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Via Simian Design, apcmag.com: Opinion with David Emberton, a most ridiculous article that makes me wonder just where David got his material. Here we have someone who has obviously been burned in some fashion by the emergence of web standards and his only reaction is to take the ignorance stance and wave it all off as a fad. Given my love for CSS, David’s rant on them really got my goat:

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a classic example of the madness. Reared in a cubicle somewhere, they’re pitched as the pinnacle of document styling. CSS are public, free and future-proof. Sounds great until you realise that: a) you need a degree to understand them; b) Microsoft doesn’t care about them; and c) they suck. What’s more, CSS have been promoted as “the future” since the mid-90s, and by now the only thing keeping them alive is a steady stream of guilt and the occasional Movable Type installation.

Anyone who says that CSS is hard to learn has obviously never taken the time to learn this simple rule-set language. How much easier can you get than selecting an element and applying clearly worded rules to that element? Not easy enough if David feels the need for a college degree, a subscription to geek magazine, five computers in your room, no social life or all of the above.

Via Simian Design, 100 Movies That Deserve More Love. Among them Equilibrium, Contact, A Knight’s Tale and The Prophecy; some of my more favorite movies. This is a list you will never see in Entertainment Weekly or Hollywood Access. And what’s more, it comes from people who are not paid for their opinions. No, rather these guys say what the want even if it is against the social grain. My kind of critics! It’s about time I found someone I can agree with.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

As I make my rounds this morning, I am greeted with sites to amuse the passer-bys. Today the world revels in a day of humor and trickery. From the common weblogger to the upper echelon of respected jouranlists, “odd events” are being laid side by side with articles not so follied. I would have to say my favorite so far would have to be the design switcheroo done by stopdesign and mezzoblue. For a more extensive list of 2004 April Fool’s Day tricks online, see Waxy.org’s listing and urgo.org’s listing. Also have a read on April Fool’s Day history.