AGRA, India (Reuters) — One of the world’s most famous monuments, India’s Taj Mahal, is celebrating its 350th birthday with a cultural extravaganza that hopes to pay a fitting tribute to the historic symbol of love.

The celebrations, to be held at a famous Mughal fort near the white marble mausoleum in northern India, start with a release of pigeons and a kite-flying contest before moving to a classical music concert at sunset with the Taj as the backdrop.

“This is the start of a six-month celebration aimed at drawing tourists to Agra and the Taj Mahal,” D.K. Burman, a senior government official organising the festivities in the town of Agra, told Reuters.

Archaeologists also want to open the Taj for night viewing on full moon nights as part of the celebrations, which are expected to draw millions of visitors to the congested, polluted town of Agra, 200 km (125 miles) south of New Delhi.

CNN.com - India’s symbol of love turns 350

I’ve been there. It is gloriously beautiful. Truly a world wonder. That reminds me, I really need to post my India travelogue.

I read “Fish stories have bad endings” in the LVRJ. That lead me to research the new Habitatitude campaign which, in turn, lead me to the Invasive Species Weblog.

All in all, this is a big problem. I am glad to see the government and the pet industry teaming up to educate consumers and address the issue.

Hikari is a custom Linux distro just for playing Go, also known as “Japanese chess”. Geekery from David.

CNN.com reports that Microsoft is exposing portions of its codebase. Score another victory for the open source revolution.

As if the Hummers were not gratuitous enough, now the world has this truck to deal with. I thought we were supposed to be conserving fossil fuels and looking for alternative energy sources, not finding bigger and better ways to deplete our resources and pollute the environment while maintaining our social status.

This article explains one method of building a full CSS layout from start to finish. The method, based on positioning colored boxes and testing across a range of browsers, can be used to build a wide range of full-CSS layouts.

Max DesignColored boxes - one method of building full CSS layouts

A good starting point for those new to CSS.