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Book Printing with CSS

November 29th, 2005 · View Comments ·

A List Apart’s latest article describes how a program called Prince takes advantage of XML and CSS in order to transform webpages into a printable book format by generating PDF documents.

The Prince softtware can be used for more than turning webpages into books; the samples page on Prince’s website illustrates a variety of uses for the software, including generating restaurant-style menus, articles with mathematical content, and even dictionary-style pages.

Christmas Lights

November 28th, 2005 · View Comments · news

A friend showed me a video of what seems to be an extremely elaborate house decoration of flashing Christmas lights synchronized to the song “Wizards in Winter” by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It’s a nice light and music show for people passing by, but I almost feel sorry for the neighbors.

I do agree with the title, though; that’s definitely the best Christmas lights display I’ve ever seen.

Hurricane Katrina Information

November 14th, 2005 · View Comments · news

The Mississippi Press has printed an edition for each day since the hurricane and has made each edition available online for download. My local TV station (WLOX) also has news articles and videos covering the effects of the hurricane. If you’re interested in helping the Gulf Coast recover from the hurricane disaster, you can make a donation to the Build Back Our Coast Fund or to the Red Cross.