Create a 404 page with CSS3 animations

When I was asked to build a new 404 page for netmagazine.com, my first thought was to create a CSS animation of some sort. I wanted the design to blend seamlessly with the visual style already established for the site, so I started by designing a page with 404 set in Clarendon, which can be found in the navigation and headlines. My next step was to knock out the text with a newsstand style layout of some recent .net magazine covers. To wrap things up, I added the standard-issue 404 page copy and wound up with this:

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