• David Michael Bruno: 100 Thing Challenge - Wow is this attractive as I prepare to move my life over a great for the fourth time in as many years. There's a Christian angle to it, too. I could do this.
• BBC: The_Death_Of_Yugoslavia_(1of6)_Enter_Nationalism.avi - Bookmarking for myself, as I watch these 6 parts from the BBC on Milosevic's reign over Yugoslavia. via… Kottke?
• Monotype’s Other “Arials” - "Interestingly, Monotype created cheap substitutes for not only Helvetica, but all the other proprietary fonts Adobe has included with PostScript…"
• Top 10 Church & Religious Websites - Rebranding First Church Somerville… what an undertaking.
• Ice Cream Cupcakes at Joy The Baker - Ice cream and cupcakes and pretty pictures. Triple threat.
• Good 50×70 2008 » Gallery - Winners of Good's poster design competition. The 'Human Rights Violation' category is particularly tremendous.

This clip show of a day of same-sex weddings in West Hollywood made me cry. I am so, so, so, SO proud of my home state. I can’t contain it. I will do anything do defeat that ballot measure this fall. God, justice, equality, equal access, and love conquer all! (from Slate V)

Such respect for this Shel Silverstein-penned song and particularly this 1969 recording, but funny that my mind’s eye forgot that all the prisoners at San Quentin would be white. “A Boy Named Sue”

“Competitions among grievances do not ennoble, and both Clinton and Obama strove to avoid one; but it does not belittle the oppressions of gender to suggest that in America the oppressions of race have cut deeper. Clinton’s supporters would sometimes note that the Constitution did not extend the vote to women until a half century after it extended it to men of color. But there is no gender equivalent of the nightmare of disenfranchisement, lynching, apartheid, and peonage that followed Reconstruction, to say nothing of “the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil” that preceded it. Nor has any feminist leader shared the fate of Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. Clinton spoke on Saturday of “women in their eighties and nineties, born before women could vote.” But Barack Obama is only in his forties, and he was born before the Voting Rights Act redeemed the broken promise of the Fifteenth Amendment.

Hendrik Hertzberg nails some elements of this gender/race oppression one- upsmanship dialogue which, if it was avoided by the candidates themselves, was seized upon with gusto (to much gnashing of teeth from your author), by partisan camps on many sides. From the New Yorker’s Talk of the Town, Exhillaration.

Joy Division, not everyone’s go-to choice for sunshine, but we all need a moody dance number now and then.

Five minutes from Ira Glass on the time it takes to grow into creative talent. This speaks directly to how I feel about my photography right now. Whenever someone compliments my style, I can only think to myself, “that’s just a 50mm/f1.8 and the same portrait over and over again.” This was reassuring, especially given my Project 365 effort.

You won’t be seeing any more Apple-related commentary from me for the forseeable future, but it’s fortunately due to the uncontainably exciting unveiling of the Boylston Street Apple Store in downtown Boston tonight at 6pm. I’ve been waiting for this day since I was last with Apple several years ago, and am giddy with anticipation for Grand Opening weekend and all that the store is going to be able to offer the community. Come check us out!

Off into Boston Common with friends for a picnic this last week of undergrad, and Boston’s despicable weather is finally considering playing nice with such springtime festivities. Let’s see how long it lasts.

• 21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs - Still more photography basics, prettily illustrated by some medium format shots.
• Rich Chocolate Heart Cakes - From Martha Stewart, this is my all time favorite dessert I've ever made. Also, I am totally obsessed with rosemary.
• Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas - Via Merlin, I believe. WebDev is always on my mind these days, and the reliably great Smashing Magazine has another list which is both well-curated and highly digg-friendly.
• Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes - Oh man, fantastic nitpicking of typographic minutiae and the keyboard shortcuts to solve the problem.
• Chávez seeks Shangri-La with ’socialist cities’ - Caribia is one of five "socialist cities" under construction throughout the country that will provide nearly 75,000 homes. Ten more cities are in the planning phase.