One issue that Prentiss has emphasized in the past is the need for adherence to a controlled vocabulary when categorizing information. I’ve wondered whether categories could be an emergent outcome of smushing a lot of data together. Well, perhaps, but we ain’t there yet. The chaos at reversible is evidence of that (which I contributed to with my earlier experiment…sorry). Obviously the option exists to take advantage of a useful hierarchy of categories, but the obligation does not.
Preparatory to the appearance of RSS feeds that all the cool kids will want to link to, I’ve tooled up another CSS button:
reversibleTry Reversible: It’s confusing but fun
Later: Word from Joshua is that this will not duplicate Mark Pilgrim’s cool hack: it just makes it easy to create a sort of ad-hoc directory that points back to whatever pages you want. I haven’t asked him, but I suspect this is really almost a diversion he put together on the trail of something else.
I like the button. Did you ever figure out what it is all about?
P.S. Thanks for the Dr2.net recommendation.
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P.S. I was gonna steal your button, which looked way cool, but it seems to depend on your stylesheet. If you want people to steal your stuff, you might want to use in-line styles, so that people can steal them more easily. :-)
Well, for one thing, it wouldn’t be hard to scan through my stylesheet to obtain the necessary styles. For another, I didn’t really want the button to seem official until it got Joshua’s imprimatur.