I’m having a great time with the new Mozilla browser. Simple. Powerful. Love the search capabilities. I can’t wait to update my power book to OSX and get my Mozilla creeping all over it.

I found the documentary on Road-Side Shines tantamount to discovering a perfect diamond in the mines of doc-cinema. Thanks to the G-man for the Deliriousla link. Lots of great urban stories and architectures for building livable communities. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the grid vs. non-grid forms of development as I’ve looked at neighborhoods to live in both in the city and in the first ring suburbs. I’m very pro-grid right now. The grid system has really shown its true colors to me in my morning bike commutes from Uptown to Downtown. Without the grid system of development I think this journey would become an epic struggle in futility. One of the benefits of the grid system is that it allows me to take multiple routes home, which is great when traffic backs up on any one street I’m able to just hop over to another parallel street and avoid the pack of steel and wheels. I also find it’s nice just to mix up the route to see new things. G-Chei gave me Suburban Nation which also preaches the pro’s of the grid system. This book will make your stomach turn as you read about the development practices and the laws passed to fuel the sprawl mentality of some of the most criminal design practices ever. If ever there was a need for a Jakob Nielson, it was when people were building suburbs. I mean who wants to skate in the suburbs. Boring.

Speaking of skating, I can’t decide whether I want to drop the $19.95 for the pay-per-view King of Skate.

Be down at the Third Lair Skate park Sunday Afternoon to see the “REAL Skateboards team”. Nate Jones and Cairo Foster will be there as will my camera.