The Alumni web site gets a bit of visual changed.

This is how you smoke.

Pentagram launched Columbia Business School:

The site’s visual design with its bold use of black, closely cropped photography and clean page layouts takes its cues from the collateral material Michael Bierut recently designed for the school, a project that also included the redesign of the mark.

I totally want this cool sink for my future house.

Listening to Ray Charles on Piano Jazz.

A clean, minimal, fun site for simple, everyday fashion. Madewell web site is well-made as well.

“Orange County social services reach out to Vietnamese community“:

Through focus groups, [Ailene] Ly discovered that Vietnamese clients, when told to follow certain guidelines, felt they were being asked to trade in traditional values passed down through many generations.

For example, many Vietnamese clients insist on consuming thuoc bac, an herbal broth made from blackened chicken and dried roots that is believed to keep the body strong during pregnancy and postpartum.

But Ly said many of the herbs are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug administration and could be harmful to the fetus or to breast milk.

Many of her clients’ mothers say in disbelief, “I did it. My parents did it. I grew up healthy and reared a healthy child, and now you’re telling me it’s not safe?”

The cultural dispute over herbal remedies and other issues takes more than language skills to solve, said Annie Nguyen, a VietMOMS counselor.

“We have to respect the traditions because those are held within our culture,” Nguyen said. “I’m not going to tell her directly that the beliefs are wrong, but I want to give the clients options.”

Nas’s new video goes at Fox. Damn, I wish he goes hardler at O’Reilly. Drop him like a bitch.

Let’s have a cookout.

The image of a man poured gasoline and lid the fire on the million ants marching on the pavement this morning still struck me.