Tim Brown presents Nice Web Type.

How did I manage to miss Wes Montgomery’s profile on NPR last week? Well, better late than never:

Wes’ lush, inimitable sound was a product of his unusual stylistic approach. Guitarist Lee Ritenour explains how Wes played with his thumb as opposed to a pick, freeing himself from rhythmic constraints and typical phrasing. According to Wes, thumb-plucking and his technique of “playing two notes at the same time an octave apart” were both accidental revelations. While Wes was not the only guitarist to utilize the octave approach, he did so with incomparable “freedom and fluidity,” and the technique “became one of his trademarks.”

Download the program here.

NPR profiles the one and only Lady Day:

A musician’s musician with a radiant voice, an impeccable sense of time and subtle, often ironic delivery, Billie Holiday was the premier song stylist of the 20th century. Although the tragic myth of her life often precedes her, Lady Day endures, first and foremost, in the songs that are her ultimate legacy.

Listen to the entire program here. Highly recommended.

T.I.’s new video.

Another stab at Beijing 2008 Olympic logo.

A blog with some damn delicious street food straight out of Viet Nam.

When did Yahoo.com uses zoom layout? It looks so damn fine in large text size. Nice job!

Weird video, hot pic

Thanh Thanh’s “Khong Nghe, Khong Thay Se Khong Dau” is some deep shit. The title tells it all.

The story goes:

Then there is the fellow from Dopotha, a village west of Bulawayo, who was born while his father was in Congo, fighting in that nation’s civil wars. When the father returned, the father concluded that the newborn almost certainly was not his, and he decided to make that clear.

The son’s name? Never Trust a Woman.

The article reminds me of a story about how someone named her son after her neighbor who she hates. So when she gets mad at her neighbor she could scold her son using his name.