Just found out about this from Boing Boing. Two little bits of holiday fun for your flickr library. Add a note to any of your images labeled "ho ho ho hat" and it will place a Santa Hat on your image. Add another note labeled "ho ho ho beard" and it will place a Santa Beard on the image. That is a little bit of fun for the holiday season.

Tags: holiday, web 2.0, funny

I just got an email from a friend with this link to a version of the Charlie Brown Christmas as performed by the cast of HBC TV's hit Scrubs. This is no simple reading of the script, but rather a re-interpretation by the cast. It is funny, a little blue, but mostly funny.If you are If you are a fan of the show, you are aren't you, you will love this version. With all due respects to Sparky.

Tags: tv, cultural, holiday, funny

Watching this cartoon as a kid, and countless times now that I am a father, I always wondered whatever happened to these puppets. A few years back I was at Kevin Smith's comic book shop in Red Bank, NJ and saw a couple of great books on the production of the cartoon, but it never really stated what happened to the puppets.

Well they were found last year. Well only a couple of puppets survived and they were in pretty bad shape. Here is a nice bit of info on their restoration and some nice pics.

Tags: tv, cultural, holiday, funny

So today is the day the final bundle has been revealed from the folks at MacHeist. If you have not been following, MacHeist has been a bit of an online scavenger hunt to get great deals (read: free) shareware apps for your trusty old OS X. The bundle they are releasing is a great list of popular software that many folks would be happy to add to their Mac. They are also donating 25% of the bundle price to a charity of your choosing, from their selected list.
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Tags: website, viral, software, os x, apple

I was the lucky recipient of a serious bit of the flu over Thanksgiving. Am now just beginning to feel better. In the meantime I have traveled to the Outer Banks (have a couple of nice shots of Kitty Hawk I will be adding to the plog), MacAppADay has begun and the MacHeist continues its irregular path.

MacAppADay is a great promotion. Every day during December they are giving away 5,000 copies of a particular piece of shareware. So far they have let go some decent software and the price can't be beat.

MacHeist is a bit of scavenger hunt across the web to solve riddle, puzzles, etc. In the end some nice software is there to be had as well. At the end of it all they will also offer a decent bundle of software (yet to be named) for a discounted price. Both are good bit of diversion for the month.

As technology continues to march on, and information overloads us at all turns, I am reaching to the past. I am now awaiting delivery of a Graflex Crown Graphic camera…a camera made sometime in the '50s. It is a larger format, 4X5, camera that is capable of shooting medium format and Polaroid films as well.

I have never used a camera like this and am expecting a bit of a learning curve in order to get up to speed with this style of shooting. However, I am extremely excited to learn this manner of photography and incorporate it into my portfolio. I will recount issues here, as well as include shots in the plog. If you have any pointers, please feel free to pass them along to me.

Tags: photography, hardware, cultural

I am an id10t. This may be something that I had forgotten, but it is a cool little feature in OS X. When typing in an app if you use the key combination option + delete, it will erase whole words rather than letters. Again, not sure if I had known this and just never used it, but I have recently rediscovered this nice feature in my favorite (read only) operating system.

Tags: os x, apple, software

There seems to be an explosion of gallery sites, specifically sites geared to highlighting great work with web-standards. The mother of all these sites, in my mind, would be CSS Zen Garden; this site more than any other has showcased what good design can do when coupled with web standards.

Web Creme
CSS Mania
CSS Remix
CSSTux
Style Gala

Now I am all for promoting good work, but with the sheer number of these sites, the amount of duplication of efforts has begun to show itself. Some offer rankings, while others are just blind links to the site with nothing more than a screenshot of the site. There are, however, a couple of sites that stand out and provide more than a simple gallery of the latest and greatest. CSS Globe is hoping to add more to the conversation, as is CSS Beauty.

I think many of these sites will either have to begin offering more to their visitors, or they will lose their relevance to the design community. Providing examples of well-designed sites with no discussion on why they may be good or relevant is incomplete. As a design community, there must be a place to discuss the merits of good design and the cause + effect relationship it may have had on the project(s).

It is like grade school, where we were admonished to show our work, so we may gain some credit even if the final answer was wrong. Design is a speculative business and what I consider a fine design may not be universally held. Discussion of defined merits of a design and how it may or may not succeed in the marketplace is invaluable as we move the design community forward in the ether that is web 2.0.

