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Sweet Merciful Crap!
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…
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Make It Easy For The Spiders To Crawl What You Provide
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.
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Apologies For The Virtual Mess
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 needed some…
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About That Super-Secret Project…
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…
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The Next Generation Of Social Networking Sites
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…
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Super Link Fighter II: Ultra Hyper Mega Championship Tab Dump Edition
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 of…
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Naked Time!
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…
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Up From Humble Beginnings
It’s hard to believe, but Google, the current King of the Internet[s], sprang up from humble beginnings at Stanford back in 1998. Want proof? Here are the pictures that capture the ragtag nature of the first revision of the Little Search Engine That Could And Eventually Did.
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Required Daily Viewing
First off, a love song, sung by geeks, gone horribly, horribly awry: Next up, one of the absolute high points in Western action cinema, the car chase sequence from Bullitt: From Web 0 to Web 2.0 in five minutes’ time: Lastly, rock out to the oxymoronic “Heck No! (I’ll Never Listen To Techno)”: