The background should be white.
2 - 30: #independent {background: green;} 31: #independent {background: yellow;} 32: #independent {background: red;} 33 - 1033: #independent {background: blue;} 1034: #independent {background: white;}
This page contains 1033 stylesheet links with the "correct" link at the end.
The style element counts as one link – at least in IE/win, so the style element has to come before stylesheet links in order to preserve this page's basic styles in IE/win. This skewes the link counting by one.
Note: IE/win completely ignores all links beyond the 31st, so having a few thousand more doesn't slow it down.
Note: may take the CSS validator a couple of minutes to go through all the stylesheet links.