BurningbirdI’ve noticed a growing trend towards more organic web designs, lately. We see fewer sites with rounded corner header graphics, plastic colors, and infinite reflections, and more with images seemingly plastered across the page, and then allowed to weather and age until looking like the wall paper in our Aunt Sally’s fusty old apartment. I […]
AppleWatch has an interesting article on the price differences between Apple computers and PCs. According to its analysis, Macs now cost close to twice as much as a PC for approximately the same hardware. Though people may prefer the Mac OS X, at the same time, can we afford such a price difference? I recently wrote […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This is Missouri’s week for tigers, but not all the tiger tales are happy ones. Today, the St. Louis Zoo will introduce five Amur tiger cubs to the public for the first time. The Amur tiger, also known as the Siberian tiger, is one of the rarest tigers in the world. […]
We’ve been lucky this summer and had relatively mild weather. However, this week our luck has run out, as we contemplate heat index readings over 115 degrees (46 celsius). Stay cool.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have been following James Fallows’ coverage of the Olympics with interest, specifically because he has been focused on the air pollution that plagues Beijing. It is unfathomable that a city would put its people at risk by having air quality so bad that it has to take such drastic steps as […]