I was just on Facebook and noticed that I had been invited to participate in an event called Blue Beanie Day on Monday, November 26. Blue Beanie Day will be a day where people who support web standards don a blue beanie for the day (ala Zeldman’s classic cover for the book, Designing with Web Standards), swap out all of their social networking photos with a pic of themselves wearing said beanie and globally show their support for web standards.

Here is the actual text from the invite that was sent to me:

Monday, November 26, 2007 is the day thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for accessible, semantic web content.

It’s easy to show your support for web design done right. Don a Blue Beanie and snap a photo. Then on November 26, switch your profile picture in Facebook and post your photo to the Blue Beanie Day group at Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bluebeanieday2007/.

So, won’t you go ahead and stand up and be heard? I know it may not be as serious or important as something like, oh, I don’t know… curing cancer, but it will be fun and hey, if nothing else you get to dress up like Zeldman for the day.

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