My credit card is quite ready to dump some money on the following, when they're released:

• Coda for iPad: We need a good IDE for the iPad, and Coda screams iPad, already; I would be willing to heft over a pretty penny to have Coda on my iPad... even without terminal support, or the useless CSS editor.
• Podcasting Suite: Something like GarageBand lite; just enough to record multiple tracks (maybe 2-4, with the ability to split right and left channels from

Read on: Review of Apple's iPad Camera Connection Kit .

tl;dr : The iPad Camera Connection Kit is an excellent accessory for the iPad, allowing users to import photos from most any camera (RAW or JPEG), and connect to some other helpful devices via USB.

If you haven't already, check out my iPad review (from the first few days of use, and including some important updates).

After a few weeks' wait, people (including me) have started receiving their iPad Camera Connection kits . This

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo .

Billed by Laughing Squid (a SF-area blog) as humorous, I simply think this is sad:

• Two O'Clock [redacted], San Francisco's Secret Silhouette [NSFW]

God forbid we build beautiful buildings with architectural features like— gasp —crosses, domes, and straight-edged roofs, which don't have any potential for the kind of ridiculousness seen above.

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• Decline in Church Architecture and Art
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A quick snapshot from a family party today. It was a spur-of-the-moment picture, but I liked it. Made me chuckle when I saw it in the viewfinder... I think the beer in-hand makes the image.

A photo I played with to create a faux tilt-shift effect (basically, blurring the foreground and background of the photo to create the illusion that the captured image is of a small, make-believe set):

Instructions for making your own tilt-shift photo in Photoshop.

While I was attending Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, a few brother seminarians and I had a long run of Monopoly tournaments, and we became quite adept at the game. Of course, my winning strategy was to always give up any and all properties to get Boardwalk and Park Place, buy a hotel, and hope someone hit the hotel before I went bankrupt...

I created this vector file (below) in Illustrator after many hours of path-tracing original Monopoly board art, my own hand-drawn designs,

These images speak for themselves, but I will offer a few asides to help explain why I was saddened after visiting the Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago a few months ago.

Below is the full-size image mockup I made for webchick to highlight the awesomeness of Drupal's (relatively) new stark theme, as seen in Drupal 7. You can download Stark for Drupal 6 as well, but it will be a nice way to quickly expose the underpinnings of Drupal's core HTML output.

(click on the image to view a larger copy)

I'll be working on at least one CSS-only theme for Drupal 7 over the next couple of months, and will hopefully