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.

Confession of a gangbanger:

Whoa. She just looked at me. Does that mean she wants me to come up there so she can suck me off? Maybe that’s what she’s indicating. But what if she didn’t mean that? What if I go up there and shove my junk in her face and she doesn’t want anything to do with it? I’d look like a real horse’s ass then. I’d better just wait here.

A kick-ass Russian music video with hot chicks, hero and zombie.

A typographic toy written in Java:

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Check out my wordle based on Dieu Huong’s “Vi Do La Em.”

An eight-grader Dan Vi sings vong co (Vietnamese opera).