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Oliver Willis objectively supports rounding up Bon Jovi fans.

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I know this war can't be about control of oil, and we're supposed to look past Dick Cheney's revolving-door history from first gulf war to Halliburton, where his contacts in the gulf came in somewhat handy, back into the government in time fo rthe next gulf war and hey, look, if it isn't ol' Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (cf. LBJ's long history with Brown & Root as depicted in Robert Caro's biographical series) rushing into Iraq to help put out them oil fires, fresh off the deals to build prison cells down in Gitmo.

For the ooooooil minded, here's the shorter yesterday's New York Times (login mediajunkie, password mediajunkie):

Bush, Pleased by Progress, Tries to Lower Expectations
"Tommy Franks put a plan in place that moved on those oil fields quickly, and at least in the south, they are secure," Mr. Bush said.

But nobody seems to mind Richard Perle's side-deals, so I guess the appearance that Cheney engages in influence-peddling will pass from the headlines with no visible consequences.

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Web maestro Mark Pilgrim is always very generous about documenting his experiments and his solutions. In his Dive into Mark blog he's working on a new design and has posted a discussion of the "pure CSS" technique he's using to produce navigation tabs.

This is something I've been trying to understand for a long time myself. A lot of smart CSS and standards-compliant design gurus have discussed aspects of it online, but not yet in a way that I could fully wrap my head around.

I found one thing Mark wrote oddly reassuring, "This CSS stuff is hard; don't let anybody tell you different." You can either learn this stuff the hard way, by puzzling it all out yourself, or the easy way, by following Mark's memex trails.

categories: fireweaver

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