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seeing pictures like this one, i can’t help but marvel at the fact that giraffes have been successfully procreating for the last 30 million years.

just wondering: does the mother lie down to give birth, or is the young giraffe’s birthday also the day of its first concussion?
 

actually, the continued existence of tortoises is pretty miraculous, too:

(pics from here and here)

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i have just spent quite some time looking for an answer to this, so i’d like to share the solution. (deutsche version)

the problem:
i have a horizontal main menu at the top of a website, and a vertical sub menu in the left column.
in setup, you can use “special.value = x” to make the menu start from page id x. not setting the special.value will make the submenu relative, listing only the pages below the current one.
the effect of this is that on a main menu page, you will see the entire sub menu just as it was supposed to be, but on a subpage (level 2), you will only see the subpages of that level 2 subpage, loosing the rest of the “entire” submenu.

for illustration, here’s the relevant section of my backend page-tree:

the solution:
using “special.value.data = leveluid:1″ instead of “special.value = x” will return the pid of the level 1 parent page of whatever page you’re currently on. this way, you’ll always have the entire submenu.

the result:

for the typoscript setup code, please scroll down.
 

das ganze auf deutsch:
eine typo3-website hat ein horizontales hauptmenü ganz oben und ein vertikales untermenü/submenü in der linken spalte.
damit das submenü immer nur die unterseiten des aktuellen hauptmenü-punktes zeigt, habe ich die “special.value = x”, die eine fixe page ID “x” als ausgangspunkt für das menü verwendet, vermieden.
leider geht dadurch aber das level 2 submenü verloren, wenn eine level 2 submenü-seite aufgerufen wird, und nur die level 3 seiten werden noch aufgelistet.

stattdessen hilft “special.value.data = leveluid:1″ – damit kann man im setup die id der hauptmenü-seite automatisch von jeder beliebigen unterseite aus auslesen und als ausgangspunkt fürs submenü setzen. das ergebnis ist, dass immer das ganze submenü angezeigt wird, egal auf welchem submenü-level man sich gerade befindet.
den verwendeten typoscript code findet ihr im anschluss.

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since facebook aparrently doesn’t allow animated profile pictures, i figured i’d share this here instead:

it’s the animated gif-version of a little “project” i did in 2004/2005, basically a 12-month time-lapse video with awful temporal resolution.

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