What a “Ngam Ngui” tune. Duc Tuan has done a great job of bringing out the compassion in Huy Can’s lyrics:

Cây dài bóng xế ngẩn ngơ
Hồn em đã chín mấy mùa buồn đau
Tay anh em hãy tựa đầu
Cho anh nghe nặng trái sầu rụng rơi.

Like the sign said, tasting blueberries is fun. Even the bugs do it while doing it.

My cousin who is an assistant professor in MIS at Southeastern Louisiana University is so intelligent that if he ever decides to become a priest, I’ll be in church every Sunday to hear him preach. In our family gathering, he shared with me the following passage from Ecclesiastes hoping one day I could discover the wisdom from the Bible through Jesus.

1. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5. A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6. A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7. A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8. A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

On my way to the parking lot yesterday after work, I took a few snaps of Vassar campus.

Speaking of Vassar, if you’re an incoming freshman, check out the packing list a student blogger suggested.

In “Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards,” Jessie Scanlon explains how CSS works:

CSS allowed developers to separate content from appearance; style sheets are like little notes that say to the Web server, “If you’re sending a page to a PC, make it look like this.” There might be separate sheets for PCs, for a “printer-friendly” layout, for a PDA, and so on. For designers, CSS means that the page will appear as it was intended, no matter what the device. For developers, CSS means they only have to build the page once. And for users, CSS means, as Zeldman says, that the site works.

For companies with a Web presence—needless to say, most companies—CSS means “You can control you branding, your image, and still deliver content to users in the most appropriate style,” Zeldman says. It also means that a site redesign wouldn’t require every page to be recoded—an expensive and time-consuming proposition.

Louis Armstrong’s powerful trumpet and soulful voice give “La Vie En Rose” a savory jazz makeover. Pops, you’re still da bomb!

A powerful documentary detailed the bombing that took place in Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1995). “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,” the two atomic bombs, not only wiped out 210,000 people but also caused enormous suffering to the survivors whose lives were worse than deaths in the aftermath. Despite their hardship, they courageously declared that their suffering worth it if nuclear weapons of mass destruction are ceased to exist.

Sasha Frere-Jones’ “High and Mighty“:

The lazy psychedelic anthem “I Feel Like Dying,” a collaboration with the producer Jim Jonsin that appeared on the Internet in June, is one of the few songs about drugs that sound as if both the music and the musician are high. The music is based on a sample from “Once,” a bleak acoustic-guitar ballad from 2003 by Karma, a South African singer-songwriter who lives in Miami. Jonsin sped up Karma’s voice and rearranged her lyrics to create a new chorus: “Only once the drugs are done, then I feel like dying.” Karma sounds pained, but Lil Wayne doesn’t seem to be feeling much of anything. Over a jumpy kick-drum pattern, he recites his words slowly, separating each phrase with a long, narcotic pause that threatens to dissolve the rhythm: “In a marijuana field, you are so beneath my cleats. . . . I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars. I am a prisoner locked up behind Xanax bars.”

The visual depicts the Berliner Fernsehturm designed by Justus Oehler of Pentagram.

The New York Times reporter Brad Stone busted the blogger behind fakesteve.blogspot.com:

The mysterious writer has used his blog, the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, to lampoon Mr. Jobs and his reputation as a difficult and egotistical leader, as well as to skewer other high-tech companies, tech journalists, venture capitalists, open-source software fanatics and Silicon Valley’s overall aura of excess.

The acerbic postings of “Fake Steve,” as he is known, have attracted a plugged-in readership — both the real Mr. Jobs and Bill Gates have acknowledged reading the blog (fakesteve.blogspot.com). At the same time, Fake Steve has evaded the best efforts of Silicon Valley’s gossips to discover his real identity.