Life magazine announced Tuesday that is is making more than 10 million of its archival photographs publicly available through a partnership with Google. Many of the photos are already available through Google Image Search, with lots more to be made available later. Cool.

From the archive:

Soldiers in the 1st Marine Division help get their injured out of a firefight during the Vietnam War. The photo was taken in 1966 in South Vietnam. Photo by Life/Larry Burrows; Caption by Daniel Terdiman

Moving right along, consider this another Thesis formatting test. There are two quick riffs we can now apply to an piece of copy using custom CSS, giving us another two more levels of emphasis. The first is called a Note, the second is called an Alert. If I were to say something I deem noteworthy, I could wrap it up in a Note tag. Like, say:

Note to Self: Don’t forget to talk about the Alert after this, since it’s a bit more important.

If I were to deem something somewhere between noteworthy and life-changingly urgent, I’d wrap it up in an Alert tag. Like, say:

If you haven’t seen Tropic Thunder, you should probably rent the DVD as soon as you can.

Dynamics. Levels of urgency. This actually reminds me of our recent discussion about Crucial vs. Critical.

This is a test of a wickedly simple new riff to create a drop cap in Thesis. I don’t really have much more to say than that, but while we’re here, let’s all pause to reflect on the fact that, once upon a time, the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Tens of thousands of us have been watching these puppies for the last several days via a live webcam. From sleeping to frolicking and everything in between, it’s nearly impossible to stop watching these guys.

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear jaced.com,
Happy birthday to you.

It’s hard to believe, but a decade ago today, jaced.com was born. To commemorate the occasion, I’ve treated it to a revolutionary new template system called Thesis. While already dancing with WordPress, jaced.com now is proud to flaunt the extra-awesome badliness of Thesis, a solution that boasts the strongest SEO of any theme on the market thanks to its expertly coded HTML + CSS + PHP framework. Integral to these advantages is the Thesis community itself, comprised of some of the sharpest minds you could ever want in your circle of peeps.

The difference between Thesis and other (current) frameworks lies in the details under the hood, many of which are transparent to the end user. Thesis offers ultimate flexibility to the developer, allowing the site to be anything she wants it to be. 3-column layout with the content in the middle, 2-column layout with the sidebar on the right (as seen here), etc. These types of (previously tedious) layout changes are all conveniently performed with snazzy new tools. Tight CSS code with a mechanism in place for hooks and endless customization makes Thesis the smartest, most bullet-proof, most forward-thinking framework I’ve ever seen. Immune to obsolescence, we can happily discard any other template solution decisions. There’s really no reason to ever need another theme again. I’ve gotta say that Thesis is the most exciting thing to happen to serious Web developers since, say, electricity.

Along with WordPress, Thesis is now driving jaced.com as of today. I’ll be playing with things, tightening things down as I go. One of the supercool things is the rotating image at the top of the sidebar. To be loaded with some of my favorite things, two of which are in there now. 😉

As an afterthought to this post, here are a few things that were going on ten years ago today:

— Who Wants to Be a Millionaire became our favorite show.
— Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa chased the homerun record in tandem.
— John Glenn returned to Earth from his jaunt on the Discovery.
— Saving Private Ryan left our jaws in our popcorn.
— Everlast’s “What it’s Like” was heard everywhere.
— The Monica Lewinsky scandal hit mainstream consciousness.

Via bldgblog, a collection of photos by Filip Dujardin, an artist who makes images of unexpected things.

Photo courtesy of the artist.

“Honest discussions — even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree — can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.”
— David E. Price

Not the worst place to have a creative meeting. Looking out the northeast window towards the Vincent Thomas Bridge and the San Pedro terminal, the real-life home port for Captain Stubing, Isaac, Doc, Julie, Gopher, and the rest of the Love Boat crew. Docked here in this shot is a ship from Princess Cruises.

Love… Exciting and new… Any of you old enough to remember how tingly you felt when Chachi kissed Kristy McNichol?

“Fifty-two and Forty-eight”
52% blue, 48% red, and Photoshop
2008