Thursday, February 28th, 2008

The 12 Best Household Uses for Vodka (Not including Martinis)

Apartment Therapy Los Angeles | The 12 Best Household Uses for Vodka (Not including Martinis)

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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Where to Find Great High Resolution Wallpaper

Mike Davidson - Where to Find Great High Resolution Wallpaper

There are more links in the comments.

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The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know

The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know

I’ve wondered about the possibility that autistics just process things differently. Some scientists are looking into it. It turns out that their IQ scores can change radically depending on what test they’re given.

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Friday, February 22nd, 2008

CSS Type Set

CSS Type Set

You use a word type editor to set a block of text the way you want it and you get the CSS to make it look like that on your website.

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Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Cheat Sheets

Scott Klarr >> Programming + Linux + Computers

A directory of links to cheat sheets on a variety of topics

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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Meyerweb Reset CSS

CSS Tools: Reset CSS

The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on. The general reasoning behind this was discussed in a May 2007 post, if you’re interested. Reset styles quite often appear in CSS frameworks, and the original “meyerweb reset” found its way into Blueprint, among others.

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Sunday, February 10th, 2008

What Kind of Flower Are You

I am a
Snapdragon


What Flower
Are You?

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Friday, February 8th, 2008

A Firefly Novel

The Travelin’ Librarian: CC-licensed Firefly FanFic by serious SciFi Author

Established and popular science fiction author Steven Brust has written My Own Kind of Freedom: A Firefly Novel and released it under CreativeCommons on his Web site. (.doc & .pdf) I’ve also uploaded the PDF version to my Scribd account. I’ve not started reading it yet but I’ve got it loaded on my Sony Reader so I’ll be getting to it soon.

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Thursday, February 7th, 2008

What’s Your Power Element?


Your Power Element is Earth


Your power color: yellow

Your energy: balancing

Your season: changing of seasons

Dedicated and responsible, you are a rock to your friends.
You are skilled at working out even the most difficult problems.
Low key and calm, you are happiest when you are around loved ones.
Ambitious and goal oriented, you have long term plans to be successful.

What’s Your Power Element?

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What Time of Day Are You?

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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Lawrence Lessig video on why he supports Obama

20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog)

I wasn’t going to do this, but then someone ask me to do it, and someone else told me (to my horror — not that it would be insane for anyone, but insane for her) that she was for Clinton. So consider this my precinct captain duty for the lessig blog.

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Keeping Your Elements’ Kids in Line with Offspring

A List Apart: Articles: Keeping Your Elements’ Kids in Line with Offspring

It occurred to me that classes resembling pseudo-classes could be added automagically through DOM Scripting. For instance, what if the first child of every element got the class first-child? And, to round things out, what about only-child and last-child as well?

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Monday, February 4th, 2008

Book-style Chapter Introductions Using Pure CSS

Book-style Chapter Introductions Using Pure CSS – CSSnewbie
doesn’t work in IE6, just looks like the rest of the text.

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