Literal Barrage

Ne'er has that particular Homerism been more appropriate than at this moment.

Roman Cortes constructed the above artwork, a feat which is unremarkable until you realize that he created the entire thing using HTML and CSS. Ned Batchelder has the (appropriately) jQuery-animated version of the construction to demonstrate just how flippin' sweet the whole thing [...]

Words I never thought I'd see used together: "Web standards", "coding", "hip hop beat", "rap". And yet, we have this:

"Nice find"/hat-tip goes to Aron.

Regular readers will no doubt have noticed that this site is undergoing some visual changes. I had grown tired of the old look and thus am undertaking a bit of a rehabbing. There are all sorts of nits to fix (the archives page doesn't work correctly, for instance) and I felt that I [...]

The full reason for sporadic updates here at Literal Barrage can finally be revealed:
I've been spending a good amount of time working on a side project with two other talented WordPress hackers, Stephane and Viper. The project, WPhone Admin plugin, is a WordPress plugin that aims to make administering your WP blog[s] from a [...]

FaceSpace and MyBook are out, these badboys are in. I've stumbled across a few "social networking" sites over the past few days that are definitely worth a look or two from you, my loyal reader[s]:

Open Source Food: exchange recipes, have your own rated by your fellow man and drool over the quick pictures of [...]

My browsers on each and every machine I have access to have been collecting open tabs like some hideously geeky HTTP-fueled version of Garbage Pail Kids/M.U.S.C.L.E. figurines/Pogs/[insert some other non-Pokemon hackneyed pop cultural reference here] and so, in order to unburden myself fully, I offer the following compendium of links. Consider it some sort [...]

Do not adjust your vertical nor your horizontal — I'm participating in CSS Naked Day '07 as a way of "showing off" the X/HTML behind my long-delayed theme. It's a way of promoting good markup (I think I come pretty close there) and of just plain gettin' nekkid in public.
*grin*
The mellow tones of my [...]