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17:00:00 :: Monkey News

i'm not really sure what to make of this:

After intensive treatment, Natasha's condition stabilized. When she was released from the clinic, Natasha began walking upright.

"i've never seen or heard of this before," said Horowitz. One possible explanation is brain damage from the illness, he said.

So…. one possible explanation for the development of bipedal man was brain damage.

And in wholly unrelated news, anyone else get the feeling that Ms. Spears doesn't really have nipples?

(that or taking off that dress involved a great deal more tequila than any woman should be required to drink)

Hetta

2004-07-21 21:29:23

Perhaps that's the only way her stomach doesn't hurt her... the monkey, that is. B. Spears has had plastic tits for ages, no nipples anywhere. But then, she's a human Barbie doll, so what else can you expect?
Valette

2004-07-22 08:15:16

i bet she has a wide assortment of velcro-on boobies of varrying sizes, colors, and with/without nipples.
steveo

2004-07-22 16:30:56

I want velcro boobies. I would stick them all over a sweater and get on the bus and try striking up conversation with random people.

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12:33:22 :: Krispy Kreme Slurpees

The chain introduced a new line of frozen drinksWednesday, including frozen original kreme — a drinkable version of the company's signature doughnut — raspberry, latte and double chocolate.

blech

[via]

What do you think, sirs?

09:08:06 :: Solving IE's CSS Bugs Via A Single Statement

All Praise and Cookies to DrDoc:

And, in fact, it appears that the display property holds the answer and solution to all of the above bugs. Finally, no need to memorize different bugs or different solutions, hacks, their pros and cons. There is just one bug, and one solution!

Sure enough, it works. i've been dealing with a Peek-a-boo problem and sure enough, setting display:inline-block to the hidden elements solved the problem. YAY!!!

Now, if only i can come up with a similar solution to FireFox 0.9's font overflowing it's float container…

D'oh. Stupid members only restriction (and stupid me for not clearing my cookies before i checked with a different browser)

The sum of it is that the guy thought about all the various hacks and fixes and tried to think about what the root problem was, and why IE was pushing so hard for the currently invalid "display:block-inline" tag to be accepted as part of CSS 2.1., so he investigated the function and discovered that it seemed to address a good many of the problems.

The article explains it much better than i'm going to, but the freebie version of this is you may want to examine setting "display:inline" to solve things like double margins for floated elements and duplicate characters, and "display:inline-block" to either the item or the parent (again, bit of experimentation may be required for you to determine which) to solve things like peek-a-boo, unscrollable content, pixel jog, and creeping text.

i'm not going to duplicate the article because that's unfair to the original producers, but that should be more than enough to get you going.

Valette

2004-07-21 13:01:51

looks like its a members-only topic, and im not going to pay for any subscription. was that the gist of it? set display:inline-block to, what, all hidden elements?
Valette

2004-07-21 16:12:06

spiff. thanks!
DaveP

2004-07-22 04:15:50

Or if you just want to punish IE users, you can crash their browser for 'em. No really. Don't click on that if you're running IE.

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Hetta

2004-07-21 21:29:23

Perhaps that's the only way her stomach doesn't hurt her... the monkey, that is. B. Spears has had plastic tits for ages, no nipples anywhere. But then, she's a human Barbie doll, so what else can you expect?

Valette

2004-07-22 08:15:16

i bet she has a wide assortment of velcro-on boobies of varrying sizes, colors, and with/without nipples.

steveo

2004-07-22 16:30:56

I want velcro boobies. I would stick them all over a sweater and get on the bus and try striking up conversation with random people.