posts brought to you by the category “imagine
that”
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.
William Steig, 1907 - 2003
My koigdnm for a way to oirrvdee Prel's bliut-in pnirt
finocutn!
The Connection : Self storage and self identity in America.
We are looking for a volunteer with a passion for documentary films
and experience with Perl
We are looking for a volunteer with a passion for documentary
films and experience with Perl and MySQL database programming. We
will rent a dedicated server for the project so you can play around
with the mod_perl module and create a cool site for your resume. We
cant pay you anything but we will mail shade grown coffee to keep you
going.
Karl Dubost : La balise object sert à insérer des objets,
n'importe-quel type d'objet.
La balise object sert à insérer des objets, n'importe-quel type
d'objet. Vous savez lorsque vous développez en informatique et que
vous voulez insérer du code HTML ou du code perl ou python. Vous avez
toujours la nécessité d'échapper les séquences qui pourraient être
interprêtées comme du code HTML. Si vous utilisez la balise object,
vous devez préciser le type mime de l'objet que vous envoyez. Le type
mime que vous précisez peut-être celui de l'objet même par exemple
une image jpeg que j'envoie avec type="image/jpeg" ou alors un autre
type mime qui est celui avec lequel vous désirez afficher le fichier.
Par exemple, vous pouvez vouloir afficher un fichier HTML ou un
programme perl avec le type mime du texte seul de façon à afficher le
code.
From the "This is My Cross to Bear" department : this bit about the
chronological ordering of posts is a crock of shit.
Shouldn't that be /usr/sbin/god ?
Who's on first? chat-bot
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : nurple
Feeling rather blue.
ex. I'm feeling rather nurple today.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : got dandruff.
some of itches.
non-vulgar explitive that kinda resembles a vulgar
explitive
ex. "When you stub your toe and you are letting it out,
but notice two 4 year olds staring at you. You then yell, "Got
dandruff! Some of it itches!""
Oyama Hiroyuki : Net::MySQL .pm
"is a Pure Perl client interface for the MySQL
database. This module implements network protool between server and
client of MySQL, thus you don't need external MySQL client library like
libmysqlclient for this module to work. It means this module enables you
to connect to MySQL server from some operation systems which MySQL is not
ported. How nifty!" see also :
DBD::mysqlPP.pm
.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : levity
Levity \Lev"i*ty\ (l[e^]v"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. levitas, fr.
levis light in weight; akin to levare to raise. See {Lever}, n.] 1. The
quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative
lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a
contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to {gravity}. He gave the
form of levity to that which ascended; to that which descended, the
form of gravity. --Sir. W. Raleigh. This bubble by reason of its
comparative levity to the fluidity that incloses it, would ascend to
the top. --Bentley. 2. Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or
character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity. `` A
spirit of levity and libertinism.'' --Atterbury. He never employed his
omnipotence out of levity. --Calamy. 3. Lack of steadiness or
constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility. The levity
that is fatigued and disgusted with everything of which it is in
possession. --Burke. Syn: Inconstancy; thoughtlessness; unsteadiness;
inconsideration; volatility; flightiness. Usage: {Levity},
{Volatility}, {Flightiness}. All these words relate to outward conduct.
Levity springs from a lightness of mind which produces a disregard of
the proprieties of time and place.Volatility is a degree of levity
which causes the thoughts to fly from one object to another, without
resting on any for a moment. Flightiness is volatility carried to an
extreme which often betrays its subject into gross impropriety or
weakness. Levity of deportment, of conduct, of remark; volatility of
temper, of spirits; flightiness of mind or disposition.
web1913
levity n 1: feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness
[ant: {gravity}] 2: lightness of manner
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : unctuous
Unctuous \Unc"tu*ous\ (?; 135), a. [F. onctueux, LL.
unctuosus, fr. L. unctus anointment, fr. ungere, unctum, to anoint. See
{Unguent}.] 1. Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment;
fatty; oily; greasy. ``The unctuous cheese.'' --Longfellow. 2. Having a
smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals. 3. Bland; suave; also,
tender; fervid; as, an unctuous speech; sometimes, insincerely suave or
fervid. -- {Unc"tu*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Unc"tu*ous*ness}, n.
