posts brought to you by the category “jedi mind
fuck”
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.
Dave Pawson : Emacs nxml-mode Q & A
Sean M. Burke : I18N::LangTags.pm
super_languages("fr-CA-joual") is ("fr-CA", "fr")
Irony is hard, let's go shopping!
Ian Davis demonstrates why John Poindexter, and the TIA weirdos,
are so keen on XML.
Tim Bray : I want to have my idiomatic regexp cake and eat my
well-formed XML goodness too.
From the "Talking to Americans" department:
Apparently, the Internet is just a giant piece of installation
art
Leon Brocard talks about Data::Pageset.pm
Page numbering is boring.
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa : Template::Plugin::HTML::Template.pm
cwest : IO::Language.pm
"I wrote a quick module because I wanted a
translator."
Me : XML::Filter::Glossary.pm 0.2
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : evince
Evince \E*vince"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evinced}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Evincing}.] [L. evincere vanquish completely,
prevail, succeed in proving; e out + vincere to vanquish. See {Victor},
and cf. {Evict}.] 1. To conquer; to subdue. [Obs.] Error by his own
arms is best evinced. --Milton. 2. To show in a clear manner; to prove
beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to
light; to evidence. Common sense and experience must and will evince
the truth of this. --South.
web1913
evince v : give expression to; "She showed her
disappointment" [syn: {express}, {show}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
shortspeak
Spoken language that omits articles and unnecessary
elements, as in shorthand
ex. She said, "Kiss, fool" instead of "Kiss me, you fool"
and I knew she was the one for me because I prefer shortspeak over
monologue any day.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : rubicund
Rubicund \Ru"bi*cund\, a. [L. rubicundus, fr. rubere to be
red, akin to ruber red. See {Red}.] Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.
``His rubicund face.'' --Longfellow.
web1913
rubicund adj : inclined to a healthy reddish color often
associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund
cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion" [syn: {ruddy}, {sanguine}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fridge
Same as brick: an outlandishly large cell phone. Used
mainly by European teenagers.
ex. My mom bought me a new phone. It was a fridge.
Embarrassing.
see also :
fridge dict-ified
Petr Cimprich : XML::Directory.pm 0.96
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!""
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : comport
Comport \Com"port\ (?, formerly ?), n. [Cf. OF. comport.]
Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. [Obs.] I knew them
well, and marked their rude comport. --Dryden.
web1913
comport v 1: behave well or properly; "The children must
learn to behave" [syn: {behave}] [ant: {misbehave}] 2: behave in a
certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with
dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
[syn: {behave}, {acquit}, {bear}, {deport}, {conduct}, {carry}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fussass
pronounced as fuss-arse. means that someone is
particularly fussy in their behaviours and work habits.
ex. Cathy is a fussass, because she likes to maintain a
high standard of work.
Using XML-Topic Map on a PDA
"Palm Navigator is a shareware program that is
designed to help import an XML/Topic-Map onto a PDA (Personal Digital
Assistant), and to enable navigation, jumping from one topic to another
as easily as Web surfing. Palm Navigator is fully compliant with the ISO
Topic Maps standard (ISO/IEC 13250) which enables exchanges between Web
sites."
The 24 Hour Plays
"The process begins at 10pm the night before the
show, when a group of about fifty writers, directors, actors and
designers gather at a theater for the latest round of what has become a
highly anticipated ritual. After everyone has been briefed (and
Polaroided), the writers are left alone to each compose a ten-minute
play. At 7am, the directors return, read the plays, make their bids, and
begin casting. The actors arrive at 8am, meet with their respective
writer/director teams; rehearsals start promptly at 9am. Tech rehearsal
runs from 5 to 7:30pm - doors open at 7:45. At 8pm, ink barely dry, the
new plays are performed for a live audience."
A List Apart looks at Web Services from 30, 000 feet.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : spurp
When a person tries to speak, but burps
instead.
ex. The crowd was amused by her spurp.
Aaron Boodman : ypXmlTree
"is a general-purpose expandable/collapsable tree
in the style of Microsoft Windows Explorer, Apple Macintosh Finder, or
the navigations of many popular websites. It is highly customizable,
feature rich, and degrades gracefully in older browsers or when
javascript/css is unavailable."
