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Gotta love this article, “Free Association While High” from Andrew Sullivan's blog The Daily Dish.
Apparently, getting stoned increases ones ability to relate seemingly unrelated things together.
But I wouldn't know anything about that.
(Via @diabola)

Posh CSS
(tags: css web-development web-design)

I just want to highlight the fact that it’s been 50 years since the Greensboro sit-ins, which helped spark the Civil Rights Movement, eventually leading to the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed segregation. The Awl has a great story on it: Very Recent History: The Greensboro Sit-Ins. It links further to an article by […]

So, The Oatmeal always has hilarious stuff. And now, he’s eviscerated my favorite piece of punctuation. And it’s hilarious. Go on, check out “How to use a semicolon”.

So I spotted this, and am just astounded. It's the opening crawl from Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, done only using HTML & CSS. Caveat, of course: being that it's bleeding edge CSS stuff, it only works in Safari 4.0.4 or WebKit nightly.

So, I collect desktop backgrounds (wallpaper, to you Windows folks). I have somewhere north of 800 desktop backgrounds, of all different subjects. But I really love the abstract, simple stuff. And then I found Simple Desktops. Just awesome. As they say on their about page “Do you want less, but not boring? Then you want […]

So, I know I just posted about this, but I watched a few more of these, and the version of Gnarls Barkley's “Crazy” is just a really awesome, different take on the song. If I could, I'd embed it here, but there's no mechanism for that at the moment, so head on over and check […]

Dive Into HTML5
(tags: html html5 resource reference)

Premailer: pre-flight for HTML email
(tags: css email html)

So my buddy Brian posted this tidbit, Funniest thing I've seen today., and pointed out this new Twitter user: @newlywedsontjob. Seriously, go check it out & start with the oldest tweet; this is an epic prank.
(Via Off The Grid : Fred)

Chez over at Deus Ex Malcontent links to a New York Times article which reveals that one of CNN's contributors, who happens to be against health care reform, is, in fact, in the pocket of the private health insurance industry. Disgusting. Having a conflict of interest is one level of unethical, but failing to disclose […]