Though my initial favorite design for Ground Zero was the Norman Foster design, I’ll be looking forward to either the Daniel Libeskind or THINK Team buildings. The THINK building, two towers of lattice was one of the ones I really didn’t like at first, but that was based on seeing only one photo. The 3D walkthrough on the New York Times Envisioning Downtown site is astounding. Both designs are exceptionally well thought out, I especially liked Libeskind’s use of light to commemorate the times of impact on September 11th.

2-pop recently implemented UBB fourms, which is a huge improvement. I threw together a quick forum jump menu for their front page, but it got eaten by the forum ampersand translation. Here is a working version:

2-Pop Forums

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Hilarious MiSTing of the Democratic response to the State of the Union address. In all fairness to Governor Locke, he got better towards the end as he grew more comfortable. However after watching both speeches the Democrats now seem even more scattered and disorganized than they did before blowing last November’s elections.

Transcripts:

• State of the Union address
• Democratic Response

Ugh. Just spent the better part of four hours dealing with hard drive problems. Lost mail and Dock preferences again, but everything’s better now. Thank you Disk Warrior.