NPR profiles one of my favorites jazz pianist Bud Powell:

Pianist Bud Powell was admired by his contemporaries as an adventurous original with a style marked by unrivaled virtuosity. Today, he is remembered for redrawing the course of modern jazz piano by pioneering bebop improvisation at the keyboard. Though personal misfortune interrupted his career, and shortened his life, at his peak Powell exuded an emotion and power that captivated audiences and musicians alike.

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Engrave Your Tech:

Laser engraving can transform your standardized device into a unique piece of art, or promotional piece.

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A fun read from Textism on book cover design.

Simple, gorgeous portfolio.

One of the advantages of working with an existed design is that you could kick out pages faster. I put together the Commencement page for the School of Business based on a secondary template, but I changed the layout a bit to give more room for the cheerful photos.

One of the strange but cool things about working at the School of Business is the design process. Unlike many sites, which wait until everything is completed to launch, we just put up whatever we get done. For instance, the homepage was launched before any other pages were done. I was surprised when my boss told me to just put up the homepage and continue to work on the interior pages. So we are replacing the old with the new as we go along. In a way, it makes sense because the web is always changing. Even if you wait until everything is complete (might be a year or two later), you still need to make changes later on. In other words, nothing on the web is set in stone.

Phuong Quoc Truong aks Pai Gow John plead guilty in casino scam:

According to federal prosecutors, the scheme worked like this: A member of the crew, called the card recorder, would track the order of blackjack cards, relaying them with a hidden transmitter to an off-site associate who would enter the sequence into a computer.

The bribed dealers would then perform false shuffles, creating a “slug” of unshuffled cards. The slug would be returned to the shoe, the device that holds the cards being dealt. When the slug cards were dealt in later rounds, the card recorder would signal associates at the table to dramatically increase their bets on hands the recorder knew would probably win. The off-site associate, using a card-tracking computer program, would relay when the odds were the greatest.

Welcome back Dean Allen.

Nice work once again from the folks at Vassar.

Hong Nhung, My Linh and Le Thu give Trinh Cong Son tunes simple, straightforward but distinctive touches. Hong Nhung is as sensual as always in “Diem Xua.” My Linh is soaring high but way too breathy in “Bien Nho.” Le Thu is flawless in “Nhu Canh Vac Bay.” (Thanks Leo)

The photo featured below the main navigation is captured by my future wife. Isn’t she a great photographer? Keep working on it baby.