Tags: website, design, programming

On Election Day, like every other day, there will be over 1 billion people around the world living on less than $1 a day.  But unlike every other day, your vote can set in motion something that will change that.  

1 billion people around the world do not have access to clean water. As a result every 15 seconds, a child dies from a disease associated with this lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygeine. What is your candidate prepared to do about this?

1 billion people are expected to die in this coming century from cigarettes. What is your candidate prepared to do about this?

1 billion people around the world are now considered overweight compared to the roughly 800 million who do not have enough to eat. Both extremes present problems for our country and our world. What is your candidate prepared to do about this?

1 billion people are purported to be online now, yet corporations want to control access to the internet. What is your candidate prepared to do about this?

1 billion people could be served by solar energy when today's generation reaches adulthood in 2020. What is your candidate prepared to do about this?

Your vote counts more than you think. Who you vote for will have an effect that reaches beyond our borders. Your vote lends your voice to the discussion to solve the problems of hunger, poverty, strife, war, AIDS...your vote is priceless.

Take your children to the poll with you to show them the importance of this civic responsibility we hold so dear.  Lead them today by your example for tomorrow they will lead us.

Tags: government, cultural, history

With the Halloween sugar buzz still resonating in my head, we begin the holiday season. Today we celebrate All Saints Day and march towards Thanksgiving. We will be inundated with countless lists of the best this or that gift for the holidays. I literally received a 3" stack of catalogues the other day and I can only expect it to get worse. Marketers trying to gain an edge over their competitors in a race to Q4 profits…ahhh that Christmas spirit just makes you all warm and snuggly doesn't it?

Tags: holiday, cultural

Happy Halloween! I remember watching the Charlie Brown Halloween special as a kid. It is a great holiday institution in our family and a wonderful memory of a simpler time.

These days my daughters trick-or-treat at a few friends houses and we have a special dinner together. There is not the care-free candy binge of my childhood due to the changing nature of the society we live in. But at least we still have It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!

Tags: holiday, tv, cultural

Anyone who was alive in the seventies will hopefully appreciate this little tutorial. I remember airbrushing these type of effects a hundred years ago…in fact I still own several thousand dollars worth of airbrush equipment. One brush I bought for close to $700 weeks before an update to the Mac OS that made it a more viable solution for the type of work I was doing than the traditional way.
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Tags: design, software, tutorial, photoshop

In an effort to create more quality images, and to just have fun doing things I love, last week I started posting a plog (photo blog). Ideally, it will ultimately showcase new photography, and other visual media, completely disassociated with work; it is strictly ars gratia artis. Some of these images, at the start, may be from a backlog of the literally thousands of images I have taken this year. In time, it will be content created strictly for the plog.

Michelangelo was said to be haunted by the spirit to leave a body of work…now I have not even a thousandth of the skill of the great master. But I wll persevere, nonetheless, in my own small drive to leave a body of work for my girls.

Tags: photography, hardware

Google does it again. Their labs have opened up search for code. They have also opened up what could be sensitive information by indexing anything and everything with the appropriate extension. This could mean trouble for some who make their living by writing proprietary code for a living. It could also mean trouble for the rest of us, when that code incorporates sensitive information within the markup.

I am awed by Google and becoming more afraid of their power.

Tags: website, history, programming

Been waiting 20 years since the last time they played this good. Although it has really nothing to do with design it is a good day to be a Mets fan. I have my tickets to Game 4 at Shea, if the series lasts that long. Go Mets!

Tags: sports, history, cultural

In conjunction with October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we will wear pink proudly on our site. The copy below is taken directly from Komen.org and promotes their new initiative in helping to find a cure for this disease.

Passionately Pink for the Cure™ is a new, year-round fundraising and education program kicking off October 1, 2006, in conjunction with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The program encourages companies, schools and organizations to take that promise, make it their own, and make a difference by supporting breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment.

Breast cancer touches millions of lives. It is expected that 211,200 women and 1,720 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and more than 41,000 people will die from breast cancer in 2006 alone. One by one, we can make a difference! Passionately Pink for the Cure™ is an easy, creative program we hope will have everyone seeing pink everywhere you look, every day in October, encouraging millions of people nationwide to get involved in the promise for the cure. We hope to raise $10 million through the Passionately Pink for the Cure™ program with your help.

