posts brought to you by the category “docbook”
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.
Mark A. Hershberger : XPath to Elisp
Lin, Yung-Chung : PerlIO::via::Babelfish.pm
Ed Bilodeau : Regarding the lack of RSS.
I wonder if this server signature means that TypePad isn't using
mod_perl at all...
Andrew Gilligan : "I want to talk to you about my favourite Saddam
statues."
Ulf Jasper : "Here's a package for importing simple icalendar
events into Emacs diary."
Please note that this is a pre-alpha snapshot trial demo test
version. It should work correctly on ordinary, i.e. non-recurring,
events.
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.60_02
Maybe someone will write a WSDL file for the Blogger API, now.
Me : ASCOPE::IDP.pm 1.0
Leon Brocard talks about Data::Pageset.pm
Page numbering is boring.
Arundhati Roy : Not Again
Close to one year after the war against terror was officially
flagged off in the ruins of Afghanistan, in country after country
freedoms are being curtailed in the name of protecting freedom, civil
liberties are being suspended in the name of protecting democracy.
All kinds of dissent is being defined as "terrorism". Donald Rumsfeld
said that his mission in the war against terror was to persuade the
world that Americans must be allowed to continue their way of life.
When the maddened king stamps his foot, slaves tremble in their
quarters. So, it's hard for me to say this, but the American way of
life is simply not sustainable. Because it doesn't acknowledge that
there is a world beyond America.
Angela Lewis : Hoax E-mails and Bonsai Kittens: Are You E-literate
in the Docuverse?
Our social mantra is very much 'is Internet, is good', and our
logic is often placed around a misguided belief that if the
information was found on the 'Net, then it must be good'.
This paper discusses the importance of not only having the skills
of computer literacy, that is defined as being able to use computers
and software to navigate the Internet, but also the importance of
information literacy, defined as the skill of being critically
literate.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
peregrination
Peregrination \Per`e*gri*na"tion\, n. [L. peregrinatio: cf.
F. p['e]r['e]grination.] A traveling from one country to another; a
wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. ``His peregrination abroad.''
--Bacon.
web1913
peregrination n : travel (especially by foot)
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : wuppie
web yuppie
submitted by alice
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : ameliorate
Ameliorate \A*mel"io*rate\, v. i. To grow better; to
meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
web1913
ameliorate v 1: to make better; "The editor improved the
manuscript with his changes" [syn: {better}, {improve}, {amend},
{meliorate}] [ant: {worsen}] 2: get better; "The weather improved
toward evening." [syn: {better}, {improve}, {meliorate}] [ant:
{worsen}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : rapine
Rapine \Rap"ine\, v. t. To plunder. --Sir G. Buck.
web1913
rapine n : the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn:
{rape}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : wooza
Weird loser--used jokingly around friends.
ex. Stop being a wooza. When you stick cheeze up your
nose I fear for your furure.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : jsssk
Just Kidding. Usually follows an insult made in jest
towards a friend or something stupid that one may say.
ex. Ernie: (to Bert) You are such a loser. Jssk.OR Ernie:
I am the greatest basketball player ever. Jssk.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : spoonerism
spoonerism n : transposition of initial consonants in a
pair of words
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Taegan Goddard : " Amazon.com is now offering XML feeds for their
associates to use."
Philip A. Mansfield :Using XSLT to Generate SVG
Me : Blogger.pm 0.6
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : philomath
Philomath, GA Zip code(s): 30660 Philomath, OR (city, FIPS
57450) Location: 44.54050 N, 123.35708 W Population (1990): 2983 (1145
housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s):
97370
gazetteer
Philomath \Phil"o*math\, n. [Gr. ?; fi`los loving, a friend
+ ma`qh learning, fr. ?, ?, to learn.] A lover of learning; a scholar.
--Chesterfield.
web1913
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : cheerk
Highly dangerous cross-bred animal with the head of a
shark and the body of a cheetah. (Collective is
"couch.")
ex. Look out! There's a couch of cheerks coming this
way.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bilious
| source : web1913 | Bilious \Bil"ious\
(b[i^]l"y[u^]s), a. [L. biliosus, fr. bilis bile.] 1. Of or pertaining to
the bile. 2. Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess
of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an
excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms. 3. Choleric; passionate; ill
tempered. ``A bilious old nabob.'' --Macaulay. {Bilious temperament}. See
{Temperament}. | source : wn | bilious adj 1: relating to or containing
bile [syn: {biliary}] 2: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or
gastric distress [syn: {liverish}, {livery}] 3: irritable as if suffering
from indigestion [syn: {atrabilious}, {dyspeptic}, {liverish}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is punctilious
| source : web1913 | Punctilious \Punc*til"ious\
(-y[u^]s), a. [Cf. It. puntiglioso, Sp. puntilloso.] Attentive to
punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or
mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars. ``A
punctilious observance of divine laws.'' --Rogers. ``Very punctilious
copies of any letters.'' --The Nation. Punctilious in the simple and
intelligible instances of common life. --I. Taylor. --
{Punc*til"ious*ly}, adv. -- {Punc*til"ious*ness}, n. | source : wn |
punctilious adj : marked by precise accordance with details; "was
worryingly meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his
attention to rules of etiquette" [syn: {meticulous}]
Matt Sergeant on the differences between PHP and XSP (AxKit)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redoubtable
| source : web1913 | Redoubtable \Re*doubt"a*ble\
(-?*b'l), a. [F. redoutable, formerly also spelt redoubtable.]
Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence,
valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [Written also {redoutable}.]
| source : wn | redoubtable adj 1: inspiring fear; "the formidable
prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary
than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something
unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall" [syn: {formidable},
{unnerving}] 2: having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the
Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family" [syn: {glorious},
{illustrious}, {respected}]
Eatdrinkfeelgood
Me : Userland::weblogUpdates.pm
This is not a time for shooting first and asking questions
later.
Artforum has a weblog.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is supplant
| source : web1913 | Supplant \Sup*plant"\, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Supplanted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Supplanting}.] [F.
supplanter, L. supplantare to trip up one's heels, to throw down; sub
under + planta the sole of the foot, also, a sucker, slip, sprout. Cf.
{Plant}, n.] 1. To trip up. [Obs.] ``Supplanted, down he fell.''
--Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the
place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a
mistress or a prince. Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the
friend. --Bp. Fell. 3. To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order
to get a substitute in place of. You never will supplant the received
ideas of God. --Landor. Syn: To remove; displace; overpower; undermine;
overthrow; supersede. | source : wn | supplant v : take the place of
[syn: {replace}, {supersede}, {supervene upon}]
Me : Apache::SOAP::Jabber.pm
It doesn't get much better
Dave Winer : "To say that open source created today's Internet
is to ignore... About all you can say is that
today's Internet was developed by developers."
Angus Madden : Fundamentals of Web Application Development
Itamar Shtull-Trauring : A Developer's Guide to Learning Zope
Suwon City : Vision on Restroom Culture in the 21st Century
"Several problems centering a restroom which has
obtained a major status as the third living space have started to be
emerged as a critical element deciding the quality of a modern life.
Studies on restrooms, therefore, should be made seriously that much."
This Morning : Bob Rae on "The Good Citizen"
Bill Adler : "Disgusted as I am with two-party politics,
I thought it was crucially important to support
Nader, who has long been a hero of mine and who represents a
soul-stirring alternative to the big-money candidates. It was very
gratifying to reach out to some of my musician pals and discover that
they felt the same way. These recordings put some modern beats to the
best of Ralph in bite-sized pieces. I thought he could use the rhythm."
via
robot wisdom
Why is it that people in the website business
feel the need to communicate in every conceivable
format except the web? Tangentially, has anyone written an XSLT
StyleSheet for converting Microsoft Word/MSXML documents into HTML?
Please say
yes....
I wish I wish I wish
This American Life considers the practice of character
assination
in American politics. I've always wanted to do a
cable-access / net-show called "5 Second Character Assination" which is
more commonly refered to, in polite society, as "people watching". (real
evil g2)
www.toiletology.com
I Love You
The only remarkable thing about all this is how
effective the social engineering was. See also
Julia
McKinnell : What does it say about you if you opened it?
"I was even feeling sorry for Malvolio because he got tossed into the
dark house -- the mad house -- on account of his self-delusion, but now,
I'm more feeling sorry for myself. What does it all mean?" Meanwhile, I
don't know squat about Microsoft email servers but isn't there a config
file where you can tell it delete messages with attachments named
foo.bar? I know you can hack Unix systems to that effect and it does a
pretty good job of preventing, or atleast slowing down, the kind of death
spiral that happened yesterday.
TreeDoc
"Why not read a document in its native form, as a
tree? Directory trees, for example, are best viewed and navigated with
"tree controls" (like the Windows Explorer): you see a vertical list of
top-level directories, and opening one inserts its contents below and
indented. Items there can themselves be clicked to open their contents in
place, and so on all the way down, without ever hiding the top-level
stuff you started with. Everything appears in place, and nothing gets
erased." Ooooooooooooh. This looks exciting and, more importantly,
brain-dead easy to use.
