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For those interested in Microformats, Tantek announced something new at Technorati - Pingerati. Still not sure about Microformats and what they are? Here’s Tantek’s concise writeup on what they are and what they mean:
Microformats enable any site to easily publish common data types such as tags, licenses, contacts, events, reviews, listings, etc. on any page [...]

No doubt, the title of this post, and that of the source posting, will perk some designers’/developers’ ears. Now yes, CSS is of value, but as CSS Naked Day showed us, good HTML markup is truly key. You can have the best CSS in the world, but without a good valid (X)HTML structure, that CSS [...]

I just found out I passed my advancement test for Petty Officer Second Class. For those who don’t know, I’m enlisted in the Navy Reserve as an Information Systems Technician, or IT. Come August, I’ll be IT2 Ramsey.
You’ll have to excuse me while I dance on the deck for a bit. I may not [...]

I loved this comment my wife made when I was going over the importance of web standards and the separation of content from presentation:
This feels like finding inner beauty. As this catches on, (web)design will become like fashion. You can put a person in all these designer clothing: designer jeans, ripped jeans, short skirts, long [...]

If you haven’t heard of Microformats yet, you soon will. They’re simmering, waiting for the opportunity to boil over into everything on the Web. There are two microformats that seem to be the most developed: hCard and hCalendar. One deals with contact info, the other event information. hCard is a one-to-one tranlsation of the [...]

George Lucas being interviewed by the Associated Press in 2004:
AP: Why not release both the originals and special editions on DVD?
Lucas: The special edition, that’s the one I wanted out there. The other movie, it’s on VHS, if anybody wants it. … I’m not going to spend the, we’re talking millions of dollars here, the [...]