Markup everything

[Murray]

I was reading Andy Clarke's Transcending CSS, http://transcendingcss.com/,
the other day and it got me thinking: How would you markup everything?

If you take your office, or home, desk for example. Would this be an
unordered list, a single webpage, an entire site... Would you, rather
wrongly, call this a table? And does your desk link from a website
named, room?

I thought about this for a while and discovered that it's completely
futile as the more you look at objects, the more they reveal their
true markup potential.

It's pretty good practice for creating appropriate class names in css
though. Cars just don't look like cars anymore.

Has anybody else here tried to do something similar?

 

[dorayme]

How would you markup everything?

<* />

 

[Murray]

<* />

Hey, it's a singularity!

 

[Neredbojias]

I was reading Andy Clarke's Transcending CSS,
http://transcendingcss.com/, the other day and it got me thinking:
How would you markup everything?

If you take your office, or home, desk for example. Would this be an
unordered list, a single webpage, an entire site... Would you, rather
wrongly, call this a table? And does your desk link from a website
named, room?

I thought about this for a while and discovered that it's completely
futile as the more you look at objects, the more they reveal their
true markup potential.

It's pretty good practice for creating appropriate class names in css
though. Cars just don't look like cars anymore.

Has anybody else here tried to do something similar?

One time I took a run at making a perpetual-motion machine but I'm
still running.

 

[rf]

<* />

Simple. Elegant. Complete. Onya girl

 

[Dylan Parry]

One time I took a run at making a perpetual-motion machine but I'm
still running.

Oh that one is easy. You simply attach a piece of toast to the back of a
cat, with the butter side facing away from the cat. Drop the cat and
toast from an appropriate height and you've got a perpetual motion machine.

The reason this works is because toast always lands butter side down,
and cats always land on their feet. So when you drop them, they will
perpetually spin in the air as the laws of physics battle to get the
toast's butter side to face the ground and also make the cat land on its
feet. Both conditions cannot exist simultaneously, hence the spinning
that can be observed.

A similar, but less effective method is to butter both sides of a piece
of toast and drop that. A more dangerous method would be to attempt to
tie two cats together with their backs facing. I wouldn't recommend this
technique if you value your eyes or scar easily.

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

A similar, but less effective method [perpetual motion machine] is to butter both sides of a piece
of toast and drop that. A more dangerous method would be to attempt to
tie two cats together with their backs facing. I wouldn't recommend this
technique if you value your eyes or scar easily.

My cat Rolo (see Completely OT - Rolo the mouse catcher) struck again
yesterday morning, she brought another mouse in. She chased the mouse
round and round the kitchen until I picked it up with a plastic bag. She
was a little miffed that the "game" was over, but quite content when I
opened up a can of food for her.

 

[Bergamot]

My cat Rolo (see Completely OT - Rolo the mouse catcher) struck again
yesterday morning, she brought another mouse in. She chased the mouse
round and round the kitchen until I picked it up with a plastic bag.

One of my cats once brought a mouse in the house, went straight for the
kitchen and dropped it in her food bowl. The mouse seized the
opportunity to escape, but kitty caught it and again went and plopped it
back in her food bowl. This went on for about 15 minutes and we were
laughing so hard we didn't even think about capturing the poor thing
ourselves, but eventually we did and let it out.

 

[dorayme]

I turn the corner to enter
the cat food aisle - and there's a small bird standing there chirping.

I think to myself well, it's in the right aisle...

What have you got against poor birds? <g>

 

[Neredbojias]

Oh that one is easy. You simply attach a piece of toast to the back
of a cat, with the butter side facing away from the cat. Drop the cat
and toast from an appropriate height and you've got a perpetual
motion machine.

The reason this works is because toast always lands butter side down,
and cats always land on their feet. So when you drop them, they will
perpetually spin in the air as the laws of physics battle to get the
toast's butter side to face the ground and also make the cat land on
its feet. Both conditions cannot exist simultaneously, hence the
spinning that can be observed.

I tried that one time in the ghetto, but all I got out of it was nausea
and some rancid pussy.