A word about Amazon
I have so far refrained from signing any of
the
growing number of boycott Amazon petitions
circulating on the net. Not because I like Amazon, but rather because I
have *never* liked Amazon and make a point of only buying stuff from them
when there is no other alternative. Adding my name to the list of former
customers would be sort of moot. I have never thought that that Amazon
was looking out for anyone but themselves. I find their software and
data-mining invasive and the friendly spam they've sent me annoying and
saccharine. To those who are suddenly surprised that Amazon is acting
like a big greedy company, I can can only say this : Duh. Meanwhile, the
Public Radio Music Source
finally has an (not very elegant) online ordering system in place.
Paul Callahan : Almost nothing to do with grapefruit
"Cheese, by contrast, encompasses the entire
range of human experience: birth and sexuality, the fecundity of nature
from the sweetness of a wildflower meadow to the musk of a doe in estrus
to the wriggling of mosquito larvae in a stagnant pool, death, decay,
vomit, oozing pustules, mystic visions, war atrocities. Well, maybe it's
not the whole range of experience. For example, I cannot think of a
cheese that makes me feel the way I felt when I first saw the proof that
a certain length of rope, hung in a certain way, takes the shape of the
very same catenary arc, regardless of its weight. No, if cheese is unlike
grapefruit, it is far far less like mathematics. Mathematics and cheese
are in a very precise, dare I say mathematical sense, antonyms. And as
you can see, cheese is a bit biased toward one side of the spectrum of
experience, particularly when you get to what I think of as the
"advanced" cheeses. As for me, I'm a rank beginner, but I have a theory
about cheese."
Maps of the Debates about the Turing Test
The actual charts are 3' x 4', so the images
don't quite do them justice but it's still neat. On a tangential note,
now that the
SVG
buzz-machine is starting up, please note that there is an open source
vector program, written in Python, called
Sketch
which can create SVG files. It may not be Illustrator, but then I've
never forgotten
my
computer animation professor
joking with another student that : If you didn't already know how to use
Illustrator ... it was too late.
David Ronfeldt : Social Science at 190MPH on NASCAR's Biggest
Superspeedways
"In aerodynamically intense stock-car races like
the Daytona 500, the drivers form into multi-car draft lines to gain
extra speed. A driver who does not enter a draft line (slipstream) will
lose. Once in a line, a driver must attract a drafting partner in order
to break out and try to get further ahead. Thus the effort to win leads
to ever-shifting patterns of cooperation and competition among rivals.
This provides a curious laboratory for several social science theories:
(1) complexity theory, since the racers self-organize into structures
that oscillate between order and chaos; (2) social network analysis,
since draft lines are line networks whose organization depends on a
driver's social capital as well as his human capital; and (3) game
theory, since racers face a "prisoner's dilemma" in seeking drafting
partners who will not defect and leave them stranded. Perhaps draft lines
and related "bump and run" tactics amount to a little-recognized dynamic
of everyday life, including in structures evolving on the Internet."
Magnus Lie Hetland : Instant Python
Mike the Headless Chicken
"When Olsen found Mike the next morning, sleeping
with his "head" under his wing, he decided that if Mike had that much
will to live, he would figure out a way to feed and water him."
LA Weekly : Down the Tubes
"[WEEE] would put the burden of cleaning up the
electronic-waste stream, and cleaning up electronic products themselves,
squarely on manufacturers. They would be obliged to take back all their
electronic and electric products (from mainframes and note pads, to
toasters, toys and stoves) when those products are kaput, and to provide
and pay for home collection. Distributors would have to offer to take
back, free of charge, a worn-out item for every new item they sell."
Mmmmm...scrambled eggs on a stick
"Macaroni & Cheese and Scrambled Eggs are
two of America’s best-loved meals – but, until now, both were
unavailable in a portable form." You have no idea how much I wish I was
making this up.
The search engine
Scott McGregor on covering your ceiling in Linoleum
The First Virtual Meter
How do you measure space when you can just change
the resolution? via
calamondin
.
More bunnies!
The Times : The New American Gold Rush
Oh great, it's the eighties all over again.
Happy, happy. Joy, joy.
Do you hate this website?
Takashi Murakami
""We have our traditional arts, whose rules are
strict, but in a contemporary context there is no fine art anymore.
Pop-culture imagery has become the dominant language, so through it I try
to create a fine art for our times."
Art at the Edge, panel discussion
"An argument about contemporary art and its
disappointed public." In art school, popular opinion holds that people
just need to be "educated". real audio
Handhelds Beaming Up a Coke
"But one outspoken privacy critic said that
advertising has just gone too far. Jason Catlett wondered if the machine
requires intrusive caller ID and if TeleVend would keep a database of
purchases and locations that could be used to track a consumer's
movements. " Duh.
Charles Taylor: De la nation culturelle à la nation politique
"Au lieu de chercher une sécurité illusoire dans
la belle totalité d'une législation définitive, nous ferions mieux
d'admettre que notre situation nous posera une série de dilemmes sans
fin, que nous devrions affronter avec la plus grande créativité. "
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.