Posted by mike on May 31st, 2003

Powerful writing over at The Barbaric Yawp (excerpted below). While perhaps a bit hyperbolic, the sentiment manifest in the writing below is bound to give any freedom loving, thinking person food for thought.

The Meme Manifesto

WE, the people of the United States of America, believe that our present government has repeatedly betrayed the ideals …

Posted by mike on May 28th, 2003

Zeldman points to a pretty nifty trick cooked up by Stuart Robertson over at Design Meme.

With just a couple of lines of code, mousing over a paragraph causes all links in that paragraph to be displayed with an underline. No javascript; just CSS and a modern browser.

I prefer to not see …

Posted by mike on May 27th, 2003

I’ve put together a select sampling of the photos I took when we were up at Tahoe recently. Here’s a teaser; the rest of the images are over at RiverSide-Cafe.com.

emerald bay
sunset

Posted by mike on May 26th, 2003

memorial day

memorial day

I love the rich, saturated artwork of these old images from the early 20th century. You can find more images like this, plus a whole lot more at the MemorialDay.org site.

Posted by mike on May 25th, 2003

just spinning, spinnin free, Dizzy with eternity.

Yeah, I know, I was burned out on that song myself.

Still, Throwing Stones is a powerful, still relevant song, and the imagery conveyed by the title of this post reflects one of its more hopeful messages.

To me, this picture of the earth and the moon, …