Salman Rushdie : "The restoration of religion to the sphere of the
personal,
its depoliticization, is the nettle that all ...
societies must grasp in order to become modern. The only aspect of
modernity interesting to the terrorists is technology, which they see as
a weapon that can be turned on its makers. If terrorism is to be
defeated, the world of ... must take on board the secularist-humanist
principles on which the modern is based, and without which ... countries'
freedom will remain a distant dream."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is clerisy
| source : web1913 | Clerisy \Cler"i*sy\, n. [LL.
clericia. See {Clergy}.] 1. The literati, or well educated class. 2. The
clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity. | source : wn |
clerisy n : an educated and intellectual elite [syn: {intelligentsia}]
Danny Goodman : Supporting Three Event Models at Once
From the Soundtrack Effect department :
The mere declaration of "natural frontiers", however, did not
imply that French arms would be confined within them. On the contrary, as
long as they were threatened by coalitions of kings, or (as the
propaganda decree now authorized) as long as they were summoned by
peoples groaning under the yoke of despotism, the French would feel free
to take the fight to the enemy, wherever he was. Nor did the means of
this offensive have to remain orthodox. The
ci-devant
Marquis de Bry offered to found what was, in effect, the first
organization of international terrorism, the Tyrannicides -- twelve
hundred committed freedom fighters despatched [sic] to assassinate kings
and commanders of foreign armies wherever they could be nailed down. It
was, indeed, as Goethe warned, a new moment in the history of the
world.
--
Simon Schama
, Citizens.
Computer World : "If you are willing to donate IT goods or
services
to help in the wake of the tragedy in New York,
please enter the information below. If your donation will be needed, you
will be contacted in the coming days."
Like almost everyone else, I thought Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend
in a Coma
Me : Blogger.pm 0.4
www.freshports.org
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redolent
| source : web1913 | Redolent \Red"o*lent\
(-lent), a. [L. redolens, -entis, p. pr. of redolere to emit a scent,
diffuse an odor; pref. red-, re-, re- + olere to emit a smell. See
{Odor}.] Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented;
odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of. ``Honey redolent of
spring.'' --Dryden. -- {Red"o*lent*ly}, adv. Gales . . . redolent of joy
and youth. --Gray. | source : wn | redolent adj 1: serving to bring to
mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder
Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics" [syn: {evocative},
{redolent of(p)}, {remindful}, {reminiscent}, {reminiscent of(p)}] 2:
(used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous; "the hall was redolent of
floor wax"; "air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey" [syn:
{redolent(p)}, {smelling(p)}] 3: having a strong distinctive fragrance;
"the pine woods were more redolent"- Jean Stafford [syn: {aromatic}]
NY Times : We have outsourced our brains.
D.J. Adams : Net::Jabber::XMLRPC.pm
"The general idea is that you have an XMLRPC
server which has various method handlers to service the XMLRPC-based
calls, wrapped within a Jabber component (old name: transport) which is
connected to a Jabber server. You also have an XMLRPC client which
connects as a standard Jabber client to a Jabber server, and sends the
XMLRPC method call payload to the XMLRPC server, which processes the call
and sends back a response."
Kalvis Apsitis : Specification of an RDF Crawler
"[An RDF Crawler] is a tool which downloads
interconnected fragments of RDF from the Internet and builds a knowledge
base from this data. At every phase of RDF crawling we maintain a list of
URIs to be retrieved as well as URI filtering conditions (e.g. depth, URI
syntax), which we observe as we iteratively download resources containing
RDF."
Philippe Breton : "Quand on analyse les discours des
fondamentalistes du "tout-Internet",
qui sont d'ailleurs proches d'une certaine
religiosité, on voit qu'un certain nombre de valeurs sont attaquées, en
particulier la question de la loi. Avec Internet, on pourrait construire
un monde dans lequel il n'y aurait plus de loi; un monde dans lequel la
communication indirecte serait plus importante que la parole directe; un
monde où la personne humaine ne serait plus une valeur fondamentale,
puisque l'on pourrait, grâce à Internet, collectiviser les esprits. La
loi, la parole et la personne sont pourtant trois valeurs fondatrices de
l'humanité, et de l'humanisme."
Nathalie Petrowski : "Or toutes ces choses confondues et mises bout
à bout mènent directement à Montréal.
Pourquoi? Parce qu'un Canadien défroqué, gay et
modérément antiaméricain qui choisit de vivre à Londres et d'y éditer un
magazine raffiné, ne peut aimer qu'une ville au Canada et peut-être même
en Amérique du Nord."
The Conway Channel : It may say "yawnoC namiaD" on my door,
but that don't mean I'm always backward. Before
he could open his yap, I let him have it: "What's your beef, tough guy?",
I spat. He was a New Zealander, so I knew he was more likely on the lamb.
He chewed on the question like it was some proteinaceous metaphor. Then
he drawled: "I gotta bone to pick with you, Conway!". He swung my other
chair round backwards and straddled it. My estimation of him went up a
notch: my other chair's a La-Z-Boy. "It's about yer website," he grunted.
"It's hurting my cones!".
How, exactly, do you "stockpile cyberweapons" ?
