Will wonders never cease? Scary-Crayon's got two bloody pieces for you today -- yet another Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flash (which will probably only make sense to Buffy/Angel fans, but that's okay!) and a review of Harry G. Frankfurt's On Bullshit, which currently holds the #3 slot on the NYTimes Best-selling Hardcover Nonfiction list. It made me laugh a few times, but I ultimately didn't like it. 'Cause it was bullshit, man.

Aaaand that's all for tonight. Ja!

Last time, we reviewed the Forkless Gourmet's Kung Pao Shrimp Bun Meal. Tonight, Scary-Crayon continues its study of "authentic ethnic cuisine in a bun" with its analysis of the Chicken with Thai Style Peanut Sauce Bun Meal -- guest-starring the wisecrackin' Mondo Gecko! Enjoy!

It's been a few months, but we've finally got a new piece in the Spectare section -- a standard review of Stephen King's Sleepwalkers. It's fucking awful.

Also, I received reports that the link to the Miscellaneous section on the main and content pages (and now at the bottom of articles) wasn't working properly for users of IE 6, so I've attempted to fix that (apparently the problem stems from the fact that IE can't count, though oddly enough the display was fine on my IE 5.5). It should be deactivated on the Misc. page, but everywhere else it should behave like the others. Anyway, I think I've resolved that issue, but let me know if you encounter any problems with that (or anything else), mmkay?

And that's all for now. Ja!

In addition to A Crayon Haiku #28 -- which really must be seen to be believed -- the main and content pages are now active in their table-free CSS and PHP form, and the same goes for all articles starting now. It's kinda sad to see the tables go -- I've had a ten year love affair with those special little tags -- but ah well, times change. Besides, it's not like anyone'll be able to tell the difference! I've also set up a little redirect thing, so visitors to the old blog should automatically end up here now. (If that's you, welcome!) And that's about all I've got for now. Ja!

That it is, along with a new piece -- Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flash #36. Poor guy. 🙁

In other news, CSS and PHP are awesome! I've moved well past the "hey, this is useful!" phase and have entered the world of "holy shit, look what I can do!", in which one plays around with the code to achieve nifty results simply because one can. Take a look at the following mockups: print-css.php, dphell-css.php, and main3-css.php. Now I haven't replaced the articles to fit the appropriate pages or done anything with the bottom area yet -- that's the easy part -- but look at the header and the page titles. Pretty standard, right? But here's the kicker -- with the exception of one or two variables specified at the top of each document, these three files are exactly the same. They all call upon a header -- the same header -- that's filled with fun PHP that basically says, "If this variable equals 'Main' (thus marking it as the main page), print the 'What is... ???' text and don't hotlink the title graphic." And for each of the archive links, the PHP says, "If this variable equals 'Print' (and this is the Print link), don't output the link HTML." And since all of the linking and image rollover stuff is defined via the CSS, that results in the graphic text remaining highlighted. Even the document titles are controlled in this way! So I feel pretty accomplished right now -- PHP is pretty sweet stuff and though I'm doing relatively simple stuff (includes, if/else statements, etc.) I think I'm getting the hang of it. Expect me to be using more of it on SC in the near future. 😈

Hope you didn't find that to be too boring, minna-san! Ja!