DailyLit delivers literature in installments, via RSS. I’m gonna give it a try, since I spend at least an hour a day staring a Google Reader anyway…

The Idea?

We got the idea for DailyLit after the New York Times serialized a few classic works in special supplements a few summers ago. We wound up reading books that we had always meant to simply by virtue of making them part of our daily routine of reading the newspaper. The only thing we do more consistenly than read the paper is read email. Bingo! We put together a first version and began reading “War of the Worlds” and “Pride and Prejudice”. We showed it to friends, added more books and features at their request, and presto, DailyLit was born.

So here goes… I saw this on openswitch and thought it might be cool.

The 123 meme.

Basically, the meme requires me to grab the book closest to me and punch out an excerpt based on a few rules. The rules of this meme are as follows:

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating!

2. Find page 123.

3. Find the first 5 sentences.

4. Post the next 3 sentences.

5. Tag 5 people.

Sadly, I’m sitting at the office and the nearest book is on CSS. Oh well, here’s mine:

Unfortunately, the attribute selector is only supported on more modern browsers and does not work in IE 6 and below. Until the attribute selector is more widely supported; the best way to distinguish between input elements is to give them a call.

So for instance, in this example you could give radio buttons a class name of radio:

From

CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by Andy Budd, Simon Collison, and Cameron Moll

That sucked.

I’m tagging Chris, Nate, Mooney, uuhhh… s’all the blogging friends I have

I just read a great interview with VeggieTales Founder Phil Vischer who wrote The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything–A VeggieTales Movie ( directed by Mike Nawrocki). Pirates opened Jan. 11, and despite Gabe’s begging and pleading, I haven’t taken him to see it yet. Not because I don’t want to! I love Bob, Larry and the gang. Gabe was given The Wonderful Wizard of Ha’s DVD for Christmas and we all had a few good laughs watching it.

Phil mentioned a topic that’s been discussed on Christopher Hopper’s site before. The “Christian” label. When he was asked “So in your mind, is there such a thing as a Christian business?” he replied…

“Business with Christian ownership, Christian values, Christian goals . . . I think a Christian business needs further definition. We had the same discussion about Christian movies. Is it a movie made by Christians? For Christians? Or a movie that has accepted Jesus as its Savior and is going to heaven when it dies?”

I think I’m going to get a copy of his book. Sounds like a good read.

Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against!

Just added this to the Amazon wishlist…

Forbidden Lego introduces you to the type of free-style building that LEGO’s master builders do for fun in the back room. Using LEGO bricks in combination with common household materials (from rubber bands and glue to plastic spoons and ping-pong balls) along with some very unorthodox building techniques, you’ll learn to create working models that LEGO would never endorse. Try your hand at a toy gun that shoots LEGO plates, a candy catapult, a high voltage LEGO vehicle, a continuous-fire ping-pong ball launcher, and other useless but incredibly fun inventions.