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I need to bookmark the Cascading Style Cheatsheet one every one of my computers. It seems I’m always forgetting some of this stuff and needing to look it up (I guess if I redesigned more often, I wouldn’t have that problem). This offers a pretty nice presentation of syntax complete with examples.

Wow! It looks like a new season of MI-5 has started. It had been so long, I just assumed it was cancelled. I’d almost removed it from my TiVo season pass. I never know when to safely remove things from my season pass. I assume I can get rid of The Agency, Boomtown, Dead Like Me, dr. vegas and The Office, but I haven’t for fear that I might be wrong about them (despite what I’d heard). I’m even less sure about shows like Out of Order which I assume was just a one off kind of little mini-series, but sort of hope will one day come back. I wonder how many season passes TiVo can hold. Is there any problem with just leaving cancelled shows in there forever hopelessly searching for the next new show to record?

The idea of Camera Mail is very interesting. Attach a disposable camera to a post card with instructions to US Postal Works to take photos of themselves and their work place to document the progress of the mail as it makes its way across the country. The results are a little disappointing, but worth a quick look if you’re at all interested.

I feel like I’m missing something with Wang Qingsong’s China Kaleidoscope series (NSFW due to a bunch of artistic nudity). The huge panoramic shots are gorgeous and obviously set up and posed with great care. I don’t quite understand the story though. I recognize a lot of poses from some classic artworks in the final one. Maybe the others are a similar kind of thing (?) or maybe there’s just a cultural chasm that I can’t quite get across. via

This Low-Rent Rocky Movie is strangely funny in a dopey kind of way. I laughed at several points throughout. I wish I knew if all these bits were set up or if it’s all really a bunch of gorilla theater. I suspect the former, but hope for the latter.

Happy New Year’s!!!!

Tonight, I went up to Pasadena for a New Year’s Eve Party/Rose Parade Float viewing spectacle kind of thing.

It was pretty cold after all our recent rains, but those floats are just INCREDIBLE! They’re made entirely from flowers or flower parts or just botanical this or that, and the attention to detail is truly astonishing. You can’t even believe it unless you get right up on top of them to view it.

I doubt that a lot of that detail really shows up very well on TV. You certainly don’t get a sense of it from looking at the photos I took. Which is really too bad.

Next year, I might just have to go back with a tripod. The whole street seemed to be lit up like high-noon, but in looking at a lot of the flashless shots I took, it was just this side of too dark for the camera to really manage with handheld stuff.