If the sales tax does not pass, lawmakers won’t look for a more equitable tax. Instead, they’ll take it as a mandate that voters want more cuts%u2014and they will proceed accordingly.

We already know what they will cut if the sales tax does not pass. They will cut another $428 million from education. They will cut $107 million from our universities. They will cut about $150 million from health-care funding. They will cut $100 million from the criminal-justice system. And the list goes on.

Those cuts will mean the state will lose another 13,000 jobs, according to economists at the UA Eller College of Management. On top of that, we’ll lose more than $442 million in federal matching funds that would bring new dollars into our economy.

Take the time, talk to your friends, our kids can not afford this, we can not afford this, our state’s long term prospects can not afford this

But we don’t have those choices. Instead, we have lawmakers who can’t wait to cut even more as soon as you give them an excuse. They’re the ones who are telling you to vote against the sales tax so they can get on with the slicing and dicing of everything that Arizona taxpayers have built over the last 100 years.

If the sales tax fails, the people who want to destroy our state win.

Save the state of Arizona. Vote yes on May 18.?

100 Stands for Education

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

Stand with other Arizona children and parents to raise awareness of the crisis in K-12 education and to support Proposition 100. On May 8, 2010, be one of the 100 Stands for Education selling lemonade to support Arizona public education and to spread the message: YES on 100.

This family-friendly program benefits local schools and gets the word out on the importance of Prop 100 to public education. All lemonade sale proceeds are donated to the local public school of your choice.

Voigtländer Keepsake

I have so many slides from my grandfather taken from this camera, the sad part is I would love to get it working again, but no camera shop I can find will even try to repair it… I do just the heft of the camera, and how it feels so solid and the smell of the leather is just so transporting back in time…

cool animation/ graphic on size and scale

(Via The Next Web.)

When Flash first landed on the World Wide Web (we still called it that back in those days) it was very popular and it became common for websites that wanted to look %u201Ccool%u201D to load a Flash animation when a visitor arrived at the site. The standard method was to force the user to sit through this animation to convince them of how cool you were.

Ok really you want to do this? Please no. Your site should be about doing things not showing things…

As I work more and more both with my own photographs as well as working mostly for a company that does high end photographer support, I find images like this more and more compelling. The shots have a fun candid appeal that is often missing from the rest of the shoots

Interesting foray into iPhone development for HP. Check out the comments for raves and requests from calculator nerds.

I still have my HP-15c on my desk and use it almost every day. I am so much faster and more efficient in RPN. The amazing thing is that the price of a new iphone and this app is not so far off from the price for this calculator when it first came out…. (and is likely less then it would cost you on eBay today)

(Via Daring Fireball.)

Some fun effects with text-shadow css property. Check it out