He Who Has Ears... Our fervent pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the international legitimacy that has been America's most potent weapon of both offense and defense since the days of Woodrow Wilson. A wonderful, must-read letter of resignation from a State Department diplomat....

Bored and Depressed So now I'm bored with my job, bored with user experience evangelism, bored with trying to make a difference. It seems others are, too—Peter has dropped out of blogging, Christina's not well, and others seem to say it just doesn't matter. From my perspective, user experience attention does matter&e#151;it's just that we are Cassandra on the walls of Troy....

Mailer Nails It Although I'm sooo not a Pat Buchanan fan, this article in his magazine is a nice interview with octegenarian Norman Mailer. Love him or hate him, Mailer's always fun to read.