From The Price Tag for Immigration Enforcement, the crackdown on immigrants is only going to get more expensive next year. The Department of Homeland Security is asking for a 19% increase for "immigratin enforcement and border control for 2009". Just this year, the budgets for Customs and Border Protection (CBP)and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were 80% larger than the EPA budget and \$4 billion more than the State Department. The FY2008 State Department budget was a little over \$10 billion. The whole mess is detailed in Paying the Price of the Immigration Crackdown. Wouldn't it be less expensive to reform the broken immigration system we have now?\

The immigration enforcement and border security programs of Homeland Security, Justice, and Defense are only marginally related to enhancing the safety and security of Americans. Our immigration policy today responds to the forces of fear and hate unleashed by the Bush administration with its ill-begotten war on terrorism.\

37signals lists 7 good reasons to avoid using Photoshop to create mockups for web sites or applications. I've found this practice utterly annoying for all the reasons that they mention but I don't see it going away soon. Sadly most "web designers", yes-that's an intentional set of quotes, are much more fluent in creating Photoshop files than they are workign in CSS and HTML. Also, invariable, the designer throws in some widget, extra functionality, or weird, artsy border that is nigh on impossible to recreate in one browser, much less all major web browsers.

2 Photoshop gives you too many tools to focus on the details. When you use Photoshop you can't help but pay attention to the details. The alignment, the specific colors, the exact shapes, the little details that may matter eventually but they certainly don't matter now. The start is about the substance, not about the details. Details are for later.

Drinking water can be harmful to smallest babies - Yahoo! News It must drive these researchers crazy to hear what their parents gave to babies, grapes, juices, honey...

Babies younger than six months old should never be given water to drink, physicians at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore remind parents. Consuming too much water can put babies at risk of a potentially life-threatening condition known as water intoxication.