Visualgui.com

Simple and beautiful design for an online shoe store.

NPR profiles Nat Adderley:

Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Nat Adderley redefined the idea of “brotherly love” in a musical context. He devoted most of his creative energies to the band fronted by his saxophone-playing brother, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, in which Nat played cornet, composed, managed the band’s money and generally looked after his older brother. Together, the brothers drove the Cannonball Adderley Quintet to great heights, in the process developing one of jazz’s greatest sibling success stories.

The folks at Vassar has launched Dean of the Faculty web site. Clean, well-organized and elegant use of typeface.

“10 People with Unbelievable Medical Conditions” includes a woman who has 200 orgasms a day, a man who can’t get fat, and a woman who is allergic to modern technology.

Commentary from Jack Cafferty:

It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president. When asked what his Christian faith means to him, his answer was a one-liner. “It means I’m saved and forgiven.” Great scholars have wrestled with the meaning of faith for centuries. McCain then retold a story we’ve all heard a hundred times about a guard in Vietnam drawing a cross in the sand.

Cafferty also pointed out that McCain graduated 894th in a class of 899 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

Matt allows you to tweet with multiple Twitter accounts without having to switch log in. Matt’s web site looks pretty sweet too.

Denise Gravine’s talk on “The (Social) Medium is the Message” was concise and informative. Instead of focusing on the social-network tools, she delved into the audiences and where are they heading. A summery of the talk could be found on her web site. It’s worthwhile to take a look.

Both WordPress and Movable Type are bringing social networking features to their tools, is blogging on its way out?

I don’t know. I still like the blog for longer, more detailed posts. Twitter is cool and all but who actually scroll back to read Twitter posts?

The basketball team did it. Now the tennis team is doing it too. That is some ignorant shit.

The Puppini Sisters’ “Jilted.” NPR:

A bassist plucks the big fiddle’s strings and makes them moan. Drumsticks tap out a languid beat. Then a sad woman begins her story of woe: “I bought another dinner for one / I sit and watch some pointless rerun…” Two other singers join her to lament their fate: “Jilted… again.” They’d even sat through football games to keep him! Now, the jiltees are engaging in classic self-destructive behavior, from “drinking gin” to “talking to the cat.”

The Rise & Fall of Ruby Woo is a fun album to listen to.