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Prospect Magazine (UK): Interview with Karl Marx from beyond the grave. My philosophy teacher in high school used to say that "FDR saved capitalism". "Marx" takes a similar track in this "interview".

Calpundit on Lakoff and framing.

NYT: Microsoft and Google: Partners or Rivals? My biggest fear with the Google IPO is that Microsoft or some other unsavory player will try to take control of Google. My second biggest fear is that as a publicly traded company, Google will lose its laser-like focus on user experience, engineering excellence, and non-evilness. The Economist also has an article on this: How good is Google?

Of the First is a student at the U of M who is recording his experiences with the AFSCME strike on his Daily Kos diary.

David Weinberger: Trademarked registered copyright. It's public domain, so here it is:

Interview with the hosts of Outrage Radio, a new liberal talk show with a bad name. The left still needs better branding...:) (via Joho).

The Swing State Project moves to its new, permanent home: http://www.swingstateproject.com/

The Earth Is Not Moving. I can't tell if this is a joke or not (via The Early Days of a Better Nation).

New Get your war on!

Over at Atrios's comment board, they've come up with a new slogan for the Bush administration: "OMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!"

I didn't know Mena Trott supports Howard Dean (are you required to support the first presidential candidate who uses your weblog software?). Looks like she even made her own button:

Gollum SLAPPs Atrios.

Dan Conley (a former speechwriter for former Virgina Gov. L. Douglas Wilder) has closed down his critical Dean Blog (motto: "Some positive, some negative, some completely off-the-wall comments that have nothing to do with Howard Dean"), because he feels Dean's nomination is "both inevitable and depressing" because Dean will lose to Bush. Over at his new site Dan Conley's Journal, Dan provides more a detailed analysis (link broken at the moment) of why he feels that way. This is even more critical of Dean -- Dan doesn't even think Dean would make a good president. He closes with "Dean needs to be defeated, for the good of the party and the country".

Obviously, I disagree with Dan Conley about that, but I will miss his unique take on the Dean phenomenon. Fortunately, he'll still be providing commentary about a wider range of issues at his new site.

[I cross-posted this to my Daily Kos diary where it has spawned a decent discussion.]

CSS is all the rage these days and it lets you do some amazing things. But it's got a steep learning curve and it has taken me a long time to get a hang of it for 100% CSS layouts.

I'm working on a new project that is 100% CSS and I've finally got enough CSS knowledge to make it work for me.

Today I learned a new trick for debugging CSS that will probably be old hat to all web designers, but that I wish I'd learned earlier.

When designing using tables, it's common to set border="1" to see how the page is laid out. You can accomplish much the same with CSS by defining these rules:

div { border: 1px solid black; }

span { border: 1px solid black; }

This will show you where your DIVs and SPANs are ending up.