Is all you need to know. For example, if you need to refresh on how position: whatever works, just go to http://cssdocs.org/position.
cssdocs.org — thanks and a tip of the hat to Pete Freitag.

Feeling your way around grids : Articles : Mark Boulton

TemplateWorld has a page of free website wemplates that are very nice, and have “Valid XHTML And CSS.” I put that in scare quotes since I haven’t really checked myself, but the templates do seem pretty well made. It’s a teaser to get you to buy a subscription to their premium template downloading service but in all honesty, at US$50 for six-months of access, it’s actually not such a bad deal since they have literally tons of templates in their members only area.

Web Page Layout Grid | Smiley Cat Web Design

Nice Grid for doing css design.

On Color « Digital World

So you’d like to build/design your own website. More often than not, choosing the right color(s) may not be so straight forward. Did you know that there are dozens of websites, softwares and online services that would make your job much much easier. Here are a few of those.

Zombie Robot » wp_quotes: Random Quote Plugin

This plugin, I like.

I was having trouble with my two-column fixed layout, until I read How To Clear Floats Without Structural Markup over at position is everything.

I found some helpful advice on how to make a submit button into CSS styled text.

Even though I still don’t feel like I totally get descendant selectors, I appreciated the article at maxdesign all the same.

Let me give a quick shout out to the date entry from the PHP manual.

I’m going to point out that I also really appreciated ma ’s pages Listamatic and Floatuorial.
It was east to get distracted by tangents on the Sitepoint CSS Forum.

The folks over at Metafilter were talking about this weird radio station in Arizona that seems to play mostly dinosaur rock, KCDX FM.

In the thread, people also mentioned Radio Paradise and of course WFMU.

Nothing to add, I just wanted to remember those radio stations.

why the lucky stiff wrote the (poignant) guide to ruby, mentioned below. I enjoy his website, and it does not often mention ruby, or rails: .c( whytheluckystiff )o.

Okay, so Flock.

I’ll give you a second to read that link.

Do we really need another browser?

Oh wait, the beta seems to perform better on the Mac than the 1.5 release of Firefox? It has support for Flickr and built in blog editor that supports all the big blogs (MT, Blogger, Drupal, et.al.)?*

It has a website that’s a direct Flickr reference?

Its critics deride it as “laughably Web 2.0**?”

I’m in!

*this post composed with the Flock blog editor.

** Scroll down to the comments.

As if the results were in doubt:

As embarrassing as it is, this is probably on target:

spelling mistakes cost lives.

.com.

That’s right, I said エルエル: Animal アーカイブ

Konichi-wa, bitches!

(warning: cute animal pictures surrounded by an asian language that I think is Japanese)

Apparently Ron Howard has a brother, who has a Show which is apparently filmed in the backyard of a trailer home.

The show is disturbing and fascinating: using the device of the low budget production it strips the variety/talk show to it’s skeleton. The host with out canned laughter and sweeping cameras is reduced to a strange character who is desperately looking for a connection with their guests who are randomly selected entertainers looking to promote a project.

My favorite moment during episode 1, is when Henry Winkler is paid $15 and a turkey for his appearance on the show.

“It’s all in ones,” he says, laughing.

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malevole - Text Generator eems to generate song lyrics? They seem familiar somehow…

Ulysses, Ulysses - Soaring through all the galaxies. In search of Earth, flying in to the night. Ulysses, Ulysses - Fighting evil and tyranny, with all his power, and with all of his might. Ulysses - no-one else can do the things you do. Ulysses - like a bolt of thunder from the blue. Ulysses - always fighting all the evil forces bringing peace and justice to all.

Thunder, thunder, thundercats, Ho! Thundercats are on the move, Thundercats are loose. Feel the magic, hear the roar, Thundercats are loose. Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats! Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats! Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats! Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats! Thundercats!

Hong Kong Phooey, number one super guy. Hong Kong Phooey, quicker than the human eye. He’s got style, a groovy style, and a car that just won’t stop. When the going gets tough, he’s really rough, with a Hong Kong Phooey chop (Hi-Ya!). Hong Kong Phooey, number one super guy. Hong Kong Phooey, quicker than the human eye. Hong Kong Phooey, he’s fan-riffic!

The Greek Machine courtesy of Duck Island = sort of something for everyone, with classic latin, hillbilly, marketing, the matrix, metropolitan, pseudo-german and techno babble available.

hillbilly: Tonic range over last cain’t knickers over, throwed. Had wash, cabin fried grandma is me, jug fire squalor overalls pot polecat. Stew fell, whoopin’ fell sam-hell shootin’. Fer hootin’ over havin’ everlastin’ range commencin’ moonshine neighbor’s cousin them yer, co-op trailer, clan. Pasture, him inbred, snakeoil me, polecat sheep uncle rockinchair, firewood put. Crop landlord cipherin’ feud em jig.

