iPhone compatible liquid layouts

Multi-column goodness in your pants

It amazes me that this has happened. It’s been almost 50 years since these songs were written, and they’re gonna have new lives. You don’t ever expect that in a lifetime. You’re very blessed if you have one “Hello, Dolly,” but to have “Hello, WALL•E” now is more than you dare to dream about.

—Jerry Herman, who wrote Hello, Dolly, on the revitalization of his musical in WALL•E. What a refreshing sentiment, in this era of perpetual copyright and hyperinflated ego, that someone would just be thrilled that people get to enjoy his work generations later.

Gnip (get it?) hopes to solves some of the problems of public APIs

You send them a ping when something gets updated, they handle serving that data to everyone else. Smart, but I think a distributed push mechanism would work better.

merlin:

Coding around Internet Explorer is like planning a meal for someone who’s allergic to eating.

God bless your soul, Merlin

8 fonts you probably don’t use in css, but should

Always good to expand that limited repertoire

This is in no way a political decision. I simply do not feel it is appropriate to honor a person whose epitaph of government service was to have voted against or blocked every civil rights issue that came before the US Congress. His doctrine of negativity, hate, and prejudice cost North Carolina and our nation much that we may never regain

—L.F. Eason, who was forced to resign from his 29-year position at the the NC Standards Laboratory rather than fly flags at half mast. Even in death, that asshole Helms is ruining people’s lives.

Twitter stream from the zombie apocalypse

“PROTIP: you can create an effective diversion/trap using sheep or cattle brains. They go for it.”

Caption overlays using CSS transparency

Sara’s got a nifty pattern for creating caption overlays for photos that work on a variety of layouts. Good stuff.

Sell your Flickr photos to Getty

Flickr and Getty formalize a partnership, which is mostly a good thing, but I suspect that it will only increase the amount of already insufferable gamesmanship happening on the site.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could stand up now and say, okay, these are the post-curation years? The world does not need another linkblog. What is required, frankly, is what we’re supposed to call “content” these days.

—Warren Ellis, The Patchwork Years. Linked!