Vietnam vs. Iraq

In his speech regarding to the conflicts in Iraq, Bush made a reference to Vietnam:

“One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like ‘boat people,’ ‘re-education camps’ and ‘killing fields’.”

‘Boat people’ was not a mistake. In fact, many Vietnamese-Americans are thankful for it. Life is much better in America for sure.

CSS For Sale

Eric Meyer, billed as “renowned CSS master,” launched a product called CSS Sculptor for $149.99. I thought it was free, but $149.99 for only 30 CSS layouts is still pretty pricy. So no thanks. I’ll stick with Tim‘s awesome, Dreamweaver-free 99 Layouts he developed for our team at Vassar. Tim, I think we should put your product on sell as well. 99 layouts for 99 dollars. That’s going to be hot. Only a buck a layout. Even McDonald’s dollar menu can’t beat it. Anyone?

Inspired By Watches

I received an email today requesting to use my current layout. I am flattered that someone finds my site “very clean and elegant” and that she couldn’t find free WordPress theme that she likes until she saw mine. Not that I don’t want to share my design because I have done so in the past, but I just redesign this layout not too long ago and intend to keep it for a while. Like many blogs, mine is not unique, but it has its individual characteristics. Something I am proud to call my own. This brings me to a great post I just read from SVN‘s Jason Fried regarding to finding inspiration from wristwatch:

So if someone can make a 2” circle look unique, you can make a million pixels look unique. Don’t sell yourself short. Don’t think there’s only a few ways to display content. Don’t think there’s only a couple ways to style a sidebar. Don’t think there’s only a couple different designs for a header with tabs. Don’t think a list always has to look the same or there’s only one way to distinguish time-sensitive information. Don’t think there’s only a couple ways to call something out as important or high priority.

What’s Your Pref?

Meat or stick?

Talib Kweli Featured Styles P.

The Level

Lovers Lie, Bullets Don’t

An online romance turned into murder:

Montgomery [45-year-old former marine] was consumed by his marathon online chats with Jessi [a 17-year-old from West Virginia]. While at work, he didn’t stop talking about her, telling colleagues that he planned to leave his wife [Cindi] and move to West Virginia. In the evening, he would chase his daughters off the computer, planting himself in front of the screen late into the night. Cindi couldn’t compete with his new obsession.

Muon

I want it too.

Bearskinrug

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