On Google Reader, I am currently subscribed to the This American Life podcast, Motherboard TV, and navs.modular.lab

I miss Geocities and Tripod. Before tumblr and blogger and the others provided a sterile platform to form a web presence, web denizens had to learn a bit of HTML and code a website as best they could. Yahoo’s Geocities and Tripod were two such hosts. Most of Geocities has been archived, and is the HTML version of watching a series of unlabeled VHS tapes . Most of the pages are quaint, some seem naive, and most of it looks humorous by today’s standards. While browsing through the archives, I actually found one of my own websites. No, you can’t see it! Instead, take a look at this homepage coded by an amateur fantasy artist:

Fantasy Graphics

This source code is al kinds of bad. Did they not have style sheets at this time? The HTML source code is filled with references to font sizes and colors that should be put into a CSS. I am not an HTML expert by any means, but if I had to code this sucker I know enough to have given up and went back to drawing dungeons on graph paper. On this page, Dude breaks the rules for good semantics on page 164 of the InterACT textbook. Said book states,

“Visually, this results in the desired look, but in the ends it’s just a bunch of text blocks that have no meaning. In addition, you should never specify how your HTML looks inside the HMTL - all styling information should go in the CSS.”     

Here is a website about a cat with breast cancer. It display differently in Safari in Chrome. Under the link 100 Years of Obedience Training Pays Off (Yet Again), a blue sidebar with an embedded video player is located on different parts of the screen. In Chrome the sidebar is on the right of the main test. This same column appears in the middle of the window in Safari’s browser.

http://superiordpweb.com/articles/Sam.html

Live modular synthesizer performance from this weekend in Chicago. Now’s your chance to hear it if you missed out -