel. kenna to
know; akin to D. & G. kennen to know, Goth. kannjan to make known;
orig., a causative corresponding to AS. cunnan to know, Goth. kunnan.
[root]45. See {Can} to be able, {Know}.] 1. To know; to understand; to
take cognizance of. [Archaic or Scot.] 2. To recognize; to descry; to
discern. [Archaic or Scot.] ``We ken them from afar.'' --Addison 'T is
he. I ken the manner of his gait. --Shak. | source : web1913 | Ken \Ken\,
v. i. To look around. [Obs.] --Burton. | source : web1913 | Ken \Ken\, n.
Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge. ``Beyond his
ken.'' --Longfellow. Above the reach and ken of a mortal apprehension.
--South. It was relief to quit the ken And the inquiring looks of men.
--Trench. | source : wn | ken n : range of what one can know or
understand [syn: {cognizance}] | source : jargon | ken /ken/ n. 1. [Unix]
Ken Thompson, principal inventor of Unix. In the early days he used to
hand-cut distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken".
Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalized, because
it's a login name and mail address) in third-person reference; it is
widely understood (on Usenet, in particular) that without a last name
`Ken' refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name
means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). See also {demigod},
{{Unix}}. 2. A flaming user. This was originated by the Software Support
group at Symbolics because the two greatest flamers in the user community
were both named Ken. | source : foldoc | ken /ken/ 1. {Ken Thompson} 2. A
flaming user. This was originated by the Software Support group at
{Symbolics} because the two greatest flamers in the user community were
both named Ken. [{Jargon File}]
Damian Conway : Exegesis 3
David Niergarth : REX.py
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is frangible
| source : web1913 | Frangible \Fran"gi*ble\, a.
[Cf. F. frangible.] Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily
broken. | source : wn | frangible adj : capable of being broken; "the
museum stored all frangible articles in locked showcases"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is maunder
| source : web1913 | Maunder \Maund"er\, v. t. To
utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter. | source : web1913 | Maunder
\Maund"er\, n. A beggar. [Obs.] | source : web1913 | Maund \Maund\,
Maunder \Maund"er\, v. i. [Cf. F. mendier to beg, E. mendicant.] 1. To
beg. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. Beau. & Fl. 2. To mutter; to mumble; to
grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently.
He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.
--Sir W. Scott. | source : wn | maunder v 1: wander aimlessly 2: talk
indistinctly; usually in a low voice [syn: {mumble}, {mutter}, {maffle},
{mussitate}] 3: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: {chatter}, {piffle}, {palaver}, {prate}, {tittle-tattle},
{twaddle}, {clack}, {prattle}, {gibber}, {tattle}, {blabber}, {gabble}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is quixotic
| source : web1913 | Quixotic \Quix*ot"ic\, a.
Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be
deluded. ``Feats of quixotic gallantry.'' --Prescott. | source : wn |
quixotic adj : not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as
quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard
for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state" [syn: {romantic},
{wild-eyed}] | source : devils | QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like
Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this
incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune
to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay. When ignorance
from out of our lives can banish Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish.
Juan Smith
Piers Harding : Jabber::JAX::Component
"is yet another perl implementation for writing
Jabber components. How it differs is that it is a wrapper for the high
performance JECL libraries for writing components in C++. With this in
mind - the idea is to be able to write Jabber Components in perl that are
very quick. My first attempt at bench marking this - writting the good
ol' echo component - got through put of 1000 Messages in about 12
seconds."
As It Happens : Existential Bee Gees Missing Lyrics Contest
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is corpulent
| source : web1913 | Corpulent \Cor"pu*lent\
(-p?-lent), a. [L. corpulentus, fr. corpus: cf. F. corpulent. See
{Corpse}.] 1. Very fat; obese. 2. Solid; gross; opaque. [Obs.] --Holland.
Syn: Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See {Stout}. | source : wn | corpulent
adj : excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: {obese}, {weighty},
{rotund}]
www.humanmarkup.org
"Standardizing human expression through XML. ...
With HumanMarkup, we can finally explicitly annotate and represent the
relevant information within a communications session, including emotions,
intentions, motivations and allusions. Further, we can use XSLT
transformations to represent the various embedded human qualities within
a document. For example, a speech containing anger may be represented in
a larger font or louder voice. Emails that are meant to be taken
seriously could be displayed in bolder text than emails that are meant to
be taken lightly could be displayed in lighter text. The embedded
emotional content within a message could be aurally or visually
represented when a mouse rolls over the words. Finally, the embedded
cultural context within a text could explicitly represent the mindset and
associations of the communicator."
