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

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Mike Davidson – Where to Find Great High Resolution Wallpaper
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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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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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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 [...]

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I am aSnapdragon
What Flower Are You?

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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