If you’re a Web developer, you know the power of CSS. If you’re like me, however, you know the power, but don’t know how to exploit it (or have to develop for older browsers — I hate doing that). For those of you who are still designing pages without CSS, this site will show you what it can do. Click on the links on the right side of that page to see the same site in six different layouts and the only thing that changes between them all is the linked stylesheet. VERY cool, and I wish I could pull stuff off like that (I’m still stuck using tables for layout, thank you very much [grin]).
Month: May 2003
Step back to 1993 – Put Windows 3.11 on a single floppy
Granted, the only things installed are File Manager, Notepad, and Minesweeper, but still a pretty neat trick nonetheless. Thanks to Neil T. for the link. Sadly, I think I have original Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.0 install disks in my closet.
How the well educated try to fail an SAT
Colin P. Fahey has a Masters in Physics from UC Irvine and a BA from Penn. He’s a smart fellow. So as a challenge, he decided to try and take the SAT without getting a single question right. He almost succeeded — he accidentally got two math questions right (how, he’s not quite sure), and scored a combined 400 (people who leave the test entirely blank would’ve scored more). It’s an actually interesting read about the history of the SAT and various IQ tests (and high IQ societies).
So a lady walks into a drug store…
A woman walks into a drug store and asks the druggist for some arsenic.
The druggist asks “Ma’am, what do you want with arsenic?”.
“To kill my husband.”
“I’m sorry Ma’am, I can’t sell you any for that reason.”
The woman then hands him a photo of a man and a woman in a compromising position. The man is her husband and the woman is the druggist’s wife.
He looks at the photo and says, “My apologies, I didn’t realize you had a prescription.”
(thank my cousin for that one)
If you’re going to crap in the woods, bring a bucket
Why I’m reading this in the Detroit Free Press and not in some local news outlets is beyond me (it was AP, so it was probably written by somebody locally anyway). But apparently the folks up in Maupin are getting mad that too many people are just taking dumps in the woods without cleaning up after themselves, and could now be fined up to $500 for the violation. Full Story. Maupin is a very small town about an hour or so north of Bend, and is a very popular place for white-water rafting.
Want to get HDTV signals for free?
Go to AntennaWeb, plug in your address, and point your antenna to the direction it tells you (and make sure you have the type of antenna it says you need), and you’ll be surprised how many local networks you can get in HDTV and/or digital signals without paying for a thing.
Weird eBay feedback
Many moons ago, you might have remembered when eBay feedback wasn’t required to be tied to a particular transaction. You could post feedback on anybody, whether you bought from them or not. It made for some folks who took advantage of that, and left some interesting feedback. From b3ta.
All the good domains are taken
I should’ve tried harder to get this gem (from NTK). Reminds me of some other winners I posted about before.
9/11 Victims’ families win $104 million judgement
The bad news? They have to collect it from Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. When you find them to collect, would you mind telling the FBI?