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css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design

Now, this is pretty cool - very beautiful CSS designs.

Littering a dark and dreary road lay the past relics of browser–specific tags, incompatible DOMs, and broken CSS support.

The css Zen Garden invites you to relax and meditate on the important lessons of the masters. Begin to see with clarity. Learn to use the (yet to be) time–honored techniques in new and invigorating fashion. Become one with the web.

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ok, here are a few links i stumbled on today:

perl.com: CGI::Kwiki [May. 13, 2003]
David Nelson, could you step aside for a few moments?

The tailor of a cat CAT PRIN
Google architecture
Joel on Software - The Iceberg Secret, Revealed

The Amazing Baconizer: The Home Page
Smart Bribes - Centcom’s real secret weapon. By Fred Kaplan

Boston.com / Business - negroponte’s vision
Why Will Wireless Camera phones Revolutionize the Photography Industry by Evan Nisselson- The Digital Journalist

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This all started when I tried to read Jon Udell’s weblog through a web browser on my Nokia 3650 - it loaded around 360kb worth of stuff and the layout was such that i needed to scroll for about 10 minutes to actually get to the articles. Needless to say I was not very happy with this. So I emailed Jon and he gave me an idea putting his RSS feed through an XSLT transformet out outputting simple HTML that I could feed to my Nokia. Not knowing much about XSLT i took Aggie’s default stylesheet and hacked it a bit to output simple HTML.
Ok, so now I can convert RSS to HTML through an XSLT processor, but it’s only a first step - this has to happen online for me to be of any use. Again browsing through Jon’s articles gave me an idea of of using the w3.org XSLT service to make the transformation. And it works like a charm! Except I only get excerpts from the article not the whole thing - again I emailed Jon for help, we’ll see what he will come up with. He’s supposed to have an alternate RSS feed with whole articles but somehow it does not seem to work. I’m sure we’ll work with out though.
Ok, so what else can I do with this? Hmm, I have my news aggregators feed list in OPML, maybe I can convert the list to a bunch of links that would use the w3.org XSLT service to render RSS on the fly in HTML?
Few clicks later, and here it is!. Now I just create small HTML page with a link to it, so it’s easily accessible and voila, a poor mans RSS reader for mobile phones is complete!

Wow, that was pretty simple and quite powerful. The power of this kind of ad hoc scripting never ceases to amaze me!

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Iraqi teen shares her diary of war | csmonitor.com

Iraqi teen shares her diary of war

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via Parking lot: boundlesscuriosity…

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ThePhysics of Space Gardens

A tiny bubble of air hangs suspended inside a droplet of water. The dropletrests in the cup of a delicate green leaf, yet the stalk doesn’t bend at all.

Courtesy of NASA

<i>Beautiful!</i>

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This is a message from Mitchell Ratner, a Dharmacharya and Order of Interbeing member in the tradition of Vietnamese Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

Support Mindfulness and Reconciliation in Israel and Palestine

Dear Friends,

As some of you may know, a group of Israeli and Palestinian practitioners in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh have been working this past year to bring authentic peace to the Middle East through the practices of mindfulness, deeplistening, and reconciliation.

The Being Together as One group has held mindfulness retreats and workshops inurban settings, Kibbutzim, and Arab communities. Several events are planned for June, 2003, and the organizers are asking for the support of the

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John Gilmore’s home page
Disarming the United States.

The Bush Administration should be forced by United Nations resolutionsto surrender its “weapons of mass destruction” or face the consequences. “Any government that repeatedly threatens and attacks other soveriegn countrieswithout provocation, that holds massive stocks of nuclear and conventionalweapons, that tortures its own citizens and those of other countries, thatrefuses to follow its own constitution and laws as well as internationaltreaties which it co-created and signed, that holds 500,000 political prisonersin its jails, that imprisons the largest number and percentage ofits people in the world… Any such government needs to immediately disarmand submit to a regime change, or face the consequences from the internationalcommunity.” See also thePicturesfrom the Iraq war that the US tried to censor so that Americans couldnot see them.

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Cheri Huber-Zen Teacher, Writer, Speaker-One Less Act of Violence

So often we look out at the condition of the world with a sense of hopelessness. There is so much to be done, so much that is “wrong” –what can one person do? A lot. One person can do a great deal. First we can be kind to ourselves. One person can be kind to another. At every opportunity, one person can make a decision toward loving kindness and compassion and away from violence. Two pairs of running shoes, one has leather, one doesn’t. Can you choose the non-leather? This meal could you not have meat? Not every meal–this meal. Could you use the product without mink oil? Could you brake for a squirrel? Could you let that person in to the traffic ahead of you? Could you help an old person with something heavy? Could you…? Hundreds of opportunities every day. Could you just let yourself open your heart to a few? Not all. Just a few. And could you let yourself feel good about your effort? If so, you’ve already improved the entire universe. All that’s necessary is one small step at a time. In each moment we can. Choosing one less act of violence.

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Cheri Huber-This Side of Nirvana Excerpt

“Our practice is quite simple, really. It’s to pay attention. Not to do anything. Not to get anything. Not to learn anything. Not to change anything. But to pay attention, because everything you are seeking is present in each and every moment. If you’re busy trying to change, you’re missing it. Don’t worry about trying to do life differently. Just see how it is.”

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National Story - canada.com network

U.S. says Canada cares too much about liberties
Terrorism report also says too little spent on police

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Boing Boing: A Directory of WonderfulThings

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