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Saturday 7 March 2009
Five Favorite HTML Elements
Today I’m in a “gee, I feel like starting a conversation about HTML” mood, so g’wan. List your top five favorite HTML elements from any version of HTML (including 5). Describe why you love this element, how you tend to use it (or if it’s obsolete, why you wish it weren’t), and include any tips for styling, scripting or cross-browser issues regarding the element.
Your list should contain only HTML elements, but your descriptions can include any CSS or script samples, links to your own work (go ahead, show off your stuff!) and any other related techniques you’d like to talk about.
There’s a book, t-shirt and other swag available to the top three most interesting entries. There’s nothing fair about the way I’ll give these out, it’ll be based solely on the top three responses I think are most interesting, useful or in need of an in-depth response.
Ready, set, GO!
Filed under: HTML, browsers, css, giveaways and fun, javascript, nmby, software, standards, w3c
Posted by: Molly | 20:51 | Comments (53)
Sunday 6 July 2008
To Challenge and Frighten
Challenge and sometimes frighten people.
Filed under: creativity, cults of personality, faith(less), how we will be, microthought, nmby, policies, revolution, society
Posted by: Molly | 02:44 | Comments (19)
Friday 4 July 2008
What is Independence to You?
Today is the 4th of July, which is independence day in the U.S. We party with feasts and drinks and fireworks.
It’s a great tradition. Have you tried the hot dogs? Beef, hot mustard, sauerkraut.
Still, I’m concerned with the core values of Independence. Concerned that the idea that independence is not at all what we have, even though it might be what we thought we set out to have.
Independence to Me
Is believing everything I do matters, even if it doesn’t.
Filed under: how we will be, molly asks you, nmby, personal, religion, society
Posted by: Molly | 07:41 | Comments (22)
Monday 14 April 2008
What About Those Handles and Nicks?
DID YOU THINK I MEANT A SHAVING ACCIDENT? I’ve had a few of those, due to certain handles, nicks and other slips.
This evening the discussion is about our online nickname stories. We all have them! My very first online handle/nick was “guitargirl” on the “Q-Link (Quantum Link)” service, offered to Commodore 64 users (some Apples, too, and later Amigas).
I had an external 300 baud Hayes modem. It was the size of a large tissue box.
Over the years I’ve had a bunch of other “Handles and Nicks” – from BBS silliness on to whatever forms of “molly” I could grab.
So what about your handles, and your nicks? Good stories always welcome,
xoM
Filed under: creativity, just fun, nmby
Posted by: Molly | 17:22 | Comments (44)
Monday 24 March 2008
For the Love of Maps (where to go from here)
Since childhood, maps have captured me. It’s not a unique conquest – many of us love to study maps.
Maybe it was my father beside me, driving along and asking where next? I was always the best at maps, and my dad liked me for it.
It could be that travel is so important to me for my love of maps, but I know so many other people who’ve expressed this same passion.
For the Love of Maps!
Now we should figure out where we go from here.
Filed under: faith(less), nmby, poetry & fiction, pop culture
Posted by: Molly | 15:32 | Comments (29)
Saturday 15 March 2008
Your Best Pop, Your Worst
NEEDING TO GET AWAY FROM STANDARDS and browsers and conferences, I’m interested in a conversation about the best and worst pop culture right now.
Whether journalism, fiction, television, film, photography, illustration, diaries or mixes thereof, I really need your help expanding my horizons.
It can only help!
I’ve been watching “Ashes to Ashes” and waiting for a new episode of the “Big Bang Theory.”
What are you following? Reading? Watching? Doing?
Share your worst, your best!
Filed under: blogging, community, creativity, faith(less), humor, molly asks you, nmby, poetry & fiction, pop culture, society
Posted by: Molly | 19:23 | Comments (68)
Thursday 8 November 2007
mathematical integral equation for web versioning
A bit of levity during the W3C TPAC from the wonderful T.V. Raman, presenting the closing panel of the day, Cracks & Mortars.
Filed under: conferences, humor, nmby, photos, standards, w3c, web design and development
Posted by: Molly | 12:53 | Comments (13)
Wednesday 31 October 2007
Self Portrait: Witchy Woman
How about yours?
Filed under: blog slut, costume play, creativity, molly asks you, nmby, photos, pop culture
Posted by: Molly | 01:11 | Comments (12)
Wednesday 17 October 2007
Redesign or FAIL?
Since about six months ago I’ve been talking about a rebrand/redesign.
I had some exceptional work presented to me, and I also had really great input from a variety of web leaders.
But you know what? As flawed as it might be (like me putting inline style everywhere, LazyMols) I really still am attached to this design. Patrick Lauke worked on it with me.
I’ve asked some of our top designers including Bryan Veloso, Dan Rubin, Christopher Schmitt and Andy Clarke to weigh in on my rebrand.
Nothing inspires me. Patrick was the original genius, and I still look at this web site, despite its flaws, as exactly what and who I am. I think Patrick really captured me, and now I need to think about next redesign steps.
What do you thinik?
Filed under: community, creativity, faith(less), innovation, nmby, professional, society, software, standards, web design and development
Posted by: Molly | 02:04 | Comments (48)
Saturday 28 July 2007
Kai the CSS Guy’s Transport
Is this what CSS has brought us to?
Filed under: community, creativity, humor, nmby, photos, pop culture, web design and development
Posted by: Molly | 14:27 | Comments (20)
Wednesday 25 July 2007
Creativity Jam Session With Eric Meyer: Ashore
Check out this great photo from Eric Meyer and share your creativity.
I’m really biased. That’s the Jersey Shore, or “Down the Shore” as we Jersey-ites say. Memories of my own childhood in that there photo.
Filed under: community, creativity, nmby, photos, travel
Posted by: Molly | 14:09 | Comments (10)
Thursday 31 May 2007
Not Me But You: “Maybe”
There are people in my life that are so incredible.
Today I honor the friend who has stuck by me for nearly a decade no matter what. Michael is a musician, and several friends like Eric and Jeffrey have met Michael. No easy personality, but it takes one to know one perhaps. He grows. I grow. We grow.
Here’s a song called “Maybe” with a link to a directory with the m4a version and some photos. There’s an MP3 version in there now as well as a compressed RAR, courtesy Face and Thacker (thanks guys)! In the meantime, I hope you’ll appreciate the people around you as much as I’m learning to do, again.
Maybe
By Michael William Forkan
I love a girl and her name is Maybe
she doesn’t have the power to save me
and everything
is exactly what it is
All of my life it’s been the same way
can’t help falling on the dark days
that make you wanna die make you wanna sing
This tarred and feathered beauty
this tattered compromise
has torture in her past and kindness in her eyes
bark out your judgement calls to souless, empty halls
teach me how to lie, I’ll teach you how to sing
I love your baby’s breath
I love you half to death
which is half
of what you really need
Come to I’m all alone
died by the telephone
confessing sins that I really didn’t need.
I love a girl and her name is Never
broke her heart to last forever
so anyway
I’m not as clever as I dream
All of my life it’s been the same day
can’t help falling on the always
and make you wanna cry make you wanna scream
this scarred and weathered beauty
this perfect sacrafice
has madness in her kindness and wisdom in her lies.
I love your baby’s breath
I love you half to death
which is half of what you really need
Come to I’m all alone
Died by the telephone
Confessing sins
that I really didn’t need
I love a girl and her name is Maybe
She’s no longer out to save me
and everything is exactly what it is.
Filed under: creativity, family, music, nmby
Posted by: Molly | 21:22 | Comments (15)