Styling HTML forms using just CSS has some drawbacks, especially when it comes to elements and tags like radio buttons.

One way to dance around this limitation is to use a JavaScript library like jQuery to do some pretty nifty form styling. Here’s a quick list of free and good jQuery plugins to help skin HTML forms:

1. Niceforms:
   Lucian Slatineanu has an excellent script for replacing the boring default HTML form elements. It’s also very easy to customise and build your own theme. (See the Demo.)
2. jqTransform:
   Another easy-to-use script that’s good on the eye and also customisable.
3. (Functional) Pretty Forms:
   I’ve not used this before, but on first glance, it doesn’t look too hard to implement and looks minimal and slick.
4. jNice:
   jNice is nice and looks great but there doesn’t seem to be much documentation.

One major caveat: Your mileage for IE6 support may vary—don’t hold your breath. I seriously consider the job done if the scripts degrade gracefully (as Niceforms does).

That’s some seriously insane (but totally valid) CSS by Román Cortés.

And now I’m feeling thirsty.

• had a few hundred lines of compliant CSS shot to pieces by IE6, which got me wading neck-deep into the muddy waters of the Underscore hack over a few late, late nights.
• was trying out this funny joke about how two antennas got married — apparently, the wedding was terrible but the reception was great!
• discovered that to get an RSS feed of your Amazon wishlist, you now have to authenticate your request with a secret key, find the wish list ID, request for an XML file, create and apply some XSLT, store some of this somewhere on the Amazon Cloud, blah, blah. All this acrobatics for an RSS feed of my effing wish list — how about just giving me a bloody RSS feed like everyone else, Amazon?
• broke up Isaac Asimov’s 1956 short story, The Last Question, into manageable 3 minute sections to read to my daughter before she sleeps.
• stumbled onto a bookmark for Nutrition.com.sg, a horrendously ugly but possibly useful site which lists nutritional content of local foods.
• have been playing a wee bit too much Nintendo in my browser than I should be.
• was wondering if the 4 day × 10 hour work week idea would make any sense/difference in some industries.
• thoroughly enjoyed the new Arctic Monkeys’ new album Humbug, although I am a little disturbed to realise that the first track might be about a guy singing about his penis.
• visited makephotoshopfaster.com which has precisely two tips to make your Photoshop go faster.
• installed The Onion Router for fun and now occasionally run a (non-exit) node.
• read a poignant essay from the Iraqi shoe thrower.
• was really excited about getting the first printed XKCD book, though I haven’t quite had the time to buy it yet. (Yes, that’s how crazy things have been the last week or so.)
• found a new way to reset my sleep pattern and it seems to be somewhat working.

The A List Apart Survey results are out. Last year, the results were published as a PDF, which was a bit of an anti-climax from a standardista perspective. But this year, they’ve got it all out in bread-and-butter HTML and CSS, the highlight of which has to be Eric A. Meyer’s mind-numbingly beautiful, yet accessible, CSS work for the graphs. Plain insanity, if you ask me, but it’s top-drawer production-grade code.