What makes a number cool?

I think a word that sums up the key characteristic of cool numbers is “canonicality.” Numbers that appear in this list should be somehow fundamental to the nature of mathematics.

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Whenever George Bush (U.S. President) is visiting or sending fellow Americans somewhere he seams to manage to start a war or at least some massive riots. One would think that a man with less than average education (and intelligence?) should not be able to have such a massive impact. Therefore I’ve asked myself the following question; Who’s really pulling the strings??

A very thorough and highly relevant article about why different browsers (and browser versions) render HTML differently.

This is a common question in the CSS forums and one I encounter almost on a daily basis. Therefore I am going to go right back to basics for this article and explain the fundamental reason why your site may look slightly different in various browsers.

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The long waiting period’s finally come to an end. As you might have seen already Matthew Mullenweg announced yesterday that WordPress now has a brand-spanking new plugins directory where you can browse, download, rate, and comment on all your favorite plugins.

The front plugins page lists the most popular, newest, recently updated plugins along with a featured plugin on top. The sub-section provides easy access to whatever you’re looking for through the neatly organized tag cloud (keywords) sorted by number of available plugins (I think).

Through the WordPress “Dashboard” feed update any developer can now reach millions of people by contributing and keep his/hers plugins updated on regular basis. I believe this is one of the best marketing stunts ever as it really works both ways. The developer gets massive traffic (great for SEO) and WordPress gets even more people involved with their continuously growing blogging platform.

I believe I shall now start creating and contributing my very own plugins…

This tutorial explains how to create a collapsible DIV with JavaScript and CSS. A simple trick that needs to be used more often. Just as I thought I’d publish a link to the tutorial it appears that the website (WordPress in particular) is experiencing extreme difficulties. When this is sorted however you’ll be able to read all about how to create a collapsible DIV.

In the meanwhile you might want to check out some other cool show/hide CSS/JS tricks.

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