So many great pictures, in addition to the cake! I can't believe how big those kids are.

I can't believe how big those kids are.

I know! It's ridiculous. They were so excited about the monkey pinata. MONKEY OPEN! MONKEY OPEN!

That looks like the best party ever! And love you and Bob together--so adorable.

No such thing as a good "flash website". Flash should only be delivered to your browser after you click something that indicates it is a graphic. If flash loads on the home page the designers have already made their first mistake. Yeah I know dogmatic, but I have yet to encounter a website where having flash load initially improved it compared to an HTML opening/main page.

No such thing as a good "flash website". Flash should only be delivered to your browser after you click something that indicates it is a graphic. If flash loads on the home page the designers have already made their first mistake. Yeah I know dogmatic, but I have yet to encounter a website where having flash load initially improved it compared to an HTML opening/main page.

Typo Boy speaks my mind.

lisah, it looks like an amazing cake, and I'm glad to hear you had an awesome party.

In my own defense, I've been googling for "worst Flash sites" and come up with a couple doozies of my own:

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(note: this will auto-expand your screen. And despite looking at it for a long time, I'm still not sure what it's trying to do)

[link] (note: fun musical interface, actually, but what does this have to do with architecture???!?)

[link] (note: indescribably bad design, as in My Eyes My Eyes Let Me Spork Them)

Any more nominations from the floor?

note: this will auto-expand your screen.

ANY web page that automatically resizes my browser gets shut down and never visited again. Of all the Flash sins out there, I can't think of a single one more annoying than that.

(Seriously, web developers - we live in a wonderful new age of tabbed browsing! Why do you think that just because I want to see your restaurant's menu, I also want buffistas.org to be shrunk to the same size as your idiotically formatted Flash site???)

Don't you still have to ingest Vivarin for it to work? Unless the pills taste better than coffee, I don't see it as an improvement.

Unfortunately the reason for my gronk now becomes clear—it was the first indicator of my third migraine in the past four days. I've taken my maximum dosage of Aleve and am still dazzled and light-sensitive, so I'm giving this carnival ride about another 20 minutes before I decide whether or not to pack it in for the day.

in related news, i think Usain Bolt is a cocky ass and i wouldn't be sad to not have to watch him showboat again. there's a fine line between exuberance and showboating. he's nowhere near the line.

I don't have a problem with showboating at all.

As Heather notes, whose idea is it that you go about playing sports impassionately.

Man, I say if you're the fastest man on the planet, you go on with your bad self. If you engage in showboating *before* your event and then you don't win, well, that does make you an ass. But if you win an event that breaks a record, nets you a gold, and makes you the fastest man alive, why wouldn't you bust out with the celebrating?

Besides, what Costas, et al., are calling Bolt's "showboating" was really -- what? He slowed down at the ~80 meter mark and made some arm gestures? THAT'S "showboating"? Have these commentators never seen football games? Does no one remember Dennis Rodman?

When "slowing down" = "showboating," I say: UR DOIN IT WRONG.

I had no purple mountains or waves of grain. Land of the pilgrims' pride seemed much closer.

I always thought "Amber Waves of Grain" would be a damn fine name for a breakfast cereal.

Tough bikers rescue animals, complete with adorable pictures.