web1913
unctuous adj : unpleasantly and excessively suave or
ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome
introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous
hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep" [syn:
{buttery}, {fulsome}, {oily}, {oleaginous}, {smarmy}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : maudlin
Maudlin \Maud"lin\, a. [From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen,
OE. Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with
weeping.] 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears;
excessively sentimental; weak and silly. ``Maudlin eyes.'' --Dryden.
``Maudlin eloquence.'' --Roscommon. ``A maudlin poetess.'' --Pope.
``Maudlin crowd.'' --Southey. 2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled;
given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.
web1913
maudlin adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; "a
bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy
effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {mawkish}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy},
{sentimental}, {slushy}]
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The World talks to Dimitri from Paris
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : extempore
Extempore \Ex*tem"po*re\, adv. [L. ex out + tempus,
temporis, time. See {Temporal}.] Without previous study or meditation;
without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly;
extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore. --Shak. -- a. Done
or performed extempore. ``Extempore dissertation.'' --Addison.
``Extempore poetry.'' --Dryden. -- n. Speaking or writing done
extempore. [Obs.] --Bp. Fell.
web1913
extempore adj : with little or no preparation or
forethought; "his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment"; "an
extemporaneous piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture"; "an extempore
skit"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to sound offhanded and reassuring";
"an off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments" [syn: {ad-lib},
{extemporaneous}, {extemporary}, {offhand}, {offhanded},
{off-the-cuff}, {unrehearsed}] adv : without prior preparation; "he
spoke extemporaneously" [syn: {extemporaneously}, {extemporarily}]
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Radio Crankypants #3 : Well, I got it work on an old Mac.
D.J. Adams : Is Jabber's Chatbot the Command Line of the
Future?
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nimiety
| source : web1913 | Nimiety \Ni*mi"e*ty\, n. [L.
nimietas, fr. nimius, a., nimis, adv., too much.] State of being in
excess. [R.] There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans.
--Coleridge. | source : wn | nimiety n : extreme excess; "an
embarrassment of riches" [syn: {overplus}, {plethora}, {superfluity},
{embarrassment}]
N.Y. Times : Prosciutto, Fig and Parmesan Rolls
Cvswrap
"is a program that you install to help manage
multiple CVS repositories. What it does is sit in front of CVS,
determines the CVSROOT and runs a program before running CVS. This allows
one to protect each CVS repository without special groups and setuid
programs."
Randal L. Schwartz : Mac OSX 10.1 - mod_perl build
instructions
"Apparently, mod_perl wants to be built static
into Apache on OSX, and yet wants to use mod_so to load any additional
thingies like Apache::Request or Apache::Template. So after many hours of
trying different combinations of things, I finally yelled out "Yippee
Skippee"..."
Simple Web Services API Specification
Stewart Baker and Eugene Volokh : Civil Liberties in Wartime
"So the measures we adopt
today—constitutional rules, statutes, and perhaps even media ethics
principles—won't be temporary. They won't go away. This doesn't
mean these measures are wrong; they may be good permanent measures to
have. But let's not fool ourselves that we can have them just for a few
months and then return to business as usual. This is going to be business
as usual."
Bill Nichols : Digital Libraries in the Large
"Federation solves two problems — providing
a common access method to different databases of similar data, and
providing transparent access to very large distributed databases that
would not be practical to concentrate in one location. Federation creates
a multilayer interface between the Internet and each DB, with common
high-level services and custom low-level access to each different DB.
Thus all of the code can be shared except the detailed access code for
each DB."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is slake
| source : web1913 | Slake \Slake\, v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Slaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slaking}.] [OE. slaken to
render slack, to slake, AS. sleacian, fr. sleac slack. See {Slack}, v.
