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 of the founders of this nation. As a result of political and corporate imperialism, we have never been less secure as a nation, physically, morally, economically and intellectually. We therefore make the following demands:
1. That the present illegitimate government be replaced by one elected by popular vote of the people and that electoral reforms be instituted to insure that such fraud is never perpetrated again; and
2. That current policies of unilateralism be replaced by a recognition that this nation is but one member of a global community in which cooperation is necessary to the survival of all; and
3. That immediate steps be taken toward those ends, including reinstitution of this nation’s commitment to arms reduction and nuclear non-proliferation agreements; and
4. That this nation sign the Kyoto Accords as a first step in regaining international leadership toward environmental stewardship of this planet; and
5. That all tax reductions enacted by the present government be immediately repealed and that policies of sound economic management, beginning with a balanced budget, be instituted; and
6. That unfunded mandates by the federal government to the states be ended; and ..
Finish reading the rest …
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 web pages where every link on the page is underlined. It’s distracting and not visually appealing. Accordingly, I set my browsers (and design my web pages) so that only mousing over a link causes the underline to be displayed.
What I like about this solution is that links are highlighted a paragraph at a time. It helps ensure links aren’t overlooked; I sometimes link memepool/mefi style, w/many links per paragraph. This is also a nice compromise compared to all links on a page being underlined or only one link being so displayed.
Stuart actually adds color in addition to the underlining, but I only used the “paragraph hover” bit as shown below (the entire code set is at his site, see prev. link). I had recently changed my link colors and also made links bold, in an effort to make them more visible (the old colors blended into the bodytext too much). That helped (though I’m not sure I’m done tweaking the colors), and this new addition really makes the links stand out!
/* Links within paragraphs (revealed) */
p:hover a {
color: blue;
text-decoration: underline;
}
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.
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.
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, as seen from mars, ranks up there with the first images of the earth from the moon in terms of dramatically showing our place in space. The image of earth and jupiter in one frame emphasizes this as well.
There is a NASA site that has more images and details about the photo processing necessary to make these images web-ready.
Also, Tim Bray has taken a closer look at the photo processing tricks necessary to bring out the most detail from these images.
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