Whatever Comes to Mind

So I'm a web dork, I know this. Today's post is all about some crazy CSS features. Opacity and Alpha Channels have plagued web designers everywhere. Using opactiy on a dynamic site is really tough because size and shape of a div over background images determine your design style, if everything has to line up to the background image. At work, we've found two hacks for setting opacity for divs and for a background image of a div. Enjoy!

Google Map Mash-ups
I found this on Vinnie's Site. Some of my favorites:

• Beer Maps


• AP News


• Frappr


• MashMap


• Interactive Transit Map
Package Tracker

There are many more, but you see for yourself. If you have a webserver, get the api and mess around with it yourself. It's free and there are manuals to use it -- Google Map API or other Google APIs and code samples

Your Social Dysfunction: Happy You're a happy person - you have a good amount of self-esteem, and are socially healthy. While this isn't a social dysfunction per se, you're definitely not normal. Consider yourself lucky: you walk that fine line between 'normal' and being outright narcissistic. You're rare - which is something else to be happy about.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com Please note that we aren't, nor do we claim to be, psychologists. This quiz is for fun and entertainment only. Try not to freak out about your results.

So i'm happy -- I guess that's a dysfunction.