Randal L. Schwartz : "A rite of passage with C
is to write a sorting routine or linear search. A
rite of passage with Perl appears to be writing a templating system."
www.waxonwaxoff.org
"Wax::On Wax::Off is about teaching of computer
programming though the metapors inspired by kung fu movies. This isn't as
mad as it at first may seem...or actually it is, but that doesn't mean it
isn't useful."
Idealx : xdb_ldap
"is a module connecting Jabber to an LDAP
directory. Currently, it handles support for authentication and VCard
namespaces but can be easily extended to other namespaces. Communications
between Jabber and LDAP can be encrypted via SSL."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is commensurate
| source : web1913 | Commensurate
\Com*men"su*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commensurated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Commensurating}.] [Pref. com- + mensurate.] 1. To reduce to a
common measure. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To proportionate; to adjust. --T.
Puller | source : web1913 | Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, a. 1. Having
a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as,
commensurate quantities. 2. Equal in measure or extent; proportionate.
Those who are persuaded that they shall continue forever, can not choose
but aspire after a happiness commensurate to their duration. --Tillotson.
| source : wn | commensurate adj : corresponding in size or degree or
extent; "pay should be commensurate with the time worked" [ant:
{incommensurate}]
Jerome Alet : The Zope Shell
"is a GPLed Python Script which makes some of the
most commonly used unix shell commands available from within Zope, to
manage the ZODB contents. ... As for the 0.001 version which is attached
to this message, the following commands are recognized: cd, cp, mv, rm,
ls."
National Post : CBC accused of pro-Leaf hockey bias
"[I]f it isn't good enough for Ottawa, they can
take a big bite of my a--. You can tell 'em that, too."
National Post : "Another Heritage ministry spokesperson suggested
an actor such as Mr. Douglas
could be designated a person of "national
historic significance," which is driven largely by nominations by the
Canadian public. ... To be declared of national historic significance, an
individual must make "an outstanding and lasting contribution to Canadian
history" and prove "a representative example of an important aspect of
Canadian history."
Jon Udell : Managing Web Images
"Combining ImageMagick, JavaScript, and Perl"
Sarah Musgrave : "For the last few months I've been hearing about
"Web loggers,"
some community of underground trolls whose sole
purpose in life is to mine the Web for precious gems of information. I
imagined they spoke to each other in code, were only visible through Web
cams and all lived in San Francisco or in somebody's basement. So when I
met with local Web loggers Aaron Cope and Ed Bilodeau recently, I was
pleased to see they actually drink beer and have a sense of humour."
Steve Spicklemire : Zope SWF Output Object
"Zwiff uses two existing products to bring on the
fly swf output to Zope. Zwiff is a subclass of PythonMethod so that it
works just like a Python Method... but it adds a new "module" (zwiff_mod)
that contains all the functionality of "ming", a swf output library..."
You crazy fuckers.
A List Apart : The Web is Like Canada
Ten points go to the American who can identify
the funniest thing about this article that other than the fact that it
sounds like run of the mill
English-Canadian navel-gazing
: "What I want to happen is for the wise elders of the Web, those of us
who've been online forever and really do know better than the neophytes,
to use the concepts derived from the perpetual struggle to define
Canadian identity as an arrow in our quiver in efforts to shoot bad ideas
out of the sky." Welcome to Canada, folks. Don't forget to fight the
power at the door...
Some days, the only thing left to do
is turn the computer off. My only success of the
day was finding a suitable diagram - online - for installing a dryer
belt, thus saving my friend from "losing all faith in the Internet." I
suppose that counts for something.
Slashdot
"Starting on Oct. 28, (when the other part of the
DMCA comes into effect), you could face a civil lawsuit and criminal
penalties of up to five years in jail and a fine of $500,000 for reading
someone else's textbook." Those sound like fighting words to me.
Meanwhile, in other bad news,
Microsoft will customize its Microsoft Reader software for
Amazon.com.
Here's me,
looking for god in all these fucking details...
Jamie Jawinski : Gronk!
"I looked around at other jukebox programs, and
none of them really did exactly what I wanted. Either they had user
interfaces that I didn't like, or they were far too complicated to
install. Among other things, they all seem to rely heavily on MySQL.
Sorry, but the fact is that when you're only dealing with ten or twenty
thousand items, a database is overkill. Especially since these items
change infrequently (how many CDs do you buy a week?) So Gronk is built
almost entirely around static HTML pages: it goes through the MP3 files
and the CDDB data, and constructs HTML representing all of the discs.
