We’re having a blizzard in the City right now! Gorgeous flakes of snow, many of them the size of a quarter, are completely making the sky white. Check out some photos from my phone cam on the flickr bar!
Month: April 2006
Redesign Fatigue
Two changes to two major websites, one temporary and one permanent:
- Slashdot as an April Fool’s joke turned their frontpage pink and changed their motto to “OMG!!! PONIES!!!”, starting a bloggersphere catchphrase craze not heard of since “All your base are belong to us!“. Funny while it lasted.
- The New York Times changed their website into something kind of, sort of like the printed version, with multiple colums of stuff to peruse. It is going to take come getting used to. It’s hard for me to scroll around – I rather like the setup in their “Today’s Paper” version instead, where everything is in one column.
Looking forward to the annual asian alumni dinner at school on Wednesday. It’s going to be at the new conference center, so that should be great.
A Follow Up
The Scalia story continues, with Dahlia Lithwick’s most amusing commentary, providing the case history and the holdings therein (haha – very much in the style lawyers are much too familiar with). (although, note that I made no substantial comment on J. Scalia’s hand gesture; I continue to withhold comment; merely linking to the Lithwick article).
Oh, and one shining moment – congrats to Florida’s Men basketball team for winning the NCAA tournament, beating UCLA. Bummer that UCLA couldn’t have made it a closer game, but things happen, I guess.