Tags: cultural, history

I have used Safari and Firefox for ages, but the featureset for Firefox has finally made me convert to using it as my full-time browser. I had been reluctant to make the final leap since Firefox still does not address the very handy Services menu in OS X. I use this function extensively, especially while browsing to save snippets of interest, but that was finally outweighed by the enormous amount of features available from the Firefox community.
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Tags: software, web, programming

An often overlooked method of working with imagery in Photoshop is the use of Adjustment Layers. This provides the means to retouch an image in a non-destructive way. When you select an image and adjust its Levels or Curves you have altered that image, but using an Adjustment Layer for that identical process provides the same results but without altering the original image. This allows the ability to step back to the original image for any reason.
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Tags: design, software, tutorial, photoshop

My site is really apolitical. I have my own beliefs, but they are my own and separate from my business insomuch as they can be. I consider it a good policy to keep these items mutually exclusive, but this cause is more than I can bear and I will make this exception.

In my lifetime there have been three major instances of genocide; Rwanda, Kosovo and Darfur. During each of these the governments of the world have stood by and watched until they were ultimately shamed into action by the demands of the citizens. What follows is a prepared script, for an accompanying PowerPoint presentation, from the Save Darfur Coalition.
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Tags: government, crisis, humanitarian

Photoshop is the king of image manipulation. Adobe has done some great things with the app over the years and it has shown in every new release. Sometimes, however, it is not the first choice for creating imagery. Your needs may require an image that needs to be resolution independant which would lead you to Photoshop's sister app, Illustrator. Although there are overlaps between the two applications, creating similar graphics require different approaches. Read More...

Tags: design, software, tutorial, illustrator

"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares."

President Abraham Lincoln
December 23, 1862 Letter to Fanny McCullough

Some of our fellow Americans who left us five years ago:

8:46 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the North tower of The World Trade Center.
9:02 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 crashes in to the South tower of The World Trade Center.
9:43 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon.
10:05 a.m. the South tower of The World Trade Center collapses.
10:10 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 crashes in Somerset County, PA.
10:28 a.m. the North tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

(I have had requests for the original page that was posted on the anniversary and have made that available here)
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Tags: cultural, government, crisis

One of the great things about working on a Mac is the ability to customize and script almost every aspect of your daily routine with ease. This functionality extends to every application, either by inclusion within their code or by using AppleScript. Adobe has provided Actions within Photoshop for several versions now, but many artists I know do not use them to streamline their workflow. Read More...

Tags: design, software, tutorial, photoshop

Living in Florida, we are naturally supportive of the efforts in space exploration and our launches from the cape. Today STS-115 will launch at 11:41am, if all goes well. The crew is: Astronauts Brent W. Jett, Jr., Christopher J. Ferguson, commander and pilot. The mission specialists are, astronauts Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Joseph R. (Joe) Tanner, Daniel C. Burbank, and Steven G. MacLean, who represents the Canadian Space Agency. Safe travels to these brave souls.

Delayed for 24 hours.

Tags: government

Roger Johansson has a great site with insightful commentary, but one of his more recent musings touched upon a debate we have been having at work recently; his thesis was about the ten things a company should know before building a website. He references another designer, Andy Budd, who recently asked his site visitors what 3 things we, as designers, wished our clients knew about the web that generated a lot of input from the community. Both of these highlight the issue of how to approach your role with your clients. Are we merely a service industry, taking orders and fulfilling them, or are we providing more valuable counsel, such as an attorney or financial planner?

Having worked as a artist (read: layout, illustrator, graphic designer, photographer, video editor, compositor, web designer, programmer, chief cook & bottle washer) for nearly twenty years I continually assess where the industry is and in which direction it may be moving towards. My thoughts on this matter tend more towards the latter; we should be providing counsel for the client and their business requirements. Actively engaging with them and the goals of the business rather than simply fulfilling an order for one creative development project. Read More...

Tags: design, insight

Often times we are called to create imagery that reflects a specified tone or incorporates certain imagery to coincide with other marketing efforts for our clients. Adding a sense of realism to a logo on a wall, or aging a icon on a T-shirt adds that sense of believability that makes your digital work stand out from the rest of the crowd.