& a.] 1. To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
``And slake the heavenly fire.'' --Spenser. It could not slake mine ire
nor ease my heart. --Shak. 2. To mix with water, so that a true chemical
combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime. | source :
web1913 | Slake \Slake\, v. i. 1. To go out; to become extinct. ``His
flame did slake.'' --Sir T. Browne. 2. To abate; to become less decided.
[R.] --Shak. 3. To slacken; to become relaxed. ``When the body's
strongest sinews slake.'' [R.] --Sir J. Davies. 4. To become mixed with
water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime
slakes. {Slake trough}, a trough containing water in which a blacksmith
cools a forging or tool. | source : wn | slake v 1: satisfy (thirst)
[syn: {quench}, {allay}, {assuage}] 2: make less active or intense [syn:
{abate}, {slack}] 3: cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water,
as of lime [syn: {slack}]
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."
Elizabeth Hayt : Modern Art as Spectacle - That's
Entertainment!
"Ambitious art wants to have the same impact as
Tom Ford's Gucci ads and Steven Meisel's Versace ads. Glamour was once
regarded as a superficial aesthetic, but now it's a powerful aesthetic.
Almost 35 years ago, the French theorist Guy Debord described our age as
the 'society of the spectacle.' Now spectacles have become the art of our
society."
OpenInteract sounds like a Perl-ified Zope
"[The abstraction layer called SPOPS, for Simple
Perl Object Persistence with Security,] allows you to use any supported
data store to fetch, create, update and remove objects. Current data
stores include DBI (which supports most SQL databases), GDBM and
configuration files. However, SPOPS can be easily extended to support
CORBA objects, LDAP directories or even simple text files. ... SPOPS
exploits the power of perl as a glue language and allows coders to use a
common paradigm (object-as-hashref) to perform some amazing tasks."
WebNS.net "is a database of and home for namespaces,
schemas, and terms in common use on the Semantic
Web. It is home to the SWAG Dictionary, a database of triples that can be
interfaced in a variety of different ways."
Web Techniques : Blog Rolling Competitions
"If I were deploying a Weblog on a machine over
which I had complete control, I would lean strongly toward using
Squishdot for my Weblog. The biggest reason for this is ease of
installation and maintenance; both of these are benefits that come with
using Zope. Also, Zope is highly extensible, and its separation of
content and presentation scales well when you have multiple people
customizing the site itself."
Perlmonks : Net::Ping, The Mini-series
"I used the Perl debugger to step into Net::Ping
and found that the connect() was failing with "Connection refused". What
does this mean? It means that the other computer is up, is reachable, and
isn't listening on TCP port 7 (and it did this all without triggering the
time out). Well, that is a wonderful form of a successful ping in my
book. When I ping a computer, I don't want to be told whether it is
listening on port 7! So Net::Ping should return a true value for this
case. Instead it returns a false value and manages to hide the value of
$! so you can't just change the false to true if $! is "Connection
refused". *sigh*"
The Basics of Italian Cuisine
A most excellent site cross-referencing recipes
and their ingredients.
Paul Lukas : Inconspicuous Consumption
"It's about deconstructing the details of
consumer culture -- details that are either so weird or obscure that we'd
never see them, or so ubiquitous that we've essentially stopped seeing
them. ... Every month, this column will use products like these -- some
of them eccentric, many exceedingly ordinary, but all worthy of close
inspection -- as a way to look at consumer culture in excruciating
detail." This month's topic is the almost forgotten, but amazingly
topical, hole puncher.
Anne Charlton & Clive Bates : "We argue that the mobile phone
is an effective competitor to cigarettes
in the market for products that offer teenagers
adult style, individuality, sociability, rebellion, peer group bonding,
and adult aspiration. ... To explain the link with declining teenage
smoking, mobile phones are particularly important as they consume
teenagers' available cash, especially the pay-as-you-go cards. If some
teenagers cannot afford to smoke and pay for a mobile phone satisfies the
same needs as smoking, they may decide not to smoke."
