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Sass Stylesheets »

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I just started using this a couple days ago. It’s essentially a CSS preprocessor that allows you to use variables, arithmetic, functions, and true inclusion. It’s also very good at compressing CSS for you. Zombie Zen is now using it; it shortened my development time significantly.

White Rabbit: Phase II

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After a rather dismal day, I found myself reading my old blog posts about the White Rabbit and wished that I could figure out the latest cryptic clue he had given. Suddenly, right before midnight, I had an inspiration, and discovered the password for the second phase of slowhiterabbit.org.

Your move, Enoch. I look forward to meeting you someday.

This is the trailer for the latest open movie project, Sintel. The goal of these projects is to create a completely open movie: use open source software to create it, and when it’s finished, release all of the assets used to create the movie to the public. The CGI is created in the 3D animation package Blender

For all of my engineering friends out there, I share this comic with you. :) (You may have to click the image to make it larger, it’s kinda hard to share comics of this size).

For all of my engineering friends out there, I share this comic with you. :) (You may have to click the image to make it larger, it’s kinda hard to share comics of this size).

vi: I Love You.

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I’m reading a book about the vi editor right now. For those less UNIX-inclined, vi is a command-line based text editor for UNIX systems like Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. It’s installed on basically every system (in some flavor or another. I prefer strawberry Vim, but I’ve been told the cinnamon variety deserves a second glance) and is remarkably easy to use.

It’s also more powerful than I realized.

The problem is that you need to find a good guide to vi. Its built-in help is wonderful reference, but it can’t get you up and running. For years, I’ve been bound to only a fraction of the commands. No more. Why would I use anything else?

[Cue angry Emacs users]

If my readers are so inclined, I may start posting some vi tips.

The premise behind this video is that Google Chrome is so fast that you can do Mythbusters-style high-speed footage and Chrome will beat a sound wave.

Makes you wonder what connection speed they have. I won’t dispute that the rendering engine is that fast.