A Little CSS for Blue Beanie Day

Paul Cripps posted this cute photo to the Blue Beanie Day 2008 collection on Flickr.

The book cover shown is from Cascading Style Sheets – The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, by Eric Meyer. You can see Eric Meyer wearing a Blue Beanie here also.

Jason Beaird of Refresh Columbia recently quipped that Zeldman’s Blue Beanie image “is now the Che Guevara icon for web standards revolution.”  The Blue Beanie Day symbol (in the context of Web Standards) was made famous by the original Standardista ( Jeffrey Zeldman ) and his book covers.

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