Posts containing “css”

• That’s What Bea Said!
• Avoid customer service prompts and long hold times with GetHuman.com. (And, of course, there’s an iPhone app for that.)
• The graphic Jish found depicting a Visual Explanation of Family Relationships is the first I’ve ever seen that made sense.
• If you live here, you already know this: Los Angeles is a lonely city.
• “If you believe what you read in scientific literature, you shouldn’t believe what you read in the scientific literature.” This is (probably) why everything you think we know might be wrong.
• Behold! The Periodic Table of Science Fiction!
• Chris Coyier explains the genius of asking for the hard part first.

And if you care about football and the NFL Draft at all, ignore what all the pundits are predicting and make sure to read what Cold, Hard, Football Facts says in A Tale of Six Quarterbacks:

Tebow not only passed the ball far more effectively than any of these No. 1 overall picks (Peyton Manning, Tim Couch, Eli Manning, JaMarcus Russell, and Matt Stafford). It pays to remember that, in his spare time, he set the SEC career record for rushing touchdowns. Oh, and he won a Heisman Trophy and two National Titles. Other than that, he didn’t do much.
But Tebow didn’t just put up big stats … he put up supremely efficient stats. He was more accurate, and produced more big passing plays, and was more likely to put the ball in the end zone, and more likely to keep it out of the hands of opposing defenders, than any of the recent collection of No. 1 passing phenoms to come out of the SEC.

• Hugh Hefner: Teen Cartoonist
• Have you ever ordered any of these secret restaurant menu items?
• Congratulations to the Gators, who won their first NCAA Indoor Track Championship this weekend. (It’s nice when the football team has a running back who spends the offseason being one of the fastest sprinters in the nation.)
• A solar-powered iPhone charger is a pretty cool idea.
• Almost everyone I know uses a computer on a daily basis. Almost nobody I know understands the differences between files, applications, and websites. That’s why Apple is doing the smart thing by hiding all of that.
• “Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.”
• The best way to learn about database design is to design databases. It sounds simple. It gets more complicated when you try to design a database to manage gay marriage.
• There are quite a few pearls of wisdom in the 2009 annual letter to shareholders from Warren Buffett.
• Somebody needs to buy me these boots. They are awesome. Size 11, please.
• This was a sort of depressing headline to see in my feed reader: Once-revered South Carolina lawmaker freezes to death alone.
• “Faced with a flood of headlines on an ever-increasing variety of topics, we shut off. We turn to news that doesn’t require much understanding — crime, traffic, weather — or we turn off the news altogether.”
• I’ve been looking for a way to run three displays from my MacBook Pro for over a year now and not found any that weren’t ridiculously expensive. And then I came across this guy running four displays!
• Geek out with this awesome CSS3 Generator.

• Only XKCD could produce such an emotionally-charged comic strip about the Mars rover Spirit. (How can you not feel badly about that poor little robot?)
• Where do all my taxes go? The New York Times has a great infographic that displays the recently-proposed 2011 US budget.
• You’ll find bunches of (mostly technical) fascinating links if you subscribe to my delicious feed; but in case you don’t and it’s the sort of thing that interests you, check out:
  • All About Cron Jobs
  • A Complete Guide to Regular Expressions
  • The Official Facebook PHP Guide
  • Create Nice 3D Ribbons With Pure CSS3
• Why the iPad will fail and help Windows 7 to succeed is required reading for anyone that is just blindingly stupid. It’s perfect for brilliant minds who also think the government is secretly poisoning us with fluoride and there’s really no hard evidence linking cigarettes with lung cancer.

• If you thought you wouldn’t be able to make it one more day without seeing Christopher Walken performing Lady Gaga’s song “Poker Face”, I have some good news for you.
• I am completely addicted to Zynga’s Word Scramble2 iPhone game.
• Bank Notes is a collection of bank robbery notes. “Don’t put any exploding dye in the bag,” seems to be a popular theme.
• Here’s one for the 4:20 crowd: The Random Weed Name Generator is a free public service, providing the cannabis community with more than 45,000 unique hemp handles.
• The fact that it is, y’know, home to the Yankees is surprisingly not listed as one of the many, many reasons why the new Yankee Stadium sucks.
• The Bleacher Report has compiled a fascinating list of the Top 10 Reality Show Concepts for College Cheerleaders. They also have a (much less sexy) list of the 50 Greatest College Football Stadiums in the Country, but since Florida Field is ranked only second it’s safe to say that it’s blasphemous.
• Everyone is ready to hang Brandon Spikes for his alleged “eye-gouging” of a Georgia player in the middle of a pile-up. Why aren’t more people up in arms about this blatant cheap shot Nick Williams laid on Tebow? Please.
• SmartFootball has an excellent article concerning the biomechanics of a quarterback’s throwing motion.
• Chris has written a great tutorial / explanation regarding how to effectively use sprites in web development.
• Thesis, the best WordPress Theme, upgraded to version 1.6 last week. If you’re not using Thesis to manage your WordPress blog, you’re living in the dark ages.
• There is no letter O in the middle of the word recurring. It is not reoccurring. It’s recurring. Get it straight, people. See also: “How to pronounce the word height.”

