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The title sez it all. Midwestern rockers Hum Machine launched a great new release, and broke CMJ’s top 200! Good stuff!

Hmmm. I’ve been spending the break reading all about Ruby on Rails, Ajax, the whole bit. From an interaction designer’s perspective, it’s still a far ways from easy, but the great resources out there like this one on metaclasses and some of the links from here are awesome. There’s a great community surrounding this platform already; I am proud 37signals is based in Chicago!

Back to back Post posts: Torture’s Long Shadow, from the WaPo has been the most sobering essay I’ve read in awhile. It makes me sad that we must learn morality lessons from Stalin. Though it may be possible to learn from the negative example, and Stalin most certainly is that, I am afraid that when Bush looks in the mirror, Stalin is whom he will see.

From the Washington Post, on the lack of congressional oversight on the Bush junta administration:

Democrats on the committee said the panel issued 1,052 subpoenas to probe alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration and the Democratic Party between 1997 and 2002, at a cost of more than $35 million. By contrast, the committee under Davis has issued three subpoenas to the Bush administration, two to the Energy Department over nuclear waste disposal at Yucca Mountain, and one last week to the Defense Department over Katrina documents.

Yes, because Monica’s blue dress was at least as much of a threat to our country as, say… spying on our citizens or bankrupting our government.

As web design matures and standards become more commonplace, I am amazed by the number of solutions achieved by designers that dance elegantly between aesthetic beauty and semantic accuracy. Alessandro Fulciniti has created a technique with a touch of that elegance, Nifty Corners: rounded corners without images in html. Fulciniti’s technique is interesting in that it uses javascript DOM manipulation to inject meaningless tags into the document structure, styling them in orer to create corners.