Neatly Sliced

This new category, links, features my web discoveries for the week. This of it as an equivalent to kottke’s remaindered links.

General

• Video of a man who survives 80mph skydive fall when his parachute and emergency chute both fail.
• Woman survives when her paraglider shoots her up to 32000 feet. She returned encased in ice and frostbitten on her face.
• Wikitravel is a great wiki resource if you’re looking to travel and would like tips from Real People. (Removed the ™ that I put in as a joke because apparently it really is a ™…. Thanks Evan for the note! Sorry!)
• Line Rider is fun, but this video of a master Line Rider drawing puts all others to shame.

Tech

• I’m #30 on BuzzFeed’s buzz. Dear BuzzFeed, I never said I didn’t like your content; I said I didn’t particularly love it. I note a distinction between the two, the latter being that I think it’s okay, but it’s not the best thing since sliced watermelon. No hard feelings, eh?
• ALA’s Multi-Column Layout article has changed the way I think of CSS design. Way to think outside the box; I cannot give enough props.
• I was confounding myself with my stylesheets and the ill-mannered conventions I was applying to them. PHPied’s “CSS Coding Conventions” suggests some great conventions that have immensely improved my stylesheets. I especially like the cascading naming convention, dash separated, to improve selector readability.