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According to naked.dustindiaz.com, April 9th, 2008 has been designated “CSS Naked Day.” For those of you who aren’t web acronym savvy, CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet, all the bits and pieces of code that make a website look pretty and properly laid out rather than presenting plain white page with black text and blue underlined links. The idea is that by rendering sites voluntarily without any CSS, the generic and possibly inoperable sites will help promote Web Standards, the rules that Microsoft ignores with every new version of Internet Explorer so webmasters can’t make their website look the same on every browser.

Two words: screw that.

I’m what you might refer to as a “tweaker.” I love learning a new CSS tweak or website trick to make my sites do something or provide functionality beyond the ordinary. If I see something I’d like to make better if I can, I do. New color, new font, new placement, new image, whatever. So why is the promotion of Web Standards rendering hundreds of websites virtually unusable and completely dull? Worse yet, the only people who will actually understand it are the same folks actually participating.

For everyone else out there still inexplicably reading this as if i were coming to a point, here’s your payoff at last:

1. It’s like celebrating airline travel by hitchhiking.
2. It’s like celebrating mobile phones by screaming at one another.
3. It’s like celebrating toilet training by pissing yourself.

Enough with the fake Internet holidays, okay?