Got any new tables jokes? It’s foED competition time.

April 17th, 2006

My publisher, friends of ED, is running a competition in conjunction with that indispensible blogger’s aid, Blog Design Solutions. Write a suitably witty caption for a photo of a gathering of Brit geeks, and you could end up with “the ultimate web design learning library”. Well, that’s what the guy with the cuddly chicken, Chris Mills, calls it, anyway. Actually, it’s a pretty good collection. I was involved in two of the five books on offer: Blog Design Solutions and Web Designer’s Reference (I was the guy cracking the whip behind Craig Grannell as the book’s technical reviewer/editor).

The three other books on offer are all excellent, too. Andy Budd’s CSS Mastery and Jeremy Keith’s DOM Scripting are selling on Amazon as though there’s no tomorrow-and deservedly so, too. They’re both concise guides to essential standards-compliant web design—even though Andy’s book constantly refers to “standards-complaint browsers” (a good description for all the abuse heaped on IE6). The fifth book is Dan Cederholm’s Web Standards Solutions—the title says it all. If you fancy winning all five books . . .take yourself over to Chris Mills’ blog on the friends of ED site.

Your arduous task, should you wish to accept it, is to come up with something suitably witty to say about a photo of British geekdom at the dinner table. It looks suspiciously like a take-off of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. The only problem is that there are 14 people at table, not 13. And where did that little girl come from? Do geeks start so young these days?

Anyway, if you have some decent tables jokes—or even some indecent ones, why not have a go? Or maybe you have some more original wit? Even better. And if you don’t win, go out and buy the books anyway. We authors need the sales. Otherwise, we may not be able to pay for our next supper.

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