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First check out the Signage then check out the rest of this artist’s great site – perhaps starting with the about page. Thanks, riley dog.

Owen Briggs' marvelous Box Lessons are helping me fix a cross-platform layout problem that has been bothering me for months. The exact bug was identified and solved with help from glish’s CSS hacks and, ultimately, Tantek Celik’s box model hack. (Add a link to CSS resources at the Web Standards Project and you now have access to the sum of all human knowledge on the CSS box model.) So I think I’ve finally solved the issue with the sidebar taking on various widths between IE5/Mac and the IEs on Windows, causing that gutter over there to grow and shrink. Unfortunately, there’s been this stupid horizontal scroll bar appearing under IE5/Mac lately – and come to think of it, I’m afraid I might be introducing it to Windows with this latest solution. In any case, if you are seeing something unusual (or … usual) and want to comment on the layout, please [reply].

“Face it. They’re the team we all wish we had in Boston.” (The Globe’s most popular story of the week.)

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Nuclear Power & Terrorism at The Nation. (Now that you have your Cipro, don’t you think it’s time to pick up some potassium iodide?)

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Larry (‘Superfly’) Ellison getting his wings clipped, hopefully.

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So there's a serious attempt to stifle debate. But, of course, God bless the Net. I keep getting more articles of various dissenting opinions e-mailed to me; naturally, some of them are crazy and some I don't agree with at all. But you can't shut everyone up. The big media have been very intimidated, but not the Web.

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Now try to see yourself leaping to your feet and commanding the rest of the passengers, "I am taking control of this plane! Defy me and you will regret it!" First, you will feel like an idiot. Second, you are unarmed, and the most vulnerable parts of your anatomy have never been more inviting, or accessible, targets.

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UK potheads celebrate reclassification.

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Check out Realwar model figures and then browse the rest of the inflammatory propaganda tucked away here.

Howard Kurtz, How to botch a crisis.

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Apple release iPod – updated live

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap when it comes to music. And iPod fits in your pocket. Never before possible.” 3 breakthroughs in iPod: Ultra-portable. Ultra-thin hard drive: 1.8 inch hard drive is .2 inches thick. 5 Gigabytes: 1000 songs at 160K bit rate[!]

Displaying Photographs on the Web

My purpose here is to give examples of and make suggestions for various presentation options we have when displaying our photographs on web pages. Why bother? Because we don’t mount plain photographs directly to our walls, so why place plain photographs alone on our web pages? A gallery or museum will take care in their choice of framing and placement of photographs within a space, don’t our online exhibits deserve the same attention? The careful choice of a frame and background color serves to visually seperate the image from the surroundings, drawing the eye toward the photograph without distracting the viewer.

One last rumor to drive you mad with desire before you even know what exactly you lust for: SpyMac.com (nope, never heard of them either) predicts the “iWalk,” a combo PDA and MP3 player with handwriting recognition and Airport network access.

Pravda: “Old women sell venereal diseases”.

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Best A List Apart ever: “Double Typographic Issue For Your Pleasure.”

The Mac Observer Interview With Online Comics Pioneer Scott McCloud On Comics, His Mac, & Windows

• AP: Mexican songs chronicle attacks.
• LAT: guitar hunting in Mexico.
• DIY sugar skulls.

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The Ultimate Guide to Shooting Rubber Bands is illustrated and quite comprehensive. Also, Cards as Weapons.

While I’m looking for info on its origin, you might want to read an article called the “real” deal about nuclear, bio, and chem attacks.

Before BSE surfaced, no one had ever accurately assessed just how many uses there are for a dead cow. There had been some guesses. According to the authors of the British inquiry, "it has been said, and not altogether facetiously, that the only industry in which some part of the cow is not used is concrete production." But if the concrete is loaded onto a truck with rubber tires and driven down a paved road, or if the production company's annual report is printed on glossy paper, or if the company office uses plywood in its construction, then cow parts are involved. The paper is probably coated with a gelatinous chemical ultimately derived from tallow. The tires and the pavement are manufactured, in part, with bovine fatty acids, and the plywood is bound together with adhesive made partly of cow blood.

Proud to be an American? Pledge allegiance to this:

Among the alternative strategies under discussion are using drugs or pressure tactics, such as those employed occasionally by Israeli interrogators, to extract information. Another idea is extraditing the suspects to allied countries where security services sometimes employ threats to family members or resort to torture.

"What was most noticeable is your inability to work," she said. "I was trying to read a speech. I could hardly see. The mesh part in front of your eyes is like having 15 screen doors in front of you. You start seeing double."

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Nothing seems to track: Gov. George Pataki said he was taking Cipro but wouldn't get tested. Senator John Breaux said he got tested but might not take Cipro. Dan Rather said he hadn't been tested or taken Cipro. Tom Brokaw ended the NBC news with "In Cipro we trust."

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