WordPress is an extremely user friendly content management system for websites. Users can easily add and update text, images, video, audio and more using the WordPress platform. Here’s an example of a video. It also gives viewers the option to enlarge and watch large/full screen or directly on YouTube.

This clip is from the David Letterman show with Dave welcoming Carrie, the merengue dancing dog.

This dog smiles thru the whole performance, right? This one’s for YOU, Cohen & Phyllis! Click here for another better/longer clip of Carrie dancing.

Foulke Law’s areas of practice include: Auto Accidents, Construction Injuries and Medical Malpractice. The Foulke Law Offices offers New Yorkers the following strengths to injury victims and wronged employees in need of well-qualified legal representation:

• Experience
• Personalized legal representation
• Direct contact with trial attorneys
• Well-researched and well-thought-out case analyses
• Free initial consultations
• A focus on results: full and fair compensation for the injured and effective legal remedies for employees who have been discriminated against

Clients of the Foulke Law Offices work directly Mr. Foulke beginning with the initial consultation. Attorney Foulke opened a private law practice at the Foulke Law Offices after serving many years as a trial litigator for two of the country’s leading defense law firms in New York City.

This site features a attorney profile, areas of practice, easy contact and directions pages, great resources links and more. Pleasing colors and imagery make this robust site easy to look at and navigate.

I recognized 5 faces on this little icon.. that’s pretty cool! Are you one of them???

Google has a dedicated team of designers who turn out one creative doodle after another, every day. The idea for a doodles are generated not only in-house as well as from general public. Ideas can be sent to proposals@google.com. and fan logos are invited at proposals@google.com.

The idea of Google doodles began in 1998, informs Google:

…when founders Larry and Sergey played with the corporate logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. A stick figure drawing was placed behind the 2nd “o” in the word, Google and the revised logo was intended as a comical message to Google users that the founders were “out of office.” While the first doodle was relatively simple, the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate notable events was well received by our users.

A year later in 2000, Larry and Sergey asked current webmaster Dennis Hwang, an intern at the time, to produce a doodle for Bastille Day. Pleased with the result, Dennis was then appointed Google’s chief doodler and doodles became a regular occurrence on the Google homepage.

Chief Doodler. Nice job, with an even better job title.

Anyway, I look forward to Googling, which I do a google-plex times day, because of the doodles. Do you?

BeyondBarre’s custom ballet barre workout, created by New York Pilates and dance professionals, focuses on proper form and can be done by all fitness levels.They offer introductory, Level 1 and Level 2 classes as well as BeyondBarre with Ball and Band classes for an enhanced workout session. This is definitely NOT your daughter’s ballet class!

Beyond Barre exercise program, with its main studio in the Orange County town of Warwick NY, is now available nationwide through exclusive licensing and teacher training certifications. For more information call 845.544.1576 BeyondBarre – The only true cardio barre exercise program in New York.

Beyond Barre’s website features a slide show home page, testimonials, staff bios, online scheduling, special promos, video to see how fantastic the BeyondBarre ballet barre workout truly is! Really nice photos and some cool colors make this site pop.

You work in this biz long enough, and you get to know a lot of faces. Typefaces, that is. We love the fact we now have a bazillion faces to choose from, and the list is growing daily. With all those purdy faces out there, you gotta wonder WHY WHY WHY in the name of humanity and all that is sacred in the world,  do people select some really butt-ugly, hard to read fonts for their logotypes and literature?

1) Comic Sans. Every kid’s party place or preschool thinks this is cute and kiddie- like and fun (that’s fun!!! with multiple exclamation marks)  It’s not. It’s just poorly designed, and has bad, bad spacing issues. So stop the insanity now. Check out bancomicsans.com to see a real rant on this one. Maybe buy a tee shirt for me.

2) Papyrus. Papyrus is supposed to look Middle Eastern, Biblical, scholarly. This was selected as the title font for the movie Avatar. I saw it up there on the silver screen and cringed in my seat. But, the font choice didn’t seem to hinder the movie’s success. To date, Avatar is the highest grossing film ever…$2,782,275,172 and counting. Go figure.

3) Brush Script. Come on. A font is a font. Don’t try to pretend someone is in your PC with little paint brushes. Ugly, unbalanced and ugly. And it’s ugly.

4) Curlz. Unless you’re a 9 year old girl in pink tights, inviting your little girlfriends over for a My Little Pony Party, you have no excuse for using this one.

Ok. I’m done. I feel much better now. Thank you.

Bread Alone send out an email, with coupons and a recipe link each and every month.

They have also been observed on ornamental trees, butterfly bushes, sweet corn, field corn and soybeans, but their pilgrimage into homes is causing big problems and what is making the news most recently.

The brown marmorated stink bug was first detected in the United States about 10 years ago, and is native to Asia. It is different from our native stink bugs that are kept in check by natural enemies. When irritated, stepped on, or crushed, they emit a pungent odor that is sometimes described as skunk-like.

PS: ” Marmorated” .. I looked it up.. means “Having a marbled or streaked appearance.” They really ARE kinda pretty, with the marmorated shield like body…though I am  glad they are only about .75″ long!!

The guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also called the cavy, is a species of rodent belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia. Despite their common name, these animals are not in the pig family, nor are they from Guinea. They originated in the Andes, and earlier studies based on biochemistry and hybridization suggested they are domesticated descendants of a closely related species of cavy and do not exist naturally in the wild.

Biological experimentation on guinea pigs has been carried out since the 17th century. The animals were frequently used as a model organism in the 19th and 20th centuries, resulting in the epithet “guinea pig” for a test subject, but have since been largely replaced by other rodents such as mice and rats. They are still used in research, primarily as models for human medical conditions such as juvenile diabetes, tuberculosis, scurvy, and pregnancy complications.

Why all this? Well, first because this photo is so darn cute. And second, because I really can’t imagine testing lipstick or shampoo on this little guy. Can you?

I know, it’s silly. But talking dogs always work for me! Here is an example of an embedded YouTube Video. Videos can be larger, taller and wider, too.