Making Light:  Open thread 40 ::: May 10, 2005, 06:32 PM

Faren Miller:

  JVP:  In case you hadn't noticed it yet, the NY Times has
  a piece about a guy who has produced the first Platonic solids
  puzzle to include all of them, Russian-doll style.  It's
  "http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/science/10puzz.html?8hpib"

That gave me an one sentence of the article and an invitation to
register with the NY Times.  I've managed to decline that invitation
quite a few times.  In this case, you can get pas  it with a referral
from Google, which doesn't ask any nosy questions (perhaps because
they already know).

Andy Perrin: Be careful when explaining HTML to code < as &lt; and >
as &gt;.  And if you have to explain this point to anyone, be sure
to code &lt; as &amp;lt; and &gt; as &amp;gt;.  And if you have to
explain this bit, well, ... remember that the preview button is
your friend, and to keep a copy before you send stuff to the grues.