YULblog : Sous-traitance.qc.ca
Chris Hubrick
"Be thankful Netscape is building a /free/ (as in
speech) browser for you at all. And the free software community is very
simple...if you want it done faster... help! (put your money where your
mouth is), or at least show some bloody gratitude already." And if you're
inclined to think this guy is just a stick in the mud, with no sense of
humour,
think again
.
The first thing I did in Florence yesterday
was walk across the street, from the train
station, to buy a pair of New Media Whore sunglasses at the Bennetton
store. They're green and they make looking at white marble sculptures a
super dazzling experience. At first I felt sort of bad playing Good
Consumer but when I got to the center of town I realized it is probably
the most apt thing to do in contemporary Florence. I wonder if the towns
along the pilgramage routes of yore were like this when people prayed to
the bible instead of travel guides. Highlights of the day included the
Giottos at Santa Croche, seemingly finding the part of town where the
Italians take lunch, finally starting to take pictures of the street
signs and watching some guy on the Arno turn his rowing scull around. see
also
Friends of Jezebel's Mirror
David O. Russell : The Indie Scale
"Let's try it again. If your film combines Rural
Life and Homosexuality and then factors in the additional element of
Strange Violence, you get 40 points, and such winning projects as "Boys
Don't Cry" and "My Own Private Idaho." Or try Murder and Homosexuality,
which combine for such recent attention getters as "Flawless" and "The
Talented Mr. Ripley." "
Chris Dent : RCSEdit.pm
"A very simple module to edit RCS version
controlled files from perl."
NY Times : Newspaper prints codes that link readers to the Web
This has "Hey everyone! Come on over for our Y2K
retro party tonight!" written all over it.
Morning Becomes Eclectic : DJ Cheb I Sabbah
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!
Michael Boyle : Montreal webloggers at Else's
I promise I'll take the sweater off when it warms
up. I have others, but my mother made that one.
The new Words and Pictures website is online!
"Founded in 1990 the Words & Pictures Museum
of Fine Sequential Art opened its doors to the public in October of 1992,
dedicated solely to the preservation, interpretation and exhibition of
contemporary comic book artwork." The old brick and mortar site is gone,
but there is still a
comprehensive QTVR tour of the building
.
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
.
Angela Gunn : Control Freak-Alt-Delete
"Make no mistake about it, the voluminous
Findings of Fact issued by federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson is no
ordinary legal document. It has a plot. It has conflict. And what
characters! Victims, villains, opportunists, and a company whose leader
wished for something and got it, forgetting the well-known adage about
being careful what you wish for . . ."
The only thing better than an Instabroke card
CNN :The tale of the gratuitous GUI
"Then it was time for the Electric Kool-Aid X
Server Test, the moment of truth. I bypassed the creation of yet another
boot diskette, clicked exit, and watched the screen go weird as the
install shut down. The screen always did that at the end of the graphical
install with the Banshee, too, as if the install program had seized the
video card in a Vulcan death grip in order to have its way with it, and
then released it suddenly, letting it slump unconscious to the floor as
it let go." If Apple can actually pull off building an OS that is easy to
set up *and* is truly robust, then maybe they really will change the
world.
Canadian Medical Association Journal
This American Life comic book
Beautifully illustrated by
Jessica Abel
. Someone remind me why I work with computers all day...
CBC : U.S. Senate cuts funding for the BMA
Smells like an election year, to me.
Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications
Commission
"The Commission is issuing a direction to cable
carriers with respect to the resale of retail Internet Services...This
resale must be provided at a discount of 25% from the lowest retail
Internet service rate charged by the cable carrier to a cable customer in
its service area during any one month period."
BBC : World's biggest flower blooms
"Last Monday, delighted botanists discovered that
it had developed a 106 cm flower bud. On Wednesday, when the specimen was
put on display to the public, the bud had reached a height of 125 cm, and
it is still growing." see also :
Fairchild Tropical Gardens
for more pictures (beautiful!) and this page from
the Botanischer
Gardens
that will need to be bablefish-ed if you don't read German.
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.