This is another technique to add some more life in your digital composites using some good free textures available through a quick Google; Mayang's offers some great shots for free (limited to 20 downloads a day or you can purchase them all for $45) and where I got this background. Read More...

Tags: design, software, tutorial, photoshop

Within the design industry we are sometimes called upon to make simple things look much better than they actually are…like a make-up artist at the Emmy's (aw c'mon did you watch the show?). One of the tricks that I have learned over the years is adding more depth to elements creates a better sense of reality to the image.

While I was working at Disney, we had to develop numerous events and broadcasts. Without the time to really develop a 3-D model, light it and render out I came up with a simple series of steps in Photoshop to provide more depth to a simple Illustrator logo or icon. These plates always seem to generate a positive response from all of the associated parties. Read More...

Tags: design, software, tutorial, photoshop

Adobe Labs has released the Alpha version of Flash 9. You must sign up to have access to downloads, but I would recommend signing up. There are some great options available from this type of pre-release software to their support forums. Read More...

Tags: design, web, software, review

One of the greatest assets that the internet and its associated online communities is the availability of open source solutions to design problems. Some of these solutions are the ready availability of code examples that can be used in your project(s) to full-scale applications that provide complete solutions for today's designers. Read More...

Tags: design, website, insight, review

I have recently upgraded to a new machine. I got tired of waiting for the latest and greatest, although any announcement made today at WWDC may make me rethink that strategy, and bought a 20" iMac. Developing sites, and other associated creative endeavors, necessitated a faster machine. With Adobe products being a staple of any designer's toolset, I was curious to see if the new machine would be able to run those apps without a serious hit from Rosetta. Read More...

Tags: apple, hardware

This is another thing I love about the web. I found this on the RapidWeaver Forums and thought it was an intriguing way to showcase data. Enter the URL you wish to have reviewed and this site will generate a visual representation of your site. It reviews the code and generates the image based on several criteria: H1 is brighter than H2 is brighter than H3, etc., table is brighter than TR which is brighter than TD, DIV layout is brighter than a table layout, and on. A semantically coded site will appear brighter than an invalid page.

Tags: web, insight, funny

In a brief introduction to our approach to a project we have been going over some of the larger concepts in working towards a finished site. The third stage in our process is development. Once the finished concept is signed and approved by the client, we then move to actually build the site. During the development process, we move from designing the experience to creating the site. Read More...

Tags: insight, design, programming

Stretching about 90 miles, from Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, is one of the largest glaciers in Alaska; Hubbard Glacier. Hubbard Glacier has survived the last mini ice age and we were witness to its beauty on a cold morning this past Independence Day. Our ship began to make its way into Desolation Bay early in the morning of July 4th. By 8:00am we were in between 3 massive glaciers: Turner Glacier to the port and Hubbard and Valerie Glaciers on the starboard. Read More...

Tags: video, travel

Yourhead Software has come out with an update to their popular Blocks plugin for Rapidweaver. Blocks allows you to position elements within the page and alleviates some obvious shortcomings to RealMac Software's handy little application. It offers the ability to position elements, text, graphics raw code, anywhere on the page all from within the Rapidweaver application. Read More...

Tags: rapidweaver, plugin, software

Back from vacation. The weather was superb and the experience was unforgettable. It was a wonderful time and am now in the process of setting a micro-site to showcase all of the events from the trip. I will slowly process the images and begin sharing some here.

To all of those who emailed me while away, I have responded to your queries.

Tags: travel

I will be spending some time in the great Northwest part of the continent. We are embarking on a land-sea tour of Seattle-Alaska. I look forward to the great experience of seeing such a beautiful part of the world. As such, I will be unplugging from the grid and look forward to updates when I return. Happy Independence Day to America.

Tags: travel

I have had Google Analytics running on this site for less than a week. It is interesting to take a look at the voluminous reports you can create as you analyze your site and the traffic it generates. In the week that I have had it running, I have come to discover more and more what a small planet we have and the need to communicate better through intelligent means like the web.

Just under half of the traffic to this site has been from non-English speaking countries; Japan, Slovakia, Italy, Germany, etc. As I write these opinions, insights, tutorials, they have seemed to make their way around the globe and back again. Read More...