• General Stuff
  • Help fix Zoe’s ears.
  • F-Listed has posted a very thorough examination of the “tramp stamp”.
  • My dad has once again posted a few dozen amazing photographs.
  • Rhode Island “spas” are well known and largely untouchable by police and prosecutors because state law permits prostitution so long as it takes place discreetly, outside public view. (via OS&RR)
  • What’s cooler than Teenage Zombies? Not much.
• Gator Stuff
  • Every Gator fan should check out the GatorHighlights YouTube channel.
  • Every Day Should Be Saturday, on Tim Tebow’s summer beard: “It’s not a beard, it’s a cowcatcher mounted on the front of a pain train.”
• Techie Stuff
  • Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about your Mac’s menu bar. (I’m posting these for you, mom!)
  • Twitter is going to implement “official” retweets. This is good news.
  • 30 PHP Best Practices for Beginners
  • Looking for a great tutorial on CSS sprites?
  • Here’s the official word from Apple on how to create an iPhone / iPod Touch icon.
  • And every good site should have a nice favicon.
  • Chipin is a widget you can place on a site to get donations, payments, etc. Very nifty.

• General Stuff
  • I followed a link on Hidden Los Angeles and found a killer list of film locations in town. (I’m going to go out on a limb and assume LA has a lot more of these than most cities. Sometimes I forget that I am living in what has to be the coolest city in the world.)
  • If you post a classified ad, think twice before replying to Mike.
  • “I thought he wanted to kill us,” Heard said. “He was so angry and upset.” — Perhaps he wasn’t asked if he wanted to spend the rest of his life in captivity. I’m just sayin’.
  • They’re a bit expensive, but these trash compactor bookends are sweet.
  • Fun: Check out the size of these balls! [Ed. note: Local copy of image for posterity saved here.]
• Techie Stuff
  • It’s great to hear that the first ever entirely volunteer-run open source conference was a huge success. My good friend Thomas had a big hand in that.
  • When you’re designing websites, it’s handy to have a test template to check what your stylesheets will look like.
  • WordPress 2.8 makes it even easier to code widgets.
  • If you want to target links to open in a new window while still having valid code, it can be done with jQuery.
  • Which iPhone 3.0 software features does my iPhone support?

• General Stuff
  • Florida’s Tim Tebow routinely rejects all kinds of sex requests.
  • We had dinner at The Bazaar on Saturday night. It was tragically expensive — and I’m not really a “foodie” — but I can appreciate art. The LA Times review is spot-on.
  • I love these vintage sexist ads.
  • Yes, you must pick one.
  • Why should underdogs take more chances?
  • Cameron’s dad’s house is for sale!
  • If I’m going to own 70% of GM, why have my last five cars been Mercedes, Toyota, BMW, Toyota, Toyota? Oh, right. Because they don’t suck.
  • Here’s how to seduce a friend who has a boyfriend and otherwise wouldn’t sleep with you. (via Kottke)
  • I love that canyoucopyrightatweet.com is copyrighted.
• Techie Stuff
  • There is an excellent 30-minute screencast on using WordPress as a CMS at css-tricks.com.
  • SimplePie makes displaying RSS in WordPress a breeze.
  • Good systems send email as HTML and plain text.
  • Hashed passwords are good, but randomly salted hashed ones are better.
  • Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8
  • Here’s how to configure a killer WordPress testing environment locally.

• General Stuff
  • Twelve major brands that will disappear by the end of the year
  • Top 20 illustrated sexual euphemisms
  • Totally awesome: The Happy Gilmore tee shot, by Padraig Harrington
• Techie Stuff
  • Style Your Website’s Search Field with JS/CSS

(like the Daily David, but not so much)

• Two Dozen More Bodies Found In Lake Wobegon
• Script & Style — links to help you grow as a designer and as a developer
• This is how Social Media really works.
• A beautifully-designed site that might be useful someday: aremysitesup.com
• Fluid Multi-Column, iPhone-Friendly CSS Layouts
• Here’s a brilliant idea that makes me want to kill myself for not having had five years ago: bandwebsitetemplate.com