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Archive for December, 2006

A New Background

Friday, December 29th, 2006

I like to create seamless tiles. This new background could be a little more seamless, but I’m not going to fix it now.

This one is a result of using anisohedral’s tiling applet to lay down the outlines, then coloring in horizontal spectrum bands, and vertical spectrum bands and setting each to 50% transparency. Toying with […]

And to All a Good Yeah Yeah Yeah

Monday, December 25th, 2006

‘Twas The (Politically Correct) Night Before Christmas:

Monday, December 25th, 2006

‘Twas the night before Christmas and Santa’s a wreck…
How to live in a world that’s politically correct?
His workers no longer would answer to “Elves”.
“Vertically Challenged” they were calling themselves.
And labor conditions at the north pole
Were alleged by the union to stifle the soul.
Four reindeer had vanished, without much propriety,
Released to the wilds by the Humane […]

Politically-Correct Holiday Greeting

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Imagine ool the people

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

10 Zillion Light Years

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Let God’s love shine within, to save our evil souls…

I was just back from work, I wrote some awesome observations about it and went off to find a previous post that ran similarly in tone and attitude, and I ended up wiping out all those pearls of wisdom by not saving it before going to […]

White’s Illusion

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Wait, what?

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

DOMtool is a tool that will take your HTML as an input and output the correct DOM methods for inserting that content into a document.
Wait, what?

click here

What happened there? Have a look at the code and see if you can guess:

<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
function waitwhat() {
var p1=document.createElement(’P’);
var txt1=document.createTextNode(’Please check out my blog by clicking on my […]

The Mathlete’s “The Devil and Robot McGee”

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Getting even further off the track, I surf around at Information Architect websites and catch the funny stuff while I’m there. I open fifteen new tabs in my browser to read everything simultaneously.
Xplane, Semantics Studio’s article called “Ïnformation Architecture 3.0“, Argus Center for Information Architecture’s article called “Big Architect, Little Architect“, and finally coming around […]

Wanda’s “How Not To Make Websites”

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Learning way too much way too fast… slow down Web 2.0!
We’re already into Web 3.0, and I haven’t caught up yet!