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pseudo-german: Heinee yodel mitten poken wearin keepin die achtung, rubberneckin spritz buerger haben der. Undervear hans thinken haus strudel meister sparkin hans weiner corkin strudel. Blimp blitz dummkopf, das stoppern sightseerin nicht. Hinder das der sparkin poopsie sparkin makin, ich kaputt auf dorkin.

via Boing Boing

I made this with m-city’s city creation tool konstructor

What fun.

Error Message Generator

Ha. Ha. Me funny. NOW!

Ha ha: Alien Loves Predator.

I linked to episode 1. I found that it gets funnier as the author develops the characters. Like you care.

found via warren

…just to get up that hill. Holy CSS Zeldman! is a collection of links about-you guessed it-CSS, which although I understand a lot better, I still can’t use the damn thing for page layout.

No need to wait for death, and your own eternal damnation if you want to talk to the Morningstar… just use the catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell to find the most convenient entrance and step inside…if. you. dare Muuu-wahhh-ha-ha!

I wish the pictures on this site were bigger. Some of the photos are very enjoyable.

A softer world usually makes me laugh and laugh, with just a few sniffers thrown in.

thanks to Boing Boing for reminding me about it today.

No, really

300 Images From 1800 Sites

I started gathering little, iconesque web images for myself so that I could compare, contrast, and study the techniques used by other graphic artists on the web. My initial pool of images looked so interesting that I decided to continue methodically hunting and capturing the icons for a public display piece.

Well, the people who make the software that powers this website plus this one not to mention this one and of course the only site I made that gets any traffic at all have released a new version and the kvetch mob isn’t happy, because Mena and Ben have decided that people will have to pay for the software, sort of.

Most of the moaning has to do with how movable types fee structure evolves, from free (1 author, 3 blogs) to personal ($99 for 3 authors, 5 blogs) to commercial (20 authors, 15 blogs).

I think especially the blogs that have lots of authors are the ones getting bent out of shape, but my guess is just because a non-profit blog has more than 9 authors they won’t have to suddenly dump $600 for a commercial license.

I mean, I don’ know but I have faith in Mena + Ben.

Plus, to be perfectly matter-of-factual plus rude, you don’t HAVE to upgrade to MT 3.0. People just want to, and are mad that they’ll have to pay finally. I guess I’ll probably finally pay for my license, which I was planning to do anyway.

The evidence is clear: [ Donkey Konga - Japan Trailer ]

So I’m doing a little Albino Blacksheep surfing, and I come across this sort of weird, sort of creepy North Korean music video, called Fucking USA:

BUSH EVIL
We clearly remember the blood and tears we shed
and you were the cause of our country’s division
FUCKING USA!
And we won’t forget all of the horrible massacres
FUCKING USA!
You are a country of murderers.
But if America is such a righteous country
the why can’t we say what we want to say?
Have you made us into slaves of our own precious land?
So now we are yelling
WE ARE AGAINST AMERICA
You stole the Olympic Gold medal from us
FUCKING USA!
You are a dastardly thief.
You have the ability to steal everything and go on a rampage
You are a monstrous thief.
FUCKING USA!

translation by Rob Pongi

Ok, so the lyrics don’t exactly roll off the tongue in easy rhythm, but at least we know what they’re talking about, unlike some people I could mention. Go watch the video, it’s interesting (and funny in a disturbing way) on several levels, I promise.

Ok, but let’s get to the end of the video and to title that reads “english translation by rob pongi. RobPongi.com“.

Yow.

I was expecting to find a small business card type site, but instead I found….the Roppongi Video Happy Hour!

Rob Pongi is apparently some sort of video jester who runs his own interview/satire show from what looks to be an alleyway in Tokyo. He wears a strange outfit (explained in the Rob Pongi FAQ), and has really strange conversations with the Japanese. He claims to love them, but he spends an awful lot of time making fun of them, too.

No really, go watch a couple videos. They’re real eye openers.

Ha ha.

The smoking gun will come in the form of a completely disassembled gun that is not smoking, because it exists only in the form of a future potential possibility of creating the conditions that may eventually lead to the assembly of a gun which may one day smoke.

Indeed. get your war on | page twenty-six

Colours on the web - color theory and color matching
has a nice color picker. Well, it’s sort of nice.

If you have a single color in hex format (#000099 is blue, for example) the wizard will tell you what the triad, complimentary and analagous colors are, which can come in handy. It doesn’t make color selection much easier, but I guess it sort of helps.

But only in da morning? This one’s for you: Bubb Rubb Info Center

I couldn’t remeber how to find it, so when I did again I thought I should blog it: Chris Pound’s Name Generation Page

Please don’t ask why I wanted to find this.

Ok, you can ask. I was really looking for Kate Monk’s Onomastikon.

As if that makes it all better.