Hour : It's not the internet, stupid
"Here's a look at the net-savvy parts of each
platforms, focussing on the Red Book of futureman Jean Chrétien's
Liberals."
Michael Floyd : Roll Your Own XML Editor
"I created a Web-based editor that generates and
saves fully validated XML documents based on text supplied by authors.
While the editor doesn't completely eliminate the need for markup, it
greatly simplifies the process." see also :
I
<heart /> rolling my own
BugTraq : Arbitrary file disclosure through PHP file upload
Mac weenies take note :
mp3-player on one floppy
"It's a linux system on one 1,44Mb floppy with
mpg123 as mp3-player and camp on the console." see also :
MP3Master
, "is a web-based jukebox for MP3 songs ... written [entirely] in Perl."
Stephane Dion, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
"It seems to me that it would be bizarre, even
unprecedented in the history of democracy to hold a referendum to
determine if the result of another referendum is clear."
Katie Bacon : Get A Life
At one time, "on line commerce" meant ordering by
phone from a catalogue. Was there ever a "CatalogueGuy" who started off
in an empty house and waited for things to arrive by mail while keeping a
journal of his experiences? If so, the spectacle would have been about as
exciting as watching someone buy things off the Internet."
Brent Simmons : How to Run Frontier on Linux with Wine
Macintouch : Jorg Brown on MacWorld SF 2000
"Then Steve talked a bit about the foundation of
OS X being BSD Unix, very similar to the foundation of Linux. This
produced a few chuckles from the crowd... it's a bit like saying that the
PalmPilot has similar foundation to the original Mac, based on its use of
the 68K processor, and a programming trick known as A-Traps. The reality
is that the BSD foundation is well hidden (as it should be) from users of
Mac OS X. And in any case, anyone who has ever used Unix/Linux knows that
it's the antithesis of the Mac experience - extraordinarily difficult to
set up and learn, command-line driven at its heart, runs best when it's
set up as a server and stuffed in a closet. Sure, there are movements
afoot to change this - UIs with poor names like KDE allow Linux to look
like Unix stuffed into Windows. It's ugly and non-standard. So why
mention the similarity of OS X's underpinnings to Linux? One has to
wonder. Perhaps to drive up Apple's stock price? "Internet! Linux!
Internet! Linux!"
NY Times : ISP Blocked after eToys Protest
I've been playing with Manila
(thanks
Robert
) and I think what I'd like for Christmas is ModFrontier, or ModManila,
for Apache.
Voir : Cris et chuchotements
"Les webabillards: foire aux rumeurs ou véritable
petite révolution dans le monde de l'information? Rencontre avec
Carl-Frédéric De Celles, cofondateur de pssst, un weblog qui n'épargne
personne." Remember kids, there will be a test next week on how you spell
weblog in French.
Le Devoir
"Jean Chrétien vient de fournir la clef qui ouvre
toute grande la porte à une déclaration unilatérale d'indépendance de la
part du Québec advenant l'échec des négociations qui auraient lieu à la
suite d'un OUI à un vote référendaire sur la souveraineté." I don't
happen to be terribly fond of Lucien Bouchard, but I am having a lot of
trouble understanding why the federal government thinks it should be
judge, jury and executioner on the issue of Quebec sovereignty.
The Nando Times on the Chair Wars
Technologies to the People Foundation
"is a non-profit-making organization that
provides the destitute with access to the new technologies and thus
facilitates their entry to the information society."
Bunnies!
Now I know what to answer if anyone from O'Reilly
ever asks which animal I'd like to be. Speaking of which, here's
a still
from a project that never really got off the ground. via
braindump
.
FEMA : Project Impact
Feeling paranoid? Generate a map of recent or
potential disasters for your area!
First Monday, July 1999
Includes a
rebuttal
to David Noble's critique of "distributed learning technologies" (my
mouth is full of potatoes) which I am looking forward to reading.
David Post
"We always look to the community to ask ourselves
what is reasonable conduct. The Internet is a distinctive community of
users. It has a funny name for standards of reasonable behavior --
netiquette. All law in a sense starts like this." see also :
1267623 Ontario Inc. v. Nexx Online Inc.
CPAST
Comprehensive Perl Arcana Society Tapestry
Françoise Wyss-Mercier
"People don't have religious or spiritual
references any more, so they tend to create their own anguish." Mme
Wyss-Mercier is the organizer of the Nostradamania festivities in
Salon-de-Provence, France.
Montreal Index
"Number of complaints made against city snow
removers in 1998: 913. "
The Patron Saint of the Internet
"But we are not permitted to believe whatever we
choose, nor to choose whatever someone else has believed."
WebOS
Wow. It even has a dhtml web browser! Requires
IE4 (windows) and a T-1. via <a href =
"http://www.camworld.com/list/">camlist</a>.
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.