I’ve been working on the design and coding of our of email newsletter at work. Curious? Basically pretend it’s 1999 and use only tables and inline styles for design. Then assume you have these test cases…Mac and PC versus Firefox, IE6, IE7 and Safari versus clients Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Outlook 03, Outlook 07, Entourage. Multiply all by all = test cases. Emailing 45,000 people in one fell swoop–all in a day’s work.

Here’s a happy little site: tools.google.com/gapminder. It’s a google labs flash tool for visualizing the disparities in life expectancy and per captia income by country.

Below, a airplane narrowly escapes nebulous clouds of toxic gas as lightning bolts shoot across the sky, one narrowly missing the jetliner. All the while, a coarse hail falls–some hailstones as large as soccerballs. In the distance a fire rages–a fire so hot that the sky itself has become engulfed in flames!