Category Archives: Random Cool Stuff

VGrid for CSS nerds

By admin | Published: June 9, 2010
Here’s a little something I just whipped up for my own uses, but you might find it useful as well: vgrid.css, a CSS style sheet for handling vertical height of objects by em, as a sort of companion to the 960 grid. It’s got vgrid_x classes from 1 to 100; if you’re assigning onscreen elements [...]
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The best cover letter I've ever written

By admin | Published: September 25, 2009
Smashing Magazine (who are an awesome force for goodness in the design world) put a thing on Twitter looking for writers. I responded and they told me to send them “an email with a brief introduction”. So I popped open Gmail and tossed this off a minute ago. Hopefully the Smashing folks will dig it, [...]
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Help me crowd-produce the "Scatterlings + Refugees" video!

By admin | Published: July 22, 2009
There seem to be at least a few fans of Red State Soundsystem out there, right? So I’ve had an idea, and I’m hoping you’ll help me with it. The song “Scatterlings + Refugees” is maybe my favorite song I’ve ever written, and it’s going to be on the debut RSS album, Ghosts In A Burning [...]
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Helping Wolfram Alpha, pt. 1.

By admin | Published: May 20, 2009
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This is how you deal with smarmy local TV news reporters.

By admin | Published: April 9, 2009
Via BoingBoing. This is the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. I love this woman.
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We live in the city of dreams…

By admin | Published: February 19, 2009
Exhibit A: A column I wrote for the Las Vegas CityLife, all the way back in 2006: Remember the months after 9/11? Imagine what would happen to this city if even a quarter of the tourists simply stopped coming one day. Las Vegas has precisely one major industry, and most of the people who work in [...]
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Japan Pledges To Halt Production Of Weirdo Porn That Makes People Puke | The Onion – America's Finest News Source

By admin | Published: February 16, 2009
In what may signal a chastening within the industry, leading film producer Golden Dawn Global issued a press release this week voicing its “humility and bewilderment” and offering to cease international distribution of its blockbuster series Pregnant Ladyboy Sodomized Facedown In The Rice Bowl, a 23-part epic that has reportedly left thousands of viewers feeling [...]
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Light Aircraft On Fire

By admin | Published: February 12, 2009
So here’s what happened. My friend Chris Selcer and I were hanging out on my porch, smoking and chatting, when we heard a noise like the world’s biggest car backfire: BAP-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BAP! Chris immediately said “That’s a plane engine going out.” We looked up…and there, between us and the Strip, was a Southwest Airlines plane…and the right (starboard, [...]
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Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work | The Onion – America's Finest News Source

By admin | Published: February 10, 2009
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source.
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Tod Goldberg: 25 Random Things I Hate About Fucktards On Facebook I Don't Know In The Least But Who, Nonetheless, Are My "Friends"

By admin | Published: February 3, 2009
Word. WORD. T-Go knocks one out of the park. (And unlike the rest of the fucktards, I actually know T-Go, which is why I know that he loves it when I call him T-Go, despite the fact that nobody else does and I’ve never done it before right this second, but it’s still awesome to [...]
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