Oh great, another repulsive TV show. "House" builds on the grand tradition of selfish and otherwise offensive characters championed most recently by "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "Judging Amy" by making a star of a character who's a total jerk. House probably doesn't make house calls, but it's just as well. I wouldn't want him in...
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I've figured out where all those socks go that mysteriously disappear in the laundry--they are transformed into bolts and appears in boxes with unassembled barbeque grills.

Sam Ruby, secretary for the IETF working group that's creating the Atom protocol specification, has scheduled all open proposals for the format for discussion or for closure. With fifteen proposals scheduled for discussion and three for closure, it's a much bigger batch than usual. Is it too much all at once, or are we really...
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What we need is a trojan performer who gets up to a level where they get to perform an entire song without getting cut off, and then one day they come in with a song about how Simon is a jerk, or how they're proud to have incited the rudest comment he ever made.

In...
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When was the last time you made a design adjustment to every page of your website? When was the last time you wanted to make a design adjustment to every page of your site? If the two dates aren't the same, I'm guessing that you're not making optimum use of website templates. Today, I'll discuss...
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When starting out with CSS, you may be tempted to assign a class or two to every item on your page. Today's tip will help you to accomplish the same amount of styling without overly littering your HTML with classes. The trick is to use descendant selectors.

Let's say, for example, most of your page...
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Last night, I did a few experiments taking pictures with a 15 second exposure using the Canon PowerShot A75 that my dad gave my wife and I for Christmas. Here are two of the resulting photos.

This is a view of my neighboor's yard that's visible through my living room window, and is the scen...
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You've learned HTML. You've built your website. It looks just fine. Why should you bother to learn CSS? Why should you overhaul your existing site to use CSS? More to the point, why should you spend time that you could be using doing other important things learning and implementing CSS? Is it really worth it?...
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The Atom Syntax mailing list seems ripe for another skirmish in the Holy War of technology that's being fought in the name of RDF. Disciples of the Way of the Religious Resource Description Framework are raising their voices and denouncing heathen claims to extensibility without RDF. Unbelievers are sounding their retorts that XML is plenty...
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I used to think that mobile homes were universally trashy places that only people with no shame would deign to inhabit. Then, after a six month contracting stint during which I earned a lot of extra cash, I bought a mobile home and have lived in it for four of the last five years. I...
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