Tags: software, web, cultural, insight

In the second phase, of a 5 phase process for developing any project, we start working on the design of the site. The design will incorporate much more than just how the site will ultimately look. The design refers to the structural integrity of the information architecture as well as the aesthetics of the visual design. In order to develop an appropriately immersive experience to solve my client’s problem we begin, as they say, at the beginning. Read More...

Tags: insight, design, programming

This is one of those jokes that has made it around the internet multiple times. That does not negate the fact that it is funny and holds some semblance of truth. If you are not a geek, like myself, than please ignore, but if you are a member of some online forums you will recognize some of the descriptions. Read More...

Tags: funny

There is always a wealth of knowledge just a few clicks away. Here are some more sites that I frequent to research projects and use as a source of inspiration while developing sites. Read More...

Tags: website, design, insight

Really Simple Syndication is a means with which to broadcast feeds (alternatively call streams, webfeed, channels, etc.) to the general public. These feeds provide content, or brief summaries and associated metadata, to the end-user with links back to the full or expanded content. The end-user uses a reader or aggregator to subscribe to a feed as well as review the content.

There have been forms of syndication, but none ever achieved a fraction of the success that RSS has obtained thus far. With the variety of rich media (blogs, podcast, photocast, vodcast, etc.) that can now utilize an RSS feed, its popularity will only increase. Read More...

Tags: insight, software, web, programming

I have been working in this business for nearly twenty years, although my training stretches back to my early childhood, and I have worked in every form of visual communications during that time. Each medium has its own requirements and discipline, but within all of these business models, the common elements are quality work produced on time and in budget.

This is a business and we must ensure due diligence to solve our clients problems, increase their business and return a profit to our company (regardless of whether you own it or work for da' man).Any time you can streamline a process, or refine a workflow to enhance the quality of the work while increasing profitability ensures that you are a valuable member of a company. Read More...

Tags: insight, design, programming

One of the greatest sporting events in the world starts in Germany today, The World Cup. The opening match is between Germany , the host country, and Costa Rico kicks off a month-long competition by the best 32 teams in the world. The first World Cup was held on July 18th, 1930 and quickly became a sporting and financial success that continues to this day. Most Americans cannot comprehend the fervor around this sporting event, but to compare it to our sensibilities it is the SuperBowl, World Series, NBA Championships, the Stanley Cup, Kentucky Derby and the Indy 500 all rolled into one package.

Our American team has played well and has the opportunity to do better than they have ever before. The Americans are in Group E, along with Italy, Ghana and the Czech Republic. We have a talented roster of great athletes but whatever the outcome, this will be a great series for any sports fan to watch. If you want to watch some great action plan on watching at least one game.

Tags: funny, sports, cultural

June 6, 1944 - Today marks the anniversary of the allied offensive on the beaches of Normandy. My grandfather was one of the many brave men who set foot on those beaches on that day so many years ago. He was one of the lucky men to have survived the assault. Some details on the massive casualties suffered during the day can be found here.

My grandfather, Tony, continued to fight on across the European continent for the better part of the next year. I know that he must have witnessed the most horrible face of war during his many months of combat. Although, he never spoke about the actions of that cold June day to many people who did not experience it firsthand.

My grandpa passed away many years ago, far from the battlefields of his youth. I miss him every day and I think about how he would relish the laughter of his great-granddaughters. I am grateful to have known him for so long and ever thankful for his generation's sacrifice to secure the freedoms we enjoy today.

Tags: d-day, wwII, history

With so much to do during the day it is always best to streamline production to work more effectively. A lot of the Flash work I am called upon to develop is online marketing materials (read: banners). These pieces always have a definite set of parameters to run at the publisher's sites. One requirement is that all banner advertisements need an outline. I used to always create this within Flash, converting it to a symbol that I could cut and paste between files. Read More...

Tags: tutorial, flash, web, programming

This site just goes to show what a little imagination and a good toolset can do for you. Despite its seemingly rudimentary protagonist, this is a great bit of animation and storytelling that made me laugh out-loud. If you are okay with cartoon violence, than this is a clever animation and worth checking out.

Tags: funny, website

Found this site, Leapfish, and thought it was somewhat amusing. They claim to offer an appraisal of your domain name. If they are accurate, my domain is one of the more valuable assets I own. Either way, it is a fun bit of speculating.

