For a Very Big Cheese in the world of web design and CSS, Dunstan Orchard is clearly not in the least bit insecure. His Flickr photostream of Things I Found While Tidying Up is a wonderful glimpse into his life.¹ I'd considered something similar while moving here, but didn't in the end have time...

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Further to my totally awesome and extended post on Monday, and further proof that I'm an idle so and so, I just direct you to Neddie's amanuensis. Of course, he writes a lot less purty than the Nedster, but who can quarrel with:

You drown in a sea of Rank Bullshit. It shrieks at you every da...

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I’ve been enjoying The Human Flower Project ¹ for a couple of weeks now with its eclectic mix of news from the intersection of flowers and culture. When I was a very early visitor, however, Julie posted a thought on “geraniums” that prompted me to get on my hobby horse and ride off in all direcc...

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Maybe the reason humans act so dumb isn’t because of their intellectual frame of reference, or their clan structure, or because they lack historical awareness. Maybe people act dumb because a lot of them are dumb -- dumb as turnips. So stupid they have trouble each morning remembering that their s...

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Neddie draws our attention to two, connected, facts. It is 80 years this week since the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. And the Smithsonian Institution has unearthed a bunch of long-lost pictures taken during the trial.

Being Neddie, he neatly sidesteps the issue everyone else would h...

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