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.
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February 17th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Hi Jennifer,
I’m happy you liked some of my CSS convention ideas. Like I was saying in the article, I find that any convention is better than none, so it makes my code more predictable, meaning you know where to expect to find stuff. It helps even if I’m the only one managing the CSS and for a team it’s even more important.
Thanks and all the best,
Stoyan
February 17th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
I’d like to point out that Wikitravel is neither owned by or associated with Real People (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_People). Please don’t get Skip Stephenson’s lawyer on my ass.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:57 am
Sorry about that, Evan! I put that trademark in jokingly. I’ve never heard of that show (that’s too telling of my youth). I took the ™ out.