March, 2011 | Geek in Heels

Last year when I was still pregnant with Claire I wrote a post about how J and I are aiming to teach our kids all the languages we collectively know: Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and English. Well our goal has not swayed. And I like to think that we're well on our way. How so, you ask? Right before I gave birth to Claire we met a little girl who — being one month shy of turning two years old — knew three languages. We asked her parents how they managed to teach her three languages simultaneously, and they told us exactly how...

Art/Design, Geek, Science

The Perception of 3D

Mar 16. 2011

I can't stop staring at this. Someone please help me tear my eyes away from the screen! Via haha.nu....

Facebook, Funny, Twitter, Web

How Pee Helps Us Understand Social Media

Mar 16. 2011

Great chart. My only question is: how come I've never heard of Quora? Via Gizmodo (still hating the new layout of all Gawker sites!) ...

Blogging, Geek, Personal, Tutorials, Web, WordPress

WordPress for the Everyday Blogger:
Part 6 – Styling the Sidebar

Mar 16. 2011

Prelude Part 1: Setting Up Part 2: Set the Bare BonesPart 3: The HeaderPart 4: The Main MenuPart 5: The Rest of the Header Because the ET-Starter theme is set so that the user can choose between one, two, or no sidebars (in whichever relative position to the main content), there exists various CSS classes for each type of sidebar and it location. For the purposes of this theme, the CSS classes we will be working with are .primary-sidebar and .primary-sidebar.content-two-columncontent-right. WordPress sidebars are relatively simple to style provided that you do not make any crazy changes to the structure of the theme. Each sidebar heading is set to h2, and each item below that is usually listed via the use of HTML lists...