Dino Conspiracy Theory. Here’s an article opener, or hook, budding journalists should take note of:

The extinction of the dinosaurs has long been considered a crime committed by a lone gunman: an incoming asteroid that struck the earth 65 million years ago, filling the air with sun-blocking dust.

But was there a grassy knoll? Not quite…

Now, however, controversy is being stirred anew as evidence suggests that the asteroid might have had a partner in crime: volcanoes, massive ones, blasting clouds of toxic gas from the bowels of the earth and poisoning much of the planet’s life.

Lone gunman. Partner in crime. Nothing like borrowing from the lines of a conspiracy theory to put a new slant on the demise of the dinosaurs… +

Extreme Urban Retro: 10 Creative Steampunk Designs, Modifications and Inventions: what is steampunk? Our friend the Web Urbanist obliges with an answer…

Steampunk is a kind of speculative fiction that usually takes place in urban settings where the future meets the past: Victorian era inventions clash with often dark alternate realities. However, what started as a literary genre has since evolved into an art form with incredible real-life inventions, modifications and redesigns.

Wouldn’t mind getting my mitts on that steampunk style stratocaster though! +

Disabling Deprecated HTML Using CSS: it’s a good idea in theory… as a web designer you hand over standards compliant web templates to a client who promptly sets about adding all sorts of deprecated (or no longer current) HTML code into the mix.

A cleverly written style sheet will, in most cases, override any client “modifications”. Problem is, it still doesn’t stop the deprecated additions taking place, and won’t the result be an undesirable hotchpotch of redundant and “current” code? +

Young networkers turn off TV and log on to the web: this is the sort of trend that I could get excited about.

Europe’s internet users are spending 12 hours a week online, an hour more than last year, with 16- to 24-year-olds - a crucial audience for advertisers - increasingly logging on rather than watching TV.

But guess what they’re doing instead.

Social networking has taken off, with 42% of internet users regularly visiting sites such as Bebo and Facebook compared with 23% last year.

Facebook killed the video star? ;) +

Michael Lopp Webstock interview: the Apple software designer tackles the hard questions, the first in a series of interviews with some of the Webstock 2008 speakers. +