In response to a question on the Practical-CSS discussion list, I ran up some web pages to check the order in which linked and imported style sheets are applied.  Here are the <a href="css-test/sheet_precedence.html">Linked vs Imported Sheet Precedence</a> tests.  The conclusion:  imported sheets are applied last, and sheets that are imported from a linked sheet are applied before the rest of the sheet (as I understand it, they must be imported on the first line, so I only tested this).

My brother <a href="http://www.blackholemedia.com/aaron/">Aaron</a> changed his page to use more CSS, and quit his job.  Hooray!

<em>Update:  Aaron, are you getting <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1023-916774.html">re-hired</a>?</em>

Sometimes you find the answer when you aren't looking for it.  When I spent a summer in Beijing in 2000, I found that the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com">New York Times</a> website was blocked by China's <a href="http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2001/China_jan01/China_jan01.html">Great (fire)Wall</a>.  A simple <code>host</code> lookup, and I was off to visit <a href="http://www1.nytimes.com">http://www1.nytimes.com</a>.  When I arrived last August, I was pleasantly surprised to find the NY Times freely accessible.  How so?  An Associated Press article (which I can't find now) tells us that the block was removed after a newspaper official mentioned it to Jiang Zemin in an interview last year.  Neat!

The article I was reading was about China recently <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32838-2002May17.html">unblocking</a> several foreign news sites.  More importantly, they've unblocked Geocities!  Alas, <a href="http://www.its.caltech.edu/">Caltech's ITS</a> website is still inaccessible (it hosts the Caltech Falun Gong club website).

<em>Update (May 25):  Geocities is not accesible.</em>