Monthly Archives: August 2005

To avoid meaningless divisions

There are a lot of beautiful and clever things you can do with CSS but, because of poor support in the browser that most people use, some of these things require that you insert DIV elements in markup that serve … Continue reading

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So you want to pulverize the Earth, eh?

In a sort of strangelovian counterpoint to yesterday’s entry, Sam Hughes offers hard data and concrete methods of geocide. For example, we have definitive proof that gay marriage will not destroy the Earth. Supervillians take note! EARTH-DESTRUCTION ALERT LEVEL: Be … Continue reading

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In case we forget

Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the use of nuclear weapons on Japan in World War II. Rather than go into the justification or lack of justification for those events, I’d rather point to the fact that there are still … Continue reading

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Fashion modeling and athletics are doomed

We pay some people very good money because their bodies have certain talents in running around in a field chasing a ball or jumping through hoops or some such nonsense. We pay others very good money simply because certain aspects … Continue reading

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He's a pinball wizard

So there’s this 17 year old kid who kicks bottom and takes names when playing Mortal Kombat, Soul Caliber and other games at meets and on the Network. The thing is he’s been blind from birth.

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