1) “For Some Girls, the Problem With Math Is That They're Good at It”
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/science/01math.html?ex=1265000400&
“…as researchers have abundantly documented, women continue to suffer little slights and little disadvantages, everything from ridicule in high school to problems with child care, to a much greater degree than their male cohorts. After 10 or 15 years, these little things can add up to real roadblocks.”
2) “slantastic” [aka When the blink tag just isn't heinous enough– let's use CSS to make graphics]
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/slantastic/demo.html
http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/slantinfo.html
“In other words, “float each DIV to the right, but put it beneath any other elements that are floated to the right.” In order to get the slant effect, I make sure the divs all have no content (not even whitespace), thus causing their width and height to default to zero. Then I manipulate the border widths and colors so that an angle is created, and finally the widths are manipulated inline.”
3) There is no *headdesk* item 3. Or is there?
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