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Err... I can't draw for crap, yet I created this highly detailed model of an RC car.

Drawing freehand and creating a model with 3D modeling software are completly different things.
Hell, next thing you'll be telling us is that all computer graphic designers are good drawers aswell.

I emphasize the mild part, because that is what prevents if from being a schedule II drug.

Do you think that caffeine could be considered a Schedule III, Schedule IV or Schedule V drug (see Description of Fed. Schedules)? IMO caffeine could fit somewhere in there. I guess my point is why are some addictive drugs legally supplied to the public by tax paying companies and other drugs are illegally supplied by the criminal element (thus allowing the criminal element to profit without paying taxes)? I don't see anything that could stop the US Govt from making caffeine illegal at any time (except the throngs of caffeine addicts going wild looking for a quick fix).

OT: Your photo gallery is very good. I'm surprised at the good quality and control of the shots you got from the equipment used (i.e.: not a $2kUSD Nikon). Skillfully done.

You're confusing near-IR and thermal-IR (not sure if they're techically correct terms). Most CCDs pick up IR very well. Infact, they do it so well that most digital cameras have an IR blocking filter or "hot mirror" in front of the CCD. If you want to see heat though, you will need a special sensor for that. most CCDs can't pick up IR that deep.

IR filters are easy to obtain. But if you want decent exposure times, you'll need to remove the hot mirror first, and replace it with plain glass. Most people don't want to do that to their digital cameras. But since I'm an idiot, I've done exactly that. You can see the results here. The lack of IR blocking filter means I can take IR pics without a tripod in good light.

IR is interesting. I have quite a few black cloths that come out bright white, while other black cloths still come out black.

Uh, how the heck would you set up your layout without tables? For instance, how would you generate a page that looks like Slashdot without using nested tables?

Like this.

It's not a perfect example, it won't fit in a small screen. But that's totaly fixable. It's just something that I've thrown together and played with. Adding indents for a comments layout (which I plan to do) is easy.

If you look at the source code. You will notice that it's very lean. Even the CSS file is lean. Much smaller than the /. HTML anyway. Also, if some of the code in there looks different (like the first artical), like I said before, this is only something I've been experimenting with, and there will be lots of bugs. Just want to make sure no one goes away thinking that CSS is crap or anything.
You'll also notice that I haven't got CLASS="foo" in all the tags, only some because of the way CSS can be used.

The other great thing is, if you wanted to put the side bar on the other side. It would take you less than 2 mins to do it. And you wouldn't even have to dick around with messy HTML, or in this case, even messier HTML within Pearl scripts.

Also, save only the HTML page to you disk. And open that file. Now you can see what it looks like without the CSS. Perfect for any browser including a PDA. And you can always have another CSS sheet for them if you want to change it.

BTW. You will need something like IE 6, Mozilla, or Opera 6 to view it properly. It will just look like plain vanilla HTML to NN 4.7 etc.

Yes.. I think /. is missing the point of April Fools day.

The idea with Aprils Fools--Although I'm sure we all already know--is to trick people into something. So you can then yell HAHA!! April Fool!!!
In /.'s case this should be posting links to semi-belivible articals like my example here.

*sigh*... I didn't even see anything on the news today about April Fools... I think the death of the Queen Mother has clouded it.

I've also got an example here of slashdot using CSS. It's still incomplete (a few problems when it's resized to something smaller than 1024x768). But shows what can be done with CSS. Feel free to download all the files and play about with it.

www.alistapart.com also have quite a resorces for CCS related stuff (aswell as articals on design, usability, coding, and content).