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The 77^th Annual Oscar Awards were great this year. I think Chris Rock brought some ghetto flavor to the Oscars and it was funny! I don’t think Sean Pean should have gotten upset about Chris poking fun at the actors. It’s a joke, it’s supposed to be a fun and fabulous night! Chris’ poking fun at George W. was the best! Hilarious!

I loved Halle Berry’s ensemble . OMG, her hair was fabulous! Catalina Sandino Moreno’s dress was hot! :heart: Of the men, I loved Usher’s look . Yummy!

I kind of liked Ziyi Zhang’s look and Melanie Griffith dress . But not that much. Everyone else didn’t really give me the starlicious glamour, so I’ll spare you my cattiness. :tease:

You can see some of the Oscar clips over at ifilm’s Oscar collection .

Many of you may already know of newsmap which reads Google News and serves it to you in colored blocks, the larger the block, the more important the news item.

Well, now I found 10×10 which serves 100 words and images every hour based on headlines in the RSS feeds of these news sources:

• Reuters World News
• BBC World Edition
• New York Times International News

Some of the images do repeat themselves, but it’s an interesting way to show the headline news. The site also has archived news from 2004, every hour of every day of every month. Wow.

What I notice about myself is that when I drop stuff, I see that I dropped it. Beyond that, I realize that if I hadn’t seen it I would have lost it forever. For example, I dropped a glove the other day but I saw it and thought, ‘Wow, if I hand’t seen it on the floor I would’ve never found it.’

Not to say that I haven’t lost things before, it’s just that sometimes I realize that I dropped something instead of just walking away. I bring this up because in my Wired magazine, Jeff Hawkins won a 2005 Wired Rave Award for a book he wrote called On Intelligence . He wrote the book after he had a serendipitous moment—similar to the one I described above—where he noticed a cup on a table that wasn’t there before and the idea hit him that the mind works a certain way.

Our brains use stored memories to constantly make predictions about everything we see, feel, and hear. [...] But when some visual pattern comes in that I had not memorized in that context, a prediction is violated. And my attention is drawn to the error. [...] Your brain constantly makes predictions about the very fabric of the world we live in, and it does so in a parallell fashion.

Jeff Hawkins - On Intelligence

Interesting… maybe I’ll read that book. Remind me to buy it, ok?

“It’s Here”

Dave Shea’s book Zen of CSS Design has now been shipped to him and to the distributors. I already pre-ordered my copy, what about you?

CSS: A tribute to selectors

Finally! Somebody breaks down how to use CSS Selectors!

Secure wireless email on Mac OS X

I haven’t read this one yet, but I will because I need more. Lots more.

Eric Conveys an Emotion

Got a few minutes? Go. Click.

Information Architecture as an Extension of Web Design

Another article I haven’t read yet, but did print out to save my peepers.

The most mysterious IE6 bug…….ever

As if there aren’t enough IE bugs out there. Here’s another one.

RIPPED MACROMEDIA: Misioneros de Guadalupe

The website above completely ripped their layout from Macromedia even to the point of having the alt tag of their logo say “Macromedia.” Damn. This website is no longer active and it being “updated”, they probably realized the negative attention they were getting and shut down.