Jul
31
Maintainable Stylesheets
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I don’t recall how I found it, but here’s an excellent article on creating stylesheets that are easy to maintain and use:
CSS article by Jina Bolton at ThinkVitamin
The author also includes links to some other good articles on the topic, including one by Jeff Croft, who’s a co-author of a CSS book I recently bought from Amazon that has a section on building CSS Frameworks.
That’s something I’ve been trying to put together for both CSS and PHP, for things I use on practically every site - like automatically inserting “last updated” and a copyright snippet that updates automatically when a new year rolls around.
Jul
7
New Words Added to Dictionary
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Some interesting ones, particularly the “mondegreen.” Love the examples!
And then there’s “mondegreen.” In a category of its own, it describes words mistaken for other words. A mondegreen most often comes from misunderstood phrases or lyrics.
It comes from an old Scottish ballad in which the lyric “laid him on the green” has been confused over time with “Lady Mondegreen.”
Among the best-known modern examples: “There’s a bathroom on the right” in place of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “There’s a bad moon on the rise” and “‘Scuse me, while I kiss this guy” in place of “kiss the sky” in the 1967 Jimi Hendrix classic “Purple Haze.”
Merriam-Webster unveils new dictionary words
They’re tickled enough by that one to request submissions at their website.