Tags: funny, insight

The latest release of RapidWeaver is slated for any moment now. RealMac Software has designed a nice little app to let you develop websites with very little training. I actually use it as a RAD tool to create wireframes of sites for clients. It allows you the ability to develop a wireframe site in no time at all to insure the user experience is optimally designed. Read More...

Tags: rapidweaver, software, os x, apple

I admit it, I am addicted to the show. It has a great story that keeps me engaged; the only thing working against it is the frequency of repeats that ABC has been throwing into the mix. I remember when I was a kid, the new TV season would start and it would run its course, interrupted only by major sporting events and/or news events. Stations now feel they can string you along for with a new episode every few weeks, thereby increasing ad revenue and maintaining viewer-ship. I am not sure that is the way to tell a story, but at least ABC seems to have something smart going on…a viral campaign for the show. Read More...

Tags: viral, website, tv, cultural

It is amazing the many and varied ways to present data. Here is a site that will take any website and make a graph out of it. The image is this site, before adding this entry, however.

Tags: web, insight, funny

This was one of the cooler sites I have found over the past year. It presents information in a very engaging manner. This is a great example of what Flash does well in the hands of a talented designer(s).

Tags: design, cultural

Pixar's newest film is about a week away, but you can check out some of the fun at their website. The site is a great example of fun design; it presents a showroom for all of this seasons new cars. The only detraction being the giant Disney banner at the top of the screen.

Tags: movies, funny

Have you got all of your supplies? Florida has a tax holiday that ends on June 1st. You can find a list of items on this page. Be prepared this season; these are the major items to plan on storing in case of emergency: Read More...

Tags: government, insight

Here are some more links for some webstandard design & coding insight from some of the big brains online (these are all external links populating a new window):

A List Apart - explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.

Eric Meyer - if you do not know this man's work or his site, do yourself a favor bookmark his site and grab his books. He is one of the reasons that web standards has gained such notoriety. His knowledge is extensive and his ability to illustrate complex ideas with simple tutorials is without peer.

Tantek Çelik - here is another great leader in the field of web standards and CSS. He has certainly forgotten more about this language than I have learned.

Kurafire Network - here is some real interesting use of compliant CSS/XHTML. Faruk is a talented designer and his reputation is growing in the field.

I will add some more links at a later time. If you have any inspirational designers who you find valuable to your work, please let me know.

Tags: website, programming

Here is another great bit of code for showcasing imagery on your site. Lightbox (external link) offers a dynamic slideshow for your imagery with just a small bit of code from the prototype (external link) framework and the scriptaculous (external link) library. It works very well and provides an easy to implement and effective showcase for imagery without the overhead of Flash (not that I am bashing Flash since I work with it quite a bit).

Some folks have expanded the effect and there is a good bit of activity in the community (external link) for creating nice solutions using this method. When you need to implement something other than the standard Flash gallery, this may prove a valuable alternative.

Tags: programming, web, website

In an ever continuing struggle to maintain the freedoms we have here in the states, we must stand up for those who speak out. I am not partial to country music, but I defend the rights of those to speak their minds, especially artists in the pursuit of their vision. The Dixie Chicks have caught more than their fair share of flack and have spoken back with this album, Taking the Long Way (external link to the iTunes Music Store), which is a great album.

Rick Rubin produced this album and the women have written some tremendous music. I think that it leans more to the Rock Bluegrass genre than Country, but that is just my 2¢. Buy this album and support free speech.

Tags: government, review, music, cultural

It is nice when your team is doing well. Having been a lifelong fan, I have become used to the disappoint a season can bring. This year, however, they are playing very well and if they keep playing .500 ball odds are looking good for the fall.

Tags: sports, cultural

One of the cooler things I have recently run across. Moo.fx is an easy-to-use fast, compliant javascript effects library written with prototype.js. It provides an easy to use framework to create some nice effects to your site. There are some cool things that folks have done to extend the functionality of the code and this just further illustrates the entrepreneurial spirit of development.

Tags: programming, website, web 2.0

I have been reworking some major projects and have somewhat neglected this site. In the process of working back to some measure of regularity I have found some interesting and inspirational links that others may find useful (links will open a new window):











…and of course the grand-daddy of them all



I will add some more items in the coming days.

Tags: programming, website