When you add a new set of CDs, regenerate the pages. Even with my huge
collection this only takes a few minutes." Neat, but heavy on the frames.
Evil, evil frames.
I swore I would never learn C.
I bought an
eyemodule
. Every once in a while I get niche-marketed so well that I set aside all
my bile and hatred and general misgivings of humanity to become the model
consumer; I bought one of these as soon as I heard about them. I don't
know much about the guts of the PalmOS but I do know that everything is
stored magic Palm databases. Deep down, I knew this when I bought the
camera but it was still a huge let down when I realized that I could use
network apps to talk to the Network and I could use the camera to take
pictures but there is still no easy way to make the two play together. I
want to be able to take pictures on the road and email them to others
*while* I'm on the road. It's a PDA for crying out load! Okay, so the
Palm doesn't grok JPEGs (bad) but there is no way for me to "talk" to the
cameras image database from another Palm app without
rolling my own
. If I could then I would be able to send MIME-encoded gibberish to a
mailbot and only have to munge stuff once. I'm not sure who I'm pointing
fingers at, but I want to point them at someone because I really don't
want to learn C....
Lincoln Stein talks brass tacks about Napster.pm
in the most recent issue of The Perl Journal (
which has re-enabled its subscription block after a momentary walk on the
wild side. ) Meanwhile, Clinton Wong's
Web
Client Programming with Perl
has been openbook-ed.
I'm game
if anyone wants my grumpy-ass help.
Wired asks 'What is your price for being ad-jacked?'
Despite the fact that "ad-jacking" is an
especially clever play on words, the time has come to make
The Magic
Christian
mandatory reading in high school. "Some friends, when I pulled up, they
were like, 'What the hell is that on your car? Did you start working for
an insurance company?' I'm like 'No, I'm getting paid to have
advertisements on my truck.' And they're like, 'Oh, are you gonna sell
your soul next?' I said I already sold it. It already belongs to
someone." see also :
RTMark's The Magic
Christian Fund
.
Dave Winer : Design vs. Cheese
From where I sit, this just sounds like the pot
calling the kettle black. Meanwhile, serious students of design-weeniness
will tell you that this argument is hardly new and certainly not reserved
to the arena of weblogs.
Chris Nandor : RSS and you
Meanwhile, in Ottawa
I like the Internet as much the next person
Morning Becomes Eclectic
Talking About an Online Revolution : Interactive E-Service
A lecture by Ron DiCarlantonio, webcast tonight
at 19h30 EDT.
The Times : Evidence of the Great Flood supports Noah's Ark
saga
"Around 7,600 years ago, guess what happens? The
Mediterranean breaks through a natural dam at the Bosphorus and
catastrophically floods the land surface. People living there are 400ft
below sea level and in trouble. They are facing a flood equal to 10,000
Niagara Falls."
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
"We believe in two official languages and in a
pluralist society not merely as a political necessity but as an
enrichment....Such a country will be more interesting, more stimulating
and, in many ways, richer than it has ever been."
La Paresse, une installation de François Girard
Girard is the director of "32 Short Films about
Glenn Gould" and "The Red Violin". streaming quicktime (neat)
®TMark
"Corporations are persons, and have been for over
a century. Since 1886, when the U.S. Supreme Court gave them full
constitutional rights, corporations have used their wealth and power to
subvert democracy and its processes. Now, with this video, you can learn
how the same inalienable rights that corporations have stolen over the
years are used by ®TMark... to bring anti-corporate sabotage into the
public marketplace."
Nick Gold
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.
Mother Jones : Low Power to the People
"After reviewing a series of petitions filed on
behalf of self-proclaimed "microbroadcasters" yearning for a legal on-air
voice, [FCC Chairman] Kennard last January introduced a proposal for new
low-power FM broadcast licenses that could allow thousands of small
broadcasters to operate at power ratings of between 1 to 10 watts, 100
watts, and 1,000 watts, filling in the gaps that now separate bigger
stations' signals on the FM dial."
O'Reilly's MySQL & mSQL
<a href =
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msql/chapter/ch10-beta.html">beta
sample chapter</a>
Spider Robinson : Senator Socksdryer and the Two Million Dollar
Boondoggle
Webhippie
Someone, please, save us from ourselves!
I said that I would be debugging today
but I found out what I needed to know, so on with
the show!
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
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On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
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and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
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It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
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On the other hand, if something is down-right
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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.